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I am also on the list of folks who would pay for Macro Edit functionality.

I would even pay a surcharge above and beyond my 10-pack license upgrade fee. At one point, nearly a decade ago, I considered offering them $10,000 US to do it. (For the record, I am no longer in a position to do so.)

Now ...

"If he didn't include Macro in Textpad, would we be so annoyed about its shortcomings?"
The foregoing is a very excellent hitting of the proverbial nail's head.


It's true. If we couldn't create macros, we wouldn't need to edit them.

But we can create macros. It follows we should want to edit ...

HerNameWasTextPad wrote:Yes, voicing preferences is . . . preferable to voicing none.

And yet you ridicule anyone who does so.

Hypocrite.

There are so many things that programs can do that folks never get around to discover because they are too busy creating and sending wish lists to developers.


You really have no understanding of efficiency, do you? Given the other amazing features of TextPad, I accepted the old wisdom of "not ...

I have to admit: This is a lot of fun.

How about this?

Develop your own text-manipulation program using the language of your choice (so that you can have the ultimate set of custom features), set it up as a user tool, and call it from within TextPad.

This is at least a somewhat reasonable ...

So the solution is clear:

We need full-blown sequence, selection, iteration, and recursion, with low-level access.

Got that, Helios?

You might need to change the name, though, to something like "T++".

Then, I'll change my name to "HerNameWasT++".

As no one posted any of that but you, this ...

- TextPad is the best text editor around
- If Helios didn't put in a macro editor, then it probably had a good reason not to

It would be a mark of maturity if they'd explain that reason. A decade of silence sends exactly one message: We don't care about you, the customer.

- We don't need to ...

Though I believe that a macro editor could give TextPad an edge over competing editors, I believe also that, well, we really don't need one.

Here's what I do:

- Open a new text file in a second instance of TextPad
- Notate all of a macro's keystrokes in that text file


Yes, that's what we all ...