In addition to the above basic features, Sublime has Multi-cursors Things TextPad users will love in Sublime Text 3 While I can already automate most of TextPad, it can only be fast when the critical pieces are recorded as TextPad macros.
The point is not to have perfect, uber-functional macros–the point is to make it easier to automate TextPad–but all these issues discourage macro development. They don’t need to be “upgraded” with if-logic or loops or anything else–they just need to be editable. When macros work, they are super-fast and invaluable. Worst of all, you’re only allowed to have sixty-four of them.
#PROJECT FILES TEXPAD WINDOWS#
Macros that are uneditable (so recording them is stressful), and whose key-commands are completely obliterated–all of them–when you rename or delete any single macro file, either directly in Windows Explorer (which you "shouldn’t" do), or even in TextPad’s built-in macro editor. Although you can call an external application via the Tools menu, it can’t be properly "extended", such as with plugins or extensions.No live bracket or tag highlighting (although you can match a single bracket by hitting a key-command), and no bracket completion (typing an open paren, quote, curly-brace, etc., automatically prints the close character after the cursor).No workspace-specific configuration, and no way to associate macros or clips to specific syntaxes.It’s Clip Library is a poor replacement for true auto-completion.It’s also missing basic features found in lots of other editors: And especially: Fast key-driven navigation around and within open files.Regex (including their excellent WildEdit product).What TextPad does well, it does really well: : Added SmartCursor plugin to TextPad section.
: Added command for displaying current file in sidebar directory tree to first-tips.: Added sftp-project-file tip to first-tips.For me, the only major improvement during all this time, has been changing its regex engine to a POSIX-y like thing to a truly Perl-compatible Boost (ignoring its look-behind issues). Unfortunately, the developers of TextPad are notoriously non-communicative, and the current version has basically been the same for about ten years. I’ve been a stalwart–nay, evangalistic– TextPad user for much of that time. Beyond debugging and auto-building, I’ve never used an IDE.
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