Separate Forums

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri May 28, 2004 1:37 pm

I think it would be best to have separate Enhancement Suggetions forums for each product.

May I suggest renaming this forum to TextPad Enhancement Suggestions, and creating a new forum named WildEdit Enhancement Suggestions before the two get mixed?

Post by **MudGuard** » Fri May 28, 2004 2:15 pm

Good idea, but I would go a bit further.

Not only the "General" forum and the "enhancement" forums should be separated, also the "how-to" and "tips"

In two separate groups - where now we have "Administrative" and "Peer to Peer support", we should have

"Administrative" (unchanged), "Peer to Peer Textpad support" (as before, but without the Wildedit forum), and "Peer to Peer WildEdit support" with the same forums as in Textpad support and the current "WildEdit" forum as "General"

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri May 28, 2004 3:28 pm

Wish I had said that......I agree!

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:09 pm

I suggest no change to the forums.
[Pure speculation embedded in a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma]
Helios are starting to use the Boost libs, see the WE help file, for the Regex engine, Unicode support and more in Wildedit. The next major Textpad release could be quite interesting to say the least! In any case, imagine WE and TP with same Regex engine, Unicode support etc and tight integration with each other and then the forums should be fine as they are (most of the enhancement suggestions could then be for the same core set of libs/functions).
[/Pure speculation embedded in a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma]

BenjiSmith · Post by **BenjiSmith** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:18 pm

s_reynisson wrote:Helios are starting to use the Boost libs, see the WE help file, for the Regex engine, Unicode support and more in Wildedit. The next major Textpad release could be quite interesting to say the least! In any case, imagine WE and TP with same Regex engine, Unicode support etc and tight integration with each other...

Good point.

From my perspective, and after toying with WildEdit for an hour or so yesterday, it seems like WildEdit really shouldn't be its own application. Instead, it's EXACTLY what we've been asking to have within TextPad, as an upgraded search-and-replace dialogue.

Maybe WildEdit is a sneak peek into one of the TP features included in the next release.

Post by **MudGuard** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:27 pm

In Textpad 4.7.3 beta (see "Different line ending" thread), WildEdit appears in the Tools menu...

gracefool · Post by **gracefool** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:04 pm

Methinks they want to keep WildEdit seperate, so people will buy it...

BenjiSmith · Post by **BenjiSmith** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:24 pm

gracefool wrote:Methinks they want to keep WildEdit seperate, so people will buy it...

Good point.

But, for me, if all I want to do is batch-replace through hundreds of files (without seeing them in an editor), I'll just write a quickie perl script (or a perl one-liner). WildEdit, as its own product, has zero appeal for me. WildEdit as a sneak-peek at the regex functionality in TP5, on the other hand, is very interesting.

gracefool · Post by **gracefool** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:44 am

Exactly, well put