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There doesn't seem to be a way to show hidden folders in the open dialog. For example, try opening \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. using the Open dialog. The folders and files are hidden, and can't be displayed. Of course, the workaround is to enter the whole (or relative) path into the default...

In the new, sexy open dialog, I can create a folder using the appropriate button everywhere on my system...except in the C:\Windows\System32 folder and below! It fails with "Unable to create the folder 'New folder', The system cannot find the file specified." I have full admin permissions ...

I'm sorry to have to say this, but that doesn't seem to work on my fresh w7 Ultimate x64 system. If I start just one instance of Textpad, then change the preference (clear the checkbox next to "Allow multiple instances to run", then save and exit, then start one instance, then open a file ...

Erm, I hate to be a party pooper, but I need Textpad to open multiple files from a command-line, AND I need to be able to double-click on files with spaces in their names as well. Is there a fix for this behaviour? I would imagine that if there was only one period on the command-line string passed t...

I've just carefully (!!) checked the regexp in the history list, and you're absolutely right - a space got tacked on the end. Today, I hand wrote the expression, that's why it worked today. That's one of the problems with high-res screens with too-small font sizes in the dialogs! (Well, that and my ...

You're right Ben, my apologies. I tried it again on a local copy and this time it does work perfectly. I'm not sure what happened, but it was probably me again. I even did some screendumps in case I'd buggered something up - yesterday, didn't work, today, it did. Thanks again for such a patient resp...

Thanks so much guys, I was kind of on the right track once I figured the character class business, but I still couldn't figure out the prepend bit at all. In fact Ben's second regexp doesn't actually work once the first is applied. The workaround there was to apply the prefix first, then ignore the ...

There are actually two questions I need some clarification on, but let's try the bit that doesn't work first... I need to "pretty" up some hexadecimal numbers in ASCII form in a very long file (20,000 lines). The lines are in standard text format, this isn't some wierd hex editing question...

I've just found that PFE32 (Programmer's file editor, written by Alan Philips in the UK), a freeware text editor I last used in Windows95 (1988 to early 1996) handles the 23MB unicode text file on my x64 system without any major problems. Unicode characters are displayed incorrectly, but "strai...

Taa-daaa! Congratulations Ben, you win this hour's "Make Pete look like a complete dill" prize! Your cheque's in the mail. (I should stop running the competition, it's costing me a fortune :oops: ). What makes your perfectly correct answer worse, is that I've been using the regexp options ...

You had me at "Klingon". Will you touch my keyboard please? :wink: I did a stint with NLS support when I was a fully-employed guru with a major multinational, and dealing with the Asia-Pacific region on a language support basis was a real eye-opener for me. In 1992, that is. But to this da...

I'm currently thrashing various software companies to include "basic" (i.e. non-corrupting) unicode support in their programs. The companies are Adobe (Audition and Premiere Pro), Microvision Development (Surething CD Labeler), Yahoo (Musicmatch Jukebox), MySQL AB (MySQL), the Firebird dev...

Please guys, come on now, I've been using Textpad for... well, centuries (it's true, I started using it in the twentieth century!). And the one thing that gets me, time after time after time, is the strange inability of Textpad to deal with null characters in any text data. I understand that you mig...

Ok, it's not really an enhancement suggestion... But it'll be a cold day in hell when I don't have use for a block text option, and I'm so happy that TextPad 5 kept that feature, I could vomit. It's one of those funny things - I hardly ever use it (well, once or twice every couple of months), but wi...

I agree - the lack of a good hex formatter and editor is one of the very, very few things I don't love about Textpad... Going back a decade or so, as a positive suggestion, HexEdit was an excellent tool that fit into Textpad's tools menu, if you can get your hands on a copy. I've got Hexedit V2.2, b...