TextPad Questions!

Question

Someone must know this but can anyone help me with the following please

1. When I open a folder I want the default format to be 'Details' and not list!!!! (ie sorted by time modified desc)

2. When I have a doc open I want to be able to see the folder that the doc is contained inside of in the explorer window within TextPad. I use the explorer window but I cannot find a way to get the explorer to navigate to the folder that the document is inside of!!

3. XML formatting - I ve tried addin and they were useless - All I want is decent XML syntax like VS2005 + formatting capability... Why is this not present!!

Other then that love it love it love it

Answer 1

I used to use TextPad all the time. It's a very good text editor, but it's lacking some of the features that you want.

I personally think you'll like Notepad++ a lot better. It's free and open source. Also if you download the plugin for XML Support you will get lots of features for XML editing like:

• XML syntax Check
• XML Schema (XSD) + DTD Validation
• XML tag autoclose
• Pretty print
• Linearize XML
• Current XML Path
• Conversion XML <-> Text
• Comment / Uncomment
• XPath expression evaluation