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Goodness me! I would never edit such a large file, but I have met some people who would try it (these people usually start complaining that their computer is rubbish!!). I also prefer in-memory text editors, but my point is that if the file *is* that big, textpad should not try to load it all - it ...

It would be nice to export settings when new people come to work in a company (how often do you rebuild your computer and need to do this?). However, as sb already pointed out, a simple registry exporting batch file together with zipping up some files does the trick very nicely. Why not just include ...

Latin users are clamouring for Unicode. I live in China, and I know how annoying it gets when things display wrongly. If I run Chinese software using GB encoding on my English copy of windows, NOTHING displays - File, Edit, Messageboxes ALL show as ???? characters. Unicode is universal - and windows ...

It's the same with a single very large file. I think that for ANY operation, if it's going to take a long time (more than 10-20 seconds), the user should be warned with a 'OK/Cancel' box before proceeding. Here the warning would be 'You are about to open 4000 files. Are you sure you want to do this ...

I mentioned in another thread that 'always on top' should be a windows function (the API is already there) - and not an application specific one. The same applies to clipboard history. Windows clipboard is very weak in my opinion. A clipboard history would be extremely useful. In KDE, the clipboard ...

It's a text editor, not an image viewer. If you are writing code seriously, an image in the background makes the code much harder to see. That said, I have the advantage of a dual monitor setup.

To be honest, I would consider that this feature should be a windows feature. In KDE, I have configured an 'always on top' button alongside maximize and minimize. It's a shame that MS hasn't implemented it as a front end feature (though it is already written in their API's). Helios may want to hold ...

I think the first suggestion is the best. In Kate, the file shows an exclaimation mark next to the filename in the file list and in the application title bar. Clicking on this prompts you to 'reload the file' or 'ignore' or 'ignore always for this file'. This would also fix the bug where some ...

I used to open very large files with textpad, and it was by far the fastest editor to do this. My files were not more than a few meg, though. I also think it should be possible to open huge files (10+gig) - but NOT to load it all into memory. (I don't use textpad anymore, so I don't know the current ...

Code folding is a mixed blessing. I use it on my editors when I edit PHP - and it really helps reduce mess you want to hide. It can even help spot bugs when you have put a rogue } by mistake. For pure XML/XSL files, it's an absolute must. However, a lot of my files are mixed content. A php script ...

KDE on Linux already has several good editors - Kate and KWrite both work seamlessley, and have many nice features (including unicode support). I think Textpad would find it difficult to compete. However, it is true that with more and more companies switching to Linux, some users might like the ...