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- Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Run an external program on a selection?
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:idea: Have you considered a macro that would be run after you have made the selection? How would this macro invoke an external program on my selection? I already have a command-line program that does what I want, and it's much too complicated to express as a macro, so I can't convert my program to ...
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Run an external program on a selection?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 430
Run an external program on a selection?
It's great that I can run an external program on a saved file and capture the output, but it would be even better if I could run a command on a selection instead of the whole file. I imagine that behind the scenes TextPad could copy the selected text, place it in a new (temporary) document, save the ...