Just tried out Twistpad for the first time and I have to say it is pretty slick. There are a few things that seem to be lacking (or perhaps I just can't figure out how to do them) that prevent me from buying:

1) can't use middle click to close tab

2) can't do regex to parse tool output to jump to line in file

3) can't send selection and/or content of buffer to stdin of external tool (I know that the slection can be passed as an argument, but that is very limited)

4) can't replace current selection with the output of an external tool

5) no macro language

Any chance any of these features will be added in the near future?

Hi,

Thanks for trying out Twistpad.
regarding your query's:


Agree, this is pretty much a standard, so it will be done.



This are all tool related, and some features you mentioned are not common in general purpose text editors. I will definitely see what are the options in implementing this.


This is planned for future releases.

Sorry for being a bit vague, particularly about the tools improvements, but it's difficult to say feature x or y will be implement and I prefer not to make promises that could or not be happen in the future just to sell licenses.

Thanks,

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net

I second the middle click. Small but important feature.

Another small but vital feature for me is displaying the full path of the selected tab in the window title, I work with many different sites and network drives so it would be nice to know what file I'm editing without having to mouseover the tab for a tooltip.

Middle click to close a document will be in version 1.59



Have you tried checking "Include last document folder in tab display" (preferences / files) ?

usually the last folder of a file should be enough in most situations eg:

file "c:\sites\Site A\index.html"
displays as "Site A\index.html"

and

file "c:\sites\Site B\index.html"
displays as "Site B\index.html "

Thanks

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that.

Doesn't work for my purposes though as the files I work on are 2/3 folders deep and all the sites have the same folder structure, so I still have to mouse over to see the top level drive or network share.

It also makes tabs bigger, so it means less viewable tabs open at any one time.

version 1.59 (almost out) will allow to specify the level of the folders you which to show when "Include last document folder in tab display" is checked.

This will be a hidden feature and can be edited directly in the registry by setting the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Carthago\Twistpad\RelativeFolderLevel to an integer value higher then 1 (Default value) . Let me know if you will need help for that (this is only available in the upcoming 1.59 version)

And of course setting the value to 10 or 20, will show the full path in the tab ;-)

Thanks,

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net

Thanks for putting that in. I gave it a go but with the longest paths I can only fit 3/4 tabs on one screen!

I still think the window title would be the best place for the full path. In Komodo it has the name of the file first and then the full path in brackets so it looks like this:

core.css (x:\sites\sitename\includes\css) - Twistpad

Ok , I can put an option to show the window caption like that.

(hang on for the next version)

Thanks,

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net

That would be splendid.

When do you think next release will be?

Thanks.

Feature release versions have a 1/2 month cycle between versions, depending on the feature demand and our own roadmap.

Something like mid-September sounds doable for the next version

Thanks,

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net

Thanks, that's great. Looking forward to it!