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   iisdev
   Member

   Hi!

   One thing I really miss from my last editor is having a shortcut to automatically bold/italicize my current selection of text.

   For example:

   This emphasized text can be read.

   I would highlight the phrase 'emphasized text' and click Ctrl+B (that was my shortcut). The result would look like this:

   This <strong>emphasized text</strong> can be read.

   It really saved a lot of time marking up a document. I have to do that by hand when I really shouldn't have to. :( I thought maybe I could make a macro since it doesn't look like Programmers Notepad supports this feature yet. I saw no macro options in the menus but found an option for project tools. Unfortunately the included help isn't very helpful with this topic.

   Can someone please explain how I should go about creating a 'Tool' to format my selection of text and insert it back in the original place?

   Thanks you. Hopefully this feature might be useful for others too.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   PN doesn't really have this kind of HTML-specific behaviour built in, the extensions model is where this support will appear over the next couple of versions.

   Scripting/Macros is new to the develoment series for 2.0.7 (and therefore the soon-to-be-released 2.0.8). Currently you can write scripts with Python by using the PyPN extension. In the future we'll be adding script/macro recording.

   You can assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts so you can fairly easily get Ctrl-B for strong and the like.

   Tools are for running external programs, not for macros.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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