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and dir occurs in the valid attributes keyword section of the syntax file

But not in what you presented here.

I'm pretty sure TextPad is unable to support semantic syntax highlighting, which would also explain why it's all "keywords" and nothing else.

Start with a new document. Try to reproduce your "replace" experience. You couldn't? Then have a look what could be an important detail in that document where you experienced it first and try to incorporate it into this new document. Go back to step 2. You could? Try again afresh: new doc...

the down arrow (I suppose this used to be the plus sign mentioned) This is subject to how your operating system renders a tree control - as per version and theme a "plus" can become a triangle. But that also means you never met pluses outside of TextPad, too. Sometimes a screenshot helps ...

Yes: ALT+PRINT - in contrast to PRINT alone it won't take a screenshot of the whole desktop but instead only of the focused window. Paste it in your favorite graphic editor (i.e. MS Paint) and position it to your advantage. Repeat the same steps as often as you want for comparison.

I guess this feature only exists because the "search in file" result list just looks like that: filename + brackets with numbers in it per line. And search results never need relative offsets like "eof" or "first search match of x". If it would come from the CTRL+G feat...

Long time I used TextPad evaluation version 8.4.0 happily. Recently I got the bad idea to pay for the program. What a terrible mistake. I paid those 16 pounds and upgraded to the latest version 8.9.0. Why not evaluating 8.9.0? Was it really a mistake to pay for a software that you actually used in ...

How about lines that have multiple comments? Such as: Also all regex patterns also match empty comments and I just cannot imagine any code that ever makes use of such. Let alone the void sense of turning that into another comment:

But CTRL+S is an interaction already. Record a macro with those three key strokes, assign that your favorite key combination to play it back and you have your feature. Instead of going the "long way" of hitting two keys (Space and Backspace) you could also do CTRL+L (lowercase) which shoul...

That should literally be Configure > Preferences > General > Working folder follows active document - untick that checkbox.

Is it a shortcut on the desktop with which you start TextPad? Because such shortcuts also have a "working folder" in their settings, unbound to TextPad. Set a path in there and see if that changes anything.

This is phpBB2.0.x - its default UI designed premiered almost 20 years ago in 2002. A time where "responsiveness" was not a hype and smartphones weren't en vogue either. phpBB3.1.0 was released in late 2014 and the first one where its default UI design was made responsive. The most recent ...

Looks like PHP7 was skipped entirely. There are sure more breaking changes, i.e.: preg_replace() with the /e modifier must be rewritten to preg_replace_callback(). If I remember correctly phpBB2 is using ereg_*() which was deprecated ages ago anyway. Variable variable names such as $$var now have a ...

unable to find any mouse settings in Windows Because it is not related to the mouse in any way. How are you able to input text where a cursor blinks with a mouse? You aren't: you use the keyboard. That's why one is called "mouse cursor" and the other "text cursor" and both can l...

now that Microsoft has provided the extensions needed I'm highly interested how one can make a few calls to Win10 or Win11 in a Windows binary that also runs on WinXP to make it run as an ELF on Linux. Because I highly doubt it's THAT simple. Do you have an example? At best one Windows program with...

Apply, and OK In every dialog you'll ever encounter "Apply" means saving and letting the window open, while "OK" means saving and closing the window. Doing both is redundant. Always. Everywhere. I promise. The button "OK" is nothing more than clicking "Apply"...