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Well done. Thanks for the feedback.

What was the utility that was locking this?

I have posted this a number of times .... it may apply here. When making configuration changes I find it best to follow these steps, especially for any changes in Classes: 1. Close all other copies of TextPad. 2. Close all open documents, INCLUDING THE DEFAULT NEW BLANK DOCUMENT. 3. Make the changes...

Here is a visual aid to supplement ben_josephs terrific explanation. Using ^ to show the cursor position after the first replacement, using "_" for spaces: When you Replace All, after each replacement the cursor is left at the end of the replacement text, that is, just past the space at th...

I am just an end user like yourself. I volunteered many years ago to be a moderator since I get the opportunity to browse the forum frequently. Helios does reply here a few times a week, but I have no direct contact with them. I have been able to work around most TextPad shortcomings and still find ...

TextPad HELP Using Regular Expressions, for help with their unique strings.

Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey Friedl, O'Reilly Publications. (2nd or 3rd editions).

Regular Expressions Cookbook, Jan Goyvaertes and Steven Levithan, O'Reilly Publications (Includes a tutorial).

Here is an approach based on the simple sample file you supplied. Take two steps: 1. Insert a line break "\n" at the end of each tag so that each email will start at the beginning of the lines. Search for: <_tags/> Replace with: \0\n 2. Extract the email address from the front. Search for:...

In your last posting you wrote: single words highlight, but ones with spaces wont That was your original problem, and as noted, they will not highlight. Again, use the underscore "_" character to replace the spaces where you can. It is not enough to add the "_" to the words in yo...

The TextPad syntax processer uses the space as a delimiter. It will only work on complete words. Can you replace the space with something like "_" ?. That would be acceptable to the syntax processor.

In TextPad: Search for ^.*vst.*\n Replace with: NOTHING ================= I don't know if that works in WildEdit. Use the following settings: ----------------------------------------- [ X ] Regular expression Replace A ll ----------------------------------------- Configure | Preferences | Editor [ X...

Put the macros in a shared folder on the network. Then set the path for the macro folders to that shared folder using Configure/Preferences/Folders/Macros When making configuration changes I find it best to follow these steps, especially for any changes in Classes: 1. Close all other copies of TextP...

Search for: "(.*)\n(.*)\n(.*)\n(.*") Replace with: "\1 \2 \3 \4 This assumes that you will always have four lines of info in a similar format to begin with. ==================== Use the following settings: ----------------------------------------- [ X ] Regular expression Replace A ll...

Search for: : _ ([A-Z]{2}) _ \( Replace with: ,\1,( The _ represents a space character ========================== Use the following settings: ----------------------------------------- [ X ] Regular expression Replace A ll ----------------------------------------- Configure | Preferences | Editor [ X...

Make sure that your macro moves the cursor to a "home" position before doing the replacements. CTL-HOME will usually bring the cursor to the top left of your document. HOME will usually bring the cursor to the beginning of the line. -------------------------------------------- Not sure wha...

For MudGuard - You are right, it does nothing. I misread the need to only do one document, and thought the question was how to set tabls for a whole class. Thanks for checking on me.....

1. Close all other copies of TextPad. 2. Close all open documents, INCLUDING THE DEFAULT NEW BLANK DOCUMENT. 3. Configure/Preferences/Document Classes 4. Expand the class to be modified. 5. Tabulation 6. Enter desired values. Repeat steps 4-6 above for each Document Class 7. Apply and OK your way ou...