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Whilst using Textpad to edit GENESIS (neural simulator) scripts it has occured to me that a degree of syntax checking and prediction would be extremely easy to do. Firstly let me say that I think it is important to maintain the elegance, simplicity and low cost of TextPad. Other editors seem to ...

Could it be made possible to have font selection for keyword highlighting? (may be restricted to fixed fonts all of the same size) Things like bold and underline would be generally useful even in the absence of a full font facility. The problem addressed is that there are often not enough really ...

It would be useful if you could add 'go back' and 'go forward' buttons to the editor. So it is possible to re-visit previously edited lines.
I guess the feature would be covered bythe requested 'web interface'.
This is not a new suggestion - I'm just adding my vote!

It would be very useful to be able to add baloon help to keywords. It would work as follows: When the user hovers the mouse over a keyword (in the .syn file) a balloon is shown that contains text taken from the .syn file. Help text is simply entered after the keyword in the .syn file. (90/20 rule ...

Allow you to specify a PATH (through an environment variable) that will be searched for files that are opened using the context menu when editing. An environment variable is often available to specify the search path so it is the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE that needs to be specifiable not the actual path ...