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Going down to the middle, you may want to check "Save all documents first". I do this so I can just edit and run. For people who may not want to "save all documents" there is an option. The last note of TextPad's help topic Tool Parameter Macros states: If a tool uses any of the macros $File ...

Sysinternals have just released a commandline tool named RegJump that will jump to a registry path given as an argument. It makes a handy tool for use with TextPad, since you can use a $SEL macro on a registry key displayed in TextPad to immediately jump to the registry location. Here's one way to ...

I never change the layout of my TextPad window other than occasionally sliding the separators back and forth (but keeping the same 3 panes - document view, clip library, and document selector - in the same arrangement). I regularly grab the window to move it and find that I have slipped and undocked ...

s_reynisson wrote:Configure->Preferences->Keyboard->Categories->Tools. HTH

Dang. I didn't know I could do that!

It would make some things a bit simpler for addins if TextPad would write a REG_SZ "InstallationDirectory" when it is installed, preferably under a version-independent key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Helios\TextPad\

Below is a general walkthrough of setting up TextPad for flexible scripting use. It varies slightly from the previously posted Tip on how to Run/Debug VBScript code from Textpad in that it does the following: Allows supplying arbitrary arguments as selected code Allows jumping to error lines 1. ADD ...

Minor erratum. The following is NOT true about MsgBox; MsgBox always calls an actual messagebox for display.

helios wrote: When using CScript, output from Msgbox and Wscript.Echo will be sent to the TextPad Command Results window.

Contributed by David Brown.