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While it's not my top priority on my Textpad wishlist, I'm with brikface in principle - having an FTP utility would save me much time. Pretty much the only thing I upload to an FTP site are things that I edit with Textpad anyway... the large binary files are so rare I don't mind firing up a real cli...

Figured it out - somehow the HTML class had reacquired *.asp and *.php as members, and was taking precedence. I now have a new question: if i'm modifying a syntax file, how can I get it to only interpret a particular attribute (say, SingleComment) within a certain set of syntax delimiters (say, <% ....

Hi there, i've recently (which is to say this hasn't always happened) been having a problem with instances of textpad on some machines. Using both the supplied ASP.syn and other downloadable ones like aspjshtml, the SingleComment directive for ASP is not getting highlighted properly. Worse, since th...

yeah, just learn regular expressions. I'd do it for you myself, except that you'll learn a lot more by reading a tutorial of regular expressions and getting some practice using them, and then be much more efficient at what you do (which looks like porn - nice industry =P). Just remember - if you gro...

Storing even a single bit of information regarding a particular line necessitates changing that line of text, since textpad is a text editor (not a word processor). Everything you look at in Textpad is exactly what's in the raw file, so implementing that would end up changing something in the file -...

this is the most important feature suggestion i've seen yet. The Split feature is one of Textpad's best selling points - i've only ever seen one other tool that did splitting, and i've been in the industry for a LONG time. Being able to split to more than two views in a particular dimension (horizon...

post a poll asking whether users feel there should be a major update to the help file.

Hey Jeffy,

Any chance we'll get an update any time soon?

This thread should be stickied, for easy reference by developers.

good idea. post a poll using the poll template.

If you wanted to compare an updated version with an older, already-open version, my first instinct was to say "well, couldn't you just say no to the reload, and then open the file again and look at the two as they're both held in memory?" Then I realized you couldn't do that. So perhaps as...

I think this is a very good idea, even if I voted "somewhat unimportant". It's not a top priority, and I can think of a bunch of things I'd rather have developers spending time on, but that's one of the features I like most about MS Word.

I think there are a number of enhancements that could go into bookmarks over and above what workspaces provide. For example, being able to view a list of your bookmarks in a particular document (or better yet, across a bunch of documents all within a workspace) would be a really good feature, as wou...

Yeah, and the report should have options to sort alphabetically, or by frequency, etc. Maybe you could select multiple files if they were open (kinda like what you can do with the Compare tool, selecting two files and Ctrl-F9)

So basically you're suggesting that textpad implement "profiles", where you can have several "versions" of all your (normally global) options, and the ability to flip between these sets of options? That sounds cool but it also sounds like it would take a total overhaul of textpad...

Totally agree. There are a ton of things I can think of wanting to add to the right-click menu, macros being only part of the set. "Highlight all occurrences of this word in a particular color" would be a good one, while we're at it. But it all starts with customization.