The only situation where scrolling suffered badly was when I loaded my 3.7 million chars on a line test file and switched on word wrap. The scroll speed seems to be more or less independent from the degree of “coverage” of the editor pane. Although the editor visibly redraws a lot in situations like window resizing, it doesn’t interfere with work in any way. Scrolling and redrawing works nice and fast in TextPad. It seems to be by chance that the line wrapping button is provided – if I wanted to have a button to switch some other arbitrary option, chances are that wouldn’t be possible. It’s possible to configure the toolbars, but only to the degree of the prepared buttons. With line numbers switched on things are a bit better, but I would really like it even better if the continued line wasn’t displayed with any indent at all. When line wrapping is on, TextPad tries to behave extremely well by indenting a wrapped line to the same degree as the start of the line – which leeds to the situation where it becomes difficult to see that one of the (visible) lines is actually a continuation of the other. The line wrapping button is right there in the standard toolbar. Searching in multiple files is possible, but replacing is not available in a similar way. Plus, POSIX compatibility has to be enabled first (in the preferences) to be able to use non-escaped braces, parentheses and pipe symbols.Īnyhow, it was possible to search for (]+) (]+) and replace by 2 1, so I’m quite satisfied. TextPad goes fully for POSIX compliance, which means that s doesn’t work for whitespace. Regular expressions are supported to the extent tested. It’s also possible to start multiple instances if needed. The application uses an MDI interface, selection of a currently open file is additionally possible from a list that’s shown in a docked window by default. TextPad startup is very fast, due to the size of the editor. It might be just me, but I don’t like that… I’m one of those people who have every intention of paying for a product they like, but I want the chance to test it properly while being left alone with regard to nag screens.
The other thing I noticed is that TextPad also shows up its evaluation warning dialog from day 1. This is something I find extremely inconvenient and I’m happy that I have multiple monitors – it would be much worse otherwise.
TextPad is one of those programs that for some reason always hide behind their open online help windows.
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TextPad is a commercial product by Helios Software Solutions and is available from The version I tested was 4.7.3. The second test in this series, which is the best text editor for me, is about TextPad.
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