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I have the exact same feature wish. It is not uncommon for "search and replace" tools to have such an option.

One scenario where I would use this, is when some boilerplate text in source code headers (comments) needs to be updated, and touching the last modified date would result in a loss of ...

I too have been posting about this since 2013, and am glad that there are others who feel this is important.

With Windows 10 Anniversary Update having upgraded a lot of older system, this issue has become more critical than ever IMHO, because Windows 10 will now restart the system, with loss of all ...

This has now become more important than ever, since Windows 10 Update will "violently" restart the system (with loss of all unsaved TextPad data) when you are away and there is a Windows Update restart pending.

I will upgrade to 8 if it has this feature.

When a tab which has no text and no associated file (e.g. open New, then you write something and then you cut it) some special treatment is desirable, namely:

- Do not show "*" in title
- Do not prompt for saving if closing the tab or application
- Allow drag and drop of new file to go to that tab ...

This is a proposal for a powerful yet simple (from the UI side) autosave/autorecovery feature, similar to what users are increasingly getting accustomed to from online editing tools and web browsers.

What I mean is:
- TextPad would auto-save drafts of both titled and untitled documents
- These ...

I just felt like adding my voice here, as I too would badly need to create something like a macro, just to aggregate multiple search and replace operations. I purchased both TextPad and WildEdit, and none has a simple way to performe a list of multiple search & replace operations.

I don't need a ...