On 14 sep 2010, at 02.50, Charles Turner wrote:
I'm writing a command where it would be really great to preserve a string for later use by other commands.
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Any other kind of scratchpad memory that I could take advantage of? (I realize I could write a small file somewhere.)
Maybe you can have a look at two available TM bundles which do something similar, they are called Scratch respectively Scratch Snippets.
Regards,
Carsten