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I have always wanted to get this to work. Has anyone been able to do this?

i.e. Execute a DOS command and get the output inserted directly into the current open file.

It does not look like there is support for this in TextPad. I am able to get a macro that reads in the one-time only read contents of a generated temp file, i.e. I send the command output to a temp file, hit Ctrl-Shift-V and type in the file name every time.

Something like a insert command output to active document at current cursor position option in the DOS command config window. Guess that is an enhancement request.

Did you ever get this to work in text pad? I want to do something similar. Instead of inserting into the current document, I want to replace the entire file with the output of a perl script that I wrote which has a complicated search and replace regex. If you figured out a way to have the command output into the file, please let me know!
thanks
eric