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Hi all, I (also) have a MacBook now. No need to say that I like it a lot - a lot more in fact than the Windows based I used a lot before. And while I'll continue to use the Windows laptop for some things, all development related things already moved over to the Mac. It's mostly Subversion, Ruby ...

Hi, though I used and still prefer to use TextPad, the plain silence from Helios is a bit vexing. The occasional "Yup, we're still here, still developing..." just is not the kind of user support I expect from a software company. Did they ever hear about "Release early, release often"? Apparently not ...

Hi,

did you check the box before "Regular Expression" in the search dialog?

Have a nice weekend

Stephan

You might be interested in this thread: http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3773

You might even like to vote there.

Moin, Bye, Hej då, Adieu

Stephan

Hi, scanning the enhancement suggestions should give Helios a lot of ideas. Those suggestions are even ranked. So it is very easy for Helios to find out what their users would like to see. (And some things they - addmittedly being a bit less friendly :wink: - just want to see). That's the easy part ...

Hi, hmmm, my (cordful ;)) optical Logitech mouse operates like so: Within Firebird clicking with the mouse wheel gives me the circle-and-arrors cursor to move around in the document. This works with many other applications in the same way. Within TextPad this kind of moving/navigating doesn't work ...

jerra wrote:

skaemper wrote:Hope this helps

Certainly does. I'll have a look at it asap. Thanks a bunch!

Great to hear that. That reminds me of something I forgot: The Ruby community is friendly, polite and helpful.
Out and over.
Stephan

Regarding Ruby & Cyqwin. Are both these tools alive and kicking? Don't know much about histor, errr, Cygwin but I think it's alive since the latest DLL is from "Nov 11 2004". See http://www.cygwin.com/ Ruby is certainly alive :arrow: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ If you're on Windows you might like ...

I'd recommend Ruby on pretty much every OS, be it OX X, Linux, other unixoides or Windows of whatever flavour...

Ruyb is really easy to learn, the community is extremly friendly, polite and helpful.

Stephan

Hi, Would like to start Textpad from a command script and execute a macro on a textfile and then exit textpad. The user should not have to do anything else than to initiate the execution by starting the command script. Is this possible with Textpad? Depending on what you try to accomplish, running ...

jwilson32 wrote:User tool buttons all have the same icon. I'd like to be able to specify the icon, so I can more quickly identify the tool I want to use.

Yes. That's a good idea. Why not create a 5-way-poll for this suggesetion.

Stephan

Hi, depending on what language you use, you might look for the already existing macros that do just that for you. You might like to look at the TextPad macros page . If the existing macros don't fit your language, because they don't use the comment character(s) your language uses, just recored your ...

there should be the possibility to set a special key word in the highlighting file The identifier include is not a keyword in C or C++, and it cannot, on its own, be used to identify a reference to another file. There is no confusion in the following: # include <stdio.h> Hope I didn't mess up ...

Sorry that line was a bit misguiding. I meant to say that there should be the possibility to set a special key word in the highlighting file (favourite_language.syn :)) which denotes the fact that there's a file to be included, required, loaded or whatever (thus the configurability of theword :wink ...

Hi, that sounds like a good idea, but then other words should be considered too: 'load' and 'require' for example - and I'm sure there are other situations where still other words are used. 'Use' for example, 'take', 'fetch', may be even 'grab'... So my enhancement suggestion to the enhancement ...