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TextPad 'not responding' has been happening to me after I upgraded to Win 7 and installed newer versions of TextPad.

TextPad 4.73 ran on XP for years with never such a problem, so ...

> you're free to type D:x

d:x is rejected every time, whether it be immediately after boot or not.

After TextPad is invoked, the behavior is always the same:

AltF/Open
.. d:\x --> d:\x
.. e:\temp\y --> e:\temp\y
.. z --> d:\z
.. d:z --> 'The filename is not valid'
.. d:\z --> d:\z will open ...

> Does that mean a different software (i.e. Notepad or Notepad++ or whatnot)
> allow you doing the same thing in Win7 that works for you in WinXP?

I went back to the XP system to run a comparison.

XP behavior, on AltF/Open, type d:x
..At d:, D:\ appears below
..At d:x, software will open the file ...

Thanks for helping me realize I had not made it explicit that d: is sitting at d:\ and that I was talking about directory separators.

In such a case the addresses of d:x and d:\x are synonyms.

My use of D: is as a scratchpad. It is the only partition without sub-directories, so is the only one ...

ben_josephs:

> D:\x and D:x mean different things:
> D:\x means the subdirectory x of the root directory of drive D:
> D:x means the subdirectory x of the current directory on drive D

Hardly, x is a filename, not a sub-directory.

MudGuard:

> Check the settings in Configure - Preferences ...

TextPad

Last week I had reason to use an XP machine and realized that TextPad was opening files fine without a separator, whereas under Win7 this would generate 'invalid filename' and require a separator as d:\x.

TextPad is the only software I use that demands a separator on root filenames.

This ...

[quote="MudGuard"]grab the title bar of the document selector, and drag it to the left edge of the main window. Some boxes with little triangles will appear.
Drop the title bar on the box near the left edge so it will be attached to the left edge.[/quote]

Cured!

It's good to be back to normal ...

Search works on single words, so finding anything about 'Document Selector' has been laborious, and unsuccessful.

Some accidental keystroke(s) switched the Document Selector from a vertical pane on the left of the document pane to a horizontal pane above the document panel.

I have had no success ...

Textpad has a switch that controls the ability to move text around BUT you only get one shot at defining it.

To get the bottom of why Textpad's behavior had changed under XP, I pulled out an old laptop to compare configurations and under the options for Configure/Preferences/Editor of 4.1.05 is a ...

[quote="ben_josephs"][i][u]C[/u]onfigure | [u]P[/u]references | Editor | [u]K[/u]eystroke compatibility[/i][/quote]

This old dog will have to try out this new (to him) trick.

Thanks

[quote="MudGuard"]hm. Cant reproduce the problem.

Select some text.
Put mousepointer in selected text.
Press and hold left mousebutton.
Move mousepointer (still holding left mousebutton) to destination.
Release left mousebutton.

Text is now at the new position.[/quote]


That's what fails!

What ...

As one who started using Textpad under W98 have missed the ability to move text around after moving from W2K to XP.

Specifically, under W98 I could mark characters or words, and move them elsewhere in the text just like with Word etc.

Under XP I have never been able to do this within Textpad, I ...

[quote="kengrubb"]Yes, Wordstar is one of the built-in keystroke compatibilities.[/quote]

Huh? I've been using Textpad for years and never knew this.

Where in the Preferences can this be selected?