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Me too. I'm a reluctant UE convert because I need editable macros. I do quick cheats to TP because I've been using TP for so long I simply know where everything is and what to do.

UE is so feature rich I get lost with it and sometimes that gets in the way of what I need to do.

At work we've been using TP for 12 years. Great tool for text editing operations.

Personally I've been teaching myself UltraEdit because of its built in programming language. I gave up waiting for TP to come up with editable macros. Now I write a macro in UltraEdit and I'm able to tweak it.

But ...

Johnnycool18 wrote:
EDIT: And I feel like an Idiot. I was reading through more of the forums... I found a reference to the Configure->File->Default file extension. I cannot believe that I have not ever found that in the last 10 years or so.

Me too. Good to know.

TextPad doesn't have the capability of editing binary files, hence the binary view is read-only. You'll need to use a separate hex editor, like one of these .

Oh wow! After all these years I simply assumed that TP could edit files in binary view although I never had to use that (non existent ...

kengrubb wrote:I've used UE in the past, and it's RE Find has lied to me, more than once.

Really? Ok, I'll hold on to that note.

Thanks.

I agree with ak47. I've been visiting this forum almost every year for ten years or so to remind the developer - if he is looking - to add editable macros to TextPad. And I drop in every once in a while if anything has happened regarding this.

Ten years!

I'm familiar with TextPad for most of the ...

After fifteen years--or close to it--I'm moving on to Sublime Text 3. I've written a post about it.

http://aliteralmind.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/textpad_to_sublime/

I mean no disrespect, and I spend much of the post discussing what TextPad does better.

It's been a great ride.

:(

I agree with ...

Regexes match strings. An anchor is a regex that matches a zero-length string in some specific context (such as the beginning of a line).

My case is different. I often have to add to the row either by prefixing something or suffixing something to the row. Examples:

^
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or

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Textpad ...

Hi

I've read that if you move the mouse cursor over a character that Textpad will announce the ANSI code of the character. But this doesn't always work. Sometimes I would stand the cursor over the character for many seconds and nothing happens.

Is there a way to force Textpad to tell me the ANSI ...

My grand plan appeared to fall apart in TP, but I seem to have recovered fully in WE.

Note to self and others, when working with 800MB or larger files, use WE instead of TP.

One of the niceties of both TP and WE using ECMA Regex is that what works in one will work in the other.

I think that's ...

I'm curious for the definitive answer as to why Textpad is not given the ability to edit its own macros nor expose its macro scripting language?

Users have been asking for these abilities for MANY years.

A definitive reason is in order on this 20th anniversary year!

Oh, by the way, happy 20th ...

woobie wrote:Thank you for the new version!

Still no macro editing feature - for the tenth straight year!

Sigh!

The problem is not that TextPad cannot handle the UTF-8 encoding, which is a way of transmitting and storing the text of a document. Rather, TextPad cannot handle the Unicode character set, which is an assignment of numerical values to more than 100 000 characters.

That is, TextPad can decode text ...

SteveH wrote:Rather than advertise competing products I've sent you a DM

I ran into the same problem late last year. I ended up writing something in Visual Basic to handle it. I would be curious to know what product you used if that path would have been easier - if you don't mind. Thanks.

Monaghan wrote:How do I schedule TP to open a specific file do a find and replace of one string for another (non regex) save and close?



Thank you.

My guess is to use a combination of your Window's built-in scheduler and Texpad's command line operators and options.