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It is astonishing to see there is still energy and momentum behind the "Editable Macros in Textpad" issue.

There is a 5+year old solution to this feature request (and many others like it) that other long-time TextPad users supported. The simple solution is to let the user run any tool or script ...

A question for those of you who have used Tool Parameter Macros with textpad. Does anyone know of a way to simulate a "SelectedLineCount" tool parameter macro?

What is needed is a way to get the current number of selected lines in the current buffer. With this information, it would be possible to ...

1) Ability to force single Textpad instance.

Preferences :: General :: Allow multiple instances to run (turn this off)

You're saying that you already tried the above, and it does not work?

2) Ability to open filename in a document

see the following:
http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=4013 ...

I understand. As far as I know, there is no built-in easy way to do this in textpad. This is something that can be done, but from what I've seen, people usually resort to external scripts such as those written in Ruby, Javascript, Perl, Python and so forth.

If you are familiar with perl, someone ...

Yes, you can do that, although it is not entirely clear what you mean by "columns".

If you are simply asking how to change the slash character into spaces or tabs, you can select the text you want to convert, and then use the find and replace feature.

(see How to Replace Text in TP help)

Since ...

Thanks for the contribution. This is probably a recurring question, so this should probably be in the FAQ.

Well, you probably won't like this answer, but to those for whom this is a huge annoyance, there is a workaround. Simply manually re-order the tabs by hand until the visual order exactly reflects the pre-defined tabbing order.

Yes, it is another one of those GUI behavior inconsistencies across apps ...

I agree with alan.mcl ... thanks for the recent work that was put into Textpad. It's nice to chime in once in a while with compliments instead of just complaints and feature requests.

I think 5.2 gives Textpad a much-needed credibility boost, especially for those who may have given up on it ...

Hi Nicholas Jordan,

Thanks for the reply. I guess I should clarify that I was looking for a way to do it via registry so I could autopopulate the dropdown list automatically via script. (eg a windows script host file that uses reg.write and so forth).

Yeah, the Configure menu works great. Thanks ...

Hello folks,

Does anyone out there know what registry patch is available that will allow me to pre-populate the GUI dropdown that appears in Tools::Run::Command, so that it matches an exact list of pre-defined apps of my own choosing, instead of just the history of apps that I've already run?

This ...

CTRL+TAB goes in one direction, CTRL+SHIFT+TAB goes in the other direction. Is that not exactly what you were looking for?

Thanks, but already thought of that.

I have ctrl+s mapped to "save tidy" ... which is a special save method that does extra stuff on top of the normal save (i.e., remove trailing spaces, update the "last-modified" time-stamp inside the text of the file (if any), add any extra automatic meta data ...

Ok, I gotta admit, this is not just a minor annoyance, it's really irritating. Also, this seems to be non-standard behavior, other File->save menus will silently dismiss the menu with no error if the file happens to be non-dirty.

Shucks, it would sure be nice if someone had a fix for this :/

PROBLEM:
Sometimes I hit Alt+F,S repeatedly, just as a habit to make sure that I always save my files. I figure its a good habit to train yourself for those apps that don't have an 'auto-save feature'.

The problem is, in the latest version of TextPad, if you try this key combination and the file ...

Here is an example using perl that I wrote a few years ago after struggling to get Textpad DDE Insert to actually work.
[code]
### These commands must be passed exactly as shown, with no embedded spaces, except in the quotes.
###

use Win32::DDE::Client;
$oTPad = new Win32::DDE::Client('TextPad ...