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Sounds like tabs converted to spaces on pasting, possibly, then on saving, the trailing spaces may be stripped. All this would depend on your settings for TextPad, and I can't remember what the defaults are. Also, copies from HTML rendered in the browser or any app that uses the browser ...

ok.. I'm not sure what the best fix is, but I think what I'd do to remove momentary annoyance is to click in the position I want to work from, then press the Enter key to make a newline or two, then when I click back to the working point I can type without it misbehaving. Then delete newlines lines ...

Typing at the end, or in the body of text?

If the end, I don't know, but if it's in the bulk of the text, it's probably just the wordwrap being made to constantly revise the best point to break a line as you add more to it.

Also, the presence of tab characters (Hex 09) might have a dramatic effect ...

Or drag select, then Tab. :)

xus, I take your point about UltraEdit, and the column fill, but the thing with TextPad is that although things like this are usually a couple more clicks away, the power is great. It's the difference between having lots of dedicated functions, and having a simple ...

One possible cause is the Alt key has been pressed, and has either not been re-pressed, or has not been followed up with a keyboard shortcut that would have used it.

To check for this, look at the cursor, which would be an arrow and not an 'I beam' if poised over the editing area.

Either a re ...

thanks. I voted in that one now. :)

About the Ctrl + F, it won't do it, unless you prime it with the use of Ctrl + F before the macro is called. It's not enough to highlight the string, you must do at least one Ctrl + F before calling the repeating Ctrl + F macro. This pump priming trick will NOT ...

Thankyou.
My searching wasn't too good today, I got too few results, or too many, either way I missed that thread.

And, it basically confirms what I said. :)

I knew about Ctrl + F, but the number of lines with a given subject string is arbitrary, so I never considered it as part of a strict ...

I have a sorted list, a forum archive with posts formatted to one line each, lines sorted by subject into blocks. I need to insert blank lines between blocks to ease further work. I'd have the source data file open, and also one empty document to receive data from it.

My idea is to build a macro ...

There's an easy and very fast way round this one.

Select lines.
While holding Ctrl, press C N V Home.
Press F8, do the manual search/replace you want, then press Esc to close the dialog.
While holding Ctrl, press A C Tab V.

If you do this a lot you might want to close temporary documents to avoid ...

Keith, I've decided to mess with sorting stuff outside of this issue now, as my interest is hooked, but I've found the answer to the problem, one I (and others) already mentioned, but I didn't see the significance until my efforts gave me insights into (lack of) ease and (lack of) speed. (Lua was ...

Tedious workround:
Select string starting at byte of interest, make string big enough to avoid likely dupes in file. Copy to clipboard. Avoid newlines if possible.

Close app, rename file with binary filetype extension, rightclick to open in TextPad, then use Find on clipboard contents. The first ...

There are several fast tricks that can help with making columns, using TextPad's block select.

One is setting tabs to a large value, then replacing the seperator (comma) with a tab, using RexExp replace \t to do it. Then block select any surplus space after converting tabs to space (most easily ...

ty Drxenos, I like that post. :)
What I'm working on is a Lua thing with merge-sort, and swap-sort once a threshold of sub table size is reached. It's simple, and offers the chance to choose a scalable way to reduce memory use at the expense of slower performance. (And it might also solve the ...

TextPad's block mode rocks! :)

Remember the shortcut: Hold the Alt key then click and drag. (If you are already in block mode, same move momentarily enters line mode).

I think I can guess what that 'competing text editor' might be... Well, if it's UltraEdit, it wasn't as easy and fast as it is in ...

Not sure if it's still around on the TextPad site, but there was a tiny app that launched TextPad from its own directory (probably consulting the app paths registry entry for TextPad).

Edit: it is. :) http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/index.html
Look for txplink...

What I do is call it Notepad.exe ...