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When I load a large file (2,290,840,302 bytes) and then open the Properties dialog, the Properties window says that "Characters" is negative (-2007038244).

I am using version 7.1.0.

I see that the 64-bit edition is now available. I no longer get errors when opening very large files. Good work. Now, some suggestions to make opening large files even better. 1) It takes a long time for TextPad to open a very large file. Give the user the option to cancel the open. 2) When a very ...

I had the same problem in v6.1.3. When I reverted to v5.4.2, it works again. I will stay with 5.4.2 until ... well, for a while.

I agree. I often edit a lot of "index.php" files. Later, the entire recent files is entirely "index.php". Which one is the one I want? I like option (3). Sometimes the path is too long to put the untruncated version in the file menu. Putting the ellipsis in the middle might still hide the ...

The clip library is useful. I don't want it open all the time. Currently, I open it, use it, and then close it, but it would save a few mouse clicks and a little time if I could mount a clip library "book" as a menu. Then I could achieve the same thing with 1 click on the menu and 1 click on the ...

It would be nice if there was the ability to "pin" a file to the list of recent files on the File menu. That way, even if you open 20 other files, the file you have pinned is always there.
MS Word 2008 does this.

David, try this.
1) Right-click on the menu bar and select Customize....
2) Select the Commands tab.
3) Select the Tools category.
4) Under Commands, find External Tools and drag it anywhere on the menu bar.

Also, it is easy enough to move the custom tools menu out on its own. Right click on the menu bar and select customize. Then, when the customize dialog comes up, left click on the "Tools" menu. You can then drag and drop the "External Tools" menu to the menu bar. That seemed like a great idea. When ...

Here is something that might be close to what you want. I have been using this for some time and it works really well. I have set up a custom tool I call "Open Parent Folder". It opens the parent folder of the active document in a separate explorer window. Command: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Parameters ...

This was one of the first things I noticed about v5. How aggravating that I have to click twice. Helios: please put this back!! Left-click = open TextPad. Right-click = open context menu.

Preferences > File > When files are modified by another process > Ignore Ignoring file changes for everything is not ideal. For some files, I actually do want to know if the file changes. For others, I want to ignore. I do not want to have to turn this feature on or off depending on what file I am ...

I agree about the tools menu. I liked it better when the custom tools were not in a sub-menu. I suggested a right margin line many years ago, even before this forum was set up. I was even thanked for my suggestion but I have yet to see it. Dear Helios: When you change a feature, please include an ...

I also would like this feature, but I don't think it needs to be a feature that you can turn off in the preferences. When TextPad recognizes text can be be folded, there would be a minus (-) sign in the margin. If you don't want to fold the text, just don't click the minus and change it to a plus (+).

I don't think it's possible... What happens when a pointer hovers over a menu item is Windows' business, not an application's, surely? That's true, but the application has control over what Windows displays in the status bar. Why can't TextPad give Windows the full path of the file unstead of just ...

MudGuard wrote:When the name is too long to fit into the document selector, it is displayed as a "tooltip"...

Not the document selector, I mean the recently used files portion of the File menu.