This is the window for the built-in notepad.

It is primarily intended to allow you to easily enter scripts for stand-alone script files.

If you are typing script commands you can press Shift+Tab (or Ctrl+Space) to complete a partially-typed inbuilt script function name.

Various helper functions are available from the menus.

ASCII art

Lets you insert "large" letters made up of text.

Go to brace

Lets you find or select the matching brace - useful for MUSHcode or for script languages that are dependent on brackets.

Conversions

Various conversions are available from the Convert menu, such as case conversion, line wrapping, quoting text for use in the Forum, and so on.

See Also ...

Topic

Notepad

Functions

(ActivateNotepad) Activates a notepad window
(AppendToNotepad) Appends text to a notepad window
(CloseNotepad) Closes a notepad window
(GetNotepadLength) Gets the length of the text in a notepad window
(GetNotepadList) Gets the list of open notepads - returning their titles
(GetNotepadText) Gets the text from a notepad window
(MoveNotepadWindow) Move and resize the specified notepad window
(NotepadColour) Changes the text and background colour of the selected notepad window
(NotepadFont) Changes the font and style of the selected notepad window
(NotepadReadOnly) Make a selected notepad window read-only
(NotepadSaveMethod) Changes the save method for this notepad window
(ReplaceNotepad) Replaces text in a notepad window
(SaveNotepad) Saves a notepad window to disk
(SendToNotepad) Creates a notepad and sends text to it

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