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Hi there, this is jus a general enquiry (which is why it's under the General Forum)...

When you open a number of documents in TextPad for example 15 documents, and you do a search for something and it comes back saying "3 Results Found".
Whilst Textpad leaves 'markers' by each instance of the result; I was wondering, it there a way you can jump straight to the found instances?
See the only way I know of doing it, is by going through all 15 documents, looking for the marker arrows. Is there a way I can jump through the markers one-by-one.

Cheers

KPS

I don't think there's any way to directly access all the bookmarks in all the files with search results. The best you can do is go through each open file and use the commands in the Search menu to work with the bookmarks, e.g. Next Bookmark (F2).

I specifically sought out this post here in this forum to find the new way of doing that very thing because I would have sworn upon a stack of whatever holy book you cherish that once-upon-a-time I was able to have multiple documents open at once, using the find function with the 'In All Documents' check-box checked and selecting the [Mark All] option to tag occurrences across all files, and then use the standard bookmark buttons on the Navigation toolbar to jump indiscriminately through those open documents from bookmark to bookmark. I have a need for this in my new job where I will often literally have 100s of source code files loaded at once and have to find each occurrence of specific tags in the applicable file set -- that obviously no longer occurs.

Regardless of my possible inaccurate accounting of functional history (maybe I only dreamed it), please strongly consider adding this to a future release of TextPad as the function is rather invaluable for folks that have to edit the way AK47wong and I apparently have to. As an alternative, if this did exist in a prior version and 'management' deems this a silly thing to add back in going forward please post the version I'm recounting so I can dig it up and run that instead. Whatever other bugs I would have to contend with would be worth it to have that functionality again.

I'm a long-time customer and love TextPad. I program for a living and TextPad is #2 of my 3 required productivity tools. My testimonials to colleages have surely generated their own sales ;).

It wouldn't be as graceful, but you could alternatively put a number in parenthesis next to the filename in the Document Selector Tool for the number of remaining bookmarks in a given file (i.e. "file.txt (2)" when there were two bookmarks).

Then even if the jumps were not automated, the bookmarks themselves would be easier to find than via a document-by-document pan-&-scan by the user.

You could even put the bookmark count text in a different color, like red or blue, or orange (or make it configurable in your classic motif). Even just making the file-name bold or a bigger font-size would be a most excellent value-add for the likes of us (ak47wong and I).

You could even do what was suggested before and this ^^, if you were so inclined.