First, I must say I love N++ after just 1 day of using it. I have been a TextPad user for well over a decade now and have been trying to change to something else with little success - changing editors is really hard. Until yesterday when I downloaded N++ at my brother's suggestion. But the then I found that TextPad had finally, after 2.5+ years come out with an update. I downloaded the update and found I actually wanted to go back to N++ after only half a day of using it. That is really amazing.
There is one thing that I really don't like about N++ though, the find in files feature. It would be so much nicer if it simply remembered my last file filter and search subdirectory rather than bringing up a dialog on top of a dialog when I first open the dialog. And simply let me change the filter and search dir in the main dialog - nesting dialogs is irritating.
Then there are a few other things I think would make it better yet:
1) Allow me to dock Find in Files to the side of my window. Modern screens are so wide - docking find in files would be clean and useful. I work on a large project with many file types in many subdirs and a lot of what I do is find things with *.* as my filter and the project root as my search dir. Also, put a close button in the upper right which is common practice in most dialogs.
2) Go To Line # should automatically remember where you just came from. TextPad does that and it is so useful. It makes switching back and forth so easy.
3) I don't understand how the file association tab in the preferences is to be used.
4) Some minor GUI cleanup (i.e Proper Help pulldown, "Cancel" instead of "I'm going nowhere") would make it look more professional.
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I am also a long-time user of Textpad. The new interface of Textpad 5 is good but it is a bit buggy. Now I am using notepad++.
For the suggestion above, I would like to add on is that the File (in file or in files) dialog shall be by itself. The result shall be on different window and docked at the bottom.
Regards
Yoong
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First, I must say I love N++ after just 1 day of using it. I have been a TextPad user for well over a decade now and have been trying to change to something else with little success - changing editors is really hard. Until yesterday when I downloaded N++ at my brother's suggestion. But the then I found that TextPad had finally, after 2.5+ years come out with an update. I downloaded the update and found I actually wanted to go back to N++ after only half a day of using it. That is really amazing.
There is one thing that I really don't like about N++ though, the find in files feature. It would be so much nicer if it simply remembered my last file filter and search subdirectory rather than bringing up a dialog on top of a dialog when I first open the dialog. And simply let me change the filter and search dir in the main dialog - nesting dialogs is irritating.
Then there are a few other things I think would make it better yet:
1) Allow me to dock Find in Files to the side of my window. Modern screens are so wide - docking find in files would be clean and useful. I work on a large project with many file types in many subdirs and a lot of what I do is find things with *.* as my filter and the project root as my search dir. Also, put a close button in the upper right which is common practice in most dialogs.
2) Go To Line # should automatically remember where you just came from. TextPad does that and it is so useful. It makes switching back and forth so easy.
3) I don't understand how the file association tab in the preferences is to be used.
4) Some minor GUI cleanup (i.e Proper Help pulldown, "Cancel" instead of "I'm going nowhere") would make it look more professional.
I am also a long-time user of Textpad. The new interface of Textpad 5 is good but it is a bit buggy. Now I am using notepad++.
For the suggestion above, I would like to add on is that the File (in file or in files) dialog shall be by itself. The result shall be on different window and docked at the bottom.
Regards
Yoong
At least I vote for suggestion 1. Results for "Find" and "Find in Files" should be dock at the bottom of the main window.