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I like it as it is.

I also find it useful that I can escape from the search at any time (by pressing the <Esc> key) without changing the Z order.

I didn't know that other keys like Esc had any effect. I'll have to play around with that a bit. I can also understand that there a probably a lot of ...

I know there are command for WindowNext and WindowPrev, but what I would like is WindowLast. This command would go the the window that had been the topmost before the current. Activating it again would bring you back to the window that you just left.

In other words, WindowLast would just toggle ...

It would be really cool if TextPad could change its syntax highlighting pretty much on a per line level. Since I know that would be a pretty tall order, I would settle for the ability to specify special character sequences that switched the highlighting.

For example, I would like to be able to ...

I would like to be able to have the document class of a file detected based on file content. For example, Unix/Linux/Cygwin is able to detect different types of script files based on the comment in the first line. Also, most well formed XML and HTML based documents use a DOCTYPE in the first line ...

The default behavior should definitely be to save the BOM if there was a BOM when the file was loaded. The ability to add/remove a BOM would be a nice feature, but the fact that TP blows the BOM away seems to me like a bug. (The work-around of always writing the BOM isn't that great either.)

Have you tried the following:

* open text pad (i.e. don't double-click the file you want to edit)
* go to File -> Open (Ctrl+O)
* change Encoding to "UTF-8"

This has worked for me when editing registry files. If it works for you then you can change the default encoding for any document class in ...

Oh yeah, and one more thing. The reload preferences should be moved to the document classes, so that all the new features I described can be set per doc class.

I like the general idea of this enhancement. It would basically be a very nice version of the Unix tail command with the --follow option.

I think the best way to implement it would be to add some new options to the preferences for file reloads. One option would allow users to specify that "When ...