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I'm constantly opening three files using TextPad. The file paths never change and was wondering how to assign each file to its own individual toolbar button in TextPad. In that way I could click on a TextPad toolbar button and have the file open in it's own tab and in the current TextPad instance ...

I used to be able to double click on the results of a file compare and have the focus set to any line in the file that was part of the results.

When I run a file compare now with two files already opened, no line number is returned in the tool window. Also, if I double click on of the results, the ...

"Allow multiple files on the command line" shouldn't be relevant.

What you want is for "Allow multiple instances to run" to be cleared, that is not ticked. But if you've already tried that and still get multiple instances running, then I'm not sure what else you can try.

Yep, I've tried it both ...

This check box should be what you're looking for:

Configure > Preferences > General > Allow multiple instances to run


Thanks for that..but I've got that already checked. I also have "Allow Multiple Files on the Command Line" unchecked. Not matter which combination of the two I've tried so far ...

It's probably just me but I cannot seem to get the version of TextPad that I'm using to have only one instance running and then double click another file from my desktop, (or anywhere for that matter), and have the new file open in another tab in that single instance.

For the sake of simplicity ...