I've been using PSPad for at least 15 years and I love this IDE. I have tried other paid commercial IDEs and I keep coming back to PSPad. The only reason I have even considered using another IDE is because PSPad crashes continually. The issue for me is that I can't be developing and lose my work when it decides to take a dump.
PSPad ran flawlessly on XP, then I noticed the crashing started with Windows 7. Now I'm on Windows 10 and PSPad will crash at least 5-8 times in a 8 hour period. I just had it crash, and on its way out, it corrupted the file. I had a backup so not a biggie.
If it's any help, I notice that the IDE will crash within minutes of working with a plain text file. I usually work with PHP and those files crash a lot too, but not as much as the plain text files do.
Hi Jan. I just downloaded the developer 32 bit version (pspad507b747). I'll give this a try and let you know if it crashes again. Thank you very much for all your work on PSPad! I really love this thing!
I just wanted to let you know that the development version is MUCH more stable, thank you! I've been using it for a few days and it has not crashed one time. I'll be using the developer version from here on out. Thank you again for all your great work with PSPad!
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i found but now i am looking for the option that when i run pspad, i have the linenumbers , so i don t need to klik the button 123 or go to View/linenumbers
For me the old pspad had this option.
can you help me
guy van der velden
Hi!
I have to edit a textfile that is in the old MSDos format.
When I try to open this file in PSPad, PSPad opens the file in hex mode. How can I persuade PSPad that that file is a normal textfile and not a binary file?
It would be great to have a "mode change button" that switches between text and binary mode. If the file having been changed causes problems, the button could be deactivated as soon as changes to the file content have been made.
I think AutodetectBinary must be by default "2" (because there are soo many people that aren't expert ( standar users don't know what it is a hex edit and think is an bug from PSPAD ) using hex editor and their don't know what to do when pspad open in thats mode)
PSpad has autosave function but it works for saved docs only. I don't understand how somebody can work hour and more with unsaved doc...
There can be many reasons for lost data, not only the program crash
i would also love to see auto-saving for unsaved (i.e. unnamed) files. the reason is that sometimes i use my text editor as a scratchpad, i just open a new tab and quickly scribble some notes for later. i don't want to open a file or save it - i just need a scratchpad.
Hello,
I am using pspad the same way also - making some notes (lot of ) without saving too offen. Whould be really benneficial for me, and hopefully for other too, to have such functionality as MS Word+Excel, Toad, ... have.
They are saving modified files regurally to temp dir, and when program finish unexpectadly, after next start list of modified documents which were not closed or saved are shown with timestamp of last automatic save and I may chose which will be reopened to that state. Temporary file is open in that case with metadata information about original file location for Save or Save as operations.
I know this topic is old, but I want to add my point of view:
I use text editors not only for sophisticated stuff like programming, but also for things like quick notes and quick text changes, that wouldn't work within other programs. So I might write a quick shopping list, some ideas, reformat some list, etc. Of course it's possible that I get interrupted and then windows wants to restart or whatever. However, what I really want (and what I am used to within another editor) is to save unnamed files. It makes life really easier if you can have temporary files and just save them if you want to and not because you are forced to.
In short: The only condition, >>that I need to save the text first
It means "JavaScript Object Notation" for a reason. ventzy is right; it is nothing less and nothing more than a javascript object literal with two conventional restrictions: even one-word keys are quoted (hence, its just because of an old IE bug: you cannot use unquoted reserved keywords such as "do", "while" in object literal.), and you cannot use certain value types (regexp object, date object, reference). Thats all.
It also has symbols, including , " : [ ]
which I would like to have highlighted as symbols, but pspad keeps deleting both types of braces from my ini file, and in any case, it isn't applying *any* of my highlighting to the file.