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I play a game called Europa Universalis IV. One of the reasons I enjoy this game is because it is very modifiable.

The structured text files that translate the interface keywords into human language have a format and extension of yml.

I have no problem editing these files in Notepad++. However ...

My workspace is divided into two windows. The left hand window has the files I am working on (programs etc) and the right hand window has reference files (specs, notes etc)

With two windows I find tabs work better than the document selector.

I love the workspace feature. I like having a dozen files open all the time. For quick access I arrange these in a particular order with the most frequently used ones on the left.

Sometimes when I open the workspace it arranges the files as I like them (i.e. as they were when I last saved the ...

I use the Join (^J) feature a lot. I add an icon for it on the toolbar.

I just went to use the icon and its gone. So I went to the Edit menu and its not there either. So I tried control+J - nada.

Please help me get Join back

That is very clear and helpful ben_josephs.

Thank you.

the wild edit help claims that \n is newline (as it is in test pad) but

replace: something\n

with: somethingelse\n

finds no instances of something\n even though they exist

No, there is no equivalent in TextPad to WildEdit's fancy replacement expressions, or to many of its fancy regular expressions. (Note that a replacement expression is not a regular expression.) The regular expression engine used by TextPad is rather old and tired; WildEdit uses the Boost engine ...

Yes. Sorry, my mistake.

You can write the replacement expression equivalently as
?1,:?2$2
which has the virtue of being even more obscure. :-)

I think I'll keep the brackets, this regular expression business has my brain at the very edge of its abilities and dispensing with the brackets might ...

Here's one way to do it, using conditional expressions:
F ind what: ( )|("[^"]*")
R eplace with: ?1():?2($2)

[ X ] Regular e x pression
[ X ] Rep l acement format

Yes! Wow! I am impressed with both the tool and your understanding of it.

If I understand your suggestion correctly (and I ...

I have a text file which I want to convert to a CSV.

All I would need to do is to convert <space> to comma to do this except for one complication, the file includes text in quotes and the spaces should not be removed from text in quotes .

Is there a regular expression which will tell WildEdit to ...

I am having some trouble with some text documents and I am pretty sure the problem is to do with character encoding

I am doing things like replacing spaces with commas or tabs with spaces and on most text files I have no problem but on some of the text files the same syntax either does nothing or ...

I highly recommend using Macro Scheduler for all macros vs. using the TextPad macros. A big advantage is the ability to edit them. I use it with TextPad, and in some instances I use it to call a TextPad macro and continue.
Macro Scheduler info at http://www.mjtnet.com/macro_scheduler.htm
I was ...