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by terry2
Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:03 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Undo: Remember selected text
Replies: 3
Views: 609

Every editor I've ever used on Windows has this feature. Restoring the selection after an Undo operation is standard: Word does it. WordPad does it. NotePad does it. Even Explorer does it when you edit a filename. Internet Explorer does it for text fields on web forms. Heck, Windows even does it in ...
by terry2
Mon Jul 07, 2003 9:00 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Drag and drop editing should be smarter
Replies: 5
Views: 1444

I'm not sure whether "Enhancement Suggestions" are to be for: New Whizzy Features or Subtle Quality Improvements I, for one, am not looking for any new features. I'm appreciated of all the details that have been built into TextPad that make it such a fine program. The suggestion I'm making in this ...
by terry2
Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:00 am
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Bracket Matching could be much better
Replies: 2
Views: 935

It's not clear (to me at least) that the TextPad people take into account polls to determine what to develop. Doing so is the Microsoft method of product definition. TextPad is a wonderful product because it is technically strong with a subtle quality to it that's very high. For instance, the other ...
by terry2
Fri May 09, 2003 3:44 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Drag and drop editing should be smarter
Replies: 5
Views: 1444

Drag and drop editing should be smarter

Document classes have a preference called "Include trailing spaces when selecting words". I suspect the motivation for turning on this preference is so that cut-and-paste operations relieve the user of the hassle of dealing with removing spaces from the area where words are being cut, and inserting ...
by terry2
Fri May 09, 2003 3:09 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Bracket Matching could be much better
Replies: 2
Views: 935

Bracket Matching could be much better

TextPad has two operations that work with brackets: MatchBracket, and MatchBracketExtend. Neither work the way they should. The way MatchBracket currently works is that it searches forward for the next occurrence of a Bracket. But this does not reflect what a user is typically trying to do when they ...
by terry2
Fri May 09, 2003 2:28 pm
Forum: Enhancement Suggestions
Topic: Undo should restore selection
Replies: 0
Views: 916

Undo should restore selection

If there's one thing I wish TextPad would do properly, it would be for it to restore the text selection after an Undo. I find it disconcerting, and sometimes annoying, that after Undo'ing an operation, TextPad forgets to reselect the text that was in effect. It would make redoing the intended ...