Has anyone else got problems with MPLAB macros? They simply won't record for me, I press the "start recording" but=20 nothing happens. I have messed around with firewall to see if there was=20 some keystroke monitoring block in place or similar, did a quick Goggle=20 but can't find much. I started using Notepad++, and I'm planning to start using this in MPLAB=20 using the external editor feature. Since many of the other tools I use=20 have such an option I thought I would try and use the same text editor=20 for all my coding as some do. Main reason is to make use of the more=20 advanced features not present in many IDE text editors. Having MPLAB=20 work like Visual Studio would be nice... Any advice on this - what do others use or not use? Any reason why=20 people avoid this route? I was looking at eMacs too, I used this briefly before but it has a=20 pretty steep learning curve which I haven't really time for right now. The other question is - MPLAB or MPLABX? Any thought on which is "better", or knowledge of future support and=20 development would be useful. TIA --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .