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thanks to ben_josephs !
searched the help and found the answer to my question:
why does \U not work in my Textpad 7.6.4

relly hard to understand what you mean
'capture': Is the error report it a textfile you try to open ?
'is truncated' : the textfile ends at byte nr 120 in textpad ?
any error messages or is the file loaded but too short ?
woho

I never managed to move
Configuration/Preferences/Associated Files
from 1 PC to the next


cannot find the associations in %APPDATA%\Helios\TextPad\7
ConfigState.xml
GUIState-0700.xml

additionally only know custom.bnd for transferring settings

for Textpad versions < 6 the associations had been in ...

I used to save my *.reg files as 'DOS' and it worked

See the Textpad online help. The settings are in xml files that can easily be copied. No textpad on my tablet, but searching for 'xml' or 'settings' should bring you to the how to in the online help

I had used it for 2 years without problems. Recently I finally switched to TP 7.51 64bit and I like it even better.

Much obliged
After 15 years with help button I really did not see that

at least until Textpad 5.4.1 there was a 'help' button in following dialogs
- find (F5)
- find in files (<Ctrl>+F5)
- replace (F8)
which was really convenient to directly access search/replace expressions

this button has vanished in Textpad 7.5.1 (maybe before)

please reintroduce that !

i do not think these context menu entries are bound to special filetypes - it's just offered for any file you are clicking on in windows

Textpad preferences lets you choose with checkboxes whether these entries in the contextmenu (or in 'send to' etc.) shall be shown

the PC I'm writing from has ...

in preferences/ folder (linux PC here without TP) you can define folders for different files textpad uses - like e.g. *.syn files
so it is a good idea not to use a folder in a \Program FIles subdirectory like you did in 6.5 (and I guess it was the default at least in win XP) which might lost at a ...

1) open from shortcut
if you open textpad from the windows startmenu or a desktop shortcut (and not by doubleclicking a file in explorer) following workaround could help:
textpad offers command line options => see online help
-m stands for multiple
so textpad.exe -m will open a new instance ...

really by accident I just found an old note of mine which I did not remember any more: you can open any file in TP with TP:

place cursor in path (absolute or relative !; slash or backslash as separator)
<Ctrl>-<Shift>-G - 'FileGoTo'
=> file is opened in textpad

yes it is possible
http://, file://, mailto: works
if the cursor is in a link and you rightcklick you can go to the link
blanks need to be filled with %20

I recorded a macro that replaces
'\' with '/'
' ' (blank) with '%20'
and puts a 'file://' in front so I can copy directly an win explorer ...

<Ctrl>+G (menu 'search/Go To...' ) launches the GoTo dialog

I just found out (and could not find documented in online help) that subsequently launching the dialog toggles between the 2 last lines visited (== the cursor was in)

e.g. I'm in line 321 and want to go to line 4

- <Ctrl>+G,
- enter '4 ...