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I eagerly downloaded and installed the new edition of Textpad. However, upon installation, I found so many problems, that I removed it and reinstalled TP 4.7.3.

My environment is Windows XP Professional SP2.

Some of the problems I found:

None of the shortcuts worked. I had to search for the ...

I like the idea of having a 'never' option, but there then ought to be a way to say, "Now I want to reload it, and ask me again in the future" and "Now I want to reload it and continue not asking me again."

Oh I guess one could simply close the file and reopen it....

I like the suggestion in the base note, but think it's overkill.

How about a simple _version_number_ following or preceding the extension (something like was implemented in Digital Equipment Corp.'s RSX-11 and
VMS operating systems)?

This could be selected in the Configure | Preferences | Backup ...

Rkrite suggested putting this code into a DOS batch file:

set KEYPATH=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4
set BUFILENAME=textpad.reg
REG EXPORT "%KEYPATH%" "%BUFILENAME%"

Under Windows 98, the final command should be

regedit /e "%bufilename%" "%keypath%"

This would be a great feature for Textpad. There have been several requests for certain already existing scripting languages. Of course I have my own favorite language for such things, and it is TECO, but I don't expect anyone else to want that. Inventing your own language would be just fine.

I'd much rather see a history of recently used directories and the ability to choose from that list.

It doesn't sound like a bug to me. I'm usually interested in the number of lines in which a match is found. Perhaps the report wording for the find operation should be "Found nn lines". It would be even better if the report was "Found nn occurences in xx lines," assuming both nn and xx are correct ...

How about a checkbox on the color dialog for class Default which means
"set these colors for all classes"?

Dave C.

I'd rather see an additional button in the dialogue for choosing a file name to indicate that the user doesn't not want to save this file and a checkbox to indicate not to ask again (for this file).

Well yes, setting the highlight color to the window background color and setting the color of the dashed lines to something real close to that will work, but it's apparently not possible to make a macro to do set those colors that, nor to turn the preference checkbox on and off. Configure ...

The color of the highlighting is configurable for each document class, and even for each document. Could it be arranged that the checkbox for whether to highlight the current line be moved from Preferences > View to
Preferences > Document Classes and be available individually for each class
(and ...

I disagree, as I stated in my previous post.

I think the five options should be.

1. Strongly agree -- even if performance is impacted.

2. Somewhat agree.

3. I'm indifferent .

4. I think it's a dumb idea.

5. Strongly disagree -- don't implement this even if it would cause vast improvements in ...

I like this, but I would request that instead of making it automatic, add a checkbox for either Keep this dialog box open, or Close this dialog box after Replace All, or add another Find button for Find-and-Close-box.

I guess I wouldn't mind if this were implemented as user-selectable by document class (and possibly by individual document), but I would not want this to be a mandatory feature.

For a mandatory feature, I would vote off the board with "It is important that this feature NOT be implemented."

Sorry ...

I'd certainly like to see a general solution, but would also be happy with a VMS format solution.

(Heck I've already got a TextPad tool written in TECO to remove NUL characters.)