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Hello everyone. Does anyone know of a way to beautify/format the following code using a search/replace with a regular expression? I'd like to format the code from this: set north [lindex $string_list 0] set east [lindex $string_list 1] set elevation [lindex $string_list 2] set arsenic [lindex ...

Hello Beetlefly. I agree with you 100%. The file comparison needs to be graphical in just the way you describe. There are a few text editors or external diff programs that do a good job of this. The best one I've found is Araxis Merge. It is a program dedicated soley to comparing files and does an ...

When (not IF :wink:) added, please use a third party language (like Python) and don't develop your own macro language. I agree 100%. Why reinvent the wheel when you can choose from many excellent text-handling scripting languages out there. I am partial to TCL myself ( http://dev.scriptics.com ...

I'm really sorry guys about the double poll.
I went to edit my post and it hadn't included the poll.
So, when I added it for the second time this is what I got.



Feeling pretty stupid.

In my scripts I would like to be able to colour variables a certain colour. I prefix my variable names with things like ' d_ ', ' i_ ', ' n_ '. I think it would be great if I could colour my variable a different colour than other text. So I would like to define variable names as keywords but using ...

I must say, that is most excellent news.

As mentioned before by others, it's just a small feature but extremely useful. Hearing it from the horse's mouth is very inspiring. Yeah!!

Hello Dwayne.

There is already a very simple interface to your e-mail program. Try using the File, Send command. This basically allow you to use TextPad as your message editor and uses your e-mail program to send the messages. That's the extent of what you can do in TextPad, though.

Good luck.

Hello Jens. Well, since reading your response I've downloaded and tried UltimaShell. Wow! What a capable little program! I had no idea it would be that easy to add AutoComplete functionality to Textpad or any other program. I see what you mean about losing interest in seeing TextPad implement ...

I agree. I've had to do this several times now, as I prefer to script with a black background.

Nice suggestion.

I second trids' request for a poll. Please put one up so that we may vote on this issue. Auto-complete is one feature that would make Textpad such indispensible tool for me. I assume it could draw upon the keywords in the syntax file. http://www.surpac.com/sales_div/nth_america/images/pic_02.png ...

I agree with you. This would be a great feature. I've tried to use the tab settings within the document class options to achieve something similar but without success.

Excellent suggestion!

I've seen this feature in other text editors, like Context (http://fixedsys.com/context/).
I'd love to italicize comment lines and make other keywords bold.

jeffy wrote:When posting your idea to this forum, consider putting a poll along with your message....

This will help gague the general feelings on priority of interests.

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

I would like to see a dockable/floatable, Windows Explorer-style navigator from which we can drag files to open.

Thanks.

When splitting the window vertically I would like the right-hand pane to continue at the line where the left-hand pane leaves off. That is, in the left-hand pane have displayed the first 100 or so lines (however many fit on the screen), then in the right-hand pane start at line 101...and have it ...