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Oh! Thank You!

My work is with local files - and the tool window is irrelevant (mostly). But that switch is exactly what I needed. Thanks!!!

I can't find a way to dock them as a system bar - just as another tab-group.

And that defeats the purpose.

double-clicking on a filename in the search results should open that in the documents tab-group, NOT the "tools" tab-group.

But if you ever close the search-results and tool-output tabs, the ...

It seems to be a fully UTF-16LE compiled program.

It properly recognizes BOMs (at least for UTF-16LE) and informs you in the status bar.

It continues to read & write native files. There are defaults for how to handle files without BOMs.

All of my work is with either ANSI files in multibyte or ...

Thank you Thank you Thank you for moving to UTF-16!!!!

I bought a new copy just for that feature!!!

Yay character compatibility!

Open search results in normal tab-group, NOT the one with the Search Results / Tool Output, etc.

It did this when I first installed. But since then - It always opens the results when I double click them in the same tab group.

Very annoying.

I want the search results & tool output to be considered ...

I've been a paying customer for over a decade.

But TextPad just won't update to Unicode, and refuses to jettison DDE which causes it interminable issues with being able to use it from Windows Explorer shell.

I cannot believe that in 2013 TP still isn't a genuine Unicode build. That it "supports ...

Is there a known cure for this?

When using Outlook 2007 or 2010 (and probably 2012/2013) if I try to send file as email, then after a few seconds TextPad locks up, Outlook locks up, and I get a beep + "Cannot switch to application, server is busy" message no matter what I do. Very frustrating ...

I have a similar problem with just one file.

Right click, choose "TextPad" on the context menu, and then wait about 2 mins for TextPad to launch and show the file.

Clearly, *something* is timing out... badly.

This is incredibly irritating. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting, etc ...

My bet is that you guys are setting things in the registry either during installation or during first run (launched from your installer) which means you're running elevated privileges.

Either you have to always be elevated when making such changes, or never, otherwise the non-elevated changes are ...

If I enable the context menu, then when I right click on a file, Explorer appears to lock up for about 120 seconds. Maybe longer (seems like forever).

Eventually - If I don't resort to killing the explorer process or other drastic measures, the file will load in TextPad.

But its... too long. And ...

Thanks!

I kept using the help button - which gave false information (that's why I was trying variations above). But the configuration dialog actually tells you where they belong (or you can override that). Much, much more useful than the "help".

:D

Developers: If you read this - just change help ...

C:\ProgramData\TextPad
C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Local\TextPad
C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\TextPad

None of these show my custom .syn (syntax) options when editing document classes.

Do I really need to still put these files under C:\Program Files\TextPad\User, or is there a more sensible, and ...

Where do I put custom .syn files under Windows 7?

I've been hoping for a while that my trusted and much loved TextPad would develop support for context menu and send-to menu integration for Vista 64. Currently, neither of these features works.

I assume that Vista 64 requires that applications place their extensions in some 64 bit alternative ...

I know that windows help files are no longer supported under vista (.hlp). Our company had to move to .chm files (compiled help) in order to support our Vista customers.

There is no remedy for this, other than to create a new set of help docs in a new target format (i.e. Helios must make the effort)