Community

I think you have a great idea here. Why don't you edit your original post to add a poll and let's see how much action we can generate here. Remember that a poll should have five options in it (basically ranging from yes definitely (the top one) to "whatever" (the middle one) to no, definit...

This looks like xBase.
There are syntax definition files for (each of) clipper, dBase and foxpro here:
http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/syna2g.html

Jeffy: on page one of this thread you referenced your code here: http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/textpad/xbn_java_source_code.zip but it gives me a 404 Not Found. Secondly, here's an idea for a mod to your output: where you have the ID numbers, you could wrap those in anchor tags referring to the thread i...

I agree with fthomas, the original poster. I had never heard of such a middle click feature before but now I find the opera browser implements it -- it's very cool! Having been a video game junkie with that quick-twitch addiction, and liking keyboard shortcuts, I much prefer it to dragging the mouse...

Obviously this is a huge subject. I almost shouldn't be posting since I don't have any great ideas. However my opinions would be these: a) what talleyrand wrote about doing what WHS does sounds right on. b) it would make the appeal of textpad greater, especially in the emacs camp, thus broadening th...

vedit , which has been around for a while, purports to handle large files well. It ain't cheap tho'. http://www.vedit.com/ Quickly edit huge, tricky files: Database, log, mainframe files Binary, control & graphics chars Fast, flexible, multi-key sorting Huge 100+ Megabyte files Lines with 100,0...

I think this is another example of the non-intuitive nature of the UI. The principle of least-surprise applies here. Usually you look for the obvious way to do it (i.e. look in the print-dialogue) and if it's not there you often go on to something more important. I did find help under "color pr...

I think I don't fully understand the CTAGS discussion. My main confusion centers around this: are people wanting new functionality in TextPad to help use CTAGS or can people simply use the add-in that Frank Fesevur wrote? I looked at his page though I haven't downloaded and tried it.

I think this feature is interesting but in a general text editing utility I think it would require *a lot* of design work to get right, and then it still might be funky. That ultrashell thing just seemed to me to be for someone who couldn't get past basic typing class. If you can't type you shouldn'...

Thanks Cyberslug for correcting me about the margins in EditPad. In examining print preview modes in other products I notice some well implemented features. Mozilla has a nice way of implementing page forward and back buttons as VCR style buttons as well as a hard-wireable page number to jump to (wh...

I agree with MudGuard .. this seems like bloat. But if the other guy put up a solution on sourceforge to be downloaded separately .. great!

Thanks very much for the thoughtful replies. I have analyzed each one of them and will respond as follows. talleyrand wrote about accessing the print features. The method suggested was slightly better than the configure menu, but ... I can say that I've been using textpad frequently and with enthusi...

Recently I had a printing task that you would think should be easy. I keep my phone numbers in a simple text file with standard 8-space tabs to make columns. I.e. column 1 is names, column 2 is phone numbers. Infinitely cross-platform, cross-application compatible. You might not believe it but it to...