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See http://www.textpad.com/support/relnotes.html#v800

It says support for Windows XP has been dropped in TP 8.0.

Should Textpad be installed in my 32 bit program folder or my regular Program folder. Or am I wrong about the (x86) folder being for 32 bit programs? On 64-bit versions of Windows, C:\Program Files is used for 64-bit applications, while C:\Program Files (x86) is used for 32-bit applications like ...

I would like to have the possibility to place a vertical line on screen, so that I can see if I am exceeding my defined maximum characters per line for that document class. This is my most wanted enhancement as well. As a crude substitute, you can enable line number display and then enable "word ...

I use both UltraEdit (v16.20) and TextPad (v4.73) at work. UltraEdit is the corporate standard but I got the company to buy me a TextPad license. UltraEdit has far more "bells & whistles", but TextPad has all the essential features. I stick with TextPad because it has a much better organized set of ...

Can anyone here confirm if TextPad 4.73 will work on Windows 7 (32-bit)? I'd prefer to stay with 4.73 because "It Just Works".

- Britt

We also use UE v15 as the company standard general purpose text editor, but I was able to buy and still use a copy of TP v4.73.

UE has a lot of useful features, particularly in recent versions, but the default menu organization is still an absolute mess.

I downloaded version 5.3 to look it over. It's still missing the "Word wrap cut-off indicator" (e.g. vertical line in user specified column). Until TextPad gets this basic feature that almost every other editor has, I'll just stick with version 4.7.3.

- Britt

I assume your P: drive is a non-local (network) drive. A Microsoft security patch broke this help feature for several applications, not just TextPad. See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.vstudio.helpauthoring&tid=3f6dfd76-b37f-4ea6-b5f8 ...

Other than editable macros, a column (right margin) indicator is what I miss most in TextPad. I still use version 4.7.3. As a workaround, I set the "word break at column number" preference to 80 and then activate word wrap. If I type past column 80 I get an immediate visual indication that I've gone ...

Take a look at the "Consolas" font from Microsoft. Should come bundled with the new VisualStudio releases (2005 and 2008, the "express" ones should do) and maybe with Vista. Yes, Consolas is very good, but mostly on LCD monitors with ClearType font smoothing turned on. It provides a 0 (zero) with a ...

I would like to be able to specify hexidecimal, octal, and binary sequence numbers in TextPad replacement expressions.

For example, \i(0,FF,16) or \i(0,FF, hex) should result in a 0, 1, 2 ... FD, FE, FF set of sequence numbers.

Is something like this available in any flavor to RegExp?

Britt