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BruceMarriott wrote:Overall moving editor is not easy and I guess in my heart of hearts what I'd love to see is Hellos post up a message saying TextPad 5 is on the way and better macro support is in. "We've listened and we're responding' would be the message....

Amen!

Okay... That's probably because TextPad as default uses a different (strange) notation: _\{2,\}

But if you go to Preferences > Editor and check the "Use POSIX regular expression syntax" box the _{2,} thing should work.

It is true that TextPad's support for regular expressions are very limited and I'm hoping for an improvement soon. However, what you are trying to accomplish is rather easy, even using TextPad. You don't need the \s to search for a space character. Just type the space character in explicitly. Like ...

Gosh, I would've liked that feature right now... :-/ Are Helios Software Solutions really responsive to feature requests made in this forum? I haven't been around long enough to tell. It's interesting to see how much work some people here put down into making complex workarounds to problems that ...

I do appreciate your attempts to help out. However, I'm afraid I'm still out of luck... (well, I do have EditPad Pro and I use it right now so it's not as bad as it sounds) I don't think it's possible to create a regexp search-and-replace that accurately replaces spaces with tabs - nor the other way ...

Are you an opponent of useful, lightweight features? ;-) I know about the "convert existing tabs to spaces on save" feature and it may come in handy at times, but for this purpose it's useless. First of all, I don't want to have to do five clicks and a save in order to do the tabs-to-spaces ...

"Replace tabs with spaces" and "Replace spaces with tabs" really should be easily accessible menu options - not something you have to create document classes and use clumsy workarounds for. Working with a file that uses real tabs is a lot smoother I think, but sometimes you need to temporarily ...

If you want really good regexp-support in a text editor, you sould take a look at .... It's not as feature-packed or as customizable as TextPad though.

Exporting your settings to a Reg-file and then importing them again doesn't always work - especially when you move from one Windows version to another (at least it didn't work for me). JGSoft EditPad Pro sets the standard by letting you have all configuration settings in an ini-file for easy back-up ...

I can see that editable/scriptable macros has been on the wishlist for quite some time now. Personally I could settle for editable macros as a start (in version 5), and then hope/wait for scriptable macros (in version 6). This feature request has very, very high priority for me. I'm more than ...