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Hi,

I'm using a dark colour scheme. If I print preview a document, then choose to print it, the document I've printed changes to a light colour scheme. If I mouse around or move to different lines, those lines get repainted in the dark colour scheme. Similarly, if I leave the window and come back ...

TextPad is a text editor - it cannot foresee in which code page (not " space ") you will save the current document - it doesn't has to be the same as the currently detected one. Hence, it would be too restrictive to disallow all characters which are not known to the current code page/encoding ...

I use a batch file that I've configured as a tool, which opens the matching .h file when you have a .c file open and vice versa:

openrelated.bat

@echo off
if %~x1==.c goto :c
start %~dpn1.c
goto :end
:c
start %~dpn1.h
:end


The settings for the tool are:
Command: openrelated.bat
Parameters ...

Just to offer another opinion, this feature has been suggested in the suggestions forum and there are many good use cases for such a feature, one of which is easier visualisation of tab stops. If you want this feature too, please add your voice to the enhancement suggestion.

There are many threads asking for some kind of tree-based navigation of a workspace, some of them suggesting elaborate XML schemas in the workspace file to support this. In lieu of this, please consider allowing us to limit the File Explorer pane for a workspace to the workspace root (as an option ...

Thank you! I didn't think to check whether text documents were already handling ".".

Hi,

Docker uses a format called "Dockerfile" (for want of a better term). These files are normally named Dockerfile with no extension. I downloaded the Dockerfile syntax definition and made a new document class with Dockerfile in it, but TextPad won't syntax highlight it. If I manually change the ...

Yes, this is (still!) a much needed addition to TextPad. Here's a mockup of a possible ruler design (including the ever-common word break indicator suggestion):

http://i40.tinypic.com/jiztvt.png

They're pretty standard, but the behaviours of the bar would be:

- Clicking on a blank space in the ...