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by Aircut
Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:41 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: File Open dialogue box ....
Replies: 7
Views: 11973

Re: File Open dialogue box ....

Thank you !!!!
by Aircut
Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:07 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Please make the Open filter window resizeable
Replies: 4
Views: 8873

Re: Please make the Open filter window resizeable

a year passed by.... any news for your poor users who struggle on a daily basis ?
by Aircut
Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:05 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: File Open dialogue box ....
Replies: 7
Views: 11973

Re: File Open dialogue box ....

FYI WE the users are still SUFFERING on a daily basis ! opening files in textpipe is an acrobatic struggle ! I am not sure why such a minor issue that causes MAJOR usability issue should take years to fix just go and compile the kid with a better dialogue box. what's the big deal? why we have to wai...
by Aircut
Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:17 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: File Open dialogue box ....
Replies: 7
Views: 11973

Re: File Open dialogue box ....

i confirm that this is still an open issue in TextPipe 9.4, and there is not even a polite response by the admin to my request. very frustrating program and support behavior
by Aircut
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:33 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: File Open dialogue box ....
Replies: 7
Views: 11973

Re: File Open dialogue box ....

any progress with the request. it is really bothering
by Aircut
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:08 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Remove paragraph between 2 lines that start w/certain word
Replies: 1
Views: 4481

Remove paragraph between 2 lines that start w/certain word

advise would be greatly appreciated

i need to remove a paragraph between lines which starts with a certain words

WORD1 [variable string1]
paragraph to be removed
WORD2 [variable string2]

output wanted:

WORD1 variable string1
WORD2 variable string2
by Aircut
Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:16 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: File Open dialogue box ....
Replies: 7
Views: 11973

File Open dialogue box ....

I am using TextPipe Pro 9.2.2 and I wonder why the Open File Dialogue is not re-sizable? Its quite uncomfortable to browse and open projects, can you please fix it?
by Aircut
Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:26 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: shrotening length of same characters words
Replies: 3
Views: 6014

Re: shrotening length of same characters words

thanks but it doesnt work, i created the rule for perl pattern search/replace

in the trial box i entered
............................
no changes....
by Aircut
Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:41 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: shrotening length of same characters words
Replies: 3
Views: 6014

shrotening length of same characters words

i need to find any words (or punctuation) that are composed of more than 4 letters of the same character and shorten them to 4

that is

AAAAAAAAAAA -> AAAA
???????????????? -> ????
........................... -> ....
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -> Brrr

any help would be appriciated
by Aircut
Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Frogbit style syntax in textpipe
Replies: 0
Views: 7867

Frogbit style syntax in textpipe

in the 90's there was a british company who came up with a text manipulation tool which i found very useful. and i am still running it on a windows xp platform. the main benefit of frogbit is that you can create if...endif and while..endwhile clusters and basically program a complicated script that ...
by Aircut
Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:19 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Extracting lines from RAW emails
Replies: 1
Views: 4140

Extracting lines from RAW emails

how can i input the full raw email to textpipe filter and extract only the from, subject and body eliminating all the other email headers

thanks
by Aircut
Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:16 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Text formatting
Replies: 1
Views: 4045

Text formatting

I face the job of cleaning up malformed essays. some of the writers leave no space after the full stop and other have an extra space before... same for commas, exclamation marks and question marks. my question, is how to create a filter that removes unwanted space between the words and the full stop...