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I also have this problem. The regedit fix is fast and works well if I'm opening one file from the context menu, but for two or more files it opens each in a separate window. The official TextPad context menu selection opens multiple files correctly in a single TexPad window, but it takes way too ...

Thank you Martina. I was having the same problem with multiple instances after ugrading to 5.3. Your fix solved it for me.

Thank you for confirming this, and for the AutoIt3 suggestion. I think I am just trying to do a task better suited to perl than TextPad. It's frustrating that TextPad is very close to solving this problem.

Is there a way to code a TextPad macro to save a file in which the filename is determined at the time of execution? I tried to write a macro that copies & pastes some selected text into the Save As File name box, but this doesn't work. TextPad appears to hardcode the filename when the macro is ...

I can use a marco to open a new document, paste text into it, and save it, but the macro won't close the file. "File, Close" is greyed out when the macro is recording. Is there a way to do this, or a work around? This marco needs to create and save many files, but only needs two files open at a time ...

Yes, this has been discussed many times before. TextPad's aged regular expression engine is incapable of matching text containing an arbitrary number of newlines. If your input is not too long, you could change the newlines to something else, do your stuff, then change them back. Or you could ...