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Undocumented command line option

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:00 pm
by desi
G'day all,

I'm doing some research into image file execution options and came across an example of textpad being called in Windows cmdline with the following line of code;

"C:/Program Files/TextPad 8/textpad.exe" -m -n

Now I know the -m will just start another instance but I cannot find what the -n in this code is doing. Can anyone point me to the answer?

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:31 am
by ben_josephs
It seems to start TextPad with an open empty document.

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:09 am
by ak47wong
But just running TextPad without the -n will start it with an open empty document, so what does -n do?

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:47 am
by ben_josephs
It starts TextPad with an open empty document even if
Configure | Preferences | General | Start with a new document
isn't selected.

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 12:35 pm
by ak47wong
Nice.