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I'd really like code formatting to include fonts as well as colour (like Scintilla/SciTE) - being able to use bold and italics makes keywords and comments stand out far more.

It would be very nice to be able to collapse and expand blocks of code, especially if settings were remembered.

If you are working on several documents (e.g. cutting and pasting between them) the you have to click on a window to give it focus before you can move the caret - so that's two clicks every time. It would be much nice, and more consistent with other Windows applications, if the caret was positioned ...

This is a function that could probably be done with a macro, but it would be a lot more efficient to do it with code - stripping whitespace off of the end of lines in a block. It would even be useful if it could be configured to happen automatically (a-lá VB).

I like to work with only one instance of textpad open, but I have two monitors. If I am working with two related documents I would often like to have both visible on the screens at the same time (one in each screen). The only way I can maximise everything successfully is to open two instances of TP ...

I have found a couple of situations where I run a tool that outputs text direct to stdout that I would really like inserted at the current insertion point rather than in a new document. Possibly using a regular expression to strip away unwant bits.

In VS 2005 (and via a registry hack in earlier version) it is possible to set up column markers - a simple line running down the document to show you where certain columns (e.g. 80 chars) are. Obviously only possible when using fixed width fonts. I find them useful.