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Hi Dave, have you tried using the document selector? Go to View | Document Selector, or press F11. It will list all open files.

Holding ctrl down when you scroll makes tp scroll horizontally, and I've found that sometimes the ctrl key gets stuck down (in the pc like, not the actual key). Could this be the problem?

I searched the forums for a topic about this, but found nothing answer my question.

I want to search through all documents currently opened in Textpad. I open the search box, check the 'in all documents' checkbox, and click search. The status says 'Found X instances', but clicking 'Find Next' does ...

ben josephs regularly expresses the sexiness of regular expressions. I think everything I know about TP's RE capabilities, I've learnt from your many RE posts. Thanks Ben.

Thanks Ben, this is all good stuff. Pity about textpads inability to discard groups, but no matter. I get the feeling I should get with the program and use posix syntax? I'll give it a go, but I promise nothing :p

You're right about the [\(\)], plain old \(\) is a more exact match for that.

Thanks ...

Hi,

I had a big code conversion job to do, and it required TP's regexp, so I decided to write a wee tutorial for the others in my office. Sadly, it didn't turn out as I expected it to.

Basically...

My search expression matches two groups. The first group may or may not be matched.
My replacement ...

Can anyone from Helios give any info on this? Is it something they intend to add to the fabled 'next release'?

Thanks for the input Bob, but that doesn't really help.

My textpad (4.7.3) only stores the last 10 search strings, is it possible to lengthen this list? To about 50 perhaps?

Any help (even if it's a registry hack) much appreciated.