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Started 2 months ago by forsooth
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forsooth
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I've tried to make a trial clips (templates) file, but can't get it to work. I'm trying the CTRL-ALT-SPACE, but I'm doing something wrong.

Is there a step-by-step templates-for-dummies guide available?

Thanks!

Posted 2 months ago #
forsooth
Member

Follow up --

On the clips file, even if I delete some of the "clips" within the phpcontrol.clips, it seems to have no effect, even if I restart PN. I'm using the .clips file in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Programmer's Notepad\clips." Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing.

Thanks.

Posted 2 months ago #
simon
PN Developer

Hi,

Firstly, templates aren't quite the same as clips, although the file format is the same. I hope to improve this in the future, as it's confusing right now.

Clips:

You don't mention which version you're using, but if you drop a new clips file into the clips folder then PN should pick it up and show it next time.

Clips and templates are cached in a file called installClipCache.xml in your user settings directory, to reset the clips and templates back to just what's in the clips folder you can delete this file, but this shouldn't be necessary.

Templates:

The idea is that you define your templates using the options dialog, see Tools | Options | Code Templates. Add a template for the relevant scheme there, and it should be available from Ctrl-Alt-Space from then on.

Posted 2 months ago #
forsooth
Member

Hi, Simon --

Thanks for your reply. I'll use this information.

Thanks for PN!

Dave

Posted 2 months ago #
gregrre
Member

Hello
First off, this is my first post. I would like to thank you, Simon for developing and maintaining this useful, elegant replacement for notepad.

I experienced the same problems with the clips. I added a clip using pn2, saved the file exited and restarted, the added clip did not show in the clip list. After searching the forums i came across this reference:

Hi Mario,

Can you check for a file called "installClipCache.xml" in the following directory:

Vista: c:\users\[your user]\appdata\Roaming\Echo Software\PN2
Earlier: c:\documents and settings\[your user]\application data\echo software\pn2

I deleted the installClipCache.xml file and reloaded pn2. Voila! my additional clip was included. pn2 doesn't seem to know when the clips directory or a file therein has been changed... hope this helps

greg

Posted 1 month ago #
forsooth
Member

Thank you for posting this.

Dave

Posted 1 month ago #

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