What is the way of saving open .txt file in autohotkey. Let say you have opened text file test.txt; and you would like to close it or close it with saving any edits that you have made to that file.
I'm unable to find any method on the internet/doc. It can be a simple #1:: hotkey. It's part of larger script and this is just for testing.
Thanks xDD
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Some context:
I have an Excel Macro (.xlsm) file I've created for my company, which I'm creating a batch file for that copies it from a Network folder to a local folder for each computer/user profile that clicks the batch file. What I'm looking to do is for every user that runs the batch file, I want to append their name to a hidden notepad file in the same network folder of the original macro file. That way, whenever I revise/fix/add features to the macro, I'll have a list of all the users that are using the macro file, so I can send an email letting them know of the updates.
Note: I know how to obtain the username of the user that runs the files.
I know that you can write and append to Notepad files using a batch file, but I can't find a source that verifies whether it's possible to write to an existing hidden Notepad file. I came upon this post in my search, but that's using the C# language.
So, my question(s) are:
Can a batch file write/append to a hidden notepad file?
If so, would I use the same syntax/method that you would when writing to a visible (non-hidden) file?
If not, would could I go about this feat? Could I temporarily unhide a hidden file, append to it, then rehide it? Or should I go about it using a different method?
Is this a good method, or is there a more efficient/better way to accomplish this (keeping a list of users that have the macro file)?
You could use stream redirection operator >> and system variable with login as i recall %username%. Do echo %username%>>hiddenfile. txt
I have a BATCH code, which perfectly opens an EXCEL file:
START "C:\office\excel.exe" "C:\tmp\file.xlsx"
BUT: If someone else opens this EXCEL file (via network) and do not close it --> he leaves it opened, then I cannot open this file using my BATCH.
If I click on the EXCEL file, and press ENTER (so opening using windows not batch), the file will be opened, but it alerts me that someone else is locked this file, but I can open it to read or I can request a notice if the other person closes the file.
How could I set in BATCH file, to open the EXCEL (or WORD) file (only for reading) even if it is opened by others (via network)?
The solution is: leave the START command:
"C:\office\excel.exe" "C:\tmp\file.xlsx"
I'm aiming to open a new .txt file in Notepad and then write to it. Since the file I'm opening (notepad.exe) isn't the same file I want to write to (the new .txt file), I'm unaware of how I can write to the file. Here's the code I have so far:
local list = io.popen("notepad.exe","w")
print(list)
list:write("Tester")
list:flush()
Notepad is opened, but the text isn't written to the new file because the code is trying to edit notepad.exe instead.
What can I do to be able to edit the new opened .txt file? I don't want to actually save the file anywhere, so that's why I'm aiming to just put text in an untitled .txt file. Thanks in advance :)
Notepad does not respond console input.
You must find edit control on notepad's window and PostMessage keypressing event to it.
Or prepare temporary file and load it:
local list = io.open("newfile.txt","w")
list:write("Tester")
list:close()
os.execute("notepad.exe newfile.txt")
I have been working on Vanilla, a LaTex preprocessor. I and most people open their PDF files to see how their output looks like. But sometimes, we forget to close it down before starting the compiling process again. If the PDF file is open, then the LaTex compiler complains that it cannot write to that file. So I want to add code to the preprocessor which will look if the output PDF file is open and it will close the PDF file if it is open. I have been looking everywhere to see how to go about doing it. I am not an expert in Ruby. I don't want to kill the whole process of Acrobat32.exe or any other PDF viewing program used to view that file because the user might have other PDFs open in the same program. I just need a way to kill the process of that one PDF file. So can anyone suggest me a way to do it?
Can't you just move the old file first, remove it if possible, and then generate a new version of the same PDF with the name you want?
How to configure Firefox such that whenever a link to a txt file is clicked, this txt file will directly got downloaded to the local file system, without asking user what you want to do with the file and where you want to save this file to?
It seems that in the Firefox's Application Panel, there is no entry for txt file although I've already clicked a link to a txt file.
Thanks.
if you press ALT while you click on the link it should just save the link, so in your case it will just save the .txt file. Hope this helps!