Community

Pipes don't work as well in Win32 as they do in grown-up systems, but I think they work well enough for this purpose.

I think the second part of that statement is the key. I have been using stdin/stdout type filters with two other editors for a year or two without a any problems.

This is the one missing feature that keeps me from using TextPad. I keep checking back on each version to see if it has been added. I tend to use EditPlus, which I feel is inferior in many ways, but does have a very good implementation of this feature. The feature is called a "text filter" in ...

I have the problem with a Logitech mouse.

IMHO the most lacking feature from TextPad is the ability to run a tool as a "text filter" in other words, the ability to run a system command, piping the selected text (or entire document if nothing is selected) to stdinput and replacing the selected text with whatever is returned to stdoutput (or ...

This is probably my biggest gripe with TextPad (I don't have too many). I don't understand why it is the only program on my machine that has a problem scrolling with the mouse wheel. For some unknown reason the scroll performed by the mouse wheel is "smooth" whereas the scroll performed by the ...