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Mofi - I did not understand the power of scripting and have completely ignored the fact that UE has this ability. Thank you for pointing out that UE scripting exists. WOW! What was I thinking - scripting is great! Thanks again for pointing this out. The following code is my first attempt at scriptin...

The command "CopyFilePath" is great for local/network files. However for FTP opened files, the string returned is not a "real" name that one can use at a OS prompt. The string received is a special UE format of: FTP::{yourftpaccount}\/path/path/path|filename.ext Basically two search replace commands...

Undo is very frustrating. You think its there and when you need it most it fails you. I never could see the pattern as to why it was so dang flaky. yes it is and issue, and yes I would like to configure it. Most of the PC's I use have a gig or more of ram, I wouldn't mind dedicating a few meg to a r...

Just installed version 13 hotfix#6 (never tried #5). At this point I consider the slow startup issue solved! UE on this laptop now takes just over 1 second which I deem acceptable. (prior to hotfix(es) we were in the 5 second range). THANKS ULTRAEDIT.

google has a utility which indexes your hard drive and lets you instantly find files on your desktop just as easily as you find stuff on the web. Its called google desktop. This post is really a problem with google desktop but since it affects all ultraedit users, I am posting my question/issue here...

Is it easy/possible to take a UE macro you have written and map it to a UE toolbar icon? I have written 3 macros and use them often enough that I would like to not need to remember the keyboard shortcuts, but rather add 3 icons to my UE toolbar to play the macro when I click the associated icon.

what your asking for is easy. Simply - search for "call" - search for "end call" while holding down shift key A search while shift key is held down causes you highlighted all the text between "call" and "end call" inclusive. do your replace and specify to UE to ONLY operate on the selected text. (wh...

Manually open all you files into UE. Alter your macro as indicated below. With each playing of macro it will process one file. you can play the macro a bunch of times via clicking "macro" "play macro multiple times" the changes I'm proposing to your code are simply to find your "procedure division" ...

This should be close to what you want. I dont have time fully debug/test but it may get you started and spark enough of an idea to finish the task. InsertMode ColumnModeOff HexOff UnixReOff TrimTrailingSpaces Bottom Key Ctrl+END " " Find RegExp "^p^p" Replace All "^p" Top Loop IfEof ExitLoop EndIf S...

I'm pressed for time, and gotta go however the code in my 1st reply doesn't look right. There was supposed to be a "myuniquestring" in there. The following should resolve your concerns. I did one quick test seems to work just fine but as I said, gotto go. bye. InsertMode ColumnModeOff HexOff UnixReO...

darn right "esc" out of a command makes sense. If anything, the "enter key" is counter-intuitive as the enterkey in most applications means accept/take the highlighted/default action (which almost never is abort/escape).

Following two macros do what you I think you asked. Assumptions are: 1) you have desired code highlighted 2) highlight was done in normal mode not column mode 3) your highlighting entire lines (put mouse left of column 1 click and drag down) What macro does is COPY the offending code (not cut it) It...

Your largely doing what I would do. The one thing I might do different is do an expression search.This would be better because UE's kernel would be highlighting everything we want to append into the clipboard as part of the search. This would elminate a few lines of macro code from your loop process...

An easy way to get your answer is to do a search replace on all open files. Do a non regular expression search for ^p and replace with same ^p. The upside to doing this is UE gives you feedback on what it replaced. Example 14 items replaced in 2 files. The down side of this method is that you have j...

I am not visualizing what your saying. However, sure sounds like you can use your mouse, highlight the offending characters/text (including that which spans multiple lines) then hit ctrl-r (which brings up the search replace dialog box). Do your replace of old with new as desired. If you set the "re...