Highlighting line

[Tim]

I am new to textpad having just downloaded the evaluation copy.
I was wandering if there is any way to automatically highlight the complete line when the cursor is on it.
I have tried altering the colours in Configure/ Preferences/ Document Classes
but it makes no difference.
Using Textpad v4.5 & Windows XP.
Tim

[Roy Beatty]

You could create a macro to highlight the current line. The Help file describes how.

HTH,

Roy

[Sam]

Have been using TP for some time. All hi-lighting is tied to selected text/lines, the results of a 'find', or specific strings via your syntax def file. I think what you want is the current line being hi-lighted where your cursor currently rests and reset when it moves on to another line but, unfortunately, that function doesn't exist. Trying to construct a tool or macro to select each line in cooperation with your cursor would be inadvisable since many of TP's functions can act on selected text OR the whole file.

You can easily select the whole line with a triple click on the left cursor button.

Welcome to the world of TextPad!

[Jeremy]

I'm also trying to do something similar. Except, I'm not looking for the line to be highlighted in the sense that I have all the text selected. I want the background color of the current line to be colored differently...as in UltraEdit's functionality. Is this possible?

[Sam]

Don't think so. Maybe in the next incarnation.

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