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You're a right sarcastic bugger and have also missed the point. "Why you chose to not do so is beyond my understanding" Because I'd never heard of it, hopefully you can get your head round that. There can be cuts and pastes of code from other designs, block replacements of signals, the introduction ...

20 years after posting here.... https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=3836&highlight= I'm still hoping for a fast alignment command. (Note the tool Prism I talk about in that post doesn't exist any more). Select a block of text, hit the command, enter the string to align to then the command ...

See my suggestion here, it means you don't need to page up and down to see the results of a 'find all instances'....

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=13565

A slow reply but hopefully this will be useful. This displays all the results of searching for a strink in the Tool Output window, clicking any of the results there will jump to that line. This is invaluable for quickly jumping to all places something is assigned in a file, but can also be used to ...

"Do you have document tabs turned on (View > Document Tabs)? You need to turn them off if you want to tile documents from the Document Selector"

That was it, normal service restored now.

Thanks,

Nial.

You can't do that but you can do smoething similar as discussed here. https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=3848&highlight= If you highlight a word and hit the grep tool it throws up hyperlinks to every instance in the file (listing each line in the Tool Output). Not exactly what you're looking ...

TP 8.0.2 64 bit edition. If I select two tiles in the document selector I can't right click -> Tile Vertically. I use this quite a bit so it's frustrating. I see in the release notes for 7.2.0 "The context menu commands to tile documents selected in the Document Selector didn't work in the 64-bit ...

Actually, if I'd read the sticky at the top of the forum I'd have quickly answered my own question!

What an eejit.

Nial.

As in the thread here.... http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=3848&highlight= I've had a couple of invaluable tools set up in Textpad for ~ 13 years. I've just bought and installed TP8 on a new PC but my two tools don't work, I'm getting an error "Cannot jump to the item under the cursor" when ...

YES! Details in a very old thread here..... http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=3848 I've had to re-install textpad in a PC after a rebuild and am only realising how much I rely on this when I haven't re-installed it yet. The textpad developers mustn't have tried this yet or it would have been ...

> Here's a list I've compiled of the problems reported (the links are just a > sample; many problems have been reported multiple times): I would also like a "Find all occurrences in the current File" option, able to be called as a tool. Combined with... Dockable windows ...it makes it much easier to ...

> I suppose this would be a subset of the Find In Files functionality. I'd > like to have a Find In Current File function. I do quite a bit of searching > for all instances of a particular string in the file I'm viewing. Ken, I do this too, it's invaluable to be able to quickly jump to all instances ...

> Not every file people need to edit has the concept of a method. Exactly. It you look at Trids' post "Cool Tools to use with TextPad - Grep" in the 'How To' forum it links to a thread where I explain how this functionality can be set up using Grep. It's easy to do and can be customised to search ...

> It would be great if TextPad let me to jump around a large file to > different methods. CTAG support, or something like it, might be a > flexible way to achieve this. If you look at my thread on using Grep which Trids has a link to above you can easily do this. One problem is that the list of ...

> As for 'missing features', a text editor should have a minimal set of > functionality to be useful. For me as a software developer, a minimal > feature not in Textpad is method, or function, lists. Other editors, like > Ultraedit, have had them for years. Brief, an editor once an industry ...