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In the future (or on other boards) you may want to make more than one attempt, since commandline and parameter* do find posts (the asterisk finds not only "parameter" but also words starting with that, like "parameter s " - likewise searching for command* does find posts, too, but you can use the ...

@MrSpock: to allow for spaces in file pathnames, put the %1 in the registry in quotes. Assuming that was not an issue, if TextPad is started with the name of a file in its parameters, it will either open it, or ask if you want to create it. Try it for yourself by running these commands in a command ...

I have written a macro with these commands in it: EditLowerCase # SearchReplace Replace = " ", "-", MatchCase, InSelection DoReplaceAll the idea is that if I select text like this in a line: a Test of Making all lc with no Spaces and run the macro I should get: a-test-of-making-all-lc-with-no-spaces ...

window menu Configure > Preferences in the treeview on the left select Keyboard in Categories select "Search", in Commands select "SearchFind" in Current keys select its "F5" entry, then click Remove button in Press new shortcut key press literally what you want, then click Assign button Likewise ...

I tried all the function keys By default F10 should highlight the window menu in any program (not just TextPad). So does pressing (and releasing) Alt only. To get to the Preferences dialog window press (and release) Ctrl+Q and then P . In there click on the Keyboard node in the treeview on the left ...

If you search the help for "edit macros" you will be directed to a page entitled How to Edit Macros that is also accessible from the help contents page as How To... | Use keystroke macros | Editing You can produce a list of commands with C onfigure | P references | Keyboard | C ategories: All | L ...

Assumptions: Knowledge of Windows Command Prompt commands and environment variables . Your download folder is at C:\Users\ your-login-id \Downloads. (i.e. %HOMEPATH%\downloads) If you prefer, you can drag and drop the files using File Explorer, rather than using the command prompt copy and move ...

Drag them from where they are in the list of commands on the Customize dialog box, and drop them where you want them on the standard toolbar.

A rightclick on any toolbar or the window menu to then select "Customize" doesn't work anymore? In its tab "Commands" you can drag anything to your toolbars, or remove it from them. Hence you're unbound to existing toolbars and what they carry.

if during a macro playback all external TextPad input is ignored It's difficult to judge if input comes from the program's own windows or from elsewhere. As a result one wouldn't be able to pause/stop a macro anymore, should input be disabled. to not touch anything else on Windows i.e. changing ...

Do you want to reassign a macro to an existing menu item? Or do you want to change its keyboard shortcut? In the latter case: Configure > Preferences > Keyboard > Categories: Macros > Commands: [your macro] Current keys: [select currently assigned shortcut] > Remove Press new shortcut key: [what you ...

Have you turned on document tabs? If so, have a look at the Windows menu to see which commands are valid.

I'm trying to prepare property files for internationalising a Java application, and I've noticed some issues with Textpad's UTF-8 support for right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew). The issues I'm seeing are: 1) A sequence of words is displayed left-to-right rather than right-to-left, even though ...

without knowing the macro it's hard to say what goes wrong.

Go to Configure -> Preferences, then Macros, select the macro for your list conversion, and press Edit.

Then copy the stuff from "commands" to here. Preferably in a code block.

Go to preferences, Keyboard, select Zoom in Categories, then one of the three commands, set focus in "Press key" field, then press the combination you want to assign, then click Assign.

You can assign more than one combination to a command ...