Comments on: Tweaking TextPad – A Few Tips

By: software developers

software developers — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:33:14 +0000

Hey, that was interesting,

Thanks for the help and infomation that your article has offered on for tweaking text pad..

Keep up the great work,

Thanks for bringing this up

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:28:29 +0000

Turning on word wrap every time I open a document was getting incredibly old. Thanks so much for the hint on where to look to set this!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:38:33 +0000

I thank you for your comment.

By: Yordan Georgiev

Yordan Georgiev — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:11:04 +0000

@echo off

REM This tool makes a complete backup of all your TextPad settings
REM in the Windows Registry.
REM The area of useage is quite wide. You can make custom “workspaces”
REM trough launching different .reg-files. Also, you may set the “prompt for parameters”
REM checkbox in textpad. Also, “Capture output” & “supress until…” sould be checked.
REM
REM In the “Parameters” textfield you can type in the deafult name for a
REM backup. ex: “texpad.reg” or “c:\textpad.reg”
REM
REM As the “initial folder” you can type in a default value, leave it blank or use $FileDir
REM © 2002 Rasmus Andersson [flajm.com / rasmusandersson.com]

REM Dim vars
set KEYPATH=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4
set BUFILENAME=tps__%date%.reg

REM check for errors OCHECK
if “%BUFILENAME%”==”" goto :REPORTERROR

OBACKUP
REG EXPORT “%KEYPATH%” “%BUFILENAME%”

REM Report success
:SUCCESS
echo Registry backup of “%KEYPATH%”
echo successfully saved to “%BUFILENAME%”
goto :ENDBAT

REM reports an error
:REPORTERROR
echo You must specify an output filename for the
echo backup.
echo Example: c:\appbackup.reg, textpad.reg, \\computer\folder\backup.reg

REM Exits and quits
:ENDBAT
EXIT
::TODO ADD THE FILECOPYING of syntax and spelling files in C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\*.*

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:40:22 +0000

You’re right! A Portable TextPad deployable on a USB flash drive would be great!

By: Yordan Georgiev

Yordan Georgiev — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:48:56 +0000

The whole trick with TexPad is to able to have all the executables + syntax files + batch + regs in order to get it fully portable even on machines you might not be allow to install it .

For me it takes painfull long to configure all the perl , java , html syntax highliting and this is a small project I have do some day, but let me know if somebody else cleverer has done it already – I do not like to reinvent the wheel ….

By: ddhr.org - David Hosier

ddhr.org - David Hosier — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:24:03 +0000

[...] One problem that I encountered and have been dealing with is the fact (or so I thought) that you couldn’t turn on word wrap by default. There’s a little button on the toolbar that does it, but I always had to click on that to enable word wrap. But then I found this link that said, “Click on Configure > Preferences. Under ‘Document Classes’ on the left, click the ‘+’ button and then choose ‘Default’. You should see the default preferences for files show in the right-side of the pane. Make sure ‘Word wrap long lines’ is checked and hit ‘Ok’.” I tried it and it sort of worked, but I fooled around with it and found that if you make sure that the box is checked for each of the document types, it’ll work all the time. So that’s what I did and it worked great. [ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 @ 22:23:58 | Tech/Computers ] No Comments Leave a comment [...]

By: Scott Vodicka

Scott Vodicka — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:06:26 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I’ve been wondering about the auto wrap and just did not take the time to search for it. I knew it had to be there. You saved me some time.

Scott Vodicka

Cary, NC