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Thank you! I've been using the new version almost the whole day and haven't hit a cursor problem.

Hello,

I'm not sure, but it's possible this was caused by whatever was done to fix the cursor movement bug in previous releases.

With word wrap turned on, up/down now moves to the next line break rather than visually down one line. The effect is like you're jumping down one paragraph instead of ...

I think this is the third time you've asked for help with roughly the same problem. Can you tell us what steps you've tried and where you set the default to UTF-8?

While I agree with your excellent suggestions, TextPad has behaved this way for at least a quarter of a century, and this specific behavior has only been questioned once, so making it more intuitive will not be given the highest priority.


No worries. Now I understand it's intentional.

In that ...

OK, this is a strange one. Maybe I dreamt it, but I think I once saw a reply to this message and it disappeared.

Is this cancel behaviour indeed a bug and will it be fixed?

bbadmin wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 12:57 pm The maximum and average width of a font's characters are defined in its metadata. It turns out that using the average width for ANSI characters results in the behavior you expect, so that will be used in the next release.

Thank you. Looking forward to the new version.

This depends on the font. The right margin is calculated to be the maximum number of characters of maximum width which will fit. If the displayed characters are thinner than the maximum, you get this effect. There was a time when "fixed width font" meant exactly that, but not any more ...

Hello,

What does Align Right do when "Word break at column number" is unchecked? I can't work out exactly what it's aligning to. In my experience, it seems to be about 4/5 of the width of the window. The documentation says aligning text uses the right margin, but isn't specific about whether that ...

It's a bit of a simplification, but yes, UTF-8 is your best choice.

In the Save As dialogue, you can choose the encoding at the bottom of the window as you save a file:

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There is also a default for each file type in TextPad. Go to Configure->Preferences... then choose Document ...

This seems to happen with any value in the Properties window, but it's very obvious if you pick something visible.


Open the properties window of a document
On the Colors tab, change the window background to red
Click Apply
Click Cancel and see that the background colour is reverted


As far ...

bbadmin wrote: Sat Dec 20, 2025 8:37 am This is a bug which will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for reporting it.

I'm glad you were able to replicate it! I sat on it for some time, but only because I didn't want to report it just happening "sometimes".

Firstly, this is not a new bug. I can replicate it in TextPad 9.9.3, but I believe it's been present for at least a few versions.

I've tried to make a simple test case, but it's possible there are still some other factors at play.


Ensure word wrap is off
Ensure that the window is pretty small ...

I think line endings might be at play here. As in, \r gets captured, inserting a new line when referenced.

I was able to get it to work in a new blank document with:

Find what: Replace:

Why asking if you found proof that it won't support Win7 anymore?


Because the download page says that TextPad 8 runs on Windows 7.


Maybe the culprit is the changed behavior of a compiler ...


It's a guess, but it could also be whatever was done to fix opening files older than 1970 ...

AmigoJack wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:18 pm On second guess you may want to send a private message to bbadmin with the IP address(es) you used and the user agent of your browser, linking to this topic, so he may look up the HTTP access log any maybe find you, and maybe even the culprit.

OK, thank you, Jack. I've contacted him.