The Semware Editor

TSE Pro Generated Manual

This manual was generated from the latest editor's built-in interactive Help system (*) by using the Hlp2txt tool.

(*) Note that this is still mostly the Help for TSE 4.4 (2005), as later TSE fixes and features are mostly documented in the installed TSE's read.me file.

The manual was generated as a list of topics based on TSE's built-in Help's Index. The content of the manual is very complete, probably containing all topics that formerly occurred in TSE's "The User's Guide" and "The Macro Reference Guide", but ordered alphabetically instead of the manuals' order.

A nice benefit of the online version of this generated manual is, that selecting a topic provides its URL in the browser's address bar. You can copy and use that URL to provide a link to the topic from an email or other document.

Contents of TSE's compile.hlp file

This short manual is an addendum to the "Generated Manual", that is solely based on TSE's tsehelp.hlp file.

This additional web page contains the 40 advanced compilation topics from TSE's compile.hlp file.

In TSE you can access these Help topics by pressing the F1 key on the submenu options of TSE's Macro -> "Compile Menu" menu.

TSE Pro Latest Undocumented Features (New)

Date: 9 May 2023

This document describes bugs and undocumented features for the latest TSE Pro version.

Recently updated:
OEM font bug, PasteFromWinClip(), LinkSynFile(), ViewFindsId, isMacroLoaded(), ExecMacro(), QueryEditState(), All functions with a single "perform how many times" parameter, FFTimeStr(), FFDate(), FFTime(), MsgBoxEx(), HookDisplay(), SearchPath(), Random(), Help(), …

TSE Pro 4.4 Undocumented Features (Old)

Date: 6 Feb 2022

This document describes undocumented features and errata for TSE Pro v4.4 (2005).

Frozen: This document is frozen, meaning it will no longer receive updates. Since December 2021 public versions of TSE have become available. They contain lots of bug fixes for earlier issues, so it does not make sense to describe solved bugs. Everybody can upgrade to a new public version, the latest of which I now consider to be TSE's new main version.

Keys.zip

v1.0.4

7 May 2023

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.31 upwards

This TSE extension allows you to assign an editing action to a quickly typed sequence of defined keys or mouseclicks.

It uses a Keys.ui interface definition file in TSE's "mac" folder. Its syntax is like a standard TSE .ui file with some minor restrictions. It does not compile with Macro Compile, but is compiled when you save the file.

For example, I use it in the Windows GUI version of TSE to assign a triple tap of the <.> key to the "…" (ellipsis) character, a triple tap of the <e> key to the "€" (euro) character, a triple tap of the <?> key to the "¿" character, and the tapping of <1></><2> to the "½" character.

Likewise you could for example assign different actions to a double, triple and quadruple tap of the <Home> key.

In Linux it is ideal for typing characters with diacritical marks in the same way Windows does for "international" keyboards. For example, you can enter an "é" by quickly typing the <'> and <e> keys.

More such examples are given in the example Keys.ui file that is included with the macro.

v1.0.4 Fixed a rare bug that almost nobody but me would run into, namely the extension disabling itself during editing of a file containg TSE Help codes.

Tally.zip

v1.1

30 Apr 2023

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards, all variants

This tool uses a TSE-like search command to create a list of each unique search result with its count.

If you search without a regular expression, then there is typically only one unique search result which gets counted.

If you search with a regular expression, then there are typically multiple unique search results, which each get counted.

Example usages:

• List and count all unique ip addresses, email addresses or URLs.
• List and count all unique values of the Nth field of a log or .csv file.
• List and count all unique usages of syntax in software programs.
• List and count all unique words, characters, names or abbreviations.

Read its documentation for more about its power options.

v1.1
Implemented search option "a".
The Options prompt is now more self-explanatory.
Made search option "g" redundant: it is always used.
Improved the documentation.

GenWordSet.zip

v1.1.1

6 Apr 2023

TSE v4 upwards, all variants

This tool generates a TSE WordSet, based on the characters that it finds in the current buffer.

It presents the generated WordSet in a prompt, from which you can copy it.

v1.1 Usually when a space character occurs in the buffer, it needs to be omitted from the WordSet, so I added this as a question with the usual case as its default answer.

v1.1.1 Fixed: If the buffer contained a backslash character, then the WordSet could miss an unrelated character.

RanGen.zip

v1

3 Apr 2023

TSE v4.41.37a upwards, all variants

This tool generates a random string of letters, numbers or both, of a selectable length.

You can copy the generated string from the result-prompt.

html_carlo.zip

v1

23 Mar 2023

Compatibility: Untested

TSE is incapable of perfectly syntax hiliting HTML, because TSE's hiliting syntax is too limited for that.

That said, I came up with an HTML syntax hiliting solution that works well for me by rarely giving me hiliting errors.

For me it works much better than TSE's standard HTML syntax hiliting. Your milage may vary.

Execute.zip

v2.0.1

20 Jan 2023

TSE Pro 2.5e upwards, all TSE variants

This tool can interactively run a TSE command or a whole line of TSE commands without you having to program a macro for it.

New in v2:

• Now supports all TSE versions and variants from TSE 2.5e upwards.
• Can now be installed in and started from the Potpourri menu, and then supplies its own prompt and history list.
• For compilation errors it now provides a fancy error window with a pointer to the error (TSE v3 upwards).
• Breaking change: Removed the Dos command line capability.
• Fixed: Now also works if TSELOADDIR is set and the original load directory is not writable, perhaps because it is on a write-protected network drive.

v2.0.1 Fixed: NextFile() could not be used as a TSE command.

Case.zip

v1

12 Jan 2023

TSE v3 upwards, all variants

This tool allows you to add keyboard definitions for handier versions of upper, lower, flip, and capitalize to your user interface file.

"upper", "lower" and "capitalize" advance the cursor to the next word when they are not used in a block.

"flip" advances the cursor to the next character when it is not used in a block.

"capitalize" also works outside a block.

HistList.zip

v1.0.2

9 Dec 2022

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This extension makes the use of TSE history lists a lot more efficient.

When in a history list, just start typing a part what you search for to reduce the list to matches of what you typed.

Example 1: This often allows me to only type a file's name without having to supply its folder.

Example 2: By typing "-a" in the history list I can quickly select the previously entered string again that opens all TSE macros.

v1.0.2 adds the left mouse button to select a history entry.

PickList.zip

v0.6   BETA

8 Dec 2022

TSE 4.41.44 upwards; GUI, Console, Linux

This extension shrinks a TSE picklist to only those files, that contain the search string you type.

In TSE a picklist is a file list with a known TSE format. Picklists are used by the File Open menu, TSE's file manager, and more.

This extension hacks TSE's picklists. While so far it seems to work really well, I have cause to first release it as a beta.

PickList default does not work for regular lists, because in general it can damage some of them permanently. However, you can configure PickList for regular lists. Read the documentation for more details about for which regular lists it is safe to do so. Known safe regular lists: List Open, View Finds. Known unsafe regular lists: List Recent, Potpourri.

Installation note
There is an older extension PickListFind. PickList and PickListFind should not both be installed.

In my superior opinion, PickList is vastly superior to PickListFind. 😉

v0.4:

• Fixed: If (re)entering a picklist by typing a menu letter, the menu letter no longer becomes a picklist search letter.
• Fixed: When selecting a subfolder in a picklist, that was shrunk by a search string, the subfolder's picklist no longer inherits the search string.
• Fixed: The search string hiliting in a picklist no longer disappears if you perform an action on the picklist that does not leave it. For example: Sorting a shrunken picklist in the TSE File Manager.

v0.5: Allows configuration of the shrink-as-you type behavior for SOME regular lists too. This potentially dangerous feature is default not configured. Read the documentation!

v0.6: Fixed: Typing any letter in one of the EditFile macro's prompts (typically y/n), no longer adds that letter to PickList's search string.

syncfg.zip

(no version number)

27 Nov 2022

TSE 4.42 upwards; GUI, Console, Linux.

This is the TSE macro that handles the SynTaxHilite Mapping menu.

Its major improvement is that the "Overlay Settings from Mapping Text File" menu option now default proposes to read the same text file as the "Write Settings to Mapping Text File" menu option proposes to write to.

Minor improvement: The .syn file shown in the menu is now 2 characters longer, and if the path\filename is too long, then its end instead of its front is shown.

PickListFind.zip

v1.0.2

20 Nov 2022

Compatibility: untested

This extension enhances incrementally searching in a TSE picklist by also searching in the middle of filenames.

A TSE picklist is used by the File Open menu, TSE's file manager, and more.

This functionality was requested by two users.

Installation note: I strongly recommend to instead install the newer extension PickList, which shrinks a picklist to only those files that match the typed search string.

The new PickList and the old PickListFind must not be installed together.

v1.0.2 Fixed that PickListFind did nothing in someone else's TSE installation.

HelpRepair.zip

v1

16 Nov 2022

TSE v4 upwards (GUI, Console, Linux)

This extension repairs or enhances the bullet character in TSE's Help.

It makes TSE's Help show its bullet character if it did not, and for all code pages it makes the Console variant of TSE show a BIG bullet character.

TSE's Help contains a lot of bullet-pointed text, but newer TSE GUI users will never have seen that, and other TSE versions and variants have issues with the bullet character as well.

The main reason for this extension was, that in newer GUI TSE versions, its Help shows a bullet character as a space character, making what should have been bullet-pointed text look like cluelessly indented paragraphs.

Uniview.zip

v1.0.1

31 Oct 2022

Windows GUI TSE v4.0 upwards,
with an ANSI-compatible font (like Courier New).

TSE itself only supports 256 characters, 218 of which are displayable ANSI characters.

Unicode supports 144,697 characters.

The Uniview extension lets TSE display a text's Unicode characters.

Installation note:
The Uniview extension requires the Unicode extension, which requires the Status extension.

Courier New
Despite the fact that the Courier New font itself supports only about 2700 characters, you can configure TSE to make Windows augment that to almost all Unicode characters, and displayed in a high quality at that! See Uniview's documentation.

Unifont
I do not recommend the Unifont font, but it is a logical alternative to want to try for users who decide to try other fonts. I did, and I found no better alternatives to Courier New. I urge you to first read Uniview's documentation about Unifont's pros and cons, and for a link to a monospace version of the font.

v1.0.1 fixes the bug, that at start-up Uniview left a marked block open in a system buffer. This caused users, who have the TSE option "Use Current Line If No Block" turned on, to get the error "Block not in current file" for trying to copy a not marked line.

CursorLine.zip

v1.0.4

14 Oct 2022

Windows TSE Pro GUI v4.2 upwards

This extension brightens or dims all the cursor line's existing foreground or background colors by a configurable percentage.

I use it to give the cursorline a subtle slightly different background color.

This extension requires, that in TSE's editing colors configuration, the text cursorline color is the same as the text color, and that the block cursor line color is the same as the block color.

Because TSE can be configured with light text on a dark background or dark text on a light background, the extension can brighten or dim both separately.

It turns out that brightening and dimming foreground colors requires a large percentage to be visible, and brightening and dimming background colors requires only a tiny percentage.

v1.0.3 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

v1.0.4 Fixed a future problem: CursurLine now disables itself during _DISPLAY_HELP_ display mode, so it no longer overwrites OEM characters with ANSI characters there. Currently nobody edits files in _DISPLAY_HELP_ display mode, but in the future some of us might.

SynCase.zip

v7.1

6 Oct 2022

Windows and Linux TSE Pro v4 upwards

Out of the box this TSE extension enhances the editing of TSE macro source code by setting keywords to their default predefined UPPER, lower, and CamelCase as you type.

SynCase v7 was rewritten to make use of the latest TSE capabilities and is compatible with Linux TSE.

Its configuration reuses the delimiters and keywords from TSE's syntax hiliting configuration to determine the casing of keywords.

For TSE's macro language it can set keyword casing back to its default values if you ever lost them, which unfortunately a sneaky TSE feature can trick you into doing.

It can be turned on and off per mapping set of TSE extensions. As this implies you can configure it for other languages as well.

You can configure non-keywords to be UPPER or lower cased.

For Linux TSE and for SynCase's full features you need at least TSE v4.41.19 upwards. For older Windows TSE versions from v4 upwards an old version of SynCase is included.

v7.0.2 Fixed an incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

v7.1 Added 38 missing SAL keywords to case. All of them occur in Semware's distributed TSE macros. As of this date (6 Oct 2022) they are missing in TSE's syntax hiliting too, and need to be added there too to hilite and case them. Details are in SynCase.s's "HISTORY" section at 7.1.
The missing keywords are:
Keywords 4: DetabColumnBlocks. Keywords 5: GERMAN, COPYTO_CURR, LINUX, LOCKFIX, MORE_KEYWORDS, _DONTLOAD_, _PICK_BUFFER_FN_COL_. Keywords 6: ax, bx, cx, dx, height, Cleanup, Default, Flags, Prologue, Startup, Black, Blink, Blue, Bright, Cyan, Green, Intense, Magenta, Red, White, Yellow. Keywords 7: FindInfoPtr, GetOutputDriver, SetOutputDriver, HookDebugger, Interp, intr, LockMacroId, UnLockMacroId. Keywords 9: KeyPad0.

Settings.zip

v1.3.1

2 Oct 2022

Windows TSE 4.0 upwards

This macro logs changes in TSE settings.

At any time you can execute the macro for a report of the history of changes in your settings.

v1.3 Default no longer automatically restores TSE settings after a TSE upgrade, because new TSE releases will do that themselves.

v1.3.1 Fixed a case-sensitivity bug, when Windows TSE is started from a network drive, that is implemented by a Linux machine, that enforces addressing its files case-sensitively.

zz_log.zip

v1

1 Oct 2022

TSE v2.5e upwards, all TSE variants

zz_log implements old-school debugging!

If a target macro source file is current, then this tool adds zz_log lines, that, when the target macro is run, log what parts of the target macro are actually executing.

You can add your own zz_log_write() lines.

Afterwards all zz_log lines are easily removed with TSE's Find&Do menu.

Unicode.zip

v2.6

24 Sep 2022

Windows GUI TSE PRo v4 upwards with an ANSI compatible font,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This extension enables TSE to recognize and edit files for all major Unicode encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, including their variants; big endian (BE) and little endian (LE), and with or without a byte order mark (BOM).

Installation: The Unicode extension requires the Status extension to be installed.

If you are a user of the EolType extension, then you need to upgrade it to EolType v7. The older EolType versions do not understand the newline characters in the UTF-16 and UTF-32 files we can now edit.

Key features:

• For Unicode characters that have an ANSI equivalent the ANSI character is shown. Typically this already covers the most frequently used Unicode characters that are not ASCII characters:
  € ‚ ƒ „ … † ‡ ˆ ‰ Š ‹ Œ Ž ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ˜ ™ š › œ ž Ÿ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
• Other Unicode characters are shown as quoted hexadecimal Unicode codepoints, using the DELETE character (shown as a square-like character) as quotes.
• You do not have to remember these hexadecimal codes:
  • The character's Unicode description is shown as a status.
  • You can insert any character into your text by typing part of its Unicode name or description in a shrink-as-you-type list of characters.
• Viewing the current character in its real Unicode form is possible but default disabled because it works imperfectly.
• A file's character encoding (ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8/16/32[BE/LE][+BOM]) is shown as a status.
• You can explicitly change a file's character encoding by right-clicking or pressing [Shift] F10 on the status. Note that this allows you to convert any ASCII, ANSI or Unicode character encoding to any (other) Unicode character encoding.
• Conversions of character encodings are lossless!
• ASCII or ANSI files are semi-automatically upgraded to another character encoding when you type a non-ASCII or non-ANSI character.

A lot of the above features can be tweaked in the configuration.

Key lacking features:

• It does not display non-ANSI characters graphically. ANSI only covers the alphabets of languages like Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. To view a text's non-ANSI characters you can install the Uniview extension.
• It only supports Unicode for the content of files and ADSes. To access Unicode folder, file and ADS names use the Edit2 tool.

Unicode info
The Unicode Consortium has a fun 6 minute intro video.
Tom Scott has an a bit more technical 9½ minute intro video about UTF-8 specifically.
The Unicode Consortium is Unicode's source of truth. Scroll all the way down their page for useful technical links.
Wikipedia has helpful articles on Unicode in general, as well as on the specifics of UTF-8 , UTF-16 and UTF-32 .

v2.5 New copy, cut and paste functions, that support ASCII, ANSI, and Unicode-encoded text to and from the Windows clipboard.

v2.5.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's "-i" command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

v2.6 Updated the data files to Unicode 15, which was released 13 Sep 2022.
Fixed, that Unicode text copied to the Windows clipboard could not be pasted in a VirtualBox guest system.

Makro.zip

v2

23 Sep 2022

Windows TSE v4 upwards

This tool makes ("mak") one file or all files in a folder read-only ("ro") or not read-only.

Note that the read-only attribute is a very light protection in Windows: It is often and easily ignored. Occasionally it is honored, which makes it slightly better than no protection at all.

v2
Now generates an unsaved .cmd file with the necessary commands, so you can check and even modify the command file before executing it. Now also adds or removes a folder's read-only attribute.

CaseExecMacro.zip

v1.0.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE v4 upwards,,
Linux TSE v4.41.12 upwards

I have written and downloaded lots of macros for Windows with upper case letters in their names. My user interface file has lots of ExecMacro commands that reference them. And lots of those macros reference each other with ExecMacro commands. Whether these references were in the same case did not matter, because Windows is case-insensitive.

Now there is a case-sensitive Linux TSE beta.   Oops!   Porting problem!

This tool repairs ExecMacro commands in all opened files that contain an ExecMacro with a differently cased macro name than its disk filename.

Linux-specific example:
In a UI or macro file the command ExecMacro('Adjust') does not work if the macro's disk name is tse/mac/adjust.s .

With this macro you can repair one or all ui and macro files in one go, check its report and unsaved changed files first, and if you are satisfied with the result, then you can save them all and e.g. use the Recompile macro to recompile them all.

v1.0.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

TSEfilVrs.zip

v1.0.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE v4 upwards
Linux TSE probably all versions

This tool lists TSE's internal editor version number for one specific file or for all files in a folder.

Fair warning: Even for uber-TSE-nerds it takes an exceptional situation for this tool to be of any practical use.

Context: For different but close TSE releases, the editor and compiler executables and .mac files might still be compatible with each other. This means that macros do not always need to be recompiled for a new release, as is currently already sometimes skipped for .si macros. Whether this is the case is administratively determined by the "internal editor version number" of these executables and .mac files. This tool can list the internal editor version numbers of these files.

v2.0.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

KeyboardLogger.zip

v2.0.1

17 Sep 2022

TSE v4 upwards

This TSE extension logs all your TSE keystrokes and which file you did them in, default to a Log\Tse\KeyboardLogger folder in your personal folder.

Each TSE session creates a unique logfile YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_WWWWW.txt based on the start-time of the session.

v2
Instead of first logging keystrokes to a buffer and afterwards copying the buffer to a file, now keystrokes are immediately logged to a file on disk.
The formerly proscribed method of autoloading the macro is loosened and enhanced with intermediate options.
Executing the macro now provides a menu with run-time and configuration options.
Added Linux compatibility.

v2.0.1
Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

EventLogger.zip

v1.1.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE v4 upwards,,
Linux TSE v4.41.44 upwards

This TSE extension logs selected TSE events to a file and/or to the screen.

This helps macro programmers understand how TSE's hooks work.

File logging is technically the best way, because it works fast and gives detailed timing information. You need to afterwards match your actions with the log entries.

Visual logging to the title bar or the message line can be more problematical, because it can interfere with and be interfered by the editor. It can be really helpful though to see events as they happen in the context they happen in. It slows the editor a lot, because it pauses for you to read the logging.

v1 There was a published beta-version. In this non-beta version hardcoded configuration constants were replaced by user-friendly configuration menus, all remaining TSE events were added, and you can now select which TSE events to log.

v1.1 Now logs the editor's process id instead of Windows handle, because Linux TSE does not have a Windows handle, and now logs can be linked with other process id showing tools like Windows' Task Manager and Linux commands like top and ps.

v1.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

Hlp2txt.zip

v3.0.3

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE PRo v4 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.12 upwards

Palette.zip

v1.1.2

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE Pro GUI v4.2 upwards

TSE's color configuration menus refer to 1 fixed palette of 16 fixed foreground colors and 16 fixed background colors.

This extension allows you to make any number of named palettes of 16 foreground and 16 background colors, which each can be any of 16,777,216 RGB colors.

A selected palette is persistent across TSE sessions.

So, if you just want a different shade of red, or you want to match your TSE border and menu colors with your Windows theme colors, or you want to make your own TSE nature or party theme, or you want to create an old green, amber or black-and-white monitor theme, then this is the extension for you.

v1.1 If the ColorPicker tool is installed, then the Palette extension now uses it as its internal color picker.
Palette's submenu now uses the <Ctrl I> and <Ctrl E> keys to differentiate between using its internal and external color picker.

v1.1.2 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

History.zip

v5.0.8

17 Sep 2022

TSE v4 upwards

Features:

• Avoid history lists deleting each other.
• Get an overview of all history lists with their names.
• Delete an entire history list.
• Define cleanup-rules per history list.

v5.0.8 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

HiliteAll.zip

v1.1.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE PRo v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This extension will be included in TSE versions released after 30 April 2019. For older TSE versions down to TSE Pro v4.0 you can download it here.

Functionality:

• When a Find or Replace hilites one of its matches, then all other matches currently on the screen are hilited too.
• It does so as a side effect to using existing Find and Replace keys without interfering with their functionality.
• It can hilite once, or it can keep hiliting the last search while you continue editing, and stop hiliting when a configured "stop key" is pressed.

Strong points:

• It also hilites during a Replace's (Yes/No/...) prompts.
• You can configure different hiliting colours for the extra matches.
• It hilites a Replace with the Replace search options.

Weak point:

• It only hilites for commands started with a configured key.

v1.1 Added Linux TSE compatibility. Increased the existing backwards compatibility with TSE 4.0 upwards.

v1.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

fState.zip

v1.4.3

17 Sep 2022

TSE PRo v4 upwards

This extension will be included in TSE versions released after 23 May 2020. For older TSE versions down to TSE Pro v4.0 you can download it here.

When reopening a file this TSE extension restores the file's previous cursor position.

A regular file is remembered based on its full path and file name.

A temporary file is remembered just based on its file name. This makes it work with tools, that give access to a file outside the local file system by copying the file to an each time differently named temporary subfolder and then call the editor.

The macro is an expanded version of the former TmpState macro, that only remembered cursor positions for temporary files. If you previously installed the TmpState macro, then you are advised to uninstall it in favour of this macro.

v1.4.3 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

Lengths.zip

v1.1.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This TSE extension enhances TSE by displaying the lengths of the current line, string and word on the right hand side of the screen.

Which of these lengths you want to see can be configured.

The Lengths macro requires the Status macro to be installed.

v1.1 Added Linux compatibility. Added direct access to the status colour in the configuration menu.

v1.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

Git.zip

v1.4.4

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Pro v4.41.43 upwards

This extension integrates some basic git functionality into TSE.

It requires that git is pre-installed on the computer and that the Status macro is pre-installed in TSE.

If the current file is in a git directory, then the its git status is shown on the right-hand side of the screen.

In Windows right-clicking the status (or in any OS executing the Git macro) pops up a menu, from which you can do explicit commits and list and open old versions of the current file.

You can configure the extension to automatically do a "git add" or "git add+commit" after each file save.

v1.4
New: Open an old version of the current file by selecting it from a commit list.

v1.4.3
Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

UnCrash.zip

v1.1.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Windows TSE Beta v4.41.37a upwards

This TSE extension now has two functions.

1. For each TSE session that was open during a (Windows) crash, it automatically offers to recover one of those sessions each next time TSE is started.

2. At any time you can access the recent back-ups it made through a shrink-as-you-type list, and thereby retrieve deleted and previous versions of recent files.

I created this extension because historically all my Windows home PCs have tended to occasionally crash, especially during the summer months.

Then in practice I found out that I also used it to retrieve (old versions of) files.

v1.1 Added a user-friendly interface to at any time list and retrieve UnCrash's backup files.
Fixed Uncrash v1.0.7 showing a system buffer if it was started manually.
Undid the change in v1.0.7 to not report a crash if the Close button of the GUI version of an older TSE version than v4.41.46 was used. Semware improved the Close button in TSE v4.41.46, so UnCrash's fix is no longer necessary for newer versions of TSE and even hampered it, and it was too much work to make UnCrash support both the fixed and older versions of TSE when there is a free public newer TSE version available.

v1.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

EolType.zip

v7.1.1

17 Sep 2022

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This is a TSE extension that enhances TSE's end of line type handling when editing non-Windows files with TSE.

The EolType macro requires the Status macro to be installed.

TSE itself already does a reasonable job of handling end of lines for those non-Windows files that:

• AND exist on disc,
• AND are not empty,
• AND have a correct end of line type.

It does so implicitly: You don't know a file's end of line type.

This macro fills the gaps:

• It also lets you CREATE non-Windows files,
• it adds the correct end of line type to files that were empty,
• it can be configured to repair files with the wrong end of line type,
• it lets you change a file's end of line type.

It does so explicitly: Default it shows you everything concerning a file's end of line type.

You might edit non-Windows files for instance:

• on a network drive that is mapped to a Unix, Linux or Mac machine.
• by using a remote-machine-browsing-tool like WinSCP or Total Commander, which you have configured to use TSE as its editor.
• when editing a file you downloaded from the internet.

v7 Added understanding the newline characters in UTF-16 and UTF-32 files.

v7.1 Added support for Linux TSE Beta v4.41.34 upwards.

v7.1.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's '-i' command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

Status.zip

v1.2.1

17 Sep 2022

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This TSE extension enhances TSE by enabling other macros to display extra statuses on the right hand side of the screen, and by enabling them to handle typing and clicking on such a displayed status.

The colour for these statuses, which defaults to the menu colour, can be configured.

The "other macros" should explicitly inform you, that for them to work they require you to install the Status macro first.

v1.2 Added Linux compatibility and some minor improvements, bug fixes and tweaks.

v1.2.1 Fixed incompatibility with TSE's "-i" command line option and the TSELOADDIR environment variable.

BlockHilite.zip

v1

20 Jul 2022

Windows TSE v4.0 upwards

This TSE extension syntax-hilites characters in a marked block with the same syntax-hilited foreground colors they would get without a marked block.

This can look great or horrible depending on your TSE color settings, so you might have to change those for a pleasing result.

The idea for this TSE extension came from Zhao Zhong.

FindaXlines.zip

v1.1

21 May 2022

TSE 4.0 upwards

Edit2.zip

v1

13 May 2022

Windows 10,
Windows GUI TSE 4.0 upwards

Log.zip

v1

14 Mar 2021

Windows TSE PRo v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE 4.42 upwards

Hidden.zip

v1.3.1

4 Mar 2022

Windows TSE PRo v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Pro - tested with v4.42

This tool shows a list of all TSE buffers in memory, those of files as well as hidden and system buffers.

You can select a hidden or system buffer to safely view a copy of its content, or select a normal buffer to switch to it.

v1.3.1 Bug fixed: Now you can select a system or hidden buffer more than once, which refreshes its copy-buffer.

BigIntSum.zip

v1.2.1

9 Feb 2022

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool is included in TSE Pro v4.41.37a upwards. For older TSE versions or for the latest BigIntSum version you can download it here.

Given a marked column block of integers of at most 255 characters wide, this tool will add a line below the block with the sum of the integers.

The integers may contain grouping charcters and may be separated by empty columns.

v1.2 Summarized, it does 3 new things: It adds a "=====+" line between the block and the sum, matching the width of the block. It puts a formatted sum before the sum if it recognizes consistent block number formatting. It aligns the (formatted) sum with the column block.

v1.2.1 Fixes a bug that in some situations caused BigIntSum to hang or the sum to be placed shifted away from the column. Thanks to Fred H Olson for finding the bug and the fix.

SortLineLen.zip

v1.1

13 Jan 2022

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Pro probably all versions

This tool sorts all lines from the current buffer on their length into a new unnamed buffer.

v1.1 No longer modifies the current buffer. Improved the progress messages for very large buffers.

Text2html.zip

v1.2.3

31 Dec 2021

Windows TSE Pro GUI v4.0 upwards with an ANSI compatible font.
It only partially works in other Windows TSE Pro v4 versions.

This tool converts a text buffer to an unsaved HTML page including TSE's syntax highlighting.

The result can be used as (a snippet in) a web page or an email.

For an HTML example with style attributes, see how the following text is embedded in this HTML page. This is not a picture, but text, that can be marked and copied as text:

// Example highlighted code snippet
// generated with this tool.
proc Main()
  string  response [10] = ''
  integer number        = 0
  while Ask('Number?', response)
    number = Val(response)
    Warn('The square of'; number;
         'is'; number * number)
  endwhile
end Main

For an HTML example of class attributes referring to a stylesheet, see the code snippets in TSE PRO Undocumented Features .

For use in an email your email client needs to support the necessary HTML formatting.
Use in an email works by saving the generated HTML page, opening the saved file in a web browser, and copying the highlighted text from the web browser into an email.
If an email receiver's email client does not support this highlighting, they still tend to see the text, just not highlighted.

Email clients that have been reported to support this highlighting:

• Outlook
• iOS mail
• Pegasus (if a message wrap option is set)
• eM Client
• Thunderbird

v1.2 Added a choice whether to generate "style attributes" or "class attributes with a stylesheet" for the HTML colors.

v1.2.3 Fixed: Now also works if TSE's cursor line is configured to be colored differently from other text lines.

Demo_variable_menu_helpline.zip

v1

22 Dec 2021

Windows TSE PRo v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta ? - v4.41.46 upwards

TSE's menu options have a static helpline.

This is a demo for macro programmers, that shows how to program a TSE menu option with a variable helpline.

On the bright side, it is well documented and helper procedures are provided.

On the dark side, it uses a dirty trick to work around TSE's static menu option helplines, and might not be future-proof.

ColorPicker.zip

v1.0.1

30 Sep 2021

Windows TSE Pro GUI v4.2 upwards

This tool lets you or your macro pick an RGB color by clicking in a palette of colors.

Theoretically there are 16,777,216 RGB colors. On my monitor the tool will only show about 200,000 colors.

The tool is very slow to start up. If that is not an acceptable price for its awesomeness, then you might want to use an online color picker instead.

v1.0.1 Only tweaked the documentation.

Compatibility_downto_tse40.zip

v1.7.1

28 Aug 2021

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This include-file for macro programmers contains compiler directives and procedures that help us create "TSE Pro v4.2 and above"-specific macros that are backwards compatible down to TSE Pro v4.0.

It does so by implementing some of the new TSE Pro v4.2 and TSE Pro v4.4 macro COMMANDS as macro PROCEDURES, and by using compiler directives to only use those macro procedures for the TSE versions that do not support the new macro commands yet, and to use the faster macro commands for the TSE versions that do support them.

Additionally this file contains a group of compiler directives that make the compiler give a clear and specific message if someone compiles the macro with a TSE version before TSE Pro v4.0.

Also it adds backwards compatible names for the component bits of the return value of QueryEditState().

TSE commands implemented as procedures:   -   Their procedure versions:

• integer proc isAutoLoaded() - 1.0
• integer proc MkDir (string dir) - 1.0
• integer proc RmDir (string dir) - 1.0
• integer proc StartPgm (string pgm_name, string args, string start_dir, integer startup_flags) - 1.0
• integer proc StrCount (string needle, string haystack) - 1.0
• integer proc StrFind (string needle, string haystack, string options) - 1.0
• integer proc StrFind5 (string needle, string haystack, string options, integer occurrence, var integer found_length) - 1.0
• string proc StrReplace (string needle, string haystack, string replacer, string options) - 1.0
• string proc VersionStr () - 1.1

Support procedures - Their procedure versions:

• integer proc compare_versions(string version1, string version2) - 2.0
• integer proc wurn(string text) - 1.0

v1.7 Added StrCount().

v1.7.1 Bug fix: For Linux WIN32 should be defined, but as FALSE.

IndentView.zip

v1

25 Aug 2021

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This tool can be used to navigate and gain insight into large recursive lists and program source code.

It accomplishes this by compressing text into a list of lines with a certain maximum indentation, which you can control with the Right and Left keys.

For example, it compresses a shopping / todo / notes list of increasingly indented topics and subtopics into a new list of only the (sub)topic lines, where you control which level of subtopics you want to see.

As another example, programs typically use indentation to clarify their structure.
Top-down this tool works somewhat like TSE's "Function List" menu, but with the added capability that it can then include lines with ever increasing indentation, which gives some insight into the program's structure.
Bottom-up this tool shows lines with the current line's indentation or less, which gives insight into what the current line's place in the program structure is.

GetTabSize.zip

v1

24 Aug 2021

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This is a tool for macro programmers to determine a buffer's best tab size.

Here tab size means how many SPACE and TAB characters are the most consistently used to increase the indentation of a next line. A TAB character is treated as one SPACE character.

For testing you can run it interactively to create a report of found tab sizes and the determined tab size.

It also comes with a GetTabSize_Test tool, which tests and demonstrates GetTabSize by listing the tab sizes for all text files in a folder, defaulting to your TSE folder.
(Aside: GetTabSize_Test has a neat is_text_file(filename) procedure.)

LstRecent.zip

v1

11 Jun 2021

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This tool lists recent files' names into an editable buffer.

It shows the same content as TSE's "File List Recent" menu, but not as an interactive list from which you can pick and open a file, but as an editable buffer.

LstOpen.zip

v1.0.1

11 Jun 2021

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.35 upwards

This tool lists all open files' names into an editable buffer.

More specifically, it creates a new TSE buffer, that contains a sorted list of the same files' and buffers' names that are interactively shown by TSE's "File List Open" menu.

v1.0.1 Gave the new buffer a significant name. Improved the documentation.

Huffman.zip

v1

5 Apr 2021

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.41 upwards

This tool encodes (compresses) or decodes (decompresses) the current buffer to a new buffer it creates.

Its main feature is, that it does so solely with TSE's capabilities, i.e. without any dependency on a non-TSE third-party tool.

It is not compatible with with any other compression tool. It is intended as a helper tool for TSE-specific applications.

v1 There was a v0.2 beta release of this tool. Here is what is new in the v1 version:

• Changed: After an encoding or decoding error the tool no longer produces a new buffer.
• Changed: Calling the "Huffman" macro (usage 1) no longer names the new buffer it creates, which pulls its behaviour in line with the other three usages.
• Added: If their input buffer is 10,000 or more lines, then encoding and decoding show a progress message.
• Fixed: Encoding plus decoding added an empty line to the end of a non-binary buffer.
• Fixed: No error was given for the fact that the tool cannot encode a buffer with less than two different characters.
• Fixed: No errors were given if the number of encoded and decoded/decodable characters did not match.
• And: Various small tweaks.

get_drive_type.zip

v1

11 Mar 2021

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This include-file provides macro programmers with the get_drive_type() function, which returns a drive's or a file's drive type, like whether it is on a removable disk, local disk, network drive, compact disk or RAM disk.

Because it uses a Windows function it has the same limits as Windows in recognizing drive types. My personal pet peeve is that Windows sees my harddisks and USB drives (not sticks) as the same drive type.

A get_drive_type_test macro is provided to test and demonstrate get_drive_type()'s use. It lists all your drives and their type.

FastStrFind.zip

v1

13 Feb 2021

TSE PRo v4.4 upwards

This include-file for macro programmers provides us with the FastStrFind() procedure as a much faster (*) alternative to TSE 4.4's built-in StrFind() function.

(*) Qualifier 1: Much faster in computer terms. Only macros that use StrFind() thousands of times might become faster to us humans by the use of FastStrFind(). I use FastStrFind() to speed up some file conversions.

(*) Qualifier 2: FastStrFind() is just as fast as StrFind() when searching for a regular expression or a word; it is a lot faster when only using other search options.

A FastStrFind_Test macro is provided to demonstrate FastStrFind()'s use and speed.

RmEmptyDirs.zip

v1.0

22 Dec 2020

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool asks for a directory and generates a TSE buffer with "rmdir" commands for those directories there that contain no files. Directories containing only empty directories are listed too.

You can examine and edit the resulting TSE buffer, and rename it to a .cmd file to execute it to remove the listed directories.

Zoom.zip

v1.3

24 Jul 2018

Windows GUI versions of TSE Pro v4.0 upwards with a not maximized screen

This TSE extension allows you to temporarily zoom in and out by using Ctrl MouseWheel up and down, and to go back to the original size by clicking Ctrl MouseWheel.

While zooming, the screen size is kept as much the same as possible.

To make a screen zoom size permanent, use the TSE menu "Options -> Save Current Settings".

Zooming out is limited to where letters (have) become to small to read.

Zooming in is limited to where a screensize of 80 x 25 characters would no longer fit, because that might stop TSE's menus from working.

v1.3 Allows disabling its incompatibility warning for TSE's Console version.

Life.zip

v1.2.1

27 May 2020

TSE Pro v2.80h upwards

An implementation of Conway's "Game of Life".

v1.2.1 It makes Life also compatible with TSE Pro v4.41.38 upwards.

ScreenLocker.zip

v1.0.1

27 May 2020

GUI versions of TSE Pro v4.2 upwards

This tool tries to lock access to Windows until a password is re-entered.

It has a screensaver!

v1.0.1 It makes ScreenLocker also compatible with TSE Pro v4.41.38 upwards.

Xmas.zip

v1.0.2

27 May 2020

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

When executed it draws a Christmassy picture.

A.k.a. an experiment in programmed fine-textured drawing with TSE.

Based on a user's input I have extended its claimed compatibility to also include the Console version of TSE, but be aware that unless you yourself pre-set a large screen size and a small font size, the generated picture will have a too low resolution in the Console version of TSE.

v1.0.2 It makes Xmas also compatible with TSE Pro v4.41.38 upwards.

Recompile.zip

v1.0.2

25 Apr 2020

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.12 upwards

This tool recompiles all macros in TSE's "mac" folder.

With the exception of macros with an ampersand or parentheses in their name. SemWare has one such macro: "find&do".

v1.0.1 Solves a Linux bug.

v1.0.2 Solves a Linux bug in solving the Linux bug :-(.

FindAndGroupVersionNamedFiles.zip

v2.0

21 Mar 2020

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

For a folder or for a space separated list of folders this tool creates a list of groups of those files, the names of which only differ by a version suffix in the name.

This tool was requested by one user. I created it in the hope that it might have general benefits, but my conclusion is that it does not.

In v2.0 the recognition of versions was rewritten. This was much improved, and is expected to function much better for its requested purpose and type of folders. That said, for general usage it functions slightly better but still poorly.

BulkFind.zip

v1.0.1

3 Feb 2020

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.24 upwards

This power tool searches for a list of search terms in a list of files or in all open files.

v1.0 No more known bugs, no new features planned: Out of beta.

v1.0.1 Semware fixed a TSE Linux bug. I fixed BulkFind to no longer work around it. For Linux BulkFind now requires TSE Beta v4.41.24 upwards.

Epoch_to_DateTime.zip

v1.0.2

16 Jan 2020

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.20 upwards

This tool is an TEST and EXAMPLE macro for the epoch_to_datetime() procedure, that given a time zone in hours can convert unix's epoch seconds (seconds since 1 Jan 1970 0:00:00) to a year, day, month, hours, minutes and seconds.

v1.0.1 Fixed: Apparently only February can have a leap day.

v1.0.2 Fixed: Apparently November 2019 has no 31st day for 1 second.

DirList.zip

v3.1

8 Jan 2020

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This tool asks for a space separated list of folder paths, and creates a new file inside TSE containing a list of the full paths and names of all files in those folders and their subfolders.

v3.0:
Explicitly annotates those top folders and files as "inacessible", that it cannot access because of TSE's 255 character path limit or because a folder or file name is not ANSI compatible. As this implies, the contents of inaccessible folders remain unlisted.

v3.1
Groups the digits of file sizes.
Now shows the correct size for files larger than 2,147,483,647 bytes for TSE versions from v4.40.95 upwards.

BigInt.zip

v1.3

6 Jan 2020

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool can be used as a simple calculator for signed integers of up to 255 characters.

It supports addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and comparison.

It also contains a separate file for macro programmers, the content of which can be copied as a whole into our own macros to do calculations on big integers.

v1.3 is a finished version.

Ampersand_as_menu_quick_key.zip

v1.0

29 Dec 2019

GUI version of TSE PRo v4.4 upwards

This TSE extension allows you to use the ampersand ("&") as a menu quick-key.

Included is a test macro to test and demonstrate this functionality.

This is a very niche extension for a very, very specific "problem".

CmdLineParameter.zip

v1.0

19 Dec 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This extension lets macros receive parameters from the command line, without TSE trying to load them as files.

Also included is a macro to test and demonstrate this functionality.

SubtractFiles.zip

v1.0

11 Dec 2019

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This tool assumes that you want to subtract the lines in the current file case-insensitively from the lines in the previous file, putting the result in a new file.

IndentResize.zip

v2.1

13 Nov 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool changes a file's indentation primarily by changing its tab size.

Note that the program name has become 1 letter shorter from version 1.

This macro refuses to work for a file with tab characters. If a file has them, then first use any of the many other solutions to get rid of those pesky things.

Some indentation theory I made up:
Indentation can be tab-size-based or alignment-based.
In natural text tab-size-based indentation is typically used for lists of points or to make a block of text stand out as a block.
In programming tab-size-based indentation is typically used to visually group a sequence of statements as the subject of a condition or iteration by indenting lines one single extra tab-size unit.
Alignment-based indentation however can have any size, including not conforming to any multiple of the current tab-size. Alignment-based indentation is generally used to align the first character of a line with a character on a previous line to visually indicate a semantic similarity between the content at those two positions. A rule of alignment-based indentation is, that between the alignment-indented line and the line of the content it aligns with there can be no lines with a lesser indentation.
Based on this theory this tool (and we) can reasonably recognize these two types of indentation and differentiate between them.
However, if a text uses tab characters instead of space characters, then we would at the same time have to recognize both alignment types and the tab size. That would be non-trivial.
Luckily the days that computer memory was so expensive that the tab character's disadvantages were acceptable have passed. Modern plain text editors default to inserting the appropriate amount of space characters when we use the tab key.
Therefore I chose for this tool not to cater to tab characters and their users.

v2.0 adds, that (typically in program source code) aligned lines are correctly reindented too.

v2.1 changes no functionality. It adjusts the source file extension from .si back to the standard .s. Also its array implementation was completely rewritten to, while more verbose, to be usable in normal macros.

ControlChars.zip

v1.0.1

31 Oct 2019

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

With this TSE extension you can better see control characters, like null, bell, backspace, tab, line feed, form feed, carriage return, and others.

Better: Default the GUI version of TSE with an ANSI compatible font "hides" control characters by showing them as spaces. The Console version of TSE and e.g. the Terminal font show most control characters as regular characters, which is better but does not differentiate them from those regular characters. This TSE extension always shows all control characters and always makes them recognizable and distinguishable.

Note, that in normal/non-binary mode TSE has stripped carriage returns and line feeds from lines, and what is not there will not be shown. Open a file in binary mode -3 (prefix opening a file with " -b-3 ") to see any carriage returns and line feeds too.

In the TSE menu "ASCII Chart" you see control characters 0, 1, 2, 3 ... 31 also as the column "^@", "^A", "^B", "^C", ..., "^Z", ..., "^_". This TSE extension consistently shows a control character as the second character from that last column in the inverted text colour. This way you can always reference the ASCII Chart for the now visible control characters.

v1.0.1 Improved the documentation.

CaseFilename.zip

v1.0

8 Sep 2019

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards,,
Linux TSE Beta v4.41.12 upwards

This TSE extension makes TSE more user-friendly with regard to the case of a file's folder and name.

For Windows it makes TSE show a file's path as it is cased on disk. For example, in Windows TSE has no problem opening "tse\MAC\adjust.s", but by itself it would keep showing "MAC" in upper case.

Its first Linux feature allows you to case-insensitively open a specific folder or file.

Its second Linux feature adds, that if you renamed only a file's case in the editor, then upon saving it to disk the disk file is renamed too, just like in Windows.

KeepBlinking.zip

v1.0

14 Jun 2019

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

Without this TSE extension, if you do not type for some seconds, then the cursor stops blinking.

The problem is not TSE-specific. It was introduced by a new Windows version, and occurs in other applications as well unless they started compensating for it. For instance, Notepad still has the same problem.

ReplaceUnCom.zip

v1.0

17 May 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

ReplaceUnCom emulates TSE's Replace command but only replaces in uncommented text.

v0.2 == v1.0:

- Optimized the comment colour check with a regular expression.

- Added the three ToEOL attributes as comment attributes too.

- Added the check that comment colours must differ from other editing colours.

Potpourr.zip

9 May 2019

9 May 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool will be included in TSE versions released after 9 May 2019. For older versions down to TSE Pro v4.0 you can download it here.

This tool is a minor update to SemWare's standard Potpourr macro that implements TSE's Potpourri menu.

This version of the tool only differs in that it accepts macro names of up to 12 characters instead of 8.

InsertTaglines.zip

v1.0

21 Jan 2019

TSE PRo v3.0 upwards

This tool creates a new file from the current file, where every line containing a supplied regular expression is put before itself and before every next line that does not contain that regular expression.

Afterwards you can use existing TSE functionality to search all lines in combination with their tag lines, or to sort the now ubiquitous tag lines on their columns.

When you are done you have the option to remove the inserted tag lines with a column block to get the original file format back.

For example, given the file content:
  id=1
  name="Bob"
  street="Main street"
  city="Metropolis"
  id=2
  name="Alice"
  street="Station street"
  city="Gotham"
It can create the new file content:
  id=1 id=1
  id=1 name="Bob"
  id=1 street="Main street"
  id=1 city="Metropolis"
  id=2 id=2
  id=2 name="Alice"
  id=2 street="Station street"
  id=2 city="Gotham"

eList.zip

v1.0.1

16 Jan 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool is included in TSE Pro v4.41.37a upwards. For older TSE versions down to TSE Pro v4.0 you can download it here.

This tool is an alternative to TSE's built-in List() and lList() commands.

As you type the list shrinks to those lines matching what you typed.

It also works as a stand-alone macro or command to dynamically search the current file.

In my humble opinion it is a more useful alternative to TSE's own incremental search functionality.

What you type is interpreted as a TSE regular expression.

v1.0.1 Solves the problem of how to supply a list title when using the macro as an include-file.

OnlyOneSplitLinesWarning.zip

v1

8 Nov 2018

Windows GUI versions of TSE PRo 4.0 upwards

This TSE extension is a near-perfect solution to the problem, that if you access many files at once, and many or all of them have longer lines than TSE's limit, then TSE forces you to press "OK" on a separatete warning for each such file.

With this macro installed you only get a warning for the first such file, after which ALL warnings are disabled, but only for the duration of the current user command.

For instance, if you open a 100 files using the "-a" option and a wildcard character, and you then search them all at once using the "a" search option; then this macro ensures that that you have to press OK at most once on a "Long lines split: ..." warning, even if all 100 files have them.

HelpCurrentWord.zip

v1.0.1

29 jun 2017

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

This TSE extension does the following:

When you double tap the F1 key when editing a TSE program, then TSE's Help is called for the word at the cursor, otherwise the F1 key works as usual.

v1.0.1 Fixed: It did not work in .ui files.

QuickSort.zip

v1.0

21 apr 2017

TSE Pro v4.0 upwards

QuickSort.inc include-file

TSE itself is "only" capable of sorting lines by sorting them alphabetically on a marked block of text.

With the help of this include-file it is relatively easy to create or modify your own macro to sort lines on any criteria.

All you need to do, is to write a "quicksort_compare" function that accepts two line numbers, and returns -1, 0, or 1 whether you want the first line to be before, whereever or after the second line.

The include-file contains a "quicksort(line_from, line_to)" function that by calling your function sorts ALL requested lines.

An example macro QuickSortTest.s is included.

Warning Later usage revealed, that TSE runs into irregularly occurring memory problems when quick-sorting large files.

DelDub3.zip

1 jan 2010

1 jan 2010

Unknown

This macro takes the current column-position, and uses this for the rest of the file.

If two consecutive lines have case-insensitive the same word overlapping the above column-position, then the second line is deleted, from the current line onwards.

If there is no word on the column-position, then no line is deleted.

eVwFinds.zip

v1.3

4 oct 2009

TSE Pro v2.5e upwards

This search-macro will show a list of the found lines, with additional lines before and after the found lines.

v1.3 adds hiliting the search-results and some minor improvements.

BrwsDr.zip

5 jun 2008

5 jun 2008

Not tested, but at least TSE Pro v4.0 (GUI) upwards

This is not a stand-alone macro.

It could be used by other macros to browse directories and select one.

Its source is useful as an example of what a macro can achive with mouse clicks.

FndDubLn.zip

v1.0.1

6 apr 2008

TSE Pro v2.5 upwards

Find double lines case- and whitespace-insensitive in an unsorted current file, and report them in a "ViewFinds buffer", leaving the current file unchanged.

Here whitespace-insensitive means that any non-empty string of consecutive whitespace-characters matches any other such string.

Here the whitespace characters are space, horizontal tab, and formfeed.

FndDubLn ignores characters past column 255.

v1.0.1 Fixed: The macro could not handle empty lines, resulting in erroneous reports. The macro now ignores empty lines and lines containing only whitespaces.

ChFilTim.zip

28 oct 2007

TSE Pro v3.0 upwards

This macro changes the date/time of all files in a given directory and all its subdirectories by adding or subtracting an amount of time.

It was originally written to make the files on a LAN server an hour older (by adding -1 hour) to solve a synchronization problem when the outside world was about to switch from summertime to wintertime.

When the outside world switched from summertime to wintertime, and clocks went an hour back, then file-times on Windows pcs also went an hour back (*), but file-times on a LAN did not. So if files on Windows pcs were synchronized from a LAN-directory based on date/time, then the switch to wintertime suddenly made files on Windows pcs appear one hour older than the same files on a LAN, which inadvertenly triggered synchronization.

(*) There are also advantages to this: A running Windows process doesn't see a just created file suddenly becoming an hour older or newer. Which for instance also means that a process cannot create files "in the future" :-)

The macro prompts for:

• The directory.
• The type of time-unit: years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
• The positive or negative number of time-units to add.
• Whether to Simulate or Make the changes.

DISCLAIMER!
Use this macro at your own risk. It is not perfect.
Always do a simulation first, and especially search the resulting report for "overflow", which means that a certain date/time will not be changed.

DontOpen.zip

v1.0

12 aug 2007

TSE Pro v3.0 upwards

This macro protects you against (accidentally) opening unwanted files, like "*.bak" files, or like files in Subversion's "\.svn\" meta-directories, or whatever.

Especially when you use TSE's -a and -s options and wildcards you can and want to open whole direcories or directory trees of files, but without those pesky exceptions.

This macro notices it when you try to open such files, and asks your confirmation to NOT open them.

You get one question for each File Open command that results in opening such files, and your answer applies to all files opened by that specific File Open command.

You are asked the question only when the editor is otherwise idle, so that the macro doesn't interfere with other macros.

For the same reason the macro internally works by letting TSE open the files, and then closing the unwanted ones.

The macro works by matching the names of opened files against a TSE regular expression, and asks the user a question to confirm to not open the matching files.

You can configure your own regular expression and question by executing the macro. The default configuration is for .bak and Subversion metafiles.

AbanName.zip

v3.0.2

3 aug 2007

TSE Pro 2.5e upwards

When executed it abandons or keeps opened files based on a certain string in their drive, path and/or filename.

v3.0.1 Improves the warning if too many files were opened. v3.0.2 Solves a nasty bug which sometimes caused AbanName to incorrectly load one file as if it were an empty file.

eFind.zip

v2.0.2

1 jul 2007

TSE Pro 2.5e upwards

This macro allows you to search in a gigantic amount of files.

TSE lets you open files without loading them, thus avoiding a memory limit. Contrary to TSE's own Find command, this macro can search across files only temporarily loading one file at a time, thus also avoiding a memory limit.

The macro can also "Find and Do" to Keep or Abandon files containing a certain string: You can do this multiple times, thus step by step zeroing in on a smaller and smaller selection of opened files.

v2.0.2
Improves the warning if too many files were opened.

v2.01
Removed the dependency on global.zip and macpar3.zip.
Added a pre-emptive check (including for regular expressions) to warn the user, that there is no use in searching for an empty string.

OpenCursor.zip

v0.1

7 May 2020

Windows TSE Pro v4.4 upwards

This TSE extension allows us to open URLs that occur in the text.

This is a very early beta with known imperfections and lots of missing features.

Planned features include: Opening URLs that do not start with "http", opening files, highlighting openable URLs and files in the text, some backwards compatibility, some Linux compatibility.

SortOnRegExp.zip

v0.0.0.2

22 Apr 2023

TSE v4 upwards, all variants

This tool sorts the lines of a buffer or block, either on a regular expression's matches, or on a sort key of regular expression tags.

Syntax: SortOnRegExp [ [-i] <regular expression> [sort key] ]

You can provide the parameter(s) immediately on the macro command line or as a next step in a prompt.

From a technical viewpoint this is an exciting tool to build out. See its todo list for the considered functionality.
From a user viewpoint I wonder if anyone would ever use it. Yes, it could sort a file on fields that need not be column-aligned, but the occasions that I have ever needed such functionality were rare. Yes, it could be an alternative to TSE's sort programs without their flaws , but in practice I have been able to live with those flaws.
For now I am going to give building out this tool a low priority. Let me know if you do want the built-out version of this tool for some practical purpose.

v0.0.0.2 Still the same too slow prototype with limited functionality. However, the documentation was improved a LOT!

ViewFindsHi

This is a possible future project.

Syntax highlight the View Finds list.

A TSE extension should be able to do this. The biggest hurdle would be multi-line comments. That hurts, because seeing which View Finds lines are commented and which are not would be a huge improvement! But accounting for them is a mountain of extra work, so I might just do a simple version that does not syntax-highlight multi-line comments correctly, and maybe do a full version later.

English

This is a possible future project.

In the dawn of time Sammy noticed, that, given enough hiliting keywords, TSE's syntax hiliting can somewhat be used to instantaneously check English text for spelling errors. He was still trying it out, and referred to his upload of english.zip, as the basis for his try. It contains an "english.syn" TSE syntax hiliting file.

I accidentally came across it again, and I think it has potential. In TSE I attached the english.syn hiliting file to the .txt file extension. Pros: It did immediately catch my spelling errors. Cons: Of course english.syn does not know all English words, and an English text also contains numbers, names, abbreviations, and domain-specific and user-specific terminology.

With numbers and puctuation marks added, and with a tool or extension that would make it easy to add unknown keywords to english.syn, perhaps with one keyword group for English, one keyword group for user terminology, etc(?), then I guestimate just extension-based syntax hiliting would already be a useful addition to TSE to check for spelling errors, and not hard to implement.

Base64

This is a possible future project.

I needed and created a quick & dirty version of the tool that can convert a base64-encoded text to readable text.

It "works", but is currently so user-unfriendly, that I do not consider it publishable. To do.

UniView v2

This is a possible future project.

I realised two major improvements might be possible:

• It might be possible to get rid of UniView's flickering line updates by using TSE's HookDisplay() command.
• It might be possible to make UniView work for the current line too.

These improvements would again bring TSE major steps closer to being a full Unicode editor.

SmoothScroll

This is a possible future project.

In creating the Uniview extension I noticed how the parameters of the Windows TextOut API might be used to implement smooth scrolling in TSE.

One day I would like to try if this works, just for the fun of it. It does not have any priority because it lacks functional advantages.

Test_GetLongPath.zip

v1.0.1

28 Jan 2023

Tool compatibility: TSE v4.41.35 upwards

GetLongPath() compatibility: TSE v2.6 upwards

All TSE variants, but short names not tested in Linux.

This tool implements and tests the included function GetLongPath(), which implements the opposite of TSE v4.41.35's GetShortPath() function.

v1.0.1 Fixed: GetLongPath() now returns the input file specification if it refers to a file that no longer exists.

Test_hooks_free.zip

v1

16 Dec 2022

TSE v4 upwards (intended, not tested)

This tool shows how many Hook()s are currently free, and, assuming the maximum available amount of Hook()s is 158, how many Hook()s TSE is currently using.

When running this tool in Windows GUI TSE 4.48 with all macros purged, it says that 158 Hook()s are free.

Test_get_millisecond_file_date_times.zip

v1

11 Nov 2022

Windows TSE GUI v4 upwards

This tool asks for a file or files, and gets their last-written dates and times to the millisecond.

Context: As opposed to TSE, which shows file times rounded up to the next even second.

Test_spawn_after_save.zip

v1

11 Nov 2022

Windows TSE GUI v4 upwards

This tool demonstrates, that when you save a file and immediately spawn a second TSE instance to process it, the spawned process appears to have an earlier start time than the saved file's time.

This can be up to two seconds earlier.

The tool's source explains the phenomenon.

Test_download_url_to_file.zip

v1

14 Sep 2022

Windows TSE v4 upwards

This tool demonstrates downloading web pages and the downloadable files on them using two Semware download pages as an example:

Latest TSE macro sources from Semware

Old Semware page with user uploads

Note that downloading 112 + 378 files might take about 9 minutes.

Test_unicode_to_screen.zip

v1.2.1

30 Mar 2022

Windows GUI TSE v4.2 upwards

This tool demonstrates how to write Unicode characters to TSE's screen, and explores and documents its capabilities and limitations.

v1.1 Documented additional things I learned. Speculated some more about possible usages.

v1.2 Documented that I learned that "Arial Unicode MS" is not a standard Windows font, so a tool cannot rely on its presence.

Test_TSE_Help_Links.zip

v1.0.1

9 Mar 2022

Windows TSE v4.4 upwards; tests OK with Linux TSE 4.42

This is a tool for macro programmers, that checks the Hlp2txt tool's hidden raw Help file for link errors, warnings and notes.

Summarized answer for TSE 4.42:

It reports no errors or warnings.

It notes 337 subtopics that are never addressed, with the technical reason why. The latter is technically interesting, because of the Help's multiple implicit rules for addressing a subtopic.

For an extreme example; there are 3 subtopics for which there is a link to their address, but they are not addressed with their specific topic, and while their address does not overlap with a topic address, their address is the same as that of an earlier occurring subtopic.

The never-addressed subtopics are technically an error, but in practice they cause nothing to malfunction and only hamper Semware's maintenance of the Help, so they only get a note instead.

Here is a look at its report.

Test_TSE_Help_Headers.zip

4 Mar 2022

Windows TSE v4.4 upwards; tests OK with Linux TSE 4.42

This is a tool for macro programmers, that helps to examine what extra topics TSE's Help contains, that are not shown from its its index.

Summarized answer: Menu-help topics, indirectly linked-to topics, obsolete topics, and InfoBoxes.

Here is a look at its report.

Test_CompareLines.zip

28 Dec 2021

Windows TSE Beta v4.41.42 (probably)

This test macro reveals the correct parameter formats for TSE Beta v4.41.42's new and incorrectly documented CompareLines() function.

Close_button_fix.zip

13 Dec 2021

Windows TSE Pro GUI v4.2 - v4.41.45

NOTA BENE This TSE extension addresses a bug that was solved in TSE v4.41.46!

This TSE extension demonstrates a fix for the _ON_ABANDON_EDITOR_ hook not being called when the GUI version of TSE is closed with the "X" close button in its upper right corner if the TSE option "Empty Command-Line Action" has one of these values: Menu (default), Restore State, Also Restore State.

A test macro is included too.

Repeatable_lFind_lRepeatFind.zip

26 Feb 2021

Windows TSE Pro v4.4 upwards
Linux TSE Beta probably any version

This is an include-file for macro programmers, that provides the functions repeatable_lFind() and repeatable_lRepeatFind(), that unlike their TSE counterparts do not loop infinitely for a search with the "a" search option.

A demo/test macro is included too.

Test_for_theoretical_keys.zip

v1.0 - 20 May 2020

Windows TSE Pro v4.0 upwards
Linux TSE Beta probably any version

This tool lists what keys TSE can send to itself, when it is not interfered by an operating system or other software, and without the limitations of a keyboard.

It gives some insight into TSE's internal key capabilities and limitations, but otherwise has no practical use.

MatchUnCom.zip

v0.1 - 6 Apr 2020

TSE Pro v4.4 upwards

This is a quick&dirty adaptation of Semware's "match" macro dd 6 Apr 2020.

Like the Match macro, for the bracket under the cursor it jumps to its counterpart, but as requested by a user it ignores any in between commented brackets. So it "matches uncommented" brackets. [Is that even English?]

I do NOT recommend substituting Match by MatchUnCom. MatchUncom has known flaws:

• It blindly assumes that comment colours are always delimiter colours, which for some configurations might be false.
• It is badly tested. The user's example test case worked on the first try, and I didn't test any further.

MenuSize.zip

29 May 2013

MenuSize 1.0.1       Compatibility:   GUI versions of TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.

A fun DEMO macro to show off dynamically resizing menus.

Adapting to your current screen size, this macro will dynamically show a TSE menu in the largest possible font size that will fit the menu.

The font size is temporarily adjusted both based on your current monitor's screen size and on the number of menu options.

Note that it will not automatically resize existing TSE menus: that is a job for a macro programmer who could use this macro as an example.

v1.0.1 solves the bug, that the whole screen was resized smaller when TSE's screen wasn't maximized. Now TSE's screen is maximized during the resizing and showing of the menus.

MinRxLen.zip

Version: Unknown

4 may 2006

Compatibility: Unknown

This example macro asks for a regular expression, and calculates the minimum length it can match.

The usefulness of this macro lies primarily in that it contains a procedure which can be copied into your own macros.

Often regular expressions that can match an empty string are not useful. Worse, they can also be dangerous when used for searching inside a loop, which can then become infinite because the empty string always matches without advancing the cursor. This macro [procedure] returns zero for such regular expressions, and thus helps you and your macro recognize and avoid useless and dangerous searches.

GenerateFilesWithSearchString.zip

v1.0

23 Jul 2021

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This tool was created for one specific user at their request. I generalized their request a bit, but I doubt this tool is useful to others.

From a file with search-recognizable keywords, generate keyword-named files, each containing the lines with their keywords.

eList2.zip

v0.1

13 Sep 2019

TSE PRo v4.0 upwards

This is neither a finished nor a well-working macro.

I do not see a way forward, so I am abandoning this one.

The intention was to show "best matches first" for a search string applied to the current file, BUT:

• Intentions turned out to be hard to catch in programming logic. I experimented with applying a weight to results, but this did not work satisfactory.
• Implementing intentions turned unavoidably into implementing my own biases, and worse, my current biases based on my current purposes. That made it impossible to make this a generic tool.
• For larger files it worked too slowly. I reduced the searched number of results, but that reduced the results. Sadness and pun intended.

LoadTime.zip

6 jan 2008

The LoadTime macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.

Shows not only the current date/time of the current file on disk, but also the date/time the current file had on disk at the time it was loaded.

If TSE warns a user "Disk file has been changed by another program. Save Anyway?", then this macro lets a user verify that warning.

WinWrap.zip

29 mar 2009

v1.1 of the WinWrap macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.

This macro lets you view long lines window-wrapped while still editing the original unwrapped lines.

Disclaimer: No it doesn't. This macro works imperfectly.



History:

v1.1       29 March 2009
A tilde indicator in the statusline shows if the file is in WinWrap mode. That only means that the file contains wrapped lines somewhere, not necessarily in the visible window.

v1.0.2       26 March 2009
Solved: Auto-wrapping wasn't delayed when the macro was autoloaded and TSE was started with a file.

v1.0.1       26 March 2009
Solved: The macro didn't compile for TSE Pro 4.0: the isAutoloaded() function doesn't exist yet in that version of TSE.

CursColr.zip

16 mar 2009

The CurColr macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.

This macro changes the color of the cursor position: if the background color equals the one configured for TSE's cursorline, and: either only when the cursor is not on a visible character, or always.

The occasion for this macro was a user who uses a TSE color "intense ... ... on black" (which means a dark grey background): for this background color TSE doesn't show the cursor if the cursor position is a whitespace.

CblComnt.zip

10 mar 2009

Version 1.1 of the CblComnt macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 2.8 upwards.

This macro remedies three potential Cobol issues:

• All TSE Pro versions are not capable of coloring columns, neither column 1 thru 6, nor column 73 to the end of line.
• Cobol versions up to and including Cobol-85 indicate comments by putting an asterisk or a slash on column 7. Since version 3.0 TSE Pro supports this with to-end-of-line syntax hiliting if a configurable character is present at a configurable column. TSE Pro 2.8 users need this macro to do the same.
• For old versions of TSE (but >= 2.8), which don't have a Cobol syntax hiliting file yet, you can install one.

Note: the macro can also be configured for syntax-hiliting Fortran comments.

Svn.zip

25 Feb 2013

An incomplete but fast Subversion browser.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.

I consider this macro OBSOLETE. It was written because TortoiseSVN versions prior to 1.8 needed minutes to open a folder with thousands of files in it. This macro could do it immediately.

In TortoiseSVN 1.8 this problem was solved, so I saw and see no reason to finish or maintain this macro.

For Subversion repositories I recommend TortoiseSVN instead of this macro.

eVwFinds_1_3_9_1.zip

13 dec 2009

v1.3.9.1 (not-working failure) of the eVwFinds macro.       Compatibility:   None.

The idea was to create a menu with both fillable fields and normal menu lines, but I cannot get it to work correctly. Usually I like the challenge of taking a tool past its intended use, but this has by now wasted way too much of my time, so I'm dropping it indefinitely.

eVwFinds_1_3_9.zip

26 nov 2009

v1.3.9 (working beta) of the eVwFinds macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 2.5e upwards.

It isn't even a real beta: it is just a half-built version 1.4.

You could also look upon it as a progress report.

EolType5.zip

1 apr 2007

NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEWER VERSION OF THIS MACRO ON THIS SAME PAGE!

v5.1 (beta) of the EolType macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 2.5e upwards.

This OLD macro version is kept for OLD TSE versions.

I downgraded this macro to beta status, because the 5.0 to 5.1 changes were not tested yet. Please report any reproducible errors you might find.

Purpose:
Save files with a unix/microsoft end-of-file-type based on configurable substrings that do/don't occur in the files' full filenames.
Possibly handy when working with a Samba drive, Total Commander, WinSCP and other such tools.

Version 5.1:
Since the previously to SemWare's website released version was 1.0, the "new" features are:

• The substrings no longer have to start with a drive letter.
• Configuration file tse32\eoltype.dat became tse32\mac\eoltype.cfg.
• You can now configure what end-of-line-type warnings and questions you want when saving a file whose end-of-line-type is as configured being changed by the EolType macro.

SyncDir.zip

7 dec 2006

v0.1.0 of the SyncDir macro.       Compatibility:   TSE Pro 2.8b upwards (probably).

This macro synchronizes (by ftp) directories from a pc to a server and/or back.

I use it after changing my offline website to update my identical online website. I have a syncdir.bat file that simply contains:
      @call \tse32\g32.exe -eSyncDir

The macro needs macpar3.zip from SemWare's website to be installed first.

Like the version number indicates, the macro was and is a bit of a hack for my personal use, and is provided as is, with no garanty whatsoever.

sFind_001.zip

12 nov 2006

v0.0.1 of the sFind macro.

Purpose:   Search for a string which might span lines.

This is not a working macro! It is only half built. I am just sharing what I have been working on.

This macro's theory is, that you can search for a string which spans lines by putting a "slide" of lines under a "microscope", and moving the slide from the beginning to the end of the file in such a way, that the macro can use TSE's own Find command search each slide as if it was one line!

Well, the slide part is largely implemented, the search part not at all. When implementing the search part, it will have impact on the slide part, which probably needs a little extending then.

MLformat_010.zip

9 nov 2006

v0.10 of the MLformat macro.   Actually, this is a not implemented macro!   It is just a documented plan of attack for a first version of an HTML and XML formatter.

Given Tidy as an alternative, I won't proceed with building this macro.

Database_001.zip

13 sep 2005

Database v0.01 for TSE Pro 4.0 upwards.   Specific perpose: allows TSE to be configured as an external tool of PL/SQL Developer .   For starters for the viewing or editing of a package (body) that is active in the browser-pane of PL/SQL Developer.   Requirement: the macro needs an Oracle MsDos SqlPlus client.

WinWrap_050.zip

5 sep 2005

NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEWER VERSION OF THIS MACRO ON THIS SAME PAGE!

This version is for historical purposes while the new version is being developed.

V0.5 (a buggy beta) of the WinWrap macro, formerly known as the ScrnWrap and LongLine macro.   This is a windowwrapper, as opposed to a filewrapper.   It wraps lines that are longer than the current window is wide, but it only wraps them on-screen, not in the editing buffer or the disk-file.   It therefore does not interfere with most editor functions.   However, it therefore does interfere with syntax hiliting, block marking, find marking, the "[End of File]" indicator, and the WhtSpc macro.

New in Version 0.5:   Made the macro deactivate itself when there is blockmarking in the current window, and reactivate itself as soon as there isn't any more.   If the WhtSpc macro is loaded, then it is deactivated during wrapping, and reactivated as soon as there is no more wrapping.   Executing the macro now toggles it on and off. Alas, turning it on again is subject to a known bug.

I will not not develop this macro any further, because I have concluded that the current approch is not fully compatible with TSE's implementation. TSE has a (for this macro's purpose) nasty habit. "Normal" screen updates can immediately be corrected and overwritten by hooks, but screen updates as the result of scrolling can only be corrected with the _idle_ hook, which happens so much later that it causes the screen to flicker. Besides that there is a "no screen updating" bug.   I have concluded that the current approach of creating a reformatted screen over the image of the original file will never work satisfactory. Another approach might be temporarily formatting the file itself, and (e.g. before saving) being able to reformat it back. A second alternative might be to show a formatted shadow-file to the user.   That said, this macro's functionality is so low on my list of priorities, that its development is hereby stopped.

ReadReg.zip

7 jun 2005

ReadReg macro.   This is not a practical macro, just a demo for macro programmers.   It demonstrates how to read the values of a Windows registry key from TSE.

Test-2a.zip

18 apr 2005

Just an exchange of ideas, this macro has no permanent value.   This zipfile contains new2.ui, based on Sammy's new.ui from his test2.zip.   New2.ui does not have fixed menus for menu_styles and key_bindings, but those menus are generated based on the existence of *.menus.s and *-keys.s files.   All a user has to do is copy a *-menus.s or *-keys.s file to another *-menus.s or *-keys.s file (with a new name of course), and TSE will instantly offer it as a new menu choice.

MyUi.zip

14 jan 2003

Example of User Interface adjustment outside .ui file.

Ebcd2asc.s

30 mar 2001

Convert EBCD to ASCII, or back.

EbcdSort.s

16 nov 1998

Sorts an ASCII file in EBCD order.