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With the new user interface in 5.0.3, when you turn word rap on, it disables the Ctrl+J shortcut key to join lines. Is this intentional or a bug?

It didn't work that way in 4.73

Jim Young

I am running 4.73 and Join Lines (CTL-J) IS disabled when Word Wrap is on.
It does not even show as greyed out on the menu, it is totally gone.

Turn WordWrap off, and CTL-J is available.

My mistake - I verified that Join (Ctrl-J) worked on 4.71 not 4.73. My old laptop with 4.73 on it went back to the great laptop factory in the sky and the really old desktop that I used to check what I was writing about has 4.71 on it.

In any case, it did work on 4.71 with wrap either on or off and I still think it's non-intuitive to have a side effect of turning word wrap on be that Join is disabled. I don't see the point of doing that.

Jim Young

Actually... I use 4.73 and Ctrl-J works *partly* with word-wrap on:

If cursor is on an empty line, or the next line is an empty, Ctrl-J does not work in word-wrap mode - but otherwise it works!

This is likely a bug, but not a big problem.

I am using TextPad 5.2.0, and I'm experiencing the same problem. With word wrap off, the "Join Lines" command works fine, but with word wrap on, it doesn't seem to work. The help file says "In word-wrap mode, this command is not shown on the edit menu, but is still available using its shortcut.". However, I tried pressing Ctrl+J and I don't see any changes. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

mikez302 wrote:I am using TextPad 5.2.0, and I'm experiencing the same problem. With word wrap off, the "Join Lines" command works fine, but with word wrap on, it doesn't seem to work. The help file says "In word-wrap mode, this command is not shown on the edit menu, but is still available using its shortcut.". However, I tried pressing Ctrl+J and I don't see any changes. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

I just upgraded to TextPad 7.0.9 and this problem is still present.

Please fit it.

Testing TextPad 8.1.2 and this problem is still present.

While I think the programmer(s) are not paying attention to bug and improvement reports here the feature "join lines" can easily be done by searching for \n and replacing it with a space using regular expressions.

AmigoJack wrote:[...] the feature "join lines" can easily be done by searching for \n and replacing it with a space using regular expressions.

Thanks for this hint. Such a macro is a good workaround, but:
- Using macro play mode "Play once" it does not work inside a selection.
- Using macro play mode "Play through selection" it does not work without a selection.