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Hi,

This is like basic functionality for syntax highlighting...

I've setup TextPad's syntax highlighting to my liking, but it only seems to store ONE particular way that I like to view my code. Sometimes I need a dark red hue in the background to get me going, other times I want a nice regular bright black-on-white style. It's a pretty standard feature of code editors to provide the ability to switch between various syntax themes.

I'm finding it quite irritating to literally have to go into the config dialog and click on each colour to change things when I just want to set a different theme. I've tried making a few .reg files which change TextPad's registry settings to swap out the themes, but it's really making me want to abandon TextPad pretty quick.

I just saw a thread which ranked the feature requests -- I noticed that practically 1 in 5 feature requests were for a syntax highlight feature, so this area seems to be pretty important to a lot of people; I think the most basic functionality you need is at least to be able to swap colour themes.

Am I missing something?

- Fraish

AFAIK TP does not have themes but you can create a document class for each to your liking. To move files from one class to another you have to change the file ending. See TP's help on "Document classes".
Temporarily changing syntax files for a document is easy, hit Alt-Enter and select the Syntax tab.
Perhaps you are missing something, TP is a general text editor, it is not developed for the sole purpose of coding. HTH

Me to, just to flash this topic up again.

Having lost my Win2000 profile I am having to setup my TextPad prefs again and would welcome having theme files available to make the setup a lot easier and also to store settings.

TextMate under OS X does this particularly well, using a structured plist file for each theme.