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This is fixed in TextPad 9.8.2.

We are pleased to announce the release of TextPad 9.8.2 and 8.22.2.

Please see the release note s for details of the changes and the downloads page for links to the installation files.

WARNING: workspace files saved in version 9 cannot be read by version 8.

There is no charge for either of these ...

We are pleased to announce the release of TextPad 9.8.2 and 8.22.2.

Please see the release note s for details of the changes and the downloads page for links to the installation files.

WARNING: workspace files saved in version 9 cannot be read by version 8.

There is no charge for either of these ...

In case it's relevant, .editorconfig files override everything else, when enabled on Configure » Preferences » Editor.

Sorry, I misread your query. The method is the same as in the topic I linked, except that you select "Current Line". Change it for the Default document class, if you want it to apply to all document classes. It's easy enough to experiment with yourself.

Please see this topic:

https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=14264

I've just checked with TextPad 9.0, which was released in January 2023, and it behaves as you describe at startup. Subsequent file opens do not exhibit this transition from white to black. If you have been working with a dark background for a decade, you must have configured TextPad 8's color scheme ...

We are pleased to announce the release of TextPad 9.8.1 and 8.22.1.

Please see the release note s for details of the changes and the downloads page for links to the installation files.

WARNING: workspace files saved in version 9 cannot be read by version 8.

There is no charge for either of these ...

It's hard to explain the interactive way to do it, without a video, but the simplest is to exit from TextPad and then delete this file for version 9:

%APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\9\GUIConfig.xml

or this one for version 8:

%APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\8\GUIState.xml

Everything will be in its default ...

Backup/restore is only enabled for licensed users. However, you've discovered the flaw in that, which will be fixed in the next release.

TextPad's System folder is meant to be read-only, as it is overwritten by each update. You should save your custom syntax definitions in the folder defined for ...

Do you have the latest release of TextPad 9?

Can you see the contents of the file in Notepad?

What do you see, if you open the file in Binary Mode?

What encoding does the file have?

TextPad 8 and 9 store their settings in XML files in subfolders 8 or 9 of %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad . File associations are stored in the registry, so that File Explorer knows which application to start and how to invoke it to open a file.

The installer for TextPad creates this key in the registry ...

Try making the registry entries for .xsl the same as those for .xslt and check that they then behave the same way. After that, assign .xsl to TextPad in Default Apps.

Click on the File menu, then on Workspace, then select your workspace file.

Maybe record a macro for the second part:

Find "this one"
Toggle bookmark

No need to save it, just home the insert position and Multi-play the scratch macro to the end of file.