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a really large amount of files If it's thousands of files in one single folder then Windows itself is the culprit - the Explorer should also take the same long time to list all files of the folder. Likewise TextPad first collects all the filenames of the folder and then searches in the content of ...

Unlike the dot, negated character classes also match (invisible) line break characters. If you don’t want a negated character class to match line breaks, you need to include the line break characters in the class. [^0-9\r\n] matches any character that is not a digit, carriage return, or line feed ...

babette wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 2:13 pm WHICH VERSION?

As written: 8.23.5 from the downloads.

clicking the TextPad icon in the taskbar Are you clicking
the task button of the running TextPad instance (that's the button that typically can have different text as per context, such as the currently open document) or
a shortcut (comparible to an icon on the desktop or in the start menu) that ...

Sadly you also never replied to any of the topics you've created:
Change the default encoding to UTF-8
ANSI/UTF-8/Regular text This forum software doesn't work like a chat where you just post a message again and again. Click Quick links > Your posts at to top left to get a list of all topics ...

While this makes sense in that particular case I expect a dialog window always the behavior that the "Ok" button acts as a shortcut to pressing the "Apply" button to save changes and the "Cancel" button to close the window.

Couldn't the "Cancel" button be renamed to "Revert" after the "Apply ...

Instead of having a big desktop resolution and adjusting every program on its own to have bigger fonts, consider increasing the overall text size of Windows. Or you could just lower your desktop resolution, which effectively also displays everything bigger.

gurok wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 1:58 amTextPad should just measure the width of "M"

That could be an optional setting, maybe even with defining which letter to use. But then again I virtually never use TextPad to align texts...

1. menu: Configure > Preferences
2. tree on the left: Document Classes > (every one you want, in doubt repeat for all)
3. settings list on the right: Default encoding: UTF-8

In TextPad almost every document related setting is found in its separate class.

32 MB RAM This can't be true.

Even if loading the file takes time—even several minutes—it shouldn’t freeze TextPad during the load TextPad 7 always worked this way.

in the past, I could load very large files within seconds, and now it takes half an hour and still doesn’t finish and it freezes ...

One can always visit Configure > Preferences > Keyboard and in there either:
select the Category "Configure" and the Command "ToggleWordWrap" to then see the Current keys (and modify it), or
just click the List button to get all assigned shortcuts/key combinations in the whole program.

JohnFoelster wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:41 pm[^$] doesn't seem to help

$ has no special meaning inside square brackets - it only literally matches a dollar sign. Just like a dot or asterisk are no metacharacters inside character classes.

Why asking if you found proof that it won't support Win7 anymore?

However, a minor version should not increase the system requirements - I would not even expect such a drastic change from version 8.23.x to 8.24.x (only from 8.x to 9.x). Maybe the culprit is the changed behavior of a compiler ...

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whenever the program is open, textpad becomes unresponsive while it's doing this Are you working in TextPad when this occurs or is it an issue while (you think) you're in a different window/program? Maybe another window is in the foreground but not active and TextPad is active, getting all the ...

Windows 11 21H2, with Bitlocker active on the drive That's no file system. See:

Right click your drive > Properties > General > File system:

https://forums.textpad.com/download/file.php?id=132

It should be something like "NTFS" or "FAT32" or "exFAT". Windows version and drive type are ...