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Once I installed TextPad 5, my URLs stopped being shown in blue. I've since uninstalled 5 and gone back to 4 (for other reasons - 5 just doesn't work for me the way that it should) but no matter what I do I can't get URL text to show up in blue again.

Modifying both the default and text classes to use different URL colours does nothing either - URLs stay black. Or, more specifically, they stay the colour that I've defined for "Text". It's as if TextPad no longer recognizes that a URL string is something other than straight text.

My computer at work does still show URLs in blue - even though I'd also installed TextPad 5 to it, and then removed it there too. Short of just copying the entire TextPad directory from my work computer, and exporting my Helios software directory, in the hope that something there will fix this - I thought I'd see if anybody had a more specific idea about what's causing this.

I should mention that my host OS, both at home and work, is Vista.

Just a note that you might need to preface URLs with "http://" for them to be colored.

In order to resolve this problem, click on:

1. Configure
2. Preferences
3. Plus sign next to Document Classes
4. Plus sign next to "Text"
5. Syntax
6. Check the "Enable syntax highlighting" box.
7. Under the heading "Syntax definition file" Select
"text.syn".
8. Click Apply / OK

6. Check the "Enable syntax highlighting" box.
7. Under the heading "Syntax definition file" Select
"text.syn".

Cheers! That did it. (I can't recall ever having to do this before.)

Please advise. I recently bought a new computer and just installed Textpad. I need my colors!!!

Please see this post:

http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3649

This helped, because it helped me realize that the syntax I needed to enable was html.syn

Thanks much.

Terry