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You can highlight the line and then go Edit | Insert | Statistics. That will put in the number of characters, words, and lines in that line. You could theoretically do that for each line then sort on that information and later remove it. Maybe all as part of a macro.

s_reynisson wrote:Configure->Preferences->Tools->Run Java Application

He meant to tell you to click the "Prompt for parameters" box there.

Everytime I run a Java Application in TextPad it creates a batch file that is linked to the program I am running, I am using Windows XP. Is there a way to stop this?


What do you mean, "creates a batch file"? Are you just talking about the popup window (with the black background) that's created ...

Seems to me you would have to pass $File as well as $Sel. Then
have your program look for the selected text in the file, do whatever
modifications to it, then write the file back out. TextPad will then
warn you with something like "Another application has modified this
file; reload it?".

If you ...

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

How can you use TextPad to do that? Use it to write a program
that does it.

Seriously, I think that may be the only way...

Just so I'm understanding the tool setup line column logic, in the reg exp I'm giving it the since I've got line setup as 1 it uses the value that returns in the first set of parens via ^line \([0-9]+\), where the \( and \) place ( and ) in the return - is this correct?



That is correct, and 2 ...

Hmm, it looks right. Something I always try in these situations:
copy and paste this "Regular expression to match output" into a
regular old search window, and see if the search finds these output
lines your are talking about. Remember to click "Regular expression"
on the Search popup. You can ...

trying it with adding a space after so that it looked like this:

'^line ([0-9]+) column ([0-9]+) ' (without the ' )

as well as without the extra space at the end of the line

still doesn't match the column


Hmm, it looks right. Something I always try in these situations:
copy and paste this ...

setup tidy support per the howto at http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4768

I get a "cannot jump to item under the cursor" when I doubleclick on the result in the Command Results tab after running the tidy tool to link me back to the correct spot in the source. I've confirmed that my setup ...

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 textpad ...

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 ...