Just wondering if this feature will ever be implemented or if there is a work-around? If you are making a long macro (number of find/replace) and goof 1 small thing you have to start over.
Thanks for a GREAT product !
Editing Macros?
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Stephan
Re: Editing Macros?
Hey, I'd really love to see human readable and editable macros, too.
Years ago when I did my work on a 286 machine there was a DOS editor from Semware, that had a more or less complete macro language. This was a great thing to have.
Anyway - Textpad has some major advantages of course...
(...just ordered 'my' licence)
Years ago when I did my work on a 286 machine there was a DOS editor from Semware, that had a more or less complete macro language. This was a great thing to have.
Anyway - Textpad has some major advantages of course...
(...just ordered 'my' licence)
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Ken
Re: Editing Macros?
I agree with Stephan and AL. Editable macros would be a wildly useful enhancement. Please include this as either an option within TextPad or as a standalone utility (Hmmm - read & edit TextPad macros from [within] TextPad. What a concept!).
Thanks for an outstanding product. I've just licensed the [four other co-workers] that saw my TextPad and got hooked.
Cheers,
Ken
Thanks for an outstanding product. I've just licensed the [four other co-workers] that saw my TextPad and got hooked.
Cheers,
Ken
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Hallvard Ystad
Re: Editing Macros?
This is a repeating thread. Editing macros seems to be very important to very many users (so maybe we will see this feature soon?).
In an old thread, http://www.textpad.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=739&t=707, Randall McDougall talked about the possibility of making a quick'n'dirty hack to be able to compile/decompile macros into something human readable. Any luck with that, Randall?
..And, if the "which programming language is best suited for this purpose" discussion is still open, I'd like to place my vote for rebol. It's compact and extremely convenient for text parsing and manipulation.
Regards,
~HY
In an old thread, http://www.textpad.com/forum/read.php?f=1&i=739&t=707, Randall McDougall talked about the possibility of making a quick'n'dirty hack to be able to compile/decompile macros into something human readable. Any luck with that, Randall?
..And, if the "which programming language is best suited for this purpose" discussion is still open, I'd like to place my vote for rebol. It's compact and extremely convenient for text parsing and manipulation.
Regards,
~HY
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PTo
Re: Editing Macros?
Textpad programmer's must see the freeware CREdit for a example of WSH (Windows Scripting Hosts) integration.
See http://www.thecredit.f2s.com/index.html
The current functionalities of the macros are a shame for one of the best
editors of the market.
This functionnality must be completely rewrite !
See http://www.thecredit.f2s.com/index.html
The current functionalities of the macros are a shame for one of the best
editors of the market.
This functionnality must be completely rewrite !
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Alex A n g e l o p o u
Re: Editing Macros?
Just a note on MY attempted workaround. I wanted to make a macro opening a set of files \"universal\" (e.g., open a set of text files under %windir% instead of leaving them as \"C:\windows\"). Even though I typed them in as %windir% full paths, textpad parsed it out to the static filenames. I attempted opening the binary macro to see if it would allow substitution. Unfortunately, doing this caused Textpad to crash on open since it apparently parses macros on open (and most likely doesn't approve of % signs or was looking at a checksum somewhere...). Oh, well, back to the drawing board....