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To answer your question, this is not so much about me as my users. I have no problem adjusting my behavior slightly although I find myself using Notepad++ more than TextPad anyhow (mainly due to it being installed on all our 12,000 systems).

We have over 400 TextPad licenses and we're all still ...

Consensus doesn't mean every last person.

I agree with your logic, but one has to realize that EVERY other text editor handles this as a special case since it's just not a good idea to put the user in a position where the program is going to hang, potentially loosing work.

Here's another innocent ...

I think the only consensus is that it probably ought to not match empty sets. Would love to see a change in this regard to 7.x and 8.x.

Thanks for the great explanation -- I concur 100% with your breakdown and logic.

I guess I'd still propose that the TextPad developers consider the "replacement of the empty string as a special case and move forward one character" approach or however other editors/libraries do it. It may not be the ...

I believe since the new regular expression engine change, I've seen some behavior that has held me back from upgrading my users to any newer TextPad version.

In short, doing something seeming innocent like typing a few lines:

one
two
three

And then doing a replace all for '.*' with 'blah'. Now, I ...