Popup menus (context menus)

All memo fields (multi-line text fields) and most edit fields support popup menus. Right click in the field to active the menu. TextPipe lists the applicable commands, and dims any commands that are not possible (e.g. if the clipboard is empty, is makes no sense to allow Paste).

Insert special character

TextPipe uses special notation to define characters that cannot be entered from the keyboard, such as a form feed, represented by '\f'. This menu gives you a list of options to insert a variety of special characters in the field. Depending on the type of field (e.g. Exact match, Pattern match), different characters will have a special meaning, and so the menu that is shown will change.

Insert control character

These menu items are used to insert control characters directly, without using special codes to represent them e.g. when a tab is inserted, an ASCII code 9 is inserted, not \t.

Insert pattern

Fields that support pattern matching will also display a submenu to help you quickly enter patterns for common situations.

Insert custom pattern

Fields that support pattern matching will also display a submenu allowing user-defined patterns to be entered. For more details on setting this up, please see defining custom patterns.

Insert macro

For edit fields that support macros (@inputFilename etc), this menu will automatically add one of the supported macro names.

Escape special characters

As mentioned above, TextPipe uses special notation to define characters that cannot be entered from the keyboard. Use this command to ensure that TextPipe cannot misinterpret any control characters that you may inadvertently have in the edit field e.g. backslash characters are doubled \ -> \\

Allow extra spaces

This command converts the selected text of a search pattern (or all text if there is no selection) into one capable of absorbing extra spaces or tabs found in the search string. This can be very handy for matching in the HTML documents of a website where the HTML editor may have inserted extra spaces or tabs.

This command is only available when the selected field is the Search field of a search pattern.

Allow extra line feeds and spaces

This command converts the selected text of a search pattern (or all text if there is no selection) into one capable of absorbing extra spaces, tabs or line feeds found in the search string. This can be very handy for matching in the HTML documents of a website where the HTML editor may have inserted extra spaces, tabs or line feeds.

This command is only available when the selected field is the Search field of a search pattern.

Allow RTF tags

This command converts the selected text (or all text if there is no selection) into one capable of absorbing RTF tags. RTF tags are present in a .RTF (Rich Text Format) files. This facility is almost essential for searching and replacing inside RTF files.

The Allow RTF tags feature is only designed for use with text that consists of normal words - not with text that already contains a pattern.

This command is only available when the selected field is the Search field of a search pattern.

Find

The Find command searches for text in the field.

Find next

The Find Next command searches for the next occurrence of the previous text searched for. TextPipe will beep if there is no next occurrence, and if Find Next is activated again it will recommence the search at the beginning of the field.

Word wrap

Toggles word wrapping for the memo control. This property is not saved - it just makes it easier to view text.

Show hex dump

Shows a hex dump of the selected text or the entire text if there is no selection. This is handy to find out exactly what control characters are present in a control.

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