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In the past I have cheched "Regular expression" in the "Replace" dialogue box and copied the block I want to replace and pasted this into the "Find what"" box. I have similarly copied and pasted the block of text I want it reppaced with into the "Replace with:" box (I copy this from onother document ...

Drxenos wrote:Instead of trying to debug such a large expression. Start with a small one, make sure it matches, and incrementally build up.

The fist expression is a "copy" of an actual section of the document. The second expression is a "copy" of a section of another document.

ben_josephs wrote:Have you changed the version of TextPad you're using? If you're using version 6 or earlier, have you changed the style of regex you're using?

Yes I have recently upgraded to the latest version of TextPad. Sorry, I do not understand about regex.

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I have until recently been able to replace strings based on regular expressions in multiple documents but cannot now do this. Can anyone assist? I am trying to replace: Coupling (\n Type ( chain )\n Spring (\n Stiffness ( 1e6N/m 5e6N/m )\n Damping ( 1e6N/m/s 1e6N/m/s )\n Break ( 5.1e7N 5.1e7N )\n r0 ...

When I right-click to open more than one file they are sometimes, but not always, in separate instances of TextPad.

David

I have TextPad 6.2.2 on fresh Windows 8 Pro. When I double-click a file with spaces in the file name in file explorer, TextPad displays a series of dialog boxes each asking if I want to create a file with a name for each of the words in the file name. E.g. if the file is called "File Name.txt ...

I need to search in a group of files to find all files containing strings which are in the following format "xxxxxxx". That is a string of any number of characters other than spaces between double quotations marks . It must not find "xxx xxxx". That is the same format string but which include one or ...

Is 6.1.3 saving properly in Unicode format? For a particular application I have, files must be in that format but I am getting errors in the application when I try and use Unicode files which I have edited with 6.1.3 and re-saved. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

David

The "Context Menu" checkbox does not work at all, as described by other people in other threads. I cannot reproduce this problem. Have you been manually editing the entries that TextPad writes to the registry? It requires ShellExt64.dll to be in the system subfolder of the folder containing textpad ...

With the previous version of TextPad, I could right click in Explorer and choose to open a file or group of files in TextPad. Now I have upgraded this option is not on the right click menu. Can someone please assist me in getting this back.

David

This could be an erroneous error message that gets issued when TextPad thinks the files contain Unicode characters that cannot be represented in the code page corresponding to the font script selected for the Search Results Document Class. If they really are Unicode files, try setting the font ...

Has anyone considered an add-on for the spell checker to incorporate HTML keywords etc.?

Almost all of the files I edit are in Unicode format. Is there a way set set this as the default for WildEdit open and save?

Can I use TextPad to find files NOT containing a particular string?