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I've used textpad to open some files with Chinese characters in them, which textpad doesn't actually fully support. This is fine; my issue is with how textpad responds in this situation. The message you get on loading is: Warning: "myfilename" contains characters that do not exist in code ...

Not sure what's causing the first part, but you can prevent the second part by going to Configure | Preferences | General and un-checking "Allow multiple instances to run". Or, if you'd rather be able to run multiple instances, you can drag and drop the new batch of selected files into the...

A command to auto-complete a word, based on the previous occurrence of the word you're in the middle of typing. For instance, if you're editing a Java class called MyJavaClass, and you're in the middle of the file, you can just type "myj[autocomplete]" and the text you're typing become &qu...

I believe what happens is this. When TextPad starts, it loads and stores the environment variables. This is what nearly every application I've ever seen does. Changes made to the environment variables after starting TP will not be picked up, unless you restart TP. This is because there is no system-...