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Textpad would benefit with following features (hopefully I'm not re-stating too many already requested features) mainly by extending tool support:

• 1. Human readable key bindings, e.g. in registry or file instead of CUSTOM.BND. That way we can define standard key mappings for our group tools.
  
  2. More than one (clickable of course) Command Results bindable to a specific tool. This means specific tool output will not get overwritten so quickly.
  
  3. Ability to run more than one tool at a time, i.e. option to fork tool. Combined with multiple Command Results this will allow long running tools (e.g. compilation) to run while other activities are going on.
  
  4. Decent, icon-friendly, configurable toolbars for our tools.
  
  5. Built-in ctags support. ctags results window (like Ultraedit). Ability to load file and jump to position based on regular expression (not just line and column number).
  
  6. Search results window (again like Ultraedit).
  
  7. Extend regular expression support by adopting full Perl 5 regular expression syntax and engine instead of pushing the terribly verbose POSIX version.
  
  8. Human-editable parameterised macros.
  
  9. Extend tools to allow insertion/replacement of selected text with output from tool. This would allow much easier code generation and re-formatting of selected code using existing scripts.
  
  10. Fix those "recursion too deep" regular expression searches through very large files. Very frustrating. Not a new feature to be fair.

Just a quick one from the hip.
1. What about the list button in Configure->Preferences->Keyboard?
2. New? But you can copy the results if you need to keep them.
3. New? Do you want to start the same tool many times?
4. Vote here
5. Vote here. What about Find in files?
6. Find in files?
7. Vote here
8. Vote here
9. New? Could be related to some polls on tools.
10. I think nr.7 should take care of that.
Also, see Jeffy's list here. Feel free to start any polls you want, esp. with the standard five options so they can be included in the list.