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Doing some editing in TextPad this morning I had a few idle moments and threw together my own wishlist for a future version. These are in some sort of priority but that changes frequently depending on what I need at the time.

My wishlist

1. More capable regular expression support.
2. Better Unicode support
3. Special character entry
4. Spell-checking with no modal dialogs. I don't like seeing red squiggly lines while working, but the ability to turn these on to check spelling would be ideal.
5. Editable macros
6. Hex editing
7. Enhanced find capability across open files.
8. Integrated browser for html editing
9. Smart quotes or the ability to 'educate' quotes
10. Revised syntax files (XML-type structure?)
11. Enhanced snippets or clips
12. Plug-in compatible architecture

Things that I really don't care about...
(But might get other people exited)

1. Built-in FTP capability.
2. Code folding
3. Office 2007-style ribbons
4. Directory tree in the document selector

I guess it's a bit of a tall order.

I hope this is too late (as Helios has promised for the last two+ years a new version is coming. They should already have a more or less complete feature list ) ).

My wish list is much shorter:
1-4. unicode support
5. editable hex files (or at least the possibilty to change the viewing mode from hex to something other for an open file)
6. editable macros

As a programmer, TextPad is great for a lot of things, but being able to write plug-ins that can directly modify the buffer, and can be triggered by keystrokes, would be awesome.