Find in Columns

[steve.jacobs@eds.com]

It would be nice to be able to specify a column or column range when searching for text - for example, "find 'searchString' in 27" would find the next occurrance of searchString that starts in column 27,
or "find 'searchString' in 12,30 would find the next occurrance of searchString that starts anywhere from column 12 through column 30 - if it started in column 30, it would still be found even though the end of the search string is beyond the ending column - the important criteria is what column the search string starts in.

Mark All and Replace/Replace All should also work with this feature - for example, Replace All "001" in 1 with "A" would replace any occurrance of "001" with "A" as long as it starts in column 1.

[CyberSlug]

I think this is a good suggestion!

Just so you know, I belive regular expressions can help you get similar functionality: ^.{26}searchString if using POSIX reg expressions or ^.\{26\}searchString if using TextPad's default
finds the searchString if it begins in column 27.