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Is there a way to subscribe to announcements? I didn't realize 5.0 had been released until I happened to visit textpad.com randomly. Textpad has been the program that I've bought that's most worth the money spent. That being said, I'm looking for a replacement. Helios has not shown any sign that ...

It just kinda died. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the latest version, 4.7.3, released almost 2 years ago. This says a few things: 1) textpad is incredibly stable and mature to keep people using it for 2 years without need for patches, 2) we cannot count on any changes of features in a ...

markeb, say it aint so! Don't give up! Quite honestly, it seems like Helios is done with Textpad. Not that they wont offer any more updates, but that they're done adding more features. They've come so close to perfection with what they have, but they haven't fixed any of the subtle bugs like these ...

That would be incredibly convenient. Then I wouldn't care what format the file is in, and I could edit how I want to. All this seems a moot point... I've never seen anyone from Textpad post in any of these threads, and I've seen bugs in TP exist for years across multiple versions. It seems like they ...

I also use it, and if I had both I don't know what I'd use more... but depending on the situation one is more suitable than the other. So to only have one is only half as effective as having both. Also, I'd probably be more satisfied with the "Last Edited" tab if it weren't so buggy. About 2-3 times ...

Mud: If the tabs are a windows control, then yes it may be too much work for such a small change. But if they are a custom made item anyway, the change could be relatively simple. I personally don't know what kind of control Textpad uses, so I can't answer that. It is very similar to the windows ...

When you turn on Stacked document selectors (Preferences, View, Tabbed Document Selector) you can have multiple document selectors (tabs) at the bottom. When you select a document, that row of selectors moves to the top and the selector for your document becomes active. It becomes hard this way to ...

When you select a region and indent or unindent, you lose any lines with only whitespace (they're trimmed down to just empty lines). This means that if you had your code formatted as such: function one() { ...do something ... ...do something else } Indent it, turns into: ...function one() { ......do ...

lionelb: Please post the C code you have. Along with $clip, this could be a simple framework to do this "text filter" stuff without waiting for helios. How about a wrapper program? Called from the tools menu, "wrapper.exe" with parameters "filter.exe $Clip" which would call filter.exe, pipe $clip ...

If you hit Control+Shift+O (FileQuickOpen), a dialog shows where you can quickly type the name of a file to open. It shows the working folder, however if the working folder is too long it simply gets hidden by the rest of the dialog. Switch to anything within \Documents and settings\ and you'll ...

Quick bottom line : we need another set of WindowNext functions. The names might be tricky, but we need the current WindowNext/WindowPrev which are the "Most recent document" keys. Then we need WindowNextInOrder/WindowPrevInOrder, which traverse documents as they are listed in the document tabs ...

If the clip library is showing when textpad starts up, the last selected library is still selected. However, if textpad starts up with the clip library not showing, it forgets which was last used and defaults to the first (sorted alphabetically). Textpad should remember which was last used in both ...

It'd be great to be able to select the font and its size for the document selectors/tabs. Right now when I have a bunch open, they scroll off the right side. I can change it to stacked, so there's multiple rows. But I'm a screen miser, don't like things taking up too much space. It'd be great to be ...

I just (accidentally) discovered the Quick Open File command (Control+Shift+O). It's so useful, faster than using the File->Open (Control+O) for some cases. It'd be great if it automatically used whatever is selected in the textfile as the default filename. That way if you had this: INCLUDE somefile ...

On my laptop here, I can imagine it's the IBM Thinkpad drivers (since it does funny things with the middle mouse button and other misc. buttons). But at home I have an MS mouse with no drivers besides the Win2k builtin ones, and it doesn't work there (yet works in Internet Explorer both machines ...