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Mr. Code Monkey: thank you so much for doing this post, I was about to do the same one. I see all the bugs that you report. They are so bad that TextPad 9.0.1 is unusable. I not only had to de-install 9.0.1 and revert to the latest 8.15.1, I also had to restore my workspace files from my last backup ...

Have you enabled "Working folder follows active document" on the General preferences page? That "Working folder follows active document" option does not trigger this bug. I just installed the latest TextPad (8.9.0), and I have that option checked, and it does not trigger this bug.

Take a look under Configure/Preferences/Backup, and see if the option to "Automatically save every "n" minutes is enabled. I installed the latest TextPad (8.9.0) on a brand new computer recently. I started seeing this "Save As" bug in this new version of TextPad, and it was because I had set that ...

Take a look under Configure/Preferences/Backup, and see if the option to "Automatically save every "n" minutes is enabled. Thanks for your reply. I do indeed have that preference set, however: 1) I have had it set for probably 15+ years now, and have never seen the behavior described in my initial ...

TextPad has had a long standing bug in its block indent editing. Suppose that you select a block of text, and either hit the tab key to indent it more, or hit shift-tab to decrease its indent. That works for the displayed text. But suppose that inside the block you have lines that have tab chars ...

Suppose that you are looking at a file of code. It is invaluable to be able to quickly select a block of text (e.g. a variable name) and see all occurrences of that text be highlighted. This can allow you to, say, easily see all the lines of code which are affected by a variable. Notepad++ has had ...

I just upgraded from a recent version of TextPad 7 to TextPad 8.0.2. (Aside to the TextPad developers: thank you for continually working to enhance your product! I love Textpad 8's Unicode support, and your file comparison tool is a huge improvement.) It has mostly been trouble free, but I sometimes ...

ak47wong: once again, many thanks for answering!

ak47wong: thanks much for pointing that out. The intent of that Syntax dialog is what I want, but the current implementation leaves something to be desired: you need to manually type in all the special characters that you want to add. This is tedious and error prone. I was hoping for something more ...

I recently started seeing some really bizarre behavior on my Textpad instance at work. Suppose that I have 2 files open in Textpad, and the window for both files is positioned to show the middle of the file (both files span many many screenfulls). Now suppose that I focus on file #1, and scroll down ...

Right now, if I double click on a string, Textpad selects the entire string only if that string does not contain any special chars (like punctuation). In other words, it defines a word to be contiguous alpha-numeric chars, but does not include either whitespace (which I am OK with) nor special chars ...

Notepad++ has this awesome feature: if you double click on a word, it not only highlights that word (which Textpad also does), but it goes on to highlight EVERY occurrence of that word.

This can be very awesome in many circumstances, like code reviewing.

Please add ASAP!

Well said!

The release notes for 7.2.0 indicate that this bug has been fixed. I disagree: this context menu bug still seems to be present. The procedure I describe below exhibited the bug immediately after a fresh install of 7.3.0. I should not have had to do any registry editing to have context menu support ...

I have a text file containing some stock index data. I can open it, seemingly fine, in TextPad. (I am using the latest, 5.4.2.) I then select all the contents (Ctrl-A), copy it into the clipboard (Ctrl-C), open up a new window in TextPad, and attempt to paste the contents on the clipboard (from the ...