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OK, I managed to work around by defining a macro for each of the special characters I need and assigning them to available Ctrl-key combinations. At least this works for entering text in the document. It does not work for input in dialogs ie. this solution is no good if I want to do "Save as" and th...

Ah, I see. Yes, as a matter of fact it does work if I turn num-lock on. But who would want to do _that_ - yuk :o) (Honestly - it didn't occur to me that anyone would want to. I suppose someone who does nothing but input numbers all day long might find it useful.) I have to rephrase my question. Is t...

The Alt+numeric-pad keying to input characters by their ascii number, eg. for characters not present on the keyboard, does not work in Ultraedit v11.0. It used to work in earlier versions, and does work in most windows applications (except Netscape/Mozilla). Eg. when trying to key Alt-134 for the le...

Thanks for the answer. It seems I am stuck :o( Is it also not possible to activate syntax highlighting manually while editing, independently of the filename? Can syntax highlighting also not be activated by a macro? (I was thinkin about having a macro read the first line and switch bash-highlighting...

How can I make Ultraedit detect the text being edited as bash code and activate the syntax highlighting ? Renaming the file to a particular extension is of course not acceptable. Can it be made to detect #!/bin/bash on the first line of the file ? Cheers OR (using UltraEdit v6.0)