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That's a configuration option. You can set it using Configure » Preferences » General » Put shortcut on context menu. Note that when that option is set, File Explorer locks ShellExt64.dll in the system folder of TextPad's installation folder, so it will entail a reboot after any updates to TextPad. ...

The left hand end of the status bar which is used for displaying messages is stretchable, but has a minimum width which is a quarter of the width of the primary screen. If TextPad is on a second screen with lower resolution, this may make it too long to leave room for the fixed indicators, so they a...

When TextPad opens files for reading, it locks them for shared reading and writing. Hence, it can read an active log file, or a file being backed up, if the other process has it open in a similar mode. If the file cannot be opened due to a sharing violation, TextPad retries a few times, with a short...

Which anti-virus software do you use? If not Microsoft's, try temporarily disabling it while opening workspaces with auto-reload or prompt modifications set. If that makes no difference, please describe your environment. E.g.: Are changes prompted for or auto-reloaded? How many files are in your wor...

Assumptions: Knowledge of Windows Command Prompt commands and environment variables . Your download folder is at C:\Users\ your-login-id \Downloads. (i.e. %HOMEPATH%\downloads) If you prefer, you can drag and drop the files using File Explorer, rather than using the command prompt copy and move com...

TextPad 5's regular expressions are not Perl compatible. Its regular expressions are based on the ones used at that time by grep in Unix.

Zero or more horizontal space characters can be matched using "[ \t]*".

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TextPad's installer creates registry entries which are used by File Explorer to open files in a single instance of TextPad. This behaviour can be changed by extracting "textpad9-multi-inst.reg" from the attached zip file and double clicking it in File Explorer. To revert to the default beh...

Do you have the .editorconfig plugins installed in those other editors?

Thanks for your feedback. When you timed file opening, was the file opened in an already running instance of TextPad, or in a new instance? Also, was it opened by file type association with File Explorer, or internally with the Open File dialog box? Modified to add: Does it make any difference if yo...

See this post for the solution:

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?p=45504#p45504

I can confirm that this is a bug which we'll fix in the next release. Thanks for reporting it.

What's your display resolution and scaling? (Start/Settings/System/Display) Can you display the clock on the status bar? (Configure/Preferences/View) If you press the Caps key, is "Caps" displayed? If you press the Ins key is "Ovr" displayed? Incidentally, it was worth asking the...

TextPad's installer creates registry entries which are used by File Explorer to open files in a single instance of TextPad. This behaviour can be changed by extracting "textpad9-multi-inst.reg" from the attached zip file and double clicking it in File Explorer. To revert to the default beh...

Sorry you've been having problems. TextPad only transfers from the previous major release, when upgrading. You could uninstall v9, install and run v8 to get your v7 config, then install and run v9. Windows 11 prefers that you make associations in File Explorer, rather than in each application. Howev...

This is what it should look like:
Try deleting or renaming the following file, after exiting from TextPad:

%APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\9\GUIConfig.xml

It will be recreated when TextPad next exits.