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Thanks for the link. It has a lot of info and interesting comparisons. But none are in the language of the program (a non-linear optimization suite) I am currently working on. That program is a conversion of an earlier program from a language that provides RX's to a language that doesn't ...

I was testing the logic to see whether it would fail. This is part of a current project to develop a regular-expression processor for a program written in a language that lacks one. At present, I have almost everything except alternation and replacement. I understand that "A*" matches the null ...

I just discovered a bug. The window contains just the two bytes "CD". The regular expression is the four-byte string "A*B*". The replacement expression is the two-byte string "yz". When I activate Replace All, TP goes bananas. It tries to insert an infinite number of "yz" before the "C"; i.e., at ...

I currently use Version 6.1.3 and still experience the 10% failure-to-restore issue (which I overcome by reverting to my 2nd-level backup of the .tws file). Does Version 7 process workspaces differently from 6.1.3?

I have seen at least a dozen variants of RE syntax, going back to Multics days. The firm I worked for at that time even had its own version as an excellent variant. TP's current version seems to work well for most things one would do in TP even though it differs from most or all other variants. If ...

For the second consecutive day, TP failed to load a workspace. Yesterday I overcame this by restoring a workspace from my backup system. That trick worked again to overcome today's failure! The steps in this apparently successful procedure are: * After a workspace-open failure, immediately exit TP ...

Since my last post, I upgraded to version 6.1.3. Unfortunately, the restore-failure problem continues at about the 10% rate, no matter how careful I am about touching all windows updated outside TP. However, I just used a method that successfully overcame the most recent failure. (The method was ...

woho That deepens the mystery. When I regenerate a TP-window file after closing TP, I often get the "cannot completely restore workspace" message. When I keep TP open while regenerating files outside TP and then touching all affected windows, I very seldom (perhaps never) get the message. The ...

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Do you add or delete bytes from files with non-TP software after closing TP?

The rant from jaz had some interesting comments. Like me, jaz has had workspace issues; albeit different from mine. The most important comment to me is the wish for another editor that behaves precisely as wished. Over the past decade or so, I have tried about a dozen editors (spending several $100 ...

The hypothesis did not work; i.e., it did not prevent the failure to restore a workspace. I think the hypothesis needs more rigor. Let's add the following to it: Any file that is changed outside of TP must be reopened in TP. Only then can TP finally be closed. That will be quite tedious for me with ...

kengrubb, I always use constrain the cursor to text. The problem occurs when I am in block mode and want to change the text. If I, in block mode, insert a byte, for example, between positions 2 and 3 and press the down arrow key, TP positions the cursor to the right of the insert position. In non ...

The biggest reason I use TP exclusively (even though I also have UltraEdit, SlickEdit, MultiEdit, etc.) is the ease of copying bookmarked lines to the clipboard. I like almost everything about TP. I can think offhand of only two quibbles: [1] occasionally failing to restore workspaces fully [2] the ...

Combining the responses from PeteTheBloke and ben_josephs, I have arrived at a hypothesis. Assume a workspace has, say, 100 files. I close the workspace and exit TP. Then, I run another program that outputs to (i.e., re-creates) a file under the same file name as one of the 100 files. When I reenter ...

The response from PeteTheBloke has the first plausible clue that I have come across. My use of workspaces resembles that of ben_josephs. I have about 100 workspaces. Most contain from 20-100 files each. I run multiple instances and typically have 2-4 open at the same time. But, I frequently open and ...