2 suggestions

[Blah]

You want to make a suggestion to the developers and you end up having to register at a forum !!! Jeeze.... Not ideal.

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1. When opening Textpad having forgotten to plug in the USB flash/pen drive, or having forgotten to log in to some server, Textpad workspace still loads, but naturally without the files that were being worked on, on the inaccessible drives. OK so far.

But having realised the error, and having not asked the user to fix the problem and retry, it seems to save the workspace again having removed the files it couldn't get that time. This is very annoying as it means they all have to be opened individually by hand again.

Surely it isn't difficult to either ask for the user to plug in the removable drive or login to the service as it goes. Or at the worst not save a clearly in error workspace ?

2. An enhanced search would be nice. I often want to search for a line that holds 'xxxx', and 'yyyy', but not 'zzzz'. And chance of specifying a logical AND/OR/NOT formulae for Textpad to look for ?

Thanks.

[MudGuard]

1. When opening Textpad having forgotten to plug in the USB flash/pen drive, or having forgotten to log in to some server, Textpad workspace still loads, but naturally without the files that were being worked on, on the inaccessible drives. OK so far.

Just an idea: put the tws file on the USB drive

[Blah]

Nice thought. But wouldn't cover both USB drive and unlogged server at the same time. Still might be useful as a temporary work around, thanks.

[ben_josephs]

1. When opening Textpad having forgotten to plug in the USB flash/pen drive, ... it seems to save the workspace again having removed the files it couldn't get that time.

While waiting for a fix, have a look at http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4889.

2. An enhanced search ... specifying a logical AND/OR/NOT formula...

In the general case this is well beyond the capabilities of regular expression recognisers. A solution to a subset of this problem (negative lookahead assertions) is available in WildEdit (http://www.textpad.com/products/wildedit/).

[Blah]

Cheers.

The suggested work around in that other thread seems unlikely to work, since I didn't close TextPad, but plugged in the drive and reapplied the workspace. It was already changed, not opening anything more than was already open

I'll check out the wildedit. See if it's a simple solution, or something more complex.

Thanks for that.