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The handling of tabs/spaces for indents is important, too. Makefiles need tabs; Fortran77 needs spaces; most languages don't care. I don't know if the // example you put in would be easy to implement. One thing that's nice to have is indents that honor block versus regular mode.... in block mode ...

I'd like to be able to indent by spaces rather than just by tabs.

I would buy Textpad for Linux. That aside, my recommendation under Linux/Unix is NEdit. NEdit is a great editor under Linux/Unix. I am not sure how their feature sets compare. I know NEdit has a very good general purpose macro language. And, it deals well with very large files. The UI in Textpad is ...

I would very much like the following feature: Let the user save often used find & replace expressions as presets, together with a name for the preset to memorize it by. You can do that now by making a Clip Library for RegEx strings. Not quite the same as selecting from a drop down while in the Find ...

I too would appreciate something like what they're asking for...

I would LOVE code folding.... There are a bunch of ways it could work, though. In Excel, you can hide rows. Another thing Excel can let you do is have heirarchies where you get a little PLUS symbol to hide children. Some code folding implementations are syntax aware; some are not. I suppose it would ...

I join in the chorus of those who want a portable textpad. I am not using U3, though, right now, so unless there's a way to use U3 executables on a non-u3 device, then it'd do me no good. I am using portableapps.com's packaged apps. Perhaps the thing for the portable apps-lovin' world to do is to ...