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by ak47wong
Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: does textpad have a search online feature?
Replies: 9
Views: 1289

I just tried the steps I wrote in 2010 and they still work. I've made some minor adjustments here: Step 1: Determine the search URL Open your preferred search engine and search for the word "TEST". Note of the URL of the results page. For example, Google returns something like: https://www...
by ak47wong
Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Migration of V8.10.0 macros - How ?
Replies: 1
Views: 409

You shouldn't have to migrate the macros. When you upgrade to 8.14.2 they should still be there. If you want to make a backup before you upgrade, click Configure > Preferences > Folders > Macros and back up the *.TPM files in your macros folder.
by ak47wong
Sat Nov 12, 2022 3:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Bug reports
Replies: 2
Views: 507

Why not just keep using this forum for bug reports? There’s only been about 50 posts started or bumped this whole year; it’s not a busy place. How about at least upgrading phpBB to the current version?
by ak47wong
Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Current line box
Replies: 15
Views: 3710

Did you miss the announcement yesterday? The new version (8.14.0) fixes the problem. I think this is set a record in how quickly a TextPad bug has been fixed.
by ak47wong
Sun Nov 06, 2022 12:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Current line box
Replies: 15
Views: 3710

Here's the trick: Set the Background colour to whatever you want the highlight to be. Set the Foreground colour to the same colour as the background. In the Foreground colour drop-down, click More Colors . On the Custom tab, change one of the Red , Green or Blue values by 32 . For example, if you se...
by ak47wong
Sun Nov 06, 2022 12:23 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Expand/Collapse blocks of text
Replies: 63
Views: 523676

We finally got editable macros after 18 years and we've been waiting for code folding for 19 years, so any time now...
by ak47wong
Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Zooming the Textpad Screen
Replies: 7
Views: 1990

ben_josephs wrote:I don't use toobars.
That makes two of us!
by ak47wong
Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: Question about Moving to the Start of a Line
Replies: 3
Views: 533

For the behaviour you're describing, you want to set the Home key as the shortcut for the LineStart command.

Make sure in the Keyboard preferences window that you click the Assign button before exiting. If you don't press Assign, the shortcut is not saved.
by ak47wong
Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Selction or Current Line Macro
Replies: 7
Views: 657

Drxenos wrote:I've figured it out. It can be done. It's not ideal, but it works.
Drxenos, I'd be interested to know what solution you came up with.
by ak47wong
Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Is it possible to prevent auto-saving of workspaces?
Replies: 4
Views: 574

Did you open another workspace? The help file explains that if you open a workspace and another one is already opened, the latter will automatically be saved and closed. If that's what happened, the only way to prevent it being automatically saved would be to close it manually, in which case TextPad...
by ak47wong
Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Streamlining Guidance Request
Replies: 7
Views: 622

It would be useful to see the actual HTML code. Could you post the code for the table containing the five rows in your example? I'd suggest using the code tags for just the HTML code, not for explanatory text.
by ak47wong
Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Changing font for a single print out
Replies: 2
Views: 676

You can change the font for the current document in the View > Document Properties dialog on the Font tab.
by ak47wong
Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: Location of .editorconfig
Replies: 6
Views: 817

.editconfig files aren't for storing TextPad configuration. It's more the opposite: a way to set up TextPad and other editors in a certain way for, say, a particular project. The help window for the Preferences page that ben_josephs referred to includes a link to the EditorConfig specifications . Th...
by ak47wong
Thu Nov 11, 2021 6:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Double-click selection of variable names in Perl
Replies: 2
Views: 602

You can change this as follows:
  1. Click Configure > Preferences
  2. Expand Document Classes
  3. Expand Default
  4. Click Syntax
  5. In Other characters in words, enter: @%
If you want to restrict this behaviour to just Perl files, you can create a new document class for them.
by ak47wong
Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bookmarks
Replies: 4
Views: 995

Obviously that's why I said to record a macro. Start by placing the cursor at the start of the first bookmarked line Click Macros > Record Type the characters you want to insert Click Search > Next Bookmark Click Macros > Stop Recording If a dialog appears, choose one of the options according to pre...