Safely Replacing in files

Twistpad allows batch find replace operations in files. However replacing in files, if anything goes wrong, can be dangerous.
(a user mistake, replacing in the wrong place, etc)

Before starting any batch replace in files, make sure you have a backup of the folder(s) (does not have to be in a DVD or external disc, a simple copy to another location on the Hard disk should be safe)

However Twistpad does have a feature that does minimize the risk of replacing, which is the "Keep modified files opened after replace"



This feature, instead of silently opening the file, replacing and saving, opens the file in the editor, makes the replace(s), and does not save, leaving the file open and modified so that user can review the changes made and safely save or discard. This should not be practical for thousands of replaces in thousands of files, but should be useful (and safe) for most replace in files operations.

Opening your documents in other applications.

There are several ways to quickly open the current document in another application.
(An HTML document in the active browser for instance)

a) You can configure the open with command, simply point to the menu "Tools" - "open with" add a program (which will stay selected in the list for future sessions) and press open. Your file will be loaded in the specified program.

b) Click on the shell icon on the status bar, the shell menu will be shown, where you can open the document in one of the pre-defined windows applications for that file type, or choose open with.

c) For HTML previews, you can also download and install the preview in web browser plug-in , which places a new command to open the currently selected document in the default browser.