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Forum: Support Topic: Run preferred text editor when notepad.exe is called |
| heinous |
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Posted: November 27th, 2009, 2:56 pm
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| Thank you all. I run WinXP and actually had been using the notepad.exe that the UltraEdit author used to provide. That's when I encountered trouble. When some applications would run notepad.exe, UE would be launched, but it would not find my user settings; UE would run under a different user context... |
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Forum: Support Topic: Run preferred text editor when notepad.exe is called |
| heinous |
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Posted: November 26th, 2009, 12:43 am
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| My thought was to create a script and save it as notepad.exe in C:\WINDOWS\system32. Why not copy UltraEdit and save it as Notepad.exe? Because it won't work. It's not a standalone EXE you can just copy off. And the working dir issue would still exist. I've decided to simply restore the original, c... |
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Forum: Support Topic: Run preferred text editor when notepad.exe is called |
| heinous |
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Posted: November 25th, 2009, 5:31 pm
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| I'm brand new to AutoHotkey and was hoping to get a simple problem solved. I use UltraEdit as a text editor, but some programs call notepad.exe (under the Windows folder) directly. This is not only annoying, it can be problematic. My thought was to create a script and save it as notepad.exe in C:\WI... |
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