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(7.4.0, 64-bit) For some reason, I've done this like eight times in the past month, and I have to kill TextPad every time, or wait for it to crash, which can take a while. 1. Open file 2. navigate to the file you want 3. right click on it for the context sensitive menu 4. Choose 'TextPad' TextPad is ...

I have some lines of tab delimited data, and I want pipe-delimited (and terminated) data. Since I have a leading tab, I search for '\t|$' and replace with '\|'. This creates and infinite loop -- it finds the line ending, replaces it with a '|' and finds the new line ending. Replacing all \ts and $s ...

Configure/Preferences/Editor/Keystroke compatibility

By default it's something unexpected, which may do strange things to the home key.

I was pleased to see the 'replace Notepad' option. But, having to choose, I'll stick with single instance.

Please consider this as 'making noise.'

Now that you mention it, I did notice that the examples used escaped parens to bracket a search token. I just didn't internalize it.
Thanks!

I'm converting Oracle code to SQL Server. One of my little tricks is to run regexp replaces like TO_CHAR\((.*)\) with CAST(\1 AS NVARCHAR(8)) but this give me CAST((numstring) AS NVARCHAR(8)) instead of CAST(numstring AS NVARCHAR(8)) Apparently, the parentheses I'm using to denote the token I'm ...