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Just checked and that's the case here, I hadn't touched that setting ("it was like that when I got here"). Is it safe to turn off syntax highlighting in this case? Looking at text.syn it doesn't seem to do much.

Here you go, word wrap set to 78 characters, text before reformatting:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed eiusmod tempor
"incididunt" ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis
"nostrud" exercitation

Same text after reformatting with Shift + Ctrl + J ...

Is there any way to change the set of characters that Textpad breaks/wraps words on? Some of them are really annoying, for example it'll break
on quotes, leaving an orphaned quote mark at the end of the line and the word being quoted on the next line. I haven't been able to find anything obvious in ...

Ah, thanks, the screen shot helped. I had visible whitespace selected in Preferences, but not selected a second time in the View menu.

I recently had to edit some YAML and noticed that visible white spaces, which I've always had turned on since 16-bit Textpad, weren't visible any more. They're enabled in Preferences | View | Visible white space, they're just not visible, and I can't remember the last time they were visible. I'm ...

Unfortunately I've already deleted the link, and it wasn't Windows Update since I've got that set to manual, it never runs unless I tell it to. In terms of logs, unless you've got something specific I should be looking for ("Success audit, deleted Textpad settings file") it could be anything, there ...

Aaaannnd... Textpad just lost all its settings again. It's unrelated to anything else, no Windows update, nothing, it just reverted to default settings and there's a new Textpad icon in the Start menu as if it's just been newly installed. Luckily I've got the restore-settings script (see an earlier ...

Since all you guys seem to have no problem with an operating system that is rather bringing you trouble than being assistent (speak: Windows 10): how about modifying the folder's access rights? Check the security permissions and try disallowing rights like "write" and "delete" for users "SYSTEM ...

So, I will follow your suggestion, saving the settings to a directory, just to be able to restore them

In case it's useful, here's the command I'm using, however it's written for 4NT/TCC rather than CMD so will need some modifying if you're not running that particular shell:

iff %@filesize ...

I've seen this too. I suspect it happens when Windows updates itself.

I've taken to saving ConfigState.xml and GUIState.xml so that I can restore them if they get destroyed.

Ah, that could be the case. After getting sick of having to reset the settings on a regular basis, meaning after I ...

This started some time this year, didn't keep track of exactly when, but once or twice a month Textpad will lose all of its settings, returning back to the just-installed state. This is really annoying since it means going through the config manually re-setting everything that I'd changed. What ...

MichaelG17 wrote:Am I the only one who has this issue?

Nope, I had exactly the same problem. Deleting the config files fixed it, but lost a bunch of config settings that I then had to manually recreate.