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I am puzzled and horrified by what you have said--puzzled because I do not fully understand it and horrified because a fixed-width font is of the utmost importance to my particular work. What do you mean you lost "formatting"?! A text editor has no formatting, as does a word processor. Wha...

Excellent reminder . . . so as to save all changes immediately to the registry BEFORE an electrical failure. . . .

This response is based on my use of 4.7.3: Note that this may change some of your current color settings in other document classes, but this really is the proper way to approach this business of arranging all of the colors for all of the document classes that you use. Just make sure to do this when ...

Well, the responses are not meant as opposition; they are meant mainly to explain a little why TextPad might be the way it is and to present ideas about how a user can work best with it. If it would be OK to put a simple command on a menu, then it would be OK to put ANOTHER simple command on a menu,...

I like that idea, too.

In the mean time, try mapping Alt+B, which is available by default, to the Block Select Mode command. A good keyboard shortcut is the next best thing to a tool button.

Configure -> Preferences... -> Keyboard -> Configure -> ToggleBlockSelect

Great news! First, in retrospect, I now realize that I got most of it wrong in my previous post. I must have been tired. Sorry. Second, I just discovered that TextPad's Revert command reloads a file without changing the screen's view or the position of the cursor. ("I love this program.") ...

Edit: Much of this particular post should be ignored, as much of it is wrong. Please see my next post, which makes more sense, at some point below. I'm envisioning two instances of TextPad: one to hold all of the open files for the purpose of allowing the Auto-Reload feature, and one to hold just th...

See Help -> Help Topics -> Index -> command -> Display -> Command Line Parameters -> Display -> "Command Line Parameters" -> "Notes" Note the presented example: TEXTPAD.EXE -ac "Read me.txt"(51,20) Then consider this: What might happen if the line argument supplied in t...

You will be able to do it using Block Select Mode. Perform the work using a COPY of your original file, so that you can be sure that your original data won't be lost. . . . In order to keep this algorithm from becoming too long-winded, I won't mention everything. If you have any questions, ask: - In...

Go ahead: Ask me if I'm surprised. Some things just don't get old. TextPad is one of them. The whole time Helios was probably thinking, "Why should we update TextPad? It can already do just about everything a text editor should do. Don't the users read the help screens and forum postings?"...

In other words, you would prefer an automatic refreshing of the Document Selector upon the saving of a file. I think I would too.

Generally speaking, however, degree of automation is inversely proportional to degree of user control.

Beware automation!

At some eventual point, it dawned on me that you do in fact want to mark somehow the EXACT cursor position. I presented the use of Search -> Go To... because it can accomplish the return to a line in a way that is INDEPENDENT of whatever bookmarks might already be in place, which can be very useful ...

Unless I've misunderstood what you've said . . . I've got some good news for you. TextPad (at least 4.7.3) already has this ability: - Make your selection or cut or whatever - Position the cursor at the beginning of the line to which you want to RETURN - USING THE SCROLL BAR, scroll so that the line...

We need more information: How many different types of phrases will you need to change? Is there some regular pattern by which we can go, or are there many completely different phrases to change? If you can adequately determine the regularity of the phrases in the document, you might be able to proce...

Even with 4.7.3, I have always selected, copied, and pasted search results and compare results into another text file.

5.2.0 doesn't prevent you from selecting and copying results, does it?

I certainly hope not; that would be . . . ridiculous.