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"Especially when there may be twenty or more steps to a macro involving a number of regex searches."

If I was in your situation, I would do the following:

(1) In a text file, notate (i.e., type) all of the commands of the entire macro. Let this text file be your "macro road map."
(2) Decide how ...

After using 5.4 for 4 1/2 years, I have finally discovered PORTABLE TextPad 6.5 and have been spending some time reading up on the subject in this forum.

With respect to the PORTABLE 6.5 and its use on a public-library computer, I have the following helpful things to say. And though every library's ...

Troubling news about the future of the Windows operating system is starting to come my way. . . .

Update:

Am now running TextPad 4.7.3 on a Wine virtual desktop on Linux. Have never been happier.

Have absolutely no problem with my having to purchase another TextPad license whenever it becomes ...

Yeah, I have to admit that it happened a third time. . . .

My solution? I have chosen to uncheck "Dockable log windows" altogether.

But get this: I had three instances of TextPad open, namely, two workspaces and one empty instance. After closing the third (empty) instance, I closed the second ...

Guess what happened a second time?

However, this time I was able to determine what else I did a second time, which favorably is beginning to reveal a non-problematic pattern. Perhaps it might be useful to mention this. . . . TextPad appears to be working just fine.

Additionally, something else ...

Well, thank you. That does the trick. I didn't think of looking at the Configure/Preferences/View settings before because I am so accustomed to 4.7.X's not having settings for dockable log windows in that location. . . .

Yes, I, too, am unsure why those settings had changed. I'm positive that I had ...

If you're like me, and you prefer the TextPad regular-expression syntax over that of POSIX, then try this, using the Replace dialog box with "Regular expression" and "Match case" checked. Don't forget to uncheck "Use POSIX . . ." in Editor Preferences:

Replace \([0-9]\{3\}-*[0-9]\{2\}-*[0-9]\{4 ...

Did a search for this and failed to find any info:

After loving 4.7.3 on Vista for the last three years, I have now installed 5.4 on Windows 7.

At first, the changes made to the Search Results output window and the Tools output window had me a little . . . concerned; but, after successfully ...

". . . it is faster for me to write a quick script in Visual Basic . . ."
VB is a full-blown language with eight (8) loop constructs! Write some code, man, and set it up as a user tool. Feel the power!

"If he didn't include Macro in Textpad, would we be so annoyed about its shortcomings?"
The ...

May I compliment you, Ms. Tedesco, on the eloquentness of your writing?

Yes, voicing preferences is . . . preferable to voicing none.

I could imagine some of the demands that some customers might place on a person in your position and understand that it would be inappropriate to respond to them in ...

This is mainly in response to drefty's excellent post:

http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=4890

I believe that there is a way to have a TextPad macro close a file. It is just a matter of discovering what that way is; it may involve setting up a few unusual keyboard shortcuts or something, in ...

I have to admit: This is a lot of fun.

How about this?

Develop your own text-manipulation program using the language of your choice (so that you can have the ultimate set of custom features), set it up as a user tool, and call it from within TextPad.

So the solution is clear:

We need full-blown sequence, selection, iteration, and recursion, with low-level access.

Got that, Helios?

You might need to change the name, though, to something like "T++".

Then, I'll change my name to "HerNameWasT++".

- TextPad is the best text editor around
- If Helios didn't put in a macro editor, then it probably had a good reason not to
- We don't need to understand what the reason is, we just need to figure out the best way to use the program as it currently stands
- I'm still pissed off that TextPad doesn't ...

Not sure I understood you. Would these help?

Edit -> Copy Other -> File Name
Edit -> Copy Other -> All File Names

Are you saying that you want to replace text in unopened files? Isn't that a job for . . . WildEdit?!