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...and just on the slim chance anyone else ever happens upon this thread and tries to repeat... I just wanted to reassure myself that this did indeed work / I could repeat the steps. Well I recreated the runas_test.bat file on my desktop (forgetting the users folder issue). Then I remembered the use...

Ha! I know you said it's not critical, but I got it to work - and from a TP tool. I noticed that it, runas, was using a user attached to my machine: <machine_name>\<username>. Looking at the usage more closely: "<UserName> should be in form USER@DOMAIN". So I added my work domain name to m...

I got that wrong. "runas" is itself an executable, so your tool needs to run "runas" from the system directory, passing the username and 'real' executable as per usage below. I'm trying on my work machine, I think some security setup is preventing me using it, but I certainly get...

Wouldn't you just use the native Windows parameters, is it:

/runas:Administrator

or something like that? after the path/to/exe? You just include this as a parameter within the Tool configuration parameters, if I've got that right...

Thanks AmigoJack, but I'm afraid the problem does not occur on my personal laptop, so I can't use handle to try find the root cause outside of my work machine. And we don't have Process Explorer at work, only Process Viewer which does not provide a filter/search option. I had a weird cmd.exe problem...

Hi, When TextPad runs an external DOS command, it creates a tiny TPxxxxxx.bat batch script, and runs that. I use TextPad frequently on my home laptop, for which I have admin rights, and on my work laptop, where I do not have admin rights (admin rights may or may not be relevant). Work TP version is ...

I had to use Notepad++ for a bit after starting a new job. It's ok, I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, but... Thankfully, my new employers let me have TextPad, but it took a while (partly owing to COVID-19). I sort of miss the colour-highlight of matching words, but I'm happy with my INCL tool...

Even if you could go right into Compare Files, you would still have to click the OK button to start the compare, so you couldn't script it and have zero user input after starting it.

Checkout Autohotkey to simulate user input (to any Windows app).

I found a fiddly workaround:

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=10994

I found a fiddly workaround:

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=10994

I managed to get tp to 'break' the synchronisation, same behaviour regardless of 'Synchronize Scrolling' setting! If you use ctrl-G to Goto a line number, only that pane moves to the requested line number. (+ add on half the number of lines in your display, so that the line you want comes to the top...

I haven't been on these forums for a while, so apologies for the long delay before replying! If you are still following this thread Charles, you might have discovered it by now but I asked for the same thing a number of years ago and was pointed at "Wine", which is a Windows emulator (of s...

I have never even noticed 'Fill Block', but gave it a whizz.

I use tabs not spaces to indent, so the minimum I can select is 4 columns (1 tab).

So I get 4 slashes, for example, rather than 2. I suppose this does the job, but I'd prefer 2.

Hi ak47wong, I'm not sure I consider this a bug as such, but I know the feeling when you think you can get something from history to find you didn't have the clipboard history cliplib open. I have recently setup TextPad so that the cliphistlib opens when opening TP - and I also have TP in Win Startu...

Cummon TextPad, this must be a cinch to do. It was requested by ak47wong back in 2009, I can't see it taking a developer more than an hour to do this...!