Textpad display termination characters

specked · Post by **specked** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:28 pm

Is there a way to make textpad display termination characters like notepad++ does?

notepad++ had a little CR or carriage return and LF for Line Feed and CRLF where as with textpad I cant tell what kind of termination character it is.

Thanks

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:53 am

Does this help?

On the Main Menu, click on View/Visible Spaces.

Also set Configure/Preferences/View.
Put checks in the boxes for visibility on Paragraphs/Spaces/Tabs.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:24 am

Not on its own, I think, because specked wants to distinguish LFs from CRLFs.

If you highlight text containing a line ending, a LF shows as a single highlighted space; a CRLF shows as two highlighted spaces. The difference is indeed easier to see if Visible Spaces has been selected.

specked · Post by **specked** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:15 pm

That's a shame. I hope some textpad dev's see this post. I use textpad daily for programming and data manipulation. It would be great to have a CRLF identifier as clear as what is available from notepad++

Thank you for your replies guys.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:48 pm

You can check with
View | Document Properties (<Alt-Ret>)

On the Document tab, under File type TextPad indicates the line endings as follows:

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Line     TextPad
ending   indication
-------  ----------
CRLF     DOS
LF       UNIX
CR       Mac
CRCRLF   Netscape [for erroneous historical reasons]
[mixed]  Unknown