Undocumented command line option

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desi
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Undocumented command line option

Post by desi »

G'day all,

I'm doing some research into image file execution options and came across an example of textpad being called in Windows cmdline with the following line of code;

"C:/Program Files/TextPad 8/textpad.exe" -m -n

Now I know the -m will just start another instance but I cannot find what the -n in this code is doing. Can anyone point me to the answer?
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

It seems to start TextPad with an open empty document.
ak47wong
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Post by ak47wong »

But just running TextPad without the -n will start it with an open empty document, so what does -n do?
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

It starts TextPad with an open empty document even if
Configure | Preferences | General | Start with a new document
isn't selected.
ak47wong
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Post by ak47wong »

Nice.
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