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Is the any way I can adjust the line spacing?

eg. separate the lines a little vertically - easier to read...few editors have this but it can make a huge difference in "readability".

TP needs bracket matching. You're at one bracket then the matching one is underlined or hilited...

Better to underline. A small underlining looks better IMO - or give the user a choice.

Thanks

Yes I'd love to have this feature as well. Currently TextPad lines are too close together to my liking. We need to be able to adjust the space between the lines.

Any chance to add this feature?

I would also like to see automatic bracket matching, without having to press Ctrl-M and lose my cursor position. Perhaps it can be an item added to the Colors section of Document Classes? Unlike the original poster, I would prefer colored bracket matching rather than underlining, since simple underlining would be hard to see. Adding it to Colors would allow the user to make the bracket matching as obtrusive as they wish to.

This is something that can be accomplished by selecting a different font. Even if you only want a monospace font, there are still several choices available other than Courier New. I doubt that TextPad will be adding the feature you describe anytime soon (or kerning, which I want, too). However, this approach will get you the results you want.

I am totally the opposite of you, I like my lines very squished together so that I can review a LOT of lines of code at a time. So, for my purposes, I often use Lucidia Console and get up to 138 concurrently-visible lines! :D

I don't know exactly what font to recommend that has a lot of vertical overhead in it, but look around and I'm sure you'll find one. This page has some visual comparisons of various fixed-width fonts: http://www.cfcl.com/vlb/h/fontmono.html

P.S. If you were so inclined, you could even just 'recompile' a font with the amount of extra headspace in it that you desire.

I'd like to see bracket matching that allows for quoted brackets. The following doesn't match correctly in TextPad, but does in Toad:

select SUB_ACCT_NO_OCI, sum(AFT_QTY_OCI) aft,
(case
when serv_cde_oci in ('4O','5(','A!','BA','BU') then 'Basic'
else 'UNKNOWN' end) Code,