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This is a long-standing enhancement request - vote on it here: http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4216

Another possible source would be to install cygwin and it's toolset, the gcc and so on, then there are all sorts of windows based versions of the *nix tools on sourceforge, not sure about the compilers though.
If you don't want/need the full Cygwin fucntionality, a good option is MinGW, which ...

This has been a long-standing enhancement request. There's a poll:

http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic. ... lbar+icons

and its no. 37 on the enhancements list at last count, so don't hold your breath...

http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 1&start=75

Maybe you can change your program so that it sends a Ctrl+C keystroke to the active window first? Or have it accept a command line parameter, and add $sel to your tool definition.
Thanks, turns out that $Clip does the job nicely.

I can strongly recommend that uou use Macro Scheduler for that and ...

I have written a small Windows program called SendCB which simply sends the contents of the clipboard as a sequence of keystrokes to a specified application window. I would like to be able to use it from TextPad to send the current selection to the specified window. To this end, I add SendCB as a ...

I think this question has been comprehensively answered in response to your previous (almost identical) query: http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5990

In summary:

1) Basically, as long as Helios implement the Open File(s) dialog as a standard Windows Open File(s) dialog, there will be no ...

Well I would want to do pretty advanced formatting in text files which demands regexp & macros.

Sounds like you want a scripting tool rather than a text editor (which just happens to have some scripting capabilities).

If you were on a Unix system you'd probably use sed or awk for this. There are ...

It is an oft-cited rule on software-related forums (and Usenet in particular) never to use the word "bug" unless you are really sure that that the problem in question is a bug - or you are the maintainer of the software.

As a rule of thumb 99% of "bugs" are bugs in the user's understanding of the ...

I have this problem intermittently using Mozilla 1.6 ... not today though, for some reason.

I would also like to write a macro to apply a particular syntax highlighting style to the current file.

Just for the record, the Document Properties dialog box cannot be used when recording a macro.

Hmm... so is this just not possible? Can't think of a workaround, bar waiting for proper ...

I would also like to write a macro to apply a particular syntax highlighting style to the current file (in my case to apply Unix shell script highlighting, as Unix shell scripts tend to be hard to identify automatically by wildcarding).

However, I seem to be unable to record such a macro, since the ...