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by MudGuard
Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Save Preference changes
Replies: 5
Views: 552

And: changes are applied live, no need to exit/restart textpad.
by MudGuard
Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:30 am
Forum: General
Topic: Save Preference changes
Replies: 5
Views: 552

Document Class "Search Result" applies to the Search Result window (the one for "Find in Files".

The hits of a search within a "normal" window are colored by the document class for that file, per "Selected Text" and "Selected Text (no focus)".
by MudGuard
Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to Italicize Text in TextPad?
Replies: 4
Views: 510

accented characters can be created by typing the accent and then the character, e.g. type the ´ and then the e and you get é. (when you type the accent, it won't appear until you type another character) There is also a command "EditUnicodeCharacter" - which is, afaik, not assigned to any...
by MudGuard
Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: Sort scrambling data
Replies: 3
Views: 1078

can you provide a small sample file showing the effect?
by MudGuard
Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sort scrambling data
Replies: 3
Views: 1078

case sensitive/insensitive select a sort by character order (respecting or ignoring case). Then every word starting with an 'a' will be put before any word starting with a 'b', no matter which characters follow. Similarly, any word starting with a '1' will be put before any word starting with '2'. S...
by MudGuard
Sun Aug 08, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tabs
Replies: 1
Views: 324

that might depend on the settings for indentation - if you have set Textpad to use tabs for indentation ...
by MudGuard
Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Need Expert Help, I think with Negative Lookbehind
Replies: 3
Views: 1122

maybe ungreediness might help (hard to say without the text you want to match).

Ungreedy version of your regex:

Code: Select all

insert +?into +?dbo.account .*?GO
(i.e. add a ? to the quantifiers + or * where you don't want greedy version ...)
by MudGuard
Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: This phpBB installation falls apart
Replies: 5
Views: 1394

by MudGuard
Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: regex to find unmatched quote marks
Replies: 5
Views: 1053

^(?:(?:[^"\n]*"){2})*[^"\n]*\K"(?=[^"\n]*$) would be my solution. ^ for the line start anchor (?: ... )* for any number of occurences of (?: ...){2} two occurrences of [^"\n]*" which is any number of non-quote/non-linebreak chars followed by a quote all this follo...
by MudGuard
Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Macro Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 2104

Great!!!

Thank you - that makes macro editing a lot easier!
by MudGuard
Fri May 14, 2021 5:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Macro Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 2104

Ah, I didn't notice the List for keyboard mappings.

Still it is not user-friendly - a possibility to select the command within the macro editor would be much better ...

(ideally reduced to the commands that can be used in a macro)
by MudGuard
Thu May 13, 2021 3:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Macro Editing
Replies: 6
Views: 2104

Oh yes, thanks for the macro editor!!! Two small things I noticed: If I change the scope within the macro editor this change won't be saved (it can be changed using the Properties button in Configure-Preferences-Macros for the selected macro) To see the commands available I have to close the macro e...
by MudGuard
Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: An unexplanable regex result
Replies: 2
Views: 2233

in the Search dialog (yes, Search, not Replace) - what is your setting for "Direction"?

Btw, I wouldn't do this with Regex, I'd use block selection and fill block.
by MudGuard
Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Capture first word on line: using Unicode
Replies: 8
Views: 1961

Re: Capture first word on line: using Unicode

Mike Olds wrote:The problem is that this tool thinks that Unicode characters are word breaks.
So every character is treated as word break?
As every character is a Unicode character ...
by MudGuard
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:18 am
Forum: General
Topic: Quirky tab and indent tool behavior
Replies: 7
Views: 1601

What are the settings in your Textpad regarding tabulation?
Especially for the file in question (Alt-Return, Tabulation).