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Windows 2000 Professional. SP3. TextPad 4.7.1

This is a mostly useless post simply because I am unable to recreate the conditions leading up the crash. My sole hope is that someone else is able to confirm the behaviour.

When I am editing a file, I have hit indent (tab) or unindent (ctrl-shift-I) and instead of performing the expected action, TextPad crashes. No chance to save the document, nothing written to the event log nor does Dr. Watson catch anything---it just dies. None of the normal shutdown things occur (updated MRU, doc. class changes).

I have noticed no correlation between document class, applications running, machine load, file size or anything else. The frequency is quite low, maybe once a fortnight.

Most recently, it happened while editing a SQL file, I was unindenting two lines. Anyone else seeing anything like this? It also happened in 4.7.0 and I can't recall for sure if it happened in previous editions.

Using TP 4.7.2, Windows XP Pro, SP1.
Unable to recreate this, even changed the checkboxes for Configure->Preferences
->Document Classes ->Text->Tabulation "Convert new tabs to spaces" and
"Convert existing tabs to spaces when saving files" (used a .txt file).
Did you try ver 4.7.2?
Any other apps running at the same time?

Nothing unusual running. This afternoon it was MS Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager, TextPad, a command window and Winamp 2.92.
The two class settings for tabs are for 4, 4, Convert New and Convert Existing and 3, 3, Convert New and Convert Exisiting. Again, it doesn't happen often but it does happen and I've never been able to nail down what the condition is that makes it happen.

Well, I can tell you one thing, I only use winamp 2.81, perfection imho
Did a little googling for MS Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager and
someone suggests that Query Analyzer ver 1.1.1 is a bit unstable.
HTH

Have you checked your keyboard shortcuts? Maybe you have something like CTRL+Q set to "save-all-and-quit" .. ?

Yeah, they're all pretty standard except for ctrl-shift 1, 2 and 3.

My sole hope is that someone else is able to confirm the behaviour.

Unfortunately I cannot do that. I don't recall ever seeing that happen to me and I use TextPad daily, but not in any 2000 OS, only Win95, 98SE, 98ME, XP PRO. Will continue to be alert for any occurrence.

Yeah, they're all pretty standard except for ctrl-shift 1, 2 and 3.

.. Ctrl+Shift+1 can easily be found by mistake when aiming for Shift+Tab (also un-indents). What is it assigned to?

Maybe check your assignments for the keys in the vicinity of those you're aiming for?

Or check if you have an assignment for FileExit.

Final idea: check your assignments of your custom tools. Perhaps there's a tool/macro that shuts down TextPad if you run it in the wrong context.

You may already know this, but to get a complete listing of all your keyboard assignments for easy review: Configure \ Preferences \ Keyboard \ All \ List

Good luck