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Separate Forums

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:37 pm
by Bob Hansen
I think it would be best to have separate Enhancement Suggetions forums for each product.

May I suggest renaming this forum to TextPad Enhancement Suggestions, and creating a new forum named WildEdit Enhancement Suggestions before the two get mixed?

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:15 pm
by MudGuard
Good idea, but I would go a bit further.

Not only the "General" forum and the "enhancement" forums should be separated, also the "how-to" and "tips"

In two separate groups - where now we have "Administrative" and "Peer to Peer support", we should have

"Administrative" (unchanged), "Peer to Peer Textpad support" (as before, but without the Wildedit forum), and "Peer to Peer WildEdit support" with the same forums as in Textpad support and the current "WildEdit" forum as "General"

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:28 pm
by Bob Hansen
Wish I had said that......I agree!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:09 pm
by s_reynisson
I suggest no change to the forums.
[Pure speculation embedded in a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma]
Helios are starting to use the Boost libs, see the WE help file, for the Regex engine, Unicode support and more in Wildedit. The next major Textpad release could be quite interesting to say the least! In any case, imagine WE and TP with same Regex engine, Unicode support etc and tight integration with each other and then the forums should be fine as they are (most of the enhancement suggestions could then be for the same core set of libs/functions).
[/Pure speculation embedded in a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma]

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:18 pm
by BenjiSmith
s_reynisson wrote:Helios are starting to use the Boost libs, see the WE help file, for the Regex engine, Unicode support and more in Wildedit. The next major Textpad release could be quite interesting to say the least! In any case, imagine WE and TP with same Regex engine, Unicode support etc and tight integration with each other...
Good point.

From my perspective, and after toying with WildEdit for an hour or so yesterday, it seems like WildEdit really shouldn't be its own application. Instead, it's EXACTLY what we've been asking to have within TextPad, as an upgraded search-and-replace dialogue.

Maybe WildEdit is a sneak peek into one of the TP features included in the next release.

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:27 pm
by MudGuard
In Textpad 4.7.3 beta (see "Different line ending" thread), WildEdit appears in the Tools menu...

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:04 pm
by gracefool
Methinks they want to keep WildEdit seperate, so people will buy it...

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:24 pm
by BenjiSmith
gracefool wrote:Methinks they want to keep WildEdit seperate, so people will buy it...
Good point.

But, for me, if all I want to do is batch-replace through hundreds of files (without seeing them in an editor), I'll just write a quickie perl script (or a perl one-liner). WildEdit, as its own product, has zero appeal for me. WildEdit as a sneak-peek at the regex functionality in TP5, on the other hand, is very interesting.

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:44 am
by gracefool
Exactly, well put :)