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F5 to select the find dialogue box
Alt-<space><return>
Then you can move the dialogue box using arrow keys

looks like a bug to me

Unselect the "Binary files" box on the "Find in Files" dialogue window

The short answer is no I don't think TextPad can handle this directly. But you could create a macro to save the document (to make it writable) substitute / with \\ and save then run a command tool which is Type $File this will put this into the command window from where you can jump. as described in...

Yes, I seem to recall that if you change the setting Config>Pref>File>overwrite...
the problem goes away. Or have I got that wrong?

I think this dialogue usually indicates that a file is readonly. Of course, over a network it may indicate something more subtle like not having write privilege. - ...but no doubt you've been down this line.

The basic technique for getting round the problem of reg expressions not coping with newlines is to convert all newlines to (say) ~. Do the substitution and then convert ~ to \n.

Iwas using TP 4.7.1. I DO get the problem with v4.7.2

"Word break at column number" works fine for me.
Are you using TP v4.7.2?
Word wrap needs to be off.

regexp
^\(.*[0-9]+/[0-9]+/200[0-9] \)[^ ]+ [AP]M \(.*\)$
replace with
\1\2

nearly does it but you say

where the time stamp can literarlly be anything

What indicates the end of the time field?

Win2k SP4

I've tried several more times and have not been able to reproduce the problem. It was set to default as unix - but I've changed that

Search for regexp ^\([0-9]+/[0-9]+/2004\).*$ replace with \1 Assumes non-Posix, no other characters on the line with the date, the date is at the left hand edge of the line and the year is always 2004. If these assumptions are wrong either try and figure it out or re-post with the correct assumption...

I've repeated the steps with the options given but I get no blank line.
I'm using Windows 2000

You probably have [ in a word in the syntax file. This causes TextPad to consider [ as part of the word when highlighting I tried the syntax file you supplied with the text you supplied and it worked OK I then added a keyword nbvjuy[] - this caused it not to highlight Do you need [ in another keywor...

Well, I came in this morning to find a flurry of responses. Thank-you so much. I should point out that I don't actually need a solution to the regexp - but thanks anyway. But can someone tell me either is my original regexp wrong or is there a bug in the TP regexp code? From Bob's research I think t...