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Currently we have a situation now whereby certain documents - and I mean plain text documents, nothing fancy - can be successfully edited in Notepad but not in TextPad. A single math character in a document can cause this. I humbly suggest that this is not an ideal situation in which to find ourselv...

Doesn't this happen already, thanks to the miracle of Virtual RAM (aka Swap-File) that is built into Windows? The problem you describe is a problem which affects all sorts of programsL image editors; music editors; 3D-model editors, etc. They all eventually have to face the possibility that the docu...

As a matter of principle, no program - Nothing apart from me - should EVER take the focus away from me without my consent. I am (or at least, should be) the ultimate authority on what is in focus at any time. For this reason, I do not allow popups on my machine, AT ALL. So ... in defence of dcrocker...

Of course this should **NOT** be the default. No way do I want TextPad (or any other program for that matter) overwriting my saved document with an in-progress version without my explicit consent. That would be disasterous. That said, I'd go with it as an option (default off) that you could switch o...

And it gets better. This enhancement works even better in combination with others. For example, if the embedded (i.e. multi-language) feature were implemented (see separate thread) then we could also limit searches to [i]a particular language[/i]. For example, search only in HTML text, but not in an...

I would certainly appreciate this in "Find in Files" too. ESPECIALLY after it's been changed to "Find and Replace in Files". Wow - just imagine how powerful these two features combined would be! The more I think about it, the more I realise that this would be an incredibly powerf...

Choice of scripting language? A big YES vote goes to PHP, obviously, as it's designed as a text-processing language, and the code looks almost like C/C++. Another YES vote goes to the new kid on the block, Python. Others have voted for this. The syntax is line-oriented, not block oriented (so blocks...

Now THAT is a cool idea. Neat, simple, easy to implement, and very very useful. Hell, I'd say this is pollable. But before you send it to the polls, what about being able to choose to exclude or include the contents of string constants too? Or (even more specific), let's say you wanted to search onl...

I do a lot of work with Unicode. The fact is, the meta-tag should NOT be ISO-8859-1 if codepoints U+0080 to U+009F are being used for Microsoft extension characters. TextPad dudes, excellent though your product is, you now have three choices here: Either (a) declare the document to be WINDOWS-1252, ...

You can drag a document tab to a new position in the latest versions of Visual Studio too. It's a really cool feature, and would be great to see in TextPad. Actually, in this context, I think I'd find manual sorting of document tabs EVEN BETTER than auto-sorting. I also think it would be quite nice ...

Yikes. Guess I just showed off my ignorance there!

Maybe we should just forget this idea then and put it down to a bad case of RTFM.

Apologies,
Jill

The title probably sounds a bit strange, so I'll explain what I need in more detail. Suppose I write an illustrative piece of C++ code using TextPad. The syntax highlighting is very helpful. So far so good. Now suppose I want to copy this illustrative code, COMPLETE WITH SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING, into a ...

The syntax highlighting in Textpad is really great. But it's a pity that you lose it all the moment you click on "Print". I would love to see all those colors retained when you print the document.

Anyone else?
Jill