Re: Tutorial: Notepad++ shortcuts.xml macro converts unicode to the 95-keyboard ASCII characters

Arlen,

>> as you would need to learn something
>> different when you already have something that works.
>
> Since I run the conversion a hundred times a day, I've scripted it to 
> quick
> commands such as "Win+R > n" to bring up Notepad++.

Good for you.

Me myself ?   I just click a script, and it works on all the (html) files in 
the folder.  Easy, peasy.

I want to convert one or more specific files ?   Just drag-and-drop them 
onto the script and the magic happens.

And if one of those files turns out to be converted wrongly ?   I than can 
either just copy the auto-backupped origional file back (by drag-and-drop), 
or change the script and run it again - which than automatically uses the 
origional text from the backup as its source.  Again, easy peasy.

I want to convert a snippet of text ?  I copy the text into the clipboard, 
click a script and than paste the converted text back or where I want it.

Did I already mention that I like the freedom (flexibility) VBScript offers 
me ?  well, I do. :-)


Kid, you said you have been using npp for years now.   I would be bored and 
as such irritated as hell by having to do the same thing (copy the text, 
paste text into npp, start the macro, copy the text from npp, paste the text 
back) over-and-over-and-over again - according to your own claim, a hundred 
times a day.

Heck, even if I would only have needed to do something like that just once a 
week I would spend some time trying to automate it.    Even though I like 
VBScript, I know of a program (I tried it out) which can record and than 
re-play keystokes and mouse-movements.   I don't like it myself, but hey, 
maybe you would.

You think you can use such a program ?  Than you only have to google for it.

> Batch scripts hate curly quotes, for example.

Batch scripts hate a lot of characters.   It was never build as a text 
manipulating language, and it shows.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser