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. Obviously, Find in Files is one of the best features of TextPad... but when open workspace files are located in multiple directories, it would be **really helpful** to have a "Find in Open Files" option instead of specifying a directory!!! . Other editors have this and it's something that is ...

USE PERL!!!!

Thanks for the info, Ed, I'll definitely be using that technique! In the meantime, I think I might write a Perl script to convert all paths to Windows notation, and just pipe in the output of make.

I've searched the forums couldn't find an answer to my problem. My C/C++ compiler tool (VxWorks) outputs error/warnings such as: C:/somepath/somefile.cpp:365: error: some mistake I can't find a regular expression that can open the file. Currently using "^\(..[^:]+\):\([0-9]+\):.*$" for my regular ...

The context windows are already big enough... plus Textpad is already there under "Open with..."

The current-line highlighting isn't my thing either, but it's not easy to find how to turn off until you read this thread. Maybe it could be turned off by default in a new install?

write an add-in

It's nice to have all opened files to go into the same workspace, but when two separate workspaces are desired, it's a pain in the neck to temporarily enable "Allow multiple instances" in preferences, only to disable it when one more instance is opened up. Actually, then you have two places where ...