Hi all, I'm an old NoteTab-user and really productive due to its simple and powerful clip engine. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for years now, so I'm getting a little sick using it.
Having tried lots of alternatives, returning more or less quickly to NoteTab each and every time, I'm happy to have found PSPad. It looks pretty much like what I'm looking for, but still I cannot make the change. After a couple of hours trying to get a hold on it I regularly resign and return to NoteTab to produce some code. Today, I started another approach. I began to understand what macros might be, what the clip definition file is for, but then again, I'm stuck. Macros, I'm afraid, are not easy to understand. At first, it looks pretty easy, like any old recorder, but then I'm confused. The latest macro is assigned to the F5-key, there are only four keys, and replay of any other macro requires several keystrokes. This is not what I'm used to, this is way too tedious to be really useful. So I was happy when I discovered the clip definition file with the help of an answer of one of the questions in this forum. I was able to understand the principle, apply and tweak it, although the invocation seemed to be a little awkward, but I was confident that I could learn to produce the keystrokes Ctrl+space+Enter as quickly as a simple space key, because that's the way I invoke clips in NoteTab -- couldn't be any easier and faster. But then I was stuck again -- I just wanted to add my standard PHP debugging line to the clip definition file, which was easy enough, but it should invoke the file name and preferably even the line number (which is not possible in NoteTab). How would I do that? I have no clue and can't find any hint in the forum or the help file. Thanks a lot! In the meantime, I will return once again to NoteTab to get some work done... I maintain several big projects with thousands of files and tens of thousands of lines of code... It would be really nice if I could save all the productivity gains from NoteTab to PSPad and profit from its superior organization, like the code explorer and syntax highlighting. It should be easy, because it's mostly the old trick of replacement (like the well-known Word auto correct-feature). There are two other features which, if I understood correctly, are supported by PSPad as well; one is a very powerful and fast search and replace feature for files, the other is called paste board, and it is a kind of Clipboard recorder, so I hope I don't have to sacrifice anything when I switch. Again, thanks a lot, at least for listening! -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,46042,46042> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
