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long time Textpad user (12+ yrs) starting to be tempted to other editors. currently trying Notepad++ and UltraEdit. Both have one feature that im growing to love: a dockable window that lists all the functions / procedures in my TCL / PHP files. Besides that i havnt found any particular killer ...

Hi, Strange problem on XP. I use Textpad all day. Opening /closing /editing files. Sometimes some of the keys change behaviour e.g @ becomes ", " becomes @ etc... Really annoying. I cant find what triggers it. Sometimes it fixes itself. Other times i just close textpad and re-open and its fine ...

found out how to do it. 1. Make the Macros toolbar visible View - Toolbars - Macros 2. Customize the tool bar and add a "User Macro" to the toolbar. - hit Toolbar Options Button (rhs of the toolbar itself) - Add or Remove Buttons - Customize - Commands Tab - Categories - Macros - Drag the "User ...

definitely a bug in textpad.
you can add a "User Macro" as a button to the Macro toolbar. It will default to the first macro that you have created in the Macro Menu.
If you have a number of macros in Macro Menu you cannot select which ones to put on the toolbar.

Hi, Im already writing my own syntax files. The issue is that i want to highlight phrases like "Timing constraints". I would like to setup the syntax file like this. [Keywords 1] Timing constraint However this doesnt work. I can obviously do this [Keywords 1] Timing constraint But this will ...

Hi,
I have a file that i would like to highlight specific phrases which contain spaces. Is this possible?

For example, id like to have something like this in my .syn file.

[Keywords 1]
Timing constraint:


Thanks
Derek

Hi,
tried your suggestion and it doesnt work for me. (5.0.3).

This settings does make a difference when you go to open a new file (File - Open), the folder it opens is the folder of the currently delected document. However it doesnt seem to affect the explorer window.

Hi,
I like the idea that the Explorer is integrated into TP.
However to make it really useful, it would great if you could force the explorer tree to expand to my currently selected file. So some menu option or a keyboard short cut.

Thanks
Derek

Hi, In the document selector window i can select multiple files. I want to run a tool and pass the selected file names to that tool. Ive looked in the help and it seems to only indicate that the current file can be passed. Am i missing something? I am trying to run Beyond Compare tool from within ...

Hi, I have a tcl syntax defintion file that defines some keywords like -anchor -background When i open a tcl file the syntax highlighting is fine. puts "#========" puts "# BuildId" puts "#========" puts "#-----------" puts "#Case1" puts "#-----------" However i cannot double click on the ...