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by rsperberg
Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:00 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: how long before leaving TP due to lack of upgrades?
Replies: 51
Views: 7815

Re: Linux alternative: nedit

How about nedit for Linux? (http://www.nedit.org/) It's also not been updated since 2004, but it's a mature, stable product that works really well. It is not as feature rich as TextPad, but it has all the important bits, works on any XWindows system and is GPL. I've been using it as the editor of c...
by rsperberg
Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:08 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: how long before leaving TP due to lack of upgrades?
Replies: 51
Views: 7815

Re: RE: How long will you wait...

pja wrote:PS2: Helios, please bring out a Linux version, please!
I second the notion, or hundredth it or thousandth it, however many TextPad users have suggested a Linux version.
by rsperberg
Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with Replace
Replies: 4
Views: 367

You're right. I hadn't realized this (in fact, I would have said I _didn't_ have it checked), but I'm able to repeat or remove the behavior as you indicated.

Appreciate your straightening me out on this.
by rsperberg
Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Problem with Replace
Replies: 4
Views: 367

Problem with Replace

I had a series of html documents given to me that had various non-keyboard characters, such as em dash, section symbol, paragraph symbol, and so on. In order for these to display correctly, I wanted to replace them with character entities. Thus the em dash would become — and the section s...
by rsperberg
Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:32 pm
Forum: WildEdit
Topic: Request from a one-day user
Replies: 2
Views: 598

Request from a one-day user

I purchased WildEdit today because I found it performed a regex replacement properly that TextPad did buggily. I was quite happy with the batch processing of files, and the larger windows to enter the search and replacement expressions, a real problem I find with Textpad's replace dialog. I think I ...