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In C-like languages (Including PHP and Java), you often have to comment out a block of text, and you can't always use the block-type comments /* */ because they don't nest. For this purpose, I have a macro, which comments out the selection, and a counterpart, which does the opposite. To implement: S...

I'm mainly using Textpad for writing PHP, and I have found the following macro quite useful. It simply jumps to the next function in the file (And its counterpart jumps to the previous function). It's a quick way to navigate in large files: To implement it: Start with a file, where there is a functi...

Nicodareus wrote: Aha.. Well.. That was 4 years ago. I feel it's worth rementioning. It's an extremely invaluable feature that I can't believe has gone unfathomed for so long.

I wholeheartedly agree.

This was also suggested in:
http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3787

Go to: Configure > Preferences > Folders
That'll show you where macros are stored.

I have a few suggestions for how to improve on the tools feature of textpad, which with rather simple changes would make it possible to script textpad to a great extend, without having to embed a scripting engine directly into textpad. First thing is to allow tools to return a textpad-macro (*.tpm),...

Should do. Regex' can't span linebreaks though, unless you know exactly how many there are. For example, if the text is always presented as:

Ideas:
A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson

You can use this regex:

+1

They do look a bit wrong somehow.

I wouldn't use this feature, and if it was possible, I would turn it off. So if it's ever implemented, I would prefer if it was optional.

Maybe it could be implemented as automatically calling an external tool, with the current (incomplete) word as argument, after X seconds (Or at a key-combination).

Then again - this might be a rather inefficient solution.

Hi

Is it possible to jump to the first (only) result of a file/line/column, without the need to explicitly double click it in the tool output window?

Also, is it possible in these cases to not show the tool output window?

Thanks

If you don't use POSIX type regexp, you can instead use This for search and replace, respectively:

Can I just add my vote for this feature. It's one of the few things, I'm really missing in textpad.

devdanke wrote: It would be great if Helios would post a roadmap of features planned for the v5 series of releases.

I just want to second that suggestion. A roadmap would help to prevent frustration, and would open up for a less speculative debate at these forums.