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I've found one way to do this now, although it is a bit clumsy: 1. Open the file in TextPad and select the required text 2. Use Edit -> Copy Other -> As a HTML page 3. Create a new, empty document and paste the copied text into it 4. Save the new document as an HTML file 5. Open the HTML file in a ...

I'm preparing an article for a newsletter that is produced in PDF via Word. I need to include some program extracts in it, with syntax highlighting. Is there any way I can load the program source file in TextPad (which will syntax-highlight it), then either export the file to DOC or RTF format, or ...

Text Pad already has an "Auto save every 10 minutes" option. If you are the sort of person who already uses that, then having TextPad save whenever you switch away from it shouldn't cause you any problems - even if you are not always switching to an IDE to compile your newly-edited file(s).

I agree, it shouldn't be the default. Ideally, it should be configurable on a per-file-extension basis. However, Multi-Edit just provides it as a global on/off setting, and I don't find this a problem.

When searching in a source code file for which syntax highlighting is configured, I am often not interested in matches that occur within comments. So it would be useful if the Find options box had a radio button with options "Exclude comments", "Search comments only" and "All text".

When using TextPad as the default editor for a software development system with an IDE, it would be very useful if TextPad could be configured to auto-save all changed files when switching away from TextPad. Otherwise, a user can switch to the software development system to re-compile, only to find ...

I am having a small problem with TextPad 4.7.0. I have configured a software development environment to use TextPad as my default editor. When I double-click on an error message, it instructs TextPad to open the file at the line and column of the error message using a line like this: textpad.exe -q ...