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When I am editing numerous files and using the document selector, there is sometimes a problem. If I highlight two files in the document selector and then use file compare from the tools menu, sometimes the files compared are not the same ones selected.

TextPad suggests the names of two files to compare. These are not the filenames highlighted in the document selector, but the filenames of the active and the previously-active documents.

This sort of makes sense, but why doesn't holding down the <ctrl> key and highlighting two files from the document selector make those two files the last two active files (this would need to be exactly two files)? Most other windows-based programs work in this fashion.

Altering the two suggested files would be difficult for me. The files I need to compare would almost always be in totally different (and lengthy) directory paths. Also, there are, at times, as many as twenty files in the document selector.

The easiest workaround is simply to click in succession (not while holding down the Ctrl key) the two documents in the Document Selector that you want to compare, and then invoke the Compare Files command. This makes them the active and previously-active documents. TextPad simply doesn't work in the way you described.

Thank you. I will try that work-around; it should be okay. I still wish this worked in the standard way. The program DOES work this way for the close operation.