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I use TextPad mostly as a source code editor for various languages.

What I like in TextPad is that the search results and tool outputs (e.g. from the compiler) behave like documents. Which means I have full access with the keyboard (Ctrl-Tab or Shift/Ctrl-F11 etc.) to switch back and forth. Return ...

I had the same problem (in the opposite direction). The standard "keystroke" is Alt-Shift. Yes just those without pressing any other key and then releasing them switches to another language layout.

If you don't really need this (and it seems you don't), you can delete the unwanted language layout ...

Hm, as far as I know the drop down box "In Files" in the Find-In-Files dialog just lists the last things you have entered there. Similar to the drop down box above where you type in what to find.

So during your searches in files with different extensions this list box gets filled with all the ...

I discovered something similar a few weeks ago. Textpad was loosing some keystrokes (Alt-0 in this case) and it turned out it was Microsoft Word!

When I run these 2 applications at the same time, some keystrokes don't work in TextPad anymore. A bug of Word in my opinion. Somehow it steals the ...

I just created a new document class with your syn-file as syntax highlighting definition and it works just fine!

So there must be something in your settings that differ from mine.

The only thing that I know of that might influence syntax highlighting is a setting that defines additional characters ...

The workspace does save its files with relative paths! But relative to the position of the workspace-file itself.

So when you put the workspace file in the dir C:\XXX, it contains the files a.txt and b.txt and when you rename XXX to YYY everything should work just fine. At least it does for me. I ...

Well, that's why I have the "^\([[:digit:]]+\):" part. I put that in the field for "regular expression for jumping..." and selected "1" at the drop down box for "line". That works fine. Double-clicking (or Return) on a line in the output-window jumps to the appropriate line in the text document ...

I use fgrep for this purpose.

1) Get fgrep. For example from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

2) Set up a command-shell-tool in TextPad with parameter:

fgrep -n "$SelWord" $File

I have set a regular expression for jumping to a row:

^\([[:digit:]]+\):

Invoke the tool with something selected and ...

You had "Regular expression" switched on. In this case using & in the replace-string means "insert the complete search-string".

Better leave that switched off unless you really want to use regular expressions (see TextPad help)

HTH

I would rather guess that there is a process running that accesses the files you are talking about without you knowing about it. I never had trouble with this feature.

Try filemon from sysinternals to see if anyone accesses the file in question.

If TextPad is the only process accessing the file ...

Yes. For some unknown reason these character classes are only valid inside a group of characters which must be enclosed in square brackets.

The correct expression to look for a single upper case character therefore is:

[[:upper:]]

HTH

Jens

You don't need to do anything if the TWS-file is at the correct location.

The location of files in a workspace is saved in the tws file relative to its position.

So if you store the tws-file in c:\download\project1 everything is as you want it. Copy the whole directory including the tws-files to c ...

Maybe you look for "[:digit:]" instead of "[[:digit:]]"?

Yes the whole "[:digit:]" stands for a class of characters (including the brackets) like "0-9" or "a-z".

So searching for some digits would be "[[:digit:]]+".

HTH

Jens

If you mean the colour of the text which is highlighted when you still have the find-dialog-box open, then this is a setting of the document class. You can change it in the standard document class if that suffices.

It is the second colour setting from the top. The direct translation from german ...

Hi Nial: When you can write perl-scripts you have my respect and you should never have any problem whatsoever :-)

A floating output window! Nice idea.

Ed: Look under http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

Kind regards

Jens