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When I'm using RegEx search and replace it's a royal pain having to remember and escape all RegEx meta characters in the replacement text. I can't see the reason for replacement text recognising RegEx characters other the the $0, $1 (and so on) placeholders

... and add a Find Previous button. Much more usable.

The current Find dialog doesn't really make sense - you have a Find Next button but depending on the Direction radio button selection, it will find the next match or find the previous match.

When searching for text I want binary files to be ignored. At the moment searching all files in a directory structure results in the search results being swamped with messages saying "WARNING: Line <line-number> split at 64 KB in <file-path> All I'm interested in are searches in text files without ...

I've opened multi GB files in TP as well. It's all a resource issue. I mean if you have 4 TB of RAM and 10 PB of disk space, you won't even blink when you open a 4 GB file. Have you tried editing said opened file (i.e. making a small change on most lines of the file) and then saving it? I've ...

The 32-bit file size limitation (4GB) does not apply to the 64-bit edition. However, it still needs to allocate the entire size in virtual memory. That needs to be clearly stated in the TextPad specs page otherwise someone looking for a text editor that handles very large file will read that ...

From the TextPad specifications page: It can handle file sizes up to the largest contiguous chunk of 32-bit virtual memory That makes sense for the 32 bit version of TextPad, but it doesn't make sense for the 64 bit version, for which 4GB seems like an arbitrary limit. Unless someone can point out ...

Feature request for future updates of TextPad: I often open text files that have somehow become Unix files with a non-ANSI encoding, which causes problems with my development tools. It would be very useful to have a command line option to open a file and save it with a specified encoding and text ...

The menu option Macros | Multi-play... has various options to repeat the macro for the currently open file. It would be very useful if an option was also available to playback a macro against all open files or as a further option, for those open files selected in the Document Selector window. I ...

Is it possible to make the file info (that's displayed in the status bar on the left side after opening a file) stay visible on the status bar? In TP 7.0.9 I find that it disappears as soon as you click around in the file

Every time I use REs for search/replace in TextPad, I have to switch my brain from the commonly found RE syntax to the rather long-winded one in TP.

Please can we have an option for "regular" RE syntax i.e. \d \s etc

Please?

I have observed this happens when using it in Portable mode. I installed it from setup.exe so I don't think it's installed in portable mode. I managed to resolve the issue by installing into c:\Program Files\Textpad 6\ I'd previously installed into c:\Program Files\Textpad 5\ but I renamed the dir ...

The "Put shortcuts to Textpad on" the Preferences | General dialog are grayed-out and I can't think why.

Any ideas anyone?

Hopefully this hasn't already been requested... When browsing program code I find it very useful to be able to jump back to the previous position in the file. For example, I'm working out the logic and flow of some code, I come across a function/method call, I want to see it's implementation so I do ...

My replacement expression is 1860 chars long whereas the max number of characters TP 5.2 allows in a replacement expression seems to be around 1016 chars long - is this setting configurable anywhere? Or am I stuck?

TIA

Johno

We're pleased to announce the release of TextPad 5.2.

That's great news, where can I download it from? The link provided only allows me to download TextPad 5.1