>Hi,
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>I have to clarify: I have not found that the "beautify" app formats code the way I would like so I would like to highlight code in the code editor and fire my own app to format the code. So after highlighting the text, I would like to press a function key to format what I have highlighted.
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>First step it seems to me is to get the text into a var that I can use so I thought of copying it to the clipboard, then to a var, manipulate it and then put it back by pasting in to the same spot.
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>So I figure I just need to somehow trigger the "Copy" menu item although I have not been able to get that to work yet.

I've never worked with them, but would the _ed* functions in FoxTools help here?

Tamar