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Does anyone know how to edit Textpad macro's?
Having to re-record a macro to add changes is a huge pain.
I saw a seven year old post that said the macros cannot be edited but this can't still be true can it?

It can be and, unfortunately, is.

It is especially a pain, because doing much of anything related to editing macros causes ALL your macro key-commands to go kablooey.

Consider using an external macro editor, like PhraseExpress or Macro Scheduler.

Also consider my project which, although it doesn't have explicit TextPad macro-creation-and-saving yet, comes pretty darn close: http://xbnpe.jeffyepstein.com

Actually, I only use TextPad macros to support my XBN-PhraseExpress scripts, because they are SO much faster. My biggest wish for TextPad is that the 64-TextPad macro limit was completely eliminated. Why in the world has this seemingly artificial limitation lingered for all these years?

Anyway, XBN-PhraseExpress makes EVERY aspect of TextPad completely scriptable. Creating automation for recording your macros, including assigning them key-commands is not much of a stretch, and if I ever find the time, it will be a reality.

C0ppert0p wrote:I saw a seven year old post that said the macros cannot be edited but this can't still be true can it?

Seven years? Try thirteen!

Jeffy himself features prominently in some of the earliest discussions on the subject.

And in that very thread I said how I wish the 64-macro-limit was lifted!

Mehhhhhhhhmreeeeees!

You will also find in past postings, and which I also recommend because it's tried and true, that in Windows, the best macro tool is Autohotkey - bar none. Having written this, the only method I devised to bypass this limitation in TP, is to write a series of short macros and then merge them into a final single macro by calling the short macros consecutively. This works for me and I hope that it helps.

P.S: I do substantial editing using Autohotkey on Wikisource (a sister project of Wikipedia) and I posted my keyboard assignments as a guidance
for the benefit of others: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Ineuw/AutoHotKey