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tnx. I got the "mkdir %sel%" command working pretty easily already, but I was hoping there was a "^c" like command (or similar) for dos, to snag clipboard text. thanks much bego & pietz.

thanks. read that already, several times over. Would you care to ref the section of the help file that allows me to insert text to the dos command directly from the clipboard, especially clipboard #4-- not the main windows cb-- instead of from an active selection? tnx

Hi ultraeditors -- Im trying to create a very simple user tool that will run a dos "mkdir" command for me. I'd like to use it with a path I have already built and sitting in ultraedit's clipboard 4 ("c:this/that/here/there/yadda").... ...however, I can't quite finger out how to paste or send the cli...

wow, tnx Mofi. sweet. better than a wet dream. :lol: (still need user defined variables within the macros though, to make life truly easy) As always, tnx a million for sharing your knowledge. UE wouldnt be such an accessable tool without ya. Wz

howdy all -- Has anyone figured out a way to return the name of the current project, & the root/base directory of the current project from running a macro? I'd like to get both of those variables saved onto a couple of the clipboards for use with other "auto save" macros. Would nice to have a variab...

Thanks Mofi. Good idea to backtrack and make your own "subselection capture". :lol: Also, good catch escaping my literal '.' with '\.' That's definitely what I should have used. ----------------- Thanks for all your help {Mofi} --- and thanks for being such a prolific poster. You saved me quite a bi...

Well, a lookbehind ONLY works for plain text, if I understood it right. I think you're right, Bego. Once I used a literal string inside the lookback it was fine in UE. I have a tool called "RegexBuddy" that I used to create the incorrect lookback regex. Unfortunately, it DOES allow character patter...

Thanks, Mofi. I eventually ended up doing something similar. (I just added my "," writeline in the space after the copied word and selected them both, but yours is a bit cleaner) Being anal retentive, :lol:, I was just hoping there was a one liner that would be available instead of using 10. Thanks ...

hi UE peops --- simple macro question that I can't quite finger out. Should be easy, but damn Ive been on it for over 2 hours. How do you send a literal string to the clipboard without first copying it or selecting it? IOW, I want to send the "," to the clipboard between copyappend operations to sep...

Hmmmm..... ...I've also been trying to use a Perl Positive Lookbehind to capture exactly what I need directly w/o using a capture submatch I originally posted. Instead of using this perl and trying to use the $1 capture in a macro: ------> \s34.a\s*(UnitTest\d.*)\s*[:] I thought I could do a "find" ...

hey group -- First time poster. New UE user. Go easy on me. :lol: I'm looking to do a pretty simple task with a macro but can't quite work it out after an hour and a half of mucking about. I have a file as follows: 34.a UnitTest12: xxy 37.b blah blahUnitTest: yzz 34.a UnitTest009: zyz 42.c yadda, Un...