betaspin wrote:
I guess that my first question was perhaps not phrased sufficiently clearly. I am much interested in a solution, so let me try to explain what I would like to do again.

Imagine EmEditor is open with just two files, an empty one, and a second file containing the lines

abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop

I am in position 1 of line 1 of the first empty file and would like to record a macro that copies line by line the contents of the second file into the first one. The keystrokes I need to copy one line are as follows:

<Ctrl-Tab><Shift-Left><Shift-Left><Shift-Left><Shift-Left><Ctrl-C><Down><Home><Ctrl-Tab><Ctrl-V><Enter>

Well, I cannot get EmEditor to record a macro that executes this sequence of keystrokes and any ideas as to how to do this would be much appreciated. I can write a macro that does all this, but I have to do this operation frequently with different chunks of data, sometimes lines and sometimes columns of numbers, and having to write a separate macro each time rather than simply record it would be a waste of time.

Oh, and something else that I noticed very recently: When I have the "Automatic Workspace" set to any option that includes "Save and Restore", and have two open files, if I close both files, then exit EmEditor, then start it again, both files are re-opened. I would expect EmEditor to open with a single empty file, as this was the last state in which it was before it was exited. The current behaviour appears to be inconsistent, and I wonder if this could be fixed at some moment.

betaspin wrote:
Dear Yutaka,

Many thanks for the elegant macro. However, this is not what I was after: As I had mentioned earlier on, I can write a macro that copies selected portions of text b/n files; what I was after was a way of recording such a macro. I do not want to have to write a separate macro (or modify an existing one) each time I need to grab similarly shaped pieces of text from one file and put them in some different order into a different file. All that is required is the ability to record the keystrokes that switch between different files; I cannot get these keystrokes recorded with the current version of EmEditor (9.06, 64bit).

A more detailed description of the "Automatic workspace problem" (again using 9.06 64bit, under Windows 7 Professional 64bit). I start with Customize -> Window -> Automatic workspace set to "None", and a single empty file "Untitled". I then switch Customize -> Window -> Automatic workspace to "Save and Restore", and drop two files onto the EmEditor, these get opened. Then I close both files by pressing the "x" icons on the file tabs, this leaves a single open empty file "Untitled", after which I close EmEditor. When I re-start EmEditor, it opens up not with an empty "Untitled" file, but with one of the two files that I had dropped onto it earlier on (the one that was closed last).

Now, if I try to open additional files in EmEditor by executing "emeditor file1", "emeditor file2", etc, all of these files are opened in different tabs. If I close all of these tabs and then close EmEditor and start it again, I would expect to get a single empty file "Untitled". However, EmEditor opens all files that I had closed previously in different tabs.

Best wishes,
betaspin