Please don't drop the ball TextPad developers..

[Brian]

Release 4.5 and still no *good* support for embedded scripting languages. TextPad still can't do multiple syntax highlighting in the same file. For example, PHP and HTML in the same file, JavaScript and HTML in the same file, Perl and HTML in the same file, CSS and JavaScript and HTML/XHTML in the same file. Plus, the syntax highlighting for languages like Perl and PHP that use $ before scalar variables and @ before arrays, is still awkward.

Also, I've written an add on that inserts image tags with the height and width of the image automatically calculated. I sent it to support and I was told it would be added the to repository, but it still isn't listed. But that's no big deal.

The only other thing that bugs me a little is that I signed up to be notified when new releases were made, but for the last two releases (4.2.2, I think, and 4.5) I did not get any sort of notification. I happened to visit the site today, and I noticed that 4.5 has been released.

And what about that planned FTP support? (grin)

*shrug*

Sorry to be such a downer.

[David Kitchen]

fair points really. i also asked for multiple syntax support, to be able to select which syntax's you want to highlight and in which priority.
at the moment i have a custom made syntax file that i use for vignette development, within that i have vignette commands, attributes, tcl, html, javascript, vbscript, sql. which means i ran out of unique colours (you can only have 6).

it's not the best solution at all.

if we had bold and italics highlighting along with multple syntax we'd be there. and surely this is not that hard to implement (you already have highlighting, so adding further font attributes is easy. you already have syntax's, so setting up a type with more than one syntax is not too difficult surely).

the other suggestions that are still missing and are desirable are things like collapsable lines (like in homesite), etc. small things but very helpful when you have large files with lots of similiar calls.

still the best, but whilst it's missing things like this, i fear the crown may be slipping.