For awhile I've been thinking of ways to automate certain repetitive tasks when composing, but I never really got into being able to read/write .it files enough to do anything useful.

But, what about being able to save a song as a plain text file? And in turn being able to import a modified text file? Sample data would obviously be obliterated but anything else should be exportable without doing anything too crazy.

IIRC modplug could copy pattern data as plaintext, which could be in turn pasted into a text editor. So hopefully this idea isn't so crazy..

What OS are you using?

Schism can copy its pattern data in the very same format as modplug, but it's really clumsy and fails half the time.

I tried suggesting a way to handle pattern load/save like with FT2's .xp pattern file format, but people seemed to not have liked that idea for some reason. Nice to see someone else think the same way as me.

>>4661
Linux. Does pattern copy/paste to text work in Windows?

>>4662
Well the point (for me) is to get patterns in some kind of text-based, somewhat-human-readable format. But actually it would be a big plus to be able to do that with individual patterns.

>>4663

If you've got the X headers (not just the SDL headers) schism will include X11 clipboard support.

>>4673
But it doesn't work.

>>4674 it used to. It might be a regression; I haven't looked for a while