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I’m a convert from TextPad. I switched to EmEditor because of its excellent unicode support. But there’s one feature from TextPad that I pine for — the clip library. In TextPad, I could have one pane open on the left of my document, with a long list of “clips”. Each clip, if I double-clicked it, would insert that text. Each one had an optional placeholder so that if I had selected text in the document, the “clip text” would be inserted around it.
In other words, for example, I could select a word like “foo” in my document, and then double-click the “em” clip, and I’d get “foo“.
I work a lot with XML and HTML, and I really miss that clip library. Macros can do the same thing, but I haven’t figured out a way to get a long list of them in one pane.
With textpad, I could group the clips into “books”, so that hundreds of clips were no more than two mouse-clicks away.
Anything like that here?Klortho wrote:
I’m a convert from TextPad. I switched to EmEditor because of its excellent unicode support. But there’s one feature from TextPad that I pine for — the clip library. In TextPad, I could have one pane open on the left of my document, with a long list of “clips”. Each clip, if I double-clicked it, would insert that text. Each one had an optional placeholder so that if I had selected text in the document, the “clip text” would be inserted around it.
In other words, for example, I could select a word like “foo” in my document, and then double-click the “em” clip, and I’d get “foo“.
I work a lot with XML and HTML, and I really miss that clip library. Macros can do the same thing, but I haven’t figured out a way to get a long list of them in one pane.
With textpad, I could group the clips into “books”, so that hundreds of clips were no more than two mouse-clicks away.
Anything like that here?In the next version (v9), the Snippets plug-in will have the similar feature. Please try it when the beta version of v9 becomes available. Thanks!
Well, I just found the snippets plug-in, and played with it a little. It is nice, but not nearly as good as the feature in Textpad.
Here is what I’d love to see:
– multiline snippets (this is *essential*)
– as mentioned above, and as you said you’re already working on: ability to insert text around whatever is currently selected
– ability to give each snippet a nice abbreviated name, rather than using the text as the “name”P.S. the “notify me of new posts in this thread” isn’t working — I didn’t get a notice of your reply, and, yes, I checked my spam folder.
Just wanted you to know that I bought a personal license. It’s a very nice peice of software. Keep up the good work!
Klortho wrote:
Well, I just found the snippets plug-in, and played with it a little. It is nice, but not nearly as good as the feature in Textpad.
Here is what I’d love to see:
– multiline snippets (this is *essential*)
– as mentioned above, and as you said you’re already working on: ability to insert text around whatever is currently selected
– ability to give each snippet a nice abbreviated name, rather than using the text as the “name”P.S. the “notify me of new posts in this thread” isn’t working — I didn’t get a notice of your reply, and, yes, I checked my spam folder.
Just wanted you to know that I bought a personal license. It’s a very nice peice of software. Keep up the good work!
The Snippets plug-in will be greatly imporved in v9. In case you don’t know, you can also use HTMLBar plug-in. You might want to check your account setting from the left-side “Edit Account” also. Thanks for buying a license!
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