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Ive recently got this computer & have installed textpad.

Its going Ok, however i have found a few problems.

1) If im looking at FILE1.txt, I decide i want to open FILE2.txt - it opens in textpad ok, however its in a separate instance of Textpad.

Is it possible to open the 2nd file in the SAME/existing instance, but as a separate TAB within textpad ?

2) If i open FILE1.txt, it opens another instance of textpad. Now I have 3 THREE instances of textpad open, FILE1.txt, FILE2.txt and FILe1.txt (two versions of FILE1.txt)

Is it possible to re-open my existing version of a file if i have it open ?

gordon
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Both of your issues can be resolved with the same change in setting.

  • In Textpad go to Configure
  • Then choose Preferences
  • Make sure you're on the General tab
  • Look for the checkbox labeled Allow multiple instances to run and uncheck it
  • Click Apply and close out of that window
  • Now whenever you open a new txt file it will open as an additional tab in your existing Textpad instances

gif of setting being changed

  • Also as a result of the change you made above, whenever you go to open a file that is already open in Textpad it will not create a new instance or even a new tab. It will just take you to the tab of the file that is already open.
n8te
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