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by spintronic34
Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:23 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Another thread for Linux TextPad
Replies: 8
Views: 5996

Yes. It should be possible to port TextPad to Linux now that Microsoft has provided the extensions needed to do so. I would love to have TextPad on my Ubuntu desktop at home and still use the Windows version at work.
by spintronic34
Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Portable TextPad needs relative paths to tools.
Replies: 4
Views: 1667

So is there a way to detect the drive letter that TextPad is working from so I can run a USB Drive copy of Perl on a new computer? assign a permanent drive letter The main purpose of "portable" means to use it on any system, not always the same . That's what makes relative paths powerful. Using any ...
by spintronic34
Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Portable TextPad needs relative paths to tools.
Replies: 4
Views: 1667

ben_josephs wrote:As an alternative, you might assign a permanent drive letter to the drive:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-assi ... windows-10.
Thanks, I'll try doing that for all of my machines.
by spintronic34
Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Portable TextPad needs relative paths to tools.
Replies: 4
Views: 1667

Portable TextPad needs relative paths to tools.

Hi all, I'm using a portable instance of Textpad 8.4.1 64-bit on my flash drive. I also have a very portable instance of Strawberry Perl on this flash drive. I have tools in TextPad that run my Perl scripts and capture output. The problem is that the drive changes on my flash drive and I have to ...
by spintronic34
Wed May 17, 2017 9:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Adding line numbers to vintage BASIC code
Replies: 2
Views: 743

Thank you!

You're so smart! Thank you!
by spintronic34
Wed May 17, 2017 6:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Adding line numbers to vintage BASIC code
Replies: 2
Views: 743

Adding line numbers to vintage BASIC code

Hi, I'm going through some old engineering problems that use vintage BASIC for their solutions (the kind where every statement needs a line number). I'm trying to work out a way to have TextPad automatically insert a line number for every statement in my code. Is this possible using search/replace ...
by spintronic34
Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: perl
Replies: 1
Views: 703

I just create an external tool called "perl run" which calls strawberry perl with the current buffer as file input. I capture output and prompt for parameters. Later I've added keyboard shortcuts and a tool to open the command line for running PDL. I also have another tool which calls perldoc and ...