TextPad Useful and Productive Tricks

Tech Talk : Textpad – Useful and Productive TricksFirst released in 1992, TextPad is one of the most commonly used text editors for Microsoft Windows, it was one of the earliest and in particular one of the first to use a shareware-type business model text editor.
You can download the latest version of the TextPad via this link.
Here are some useful tricks I learnt over the past years using this tool

Search and replace with newline
The example below searches for the string “<\option>” and replaces it with a carriage return.

Xybernetics Textpad Trick


Vertical block selection
You can select a block of test vertically; as shown below by enabling the “Block” feature.
Alternatively, you can press the “Ctrl-Q” and followed by “B” to enable and disable the block function

Xybernetics Textpad Trick

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I am a software developer in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with passion in getting my fingers in any new technology. I started software development when I was 10 years old and have never looked back. Now with well over 35 years of software development, I wanted to share some of these key knowledge with the people of the world in the wide web.