Textpad is awesome, but there are a few things that really bug me, and some features I think would really enhance it:
Key combinations such as Ctrl+D and Ctrl+B insert weird characters into my document. Especially annoying as it causes lag and D is right next to S so I keep getting crud in my file when I save. (No action is assigned to these keys, and no keys are assigned to these characters.)
Background images for the document window, and maybe clipbook and document list, would rock.
If you use a colour scheme with a dark background, the clipbook and document list are still black on white, which looks ugly. A way to change their colours would fix this. Also, it's very difficult to go through all the different classes and change their colours; perhaps a way to apply specific changes to every class would help. Finally a way to define multiple classes for a specific file type, and choose one from the View menu, would be a nice addition.
Unsaved files, files with an unrecognized extension, and captured output from programs all use the default class. What would be better is if each of these had their own class. Specifically, I'd like to be able to make captured output look like a command prompt (Terminal font, hard wrap at 80 characters, etc).
Some way of preserving paths of backup files would be really nice. Right now I have it saving them into one directory, which as a result is a big mess. When I write programs I tend to use the same filenames in different directories, so backups of one file get overwritten by backups of another with the same name. Possible ideas include preserving the path starting from X directories deep (a file in C:\this\that\whatever\file.txt would be saved in \that\whatever\file.txt in the backup directory) or including path names within the file name (name the backup C-this-that-whatever-file.txt). Including dates in the filename to allow multiple backups would be sweet as well.
When I click the document selector, it stays focused for a few seconds. During that time, if I press any key, it will switch to another document. I'd love to be able to disable this, as it gets annoying pretty quick having to wait a few seconds each time I switch documents or end up in some other random file.
Unicode or UTF-8/16 support. At very least, replace non-ANSI characters with HTML entities ([ampersand]#12345; ). I frequently work with documents containing text in foreign languages such as Japanese, and saving these files in Textpad turns all the non-ANSI text into question marks.
I know this is a lot, and I don't expect to see it all done. These are just things I'd do if I had created Textpad.
Key combinations such as Ctrl+D and Ctrl+B insert weird characters into my document.
Nothing stops you from changing the keyboard settings - if you don't like the default for Ctrl+D, set it to a different command (You could set it to have the same meaning as Ctrl+S - I have set it to insert the date)
Unsaved files, files with an unrecognized extension, and captured output from programs all use the default class.
Not true. There is a document class "Command Result" which is used for captured output.
When I click the document selector, it stays focused for a few seconds.
I can't reproduce this - are you using a slow old machine with little RAM?
I Steal Toast wrote:Some way of preserving paths of backup files would be really nice.
If a file is in directory d, I put its back-up in a subdirectory .backups of d: Configure | Preferences | Backup | Backup FILE.EXT as: "FILE.EXT" in folder:.backups.
Key combinations such as Ctrl+D and Ctrl+B insert weird characters into my document.
Nothing stops you from changing the keyboard settings - if you don't like the default for Ctrl+D, set it to a different command (You could set it to have the same meaning as Ctrl+S - I have set it to insert the date)
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with keyboard settings, though. Nothing is set to insert those characters...
Unsaved files, files with an unrecognized extension, and captured output from programs all use the default class.
Not true. There is a document class "Command Result" which is used for captured output.
Well, poop. How did I miss that?
When I click the document selector, it stays focused for a few seconds.
I can't reproduce this - are you using a slow old machine with little RAM?
Not exactly; 1.7ghz Sempron and 256MB. It seems to be intentional, so you can quickly hit keys to jump to another document, but I just click the file I want, so it's not really useful for me.
