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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 you ...

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. After ...

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 figuring ...

". . . 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?!