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Is there any chance of this being fixed soon?

I've used TextPad as my programming editor for years, and block commenting has become automatic: select block, hit alt-\. Done.

Now, select block and alt-\ has become select block and alt-\-o-crap-rightarrow-rightarrow-delete, and it is driving me ...

I just upgraded from TP5 to TP7.0.9.

I have used the following regex substitution (stored as a macro) for years to comment out selected blocks of code:

find: ^
replace with: #


I just upgraded to TP 7.0.9, and this substitution broke: it now adds the # to the start of the following line ...

I use it for editing C++ and Python source files, Windows batch files, Unix shell scripts, HTML files, and plain old text files. It's also my default application for viewing/editing .txt files.

I have defined macros (using regex substitution) for un/commenting Python and shell files (#) and C ...

You forgot "would make me stop using TextPad"!

The way it works now works very well for me. If I've selected a word, it becomes the search word, and I don't even have to do a Find--just Find Again. If I then make a nearby edit, I need only hit an arrow key (to make sure nothing is selected) and ...

FWIW, I never use the Search->Find (F5) command or the Find dialog.

The Find dialog is an annoying and unnecessary subset of the Replace dialog. This same conceptual split is one of the more annoying "features" of Microsoft Word.


One of the first things I did when I installed TextPad was to ...

I would love to have "code folding" (outlining) in TextPad. Among other things, it would be ideal for editing Python. That said...

Required reading before adding "code folding" (outlining):
http://www.atpm.com/10.02/atpo.shtml

I'm in favor of adding "code folding"... IF :
* ...it can be turned ...

As far as "a control character" to specify the cursor
point, that's what TextPad does already, and it's
good enough. If you *really* want to provide complete
functionality, though, you will not satisfy everyone
unless you come up with a way to give 'fill in the blank'
style clip entries that allow ...

I would love to be able to, for example, set up document-type-specific macros for "Comment" and "Uncomment", and use the same shortcut key combo for any (programming) document type.

Example: Comment/Uncomment

In a Python file, ctrl-\ would invoke the CommentPython macro to insert a ' # ' at the ...

Jens, I like your idea very much, can you please recommend where to find a grep for Windows?

GNU utilities for Win32, at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

HTH.


- SamR