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An alternative would be to keep the same behavior to always save files.

However, those files that have yet not been assigned a name are assigned a a temporary name and saved to the TEMP directory (pointed to by the %TMP% environment variable).

The benefit is that the contents of temporary data is ...

Good idea, but TP is a text editor, not an IDE
Just curious. But does anyone know what the profile is of users for Textpad? Just thinking out loud.

Like how many people use Textpad for what reasons and for what features? Though Textpad is a text editor, what is it being used for and how is it ...

I know this is stirring the pot but....

Ultraedit 11 has just been released. Among its new features, it has improved HTML editting (which has been a major feature of Textpad).

Where is Textpad 5 with some of the excellent thoughts from this forum??? I am asking nicely.

As a developer I find Textpad solid and easy to use but lacking.

I have used Textpad since version 3 and I really like its GUI interface and key accelerators. It makes Textpad fast and useful.

However, now I have been waiting years for enhancements that would equal functionality that I was using ...

For some good web sites on regular expressions, try
regular-expressions.info

For some background
Wiki Regular expression

And for a library of regular expressions
Regular expression library

This function could be easily written in a scripting lanaguage like Perl or Python. Why not write such a script and call it from the 'Tools' menu?

Personally I find Python more friendly than Perl and Python is JIT compiled at runtime.

You can see how CTAGs would be integrated into Textpad by checking out the editor Ultraedit. Open some C++ files and select from the Ultraedit menu 'View --> View/Lists --> Function List.

A help page on CTAGs on the Ultraedit website shows that this is the engine driving its method/function list ...

Good to see some discussion here. Overall, I do not care of the implementation (using CTags or not) so long as I have the functionality.

What I want is a window that will give the list of the methods/functions in the current source window. When a new souce window becomes active the method/function ...

This sort of functionality of locating functions was part of the Visual C++ 6. May be you should investigate how it works as it does have overheads. First, every build finishes, if activated, with a 'compiling browse information'. It creates a large browse file that is used to cross reference ...

An example showing that regular expressions will not be a hard feature to implement. :D

See the Code Project project Notepad RE (Regular Expressions)

Search and Replace text in Notepad RE using Regular Expressions or normal mode. The editor supports drag and drop, file change notification and ...

Consider also voting in the poll:

Add support for Perl5/JavaScript regular expressions

A small but useful feature. Textpad should have an option in the 'backup' preferences not to save files that have never been saved before.

If I set the automatic save file feature for backups, it is annoying that a dialog pops-up asking for the filename for temporary files that I have open. These ...

This is a re-post of an earlier poll earlier post that Jeffy reported as invalid. So I am posting again as for me this is one of two missing critical features of Textpad. I had asked the site admin to fix the previous poll, however, the previous poll can only be deleted and not fixed. So here it is ...

An excellent text comparsion tool is WinMerge. It is an open-source project hosted on SourceForege. It is a very active project and RC2 for version 2.0 has just been released.

WinMerge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms ...

An excellent text comparsion tool is WinMerge. It is an open-source project hosted on SourceForege. It is a very active project and RC2 for version 2.0 has just been released.

WinMerge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms ...