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Sounds like you're managing content on a website. I'm not convinced it is appropriate to try to mutate Textpad from a text editor into a site management tool. If you want site management integrated with a syntax colouring editor, such beasties abound. MS FrontPage, for example, already does this ...

If you'll forgive me for a deliberate misquote,

Ask not what God has to do with selling you an editor, but what an editor has to do with selling you God.

Religion is a pathological meme. It is [sic] catholic in its choice of vector.

Permit me to clarify two points. Mutability of specification does not, in and of itself, make it impossible to deliver a product of high quality. However, mutable specs are most often coupled with immutable budgets and timeframes, and this combination does significantly degrade the end result ...

Why don't we build great software? Nebulous specifications. Mutable specifications. Limited budgets. Design by committee. Limited (absurd) time-frames. We don't really understand the problem domain. The last item is key to understanding the success of Textpad. Programmers have a very clear and ...

In 1993 I started using Textpad in conjunction with ISQL which was conceptually equivalent to ISQL/W but with a real editor. In 1997 I worked at a place where they used UltraEdit in a similar role. UltraEdit kept flaking out on me so I downloaded Textpad and installed it. I'm not sure what annoyed ...

Although I understand the request and the motivation, I can't agree that it's a reasonable request. As the RE engine stands: It can do what is required. Its behaviour is orthogonal. Its behaviour is simple. Key to understanding my objection is the fact that we are discussing the behaviour of a ...

Some of my regexes are quite long. It would be very handy to be able to widen the Find/Replace dialog. Even handier would be the ability to dock this dialog to the top or bottom of the document parent window. Better yet, how about doing this so that Find/Replace, the Command window and the Search ...

What do you mean by "folding" ?

(yummy - TP is THIS close to folding )

For the record, Mud-guard was correct. When hyperlinking errors from the results page your regex must match the whole line.

The simplest way to check this is to exercise the expression in the search dialog. It should highlight a whole line.

Borland supplies a command line resource compiler BRCC32.EXE with Delphi and C++Builder. RC files are just text files, so TextPad is ideal for preparing them. You can install BRCC32 in the Tools menu and use TextPad as a resource workshop. These were the settings on my system: Command: C:\Program ...

You're quite right about no filename but that's ok, I just want it to refer to the most recent edit buffer. That part I can get to work.

I shall try your suggestion of matching the whole line.

I'm trying to get hypertext linking of compiler errors from Microsoft SQL Server. Here's the RE: Line \([0-9]+\) and here's a sample of the text I'm trying to match Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Server DEBTOR0003, Line 1 Invalid column name 'DL_C_BAILIFF_FEE_CLIENT_TOTAL_PAYABLE'. Msg 207, Level 16 ...