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For something like this I think you would need to write a intermediate script/tool that would receive your current filename from Textpad. This script could detect the filetype from the filename parameter and use this to find the correct parameters from the corresponding file and finally execute the ...

The information in the following link helped me to reinstall Textpad under similar circumstances.
http://www.pchell.com/support/missingmsifiles.shtml

You could create a macro that saves the currently open document (with save as) to pc ansi, and then goes to the next document.

Then open all the docs you want to convert and multi-run the macro.
Similar to what I suggested in this thread: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=7334

I have, "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4" but no Helios stuff under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. My guess is that values under HKLM means that TextPad is installed for all users but values under HKCU means TextPad is installed for the current user but not all users! The RegistryKey clas...

-Create your macro and make it end by going to the next document (Ctrl-Tab) -Open all documents -Run the macro with "Macros -> Multi-play" and select "Specified number or times" with the number the same as your document count. Note that your macro should probably do save before y...

The document you are trying to paste into is not read-only, by any chance?

One way would be to make a macro that saves the current file in the correct format and then goes to the next file (with Ctrl-Tab). Then open all the files and run the macro with "Multi-play" the same number of times as the number of files. I recommend turning "View Document Selector&q...

I found this idea very interesting. But wanted to be able to do this without the manual copy paste hassle. Or more simply, wanted to be able to just open 2 files in Textpad and activate a visual file compare tool. So I decided to write a script that accepts one filename as a command line paramenter ...