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TextPad is a general-purpose text editor.

TextPad is a general-purpose text editor for Microsoft Windows, published by Helios Software Solutions.

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Regex - find a string and jump immediately to the next line

For instance I am looking for something in a bigger text file - very simple for example a string of three digits with \d{3} . What I want to do is: when notepad++/textpad has found the first matching string in a line (and has replaced it with…
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inserting line breaks after every record in the textpad

I have a textpad file that has rows of text. For e.g. Cat: Meaning - animal. The cat ran up the house Rat: Meaning- rodent. The rat lives in the borough and feeds on leftovers Word 3: Description Word 4: Description I have many such record…
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How can I use regular expressions in Textpad to remove anything, line by line, after specified characters?

Suppose I have the following text in Textpad: kwejkewrjl:ksajdlakj e833ekjh:skdjkahak 2098e123809:ksjdkas dkjwhfdkjqhio:skjddksjal 98a09asfdsaok:kwqjeo912ui I would like to remove all characters from each line that occur after the colon. The…
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TextPad Questions!

Someone must know this but can anyone help me with the following please When I open a folder I want the default format to be 'Details' and not list!!!! (ie sorted by time modified desc) When I have a doc open I want to be able to see the folder…
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TextPad "find in files" not matching on simple OR regex

I've tried searching files for either/or word scenarios and they always fail to find any results in TextPad. An example is trying to find something like summer|winter where I want to return any files that contain either the word "summer" or the word…
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TextPad 7 does not auto reload

TextPad 7 does not auto reload. Does anyone knows how to turn it on. I have done what I had in the past: set the Auto-Reload flag of "When files are modified by another process:" group, from the menu: Configure.Preferences. However, in TextPad 7…
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Textpad GCC Compiling C

I'm attempting to compile my program in C using gcc.exe from the MinGW package that I have installed. I have added gcc as an external tool and am able to run it through TextPad. However, I'm getting generic error messages such as "Tool completed…
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How to prevent TextPad from creating temporary batch files when running Java?

This is my first post here, so, please let me know if I posted this question in the wrong place or something. Thanks. So, I recently reinstalled the Java SDK and TextPad after deciding that I wanted to get back into Java programming. I compiled and…
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textpad regexp replace all ampersands in url string for href

Using textpad only, what regexp will find & amps; or &'s inside an href and replace them temporarily (even though I know the correct url encoding would have them be left as entities).. with a key that can be used later after TIDYING up. What I have…
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Inverting a regex as a whole

OK, I read through this thread and it hasn't helped me so far. I have a regex in TextPad (not sure of its engine) like so: [[:digit:]]+ \= [[:digit:]]+ \+ [[:digit:]]+ that finds a string such as: 1783635 = 1780296 + 3339 and I want to find…
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Regular Expression - Not Matching Full Text/Replacing Other Parts

I have a quiz that looks similar to the following: 1: How old am I? A: 8 days B: 75 C: 100 D: 99correct xxxxxxxxxxxx 2: What is your favorite color? A: blue B: greencorrect C: red D: blue xxxxxxxxxxxx In each case, the correct answer is marked by…
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python curses textpad blocks screen updates

I'm using curses in python 3.5.9/raspian on a raspberry pi 3b+. I put up a simple window with a one line input field using the curses.textpad module. I also have a clock on the screen in another curses window; it's running in a thread of its…
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Shortening a block of text

This should be pretty damn simple, but I'm a newb at this. Let's say I'm dealing with a block of text 300+ characters long. I want a regex string which will find any and all characters AFTER the first 200 characters, all the way to the end ($). I…
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How to delete all lines in a textpad document which have a specific text

I want to use textpad on a .csv file to remove all lines of text that include the following phrase "Norwegian Cruise Line" So it does a search and replace on the following and deletes the whole line and repeats through the…
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Textpad shows non-printable charater(hex 02) in different way going from windows 7 to windows 10

With the same version of TextPad the look is different. It would be very convinient with the same display of the hex "02" character in windows 10. I would like to know why this is changed, and even better how to get the same look in windows 10 as in…
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