Use TextPad Editor as Editor in IE?

[Keith]

I had to reinstall Win98SE and now the option of using TextPad as the HTML editor for INTERNET EXPLORER 6.0 is no longer there. Does anyone know how to make TextPad an Editor for IE?

[CyberBrain]

You should use Netscape instead. Anyway if you insist in using Internet Explorer :

Since i'm no expert in the deeper workings of windows, this might not be all yo gotta do, but i tested it and it seems to work. (if you COMPLEATELY reinstalled windows it will probably not work)

Try running "regedit" and go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList".
Then you must insert a new key called "TEXTPAD.EXE" - now you should be able to select textpad as editor in IE6.

(atleast when i deleted the key, i couldn't select textpad as editor in IE6, and when i inserted the key again, i was able to select textpad once again)

Reinstalling textpad would also be a solution.

Did it work?

[Matthew]

Actually, you should use Opera instead of either IE or Netscape.

[bleh]

tried that, didn't work for me. tried a few variations as well. i know that should work, as it says on www.regedit.com as well. tried re-install of textpad too. sucks, as my golive has gone from that option as well.

notepad isn't quite the text editor of choice.

[Robert Roberts]

I set TextPad as my default IE source viewer on Win2K. There are three separate steps:

STEP 1:
--Go to Control Panel>Folder Options>File Types
--For HTM and HTML file types, choose Advanced>Edit>Edit
--Use Browse to change editor full path to TextPad.exe

STEP 2:
--In Internet Explorer, choose Tools>Internet Options>Programs
--Select "TextPad" as editor of choice

STEP 3:
--Using RegEdit, add the following keys to the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Microsoft Internet Explorer - View Source Editor - Editor Name

-- at Editor Name, (Default) = C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\TextPad.exe

cheers!

[Mike Ridewood]

For IE efficionados
there's a more simple solution
the last message was almost right on

i'm here tonight cause i can't get Texpad to be the default viewsource editor because
textpad seem to want to create the file
possibly because of the spaces in the file path

hence i tried "%1" in several variations to no avail
until i noticed that yes Textpad is ONE of the editors
not the default, (for which i use a developer app)
but One of them
as such i can simply select which editor from the little arrow beside the [edit icon]
which you should add if it's not already on the toolbar.

and select textpad
done!

and replaced the view source

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
View Source Editor
Editor Name
(Default)

to notepad as it seems to have no problem viewing source at all. go figure

hope this helps