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Understood. This isn't my first new document class. :) I can't yet rule out pebcak, but I have indeed quit and restarted TP5 and re-opened the files and they still don't highlight. I added *.pl,*pm as my file types, selected the out-of-the-box perl.syn, and nada. Files continue to display in black ...

Answered my own question: TP4 and TP5 are now running side by side without any visible problems (yet). I forgot to mention my biggest annoyance with TP5: I defined a Perl document class and clicked Use syntax highlighting with the built-in perl.syn file. Doesn't do any syntax highlighting. I'm sure ...

I also stuck with 4.7.3 until last Friday (2010-10-29) when I needed to reinstall Textpad on a brand-new Windows 7 installation. Today I think I'm going to switch back. I wanted to ask what was new in TextPad 5 and what made it a major upgrade. Aside from the fact that it was completely rewritten in ...

That's a great tip! Thank you for that...

What do you mean said nothing? Unless i'm blind they answered my questions. If you are looking for other answers you could ask them. I think 'nothing' in the general sense that everyone has grown accustomed to over the past three years. "We're working on it and it will be released at some ...

There are two parts to it: 1. Create a new document class 2. Create a syntax definition file The document class is based on file type. For me, I said any file that ends in .todo is a "Todo List File". Part of defining the document class is specifying your colors, font, tabs, etc. These are all up to ...

I spend a lot of time in TextPad and like to keep track of what I'm doing in a little "todo" file. (Switching to another program is a pain. I'm already in TextPad anyway!) Trouble is, every time I close and re-open the file, my special tab settings are lost. Document Classes to the rescue!!! I don't ...

Hmmm... Interesting idea. I may give this a shot!

Although, if anyone else gets to it first, I hope the file is called mediawiki.syn and not wikipedia.syn.

Using Ctrl+M to find matching pairs is very nice. A good enhancement to this would be to ignore braces in comments (if syntax highlighting is on, of course, since that's where the concept of a 'comment' is defined). For example, this bit of perl: if ($foo eq 'bar') { # if ($foo ne 'bar') { do($foo ...

The forums are already too deep for this type of thing. It really needs to be on their main site somewhere. Let's look at the facts objectively: 1. The last software update was June 19, 2004. 2. Helios has stated (in a semi-public fashion) that they don't talk about products under development. 3 ...

I've used this one before. It's worth a look as well:

http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

I definitely know what unicode is. I just didn't know what TP's problem was with them, since I've been able to read and write them before. Now I see why it wasn't a problem for me... ;) I tried some french and sure enough ... I couldn't even type "regardé" What an extraordinary limitation which I h ...

I would definitely love to be able to toggle between text/hex views.

I don't deal with unicode files as a rule. But the ones I've come across, Textpad can open, read, and write them. I know others have asked for "unicode support". What does that really mean?

Well, you could use line wrapping. Create a line with 80 characters in it, drag the window until it's just that width. Then, when a line wraps, you know you've gone too far.

Not ideal, but it might get you by.

The document selector window always sorts alphabetically. I'd like other options (especially, at the moment, a way to sort by "Time File Has Been Opened in TextPad"). For example, I'm working on a half dozen files or so. Then I do a search of the codebase for a particular string, and open these ...