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One of the really neat things about the computer language PHP is that all variable names start with $, so you never have to worry about clashing with a reserved word. But TP's syntax coloring doesn't allow for this. If you tell it that, for example, "count" is a reserved word (which it is), and that ...

waiting for an explanation before I vote on this... Okey Dokey, here goes... When you click on Save As you get a dialog box. It contains a drop-down menu called "Encoding". One of these encodings is UTF-8. So far so good. Also on the list are "Unicode" and "Unicode (big endian)". These are misnamed ...

This is a known problem . I have proposed that TextPad fix it in this poll. Please vote for the fix.

Jill

NTFS allows for storage of metadata along with files. That is PRECISELY what I object to. NTFS file streams are a big NO WAY as far as I am concerned. On NTFS machines, it is possible to create a one byte file containing literally gigabytes of "metadata" hidden in invisible (named) streams. The ...

&8212; MudGuard's suggestion is indeed a good one, but it shouldn't be needed if you change the charset declaration. In other words - use MudGuard's suggestion OR mine - either will work, but you don't need both at once (although both at once would be harmless). Incidently, it would probably be ...

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Change this to: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252"> and you'll be fine. This is important - if you don't change this, conformant applications around the world will render your em-dash as ...

I tried this, and it didn't work for me. 151 is decimal for 0x97. Windows by default uses its own character encodings, which, not-surprisingly, are completely non-standard and don't interoperate with anything else. On my machine the Windows code page is "code page 1252". In this system, EM DASH has ...

Do the Textpad support people monitor this forum as well, or is there somewhere else I should go to ask them? Er, yeah, I'm pretty sure they do. The "elsewhere" is http://www.textpad.com/support/feedback.php , but you're not supposed to hassle unless you've tried all other options. In your case, it ...

Actually, it would be simple (and cool) if the tools displayed on the tools menu could be dependent upon the file extension of the current file. Thus, if you're editing a Java file, tools such as "Compile Java", "Compile Java to DLL", "Run Java" , etc., could magically become visible. Selecting a ...

In another thread, someone suggested remembering the state of a particular action on a text file - this would involve storing meta information about a text file. Myself, I always find myself mildly bugged (but only mildly - 'tis no big deal) by the fact that documents "forget" their word-wrap status ...

Well, I'm voting for folding, but NOT for remembering the state. (Actually, I think the whole concept of meta-information about a text file is best left to another thread. Okay, I'll start one. Okay, done - it's here ). For what it's worth, MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 does exactly this (folding - but ...

When you try to install TextPad, and you get to the wizard step which says: Install this application for: [*] A nyone who uses this computer (all users) [*] Only for m e (your name) the default is all users. Try changing it to just you. I don't know if that will work, but it's certainly worth a try.

No, I get what VoxEcho is saying. VoxEcho also has TP open multiple documents in the same instance of TP, but in VoxEcho's case TextPad is being used as one instance per workspace , not one instance per document. It is the workspace name which is being requested, not the document name. VoxEcho is ...

It's possible this thread here might be what you want. (There's no poll though ).

Jill

Of course I'm in favor of adding extra features, but I'm not in favor of taking away features upon which I rely. If a document is externally modified, I want it reloaded, immediately it gets into focus. An icon ungraying is just not enough. So by all means, enhance the way this works, add a few more ...