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A recent Windows 10 update requires me to run TextPad as a Windows Administrator when building my apps. This adds a few steps, and some irritating side effects, to starting a workspace, which I would like to eliminate. Is there any way to tell TextPad's run tool to execute with Windows Administrator...

If you do something that pops results in TextPad's command response window, it's usually possible to double-click an error message that contains a line number in your source code, and TextPad moves the cursor in that file's window to the relevant line. This worked consistently in TextPad 4, but with...

If you do something that puts results in TextPad's command response window, Text Search stops working (i.e. the magnifying glass icon is active but doesn't do anything). After you close the command window, Text Search works once more.

"How do you convert to comma seperated values?"

Have you looked at a comma separated value (CSV) file? Use Excel to create a simple table, then 'Save As' csv. Open the CSV file with your favourite text editor.

The 'View in Web Browser' tool works differently in v5. With V4, 'View in Web Browser' loads the current file into the web browser. In other words, you can see what you're attempting to edit. TextPad v5 loads the page off the web. In other words, you're looking at the last published version of the f...

Convert each address line to comma-separated values (CSV), then import the text file into Excel or another spreadsheet.
Excel provides column searching and ordering.

TextPad 5 fails to colour a keyword when the word is followed by a statement terminator (e.g. a semi-colon is a C statement terminator). e.g. suppose that FALSE is a keyword in your syntax file. This statement colours FALSE: BoolInt value = FALSE, // trailing comma, colour OK This statement does not...

TextPad 5 has lost v4's ability to retain the last Window size.
When I close TextPad and subsequently reopen, I'm back to a default Window size.

Where does TextPad 5 store its Windows size settings?