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After further manipulation of this Resource tool, this method seems to work.
Good information.

the Findtags (Ctags) window created by Textpad You most likely talk about the addon "Ctags" (Contributed by Frank Fesevur. Updated on 20 February 2004) which consists of an EXE and a readme HTML file - the latter with instructions how to set it up as tool in TextPad to get executed. TextP...

Is there any way to make the Findtags (Ctags) window created by Textpad wider and longer ?
Textpad developers probably use Ctags on this or some other editor,
so I am surprised this enhancement has not been implemented
over so many years.

Is there any way to configure Textpad to put Print in the right-click menu of the application ?
I am surprised this has not been done after all these years.

I just installed version 7 on Windows 7 64 and noticed this new error "WARNING - cannot open" during large searches. I received the same number of results as with version 5, so I assume this is a problem perhaps in the Windows kernel. Is the limitation 256 bytes of pathname, and is there a...

It should be trivial to add an ability to search for a filename within 100,000's of files to the Find In Files capability, as opposed to finding a string within the contents of 100,000's of files. Opening a result line in the filename search results should open Windows Explorer for the containing fo...

Never heard of Ctrl-H Never used Word? Excel? PowerPoint? Visual Studio? I would assume Ctrl-H was Help as would most people. I am sure that crossed the minds of recent Microsoft designers, but they chose to go for consusion, it appears. Maybe they like training people for cash, rather than that in...

Perhaps I have misunderstood your requirements, but it seems to me that this is a solution that satisfies those requirements, not a work-around to a deficiency of TextPad. Workspace normally defines files in a project, location of Makefiles, and other build sensitive elements. Since the Textpad wor...

Save each instance of the editor as a separate workspace. If the search results window is open when you save a workspace it will be open, with its contents intact, when you reopen the workspace. The search results are stored in the workspace file; you don't have to find them yourself. Sounds like a...

Use a workspace. The search results window will be saved in the workspace. I will try this. However, I would suspect that only one search is saved, per workspace. Often several search results through 100,000's of source code files, in separate instances of this program, are on the desktop being ref...

Some search results of large systems can take hours to generate. This program should be able to save the results anthen restore them after reboot. Currently, the text in the search results can be saved, and then loaded later as a file, but the lines in that open file are not linkable to the search r...

Never heard of Ctrl-H -- Ctrl-R has been consistently the search and replace keyboard shortcut.
And Sh-F3 for backward find next.

When I need to do Regular Expressions in the find capability, I would like to see better reminders in the Help of how to perform certain RE operations. Three in particular: 1) how to match lines which match a string but exclude another string e.g. match all lines containing string A, but excluding a...

ak47wong wrote:

Aeneas wrote:By the way, where are these variables like $FileDir defined/explained?

I can't help you with your other questions, but $FileDir and others are explained in the help under Reference Information > Tool Parameter Macros.

I see now.
I was looking in Preferences/Macros.

After messing around with this add-on and its misleading error messages, I realized I had to open a file in the directory above my source directories before it would then start to work, at all. It then did create a tag file with the Tags in it. The next question is how does the user maintain that fi...