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Thanks for the assistance. Guess I'm asking too much of Reg. Ex., at least in this version. A non-RE solution came from your first suggestion: I set my "txt" Document class to save with hard word-wrap. Works fine. -- Or was that what you had in mind?

tcebob

Thanks, but no. I thought posting in the RE forum would imply that I want to develop an RE to edit documents so that every line is no longer than 80 characters long, but breaks at the beginning of a word. Sort of like:

begin of line
find 80th character
back up to beginning of word
insert \n

tcebob

. . . Thus simulating word wrap. Any guidance appreciated.

tcebob

Thank you, MudGuard. The cursor icon is so bizarre I think I'll keep it. Doubt I will actually use it; I try to keep all keyboard shortcuts on the left hand to keep the right hand on the mouse.

(Correction: it was <ctl>-/.)

tcebob

Accidentally hit <ctl>-?. The cursor changed to a dismembered finger over a key. Does not happen in other programs. Is this a warning? "Do not hit <ctl>-? or the evil tailor will come with his big scissors and cut off your finger"?* Or what?

tcebob

*Struvvelpeter

Steve H. --

I downloaded the DejaVu package and will try it out. One problem that might come up is TextPad's inability to use Unicode characters. Will let you know. Thanks for the tip.

tcebob

Resize the window to your liking, hold down <ctl>, hit the x on the title bar. It will remember the size.

tcebob

Depends on what font you are using. If it's a common one like Arial, it's U+03B1. Better to use Character Map, which comes with Windows. Find the character, copy it, and insert it into the text. You cannot mix fonts, so if you are using one without an alpha you are out of luck. (I use Bitstream Vera...

If you go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 5\Window Placement in the registry (assuming xp pro) and examine MainFrame you will see the placement of the last window to be closed, in pixels. Unfortunately it seems the program ignores this info on startup. Thus it appears to be a bug, since...

Going through configure/preferences, click on "associated files" and tp crashes with note: "TextPad has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." Bug?

tcebob

I'd like to extract a list of current keyboard shortcut assignments, including whatever was added or redefined. Where is this data kept?

tcebob

Doesn't seem to work. Invalid regular expression. Copied right from the page.

tcebob

This deletes all blank lines
find ^[-\t]*\n (- = blank)
repl with (nothing)

How to delete only the next group of blank lines (one ore more) -- Without highlighting first?

tcebob

er. . .

When the list went in there were spaces between each )(. Should have said "code," I guess.

tcebob

Thanks, Ben-josephs. Here's a peek at the results:

" (10 16.497 3.71905) (10 16.308 3.62263) ( ". . .

Close enough. I did change the -s to sp. and can strip the left-over spaces easily. (actually, lisp doesn't care abouth the spaces.)

tcebob