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Hi,

I'm new to this forum, although I use TextPad for a very long time. I know of a very old bug in TextPad that was never corrected and seems not to be listed here: With some languages (PHP for example), if I use CTRL+End to go to the end of a file, the syntax highlight sometimes disappears. To be fair, it does not disappear completely: Comments are still in color, but the rest is gone. Then I use scroll the page up and, all of a sudden, highlighting is working again... See below for an example.



Is it just me, or anybody else has this problem too?

A) This should probably be in the General section
B) Sometimes I get odd highlighting results when I use triple quoted strings in my python code but losing and regaining focus seems to clear the issue.

If I remember correctly, when you JUMP to a place in a file, Textpad starts looking at about 100 lines before the first displayed line to find information for Syntax highlighting.

So if for example the <? is more than 100 lines above the current position, it will not be found - and highlights which only occur within <? and ?> will be lost.

If you scroll up (to the point where the <? is found) and then SCROLL (not JUMP) down again, Textpad can remember that it is within the <? ?>.

I thought there was even a place in preferences where you could set the number of lines (speed/accuracy tradeoff), but can't find it - maybe it only existed in an older version.

MudGuard wrote:If I remember correctly, when you JUMP to a place in a file, Textpad starts looking at about 100 lines before the first displayed line to find information for Syntax highlighting.

Hmmm, so this is not a bug, it's optimization. Makes sense.

MudGuard wrote:I thought there was even a place in preferences where you could set the number of lines (speed/accuracy tradeoff), but can't find it - maybe it only existed in an older version.

I think there is no such option, but maybe it would be a good idea to have it -- I bet most users won't notice any difference in performance.

BTW, does anybody know when Helios will include the most voted suggestions? Or will it?

Most voted suggestions is not supplied by Helios. It is done by another user like yourself, Jeffy, who ususally does a monthly update. This is the location of the most recent status:
http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3811

Thanks Bob, that was useful!

But I think I didn't make myself clear, so I'll rephrase my question... Does anybody know when (or whether) the developers at Helios will release a new version of TextPad to include at least the most voted suggestions?