FAQ

Grab the title bar of the mobile window. Drag it over the right scroll bar or right border and drop it when you see it snap in place. Any of the windows on the right are "dockable", meaning you can drag them free to float anywhere on the screen. Or you can dock them to the left or right. TIP: You can drag your FTP or Links window to the right and then even close them, but any time you restart PSPad, they will be returned to the Project Tree on the left.

You might want to keep up, say the ASCII table, but not take away space from the editor window. So you float it. Or switch sides. As long as your Project Tree is showing, you might want your Clipboard Monitor docked in there, rather than taking up more room on the right.

Examine .\PSPad\KeyMap.INI to look up a particular hotkey. Or look through Program Settings / Key Mapping.

Program settings / Program / [ ] File panel on top (un-check)

[X] is black check. [0] is gray check. [ ] is unchecked. I forgot about non-WinXP users :-(. Maybe if we change color of [0] in Help to gray it will help user.

Two modes. Restore all files (gray check) restores all open files from last PSPad state. Restores only files opened in PSPad: You edit some files in PSPad. Exit PSPad, run it again, files are back. Now exit PSPad, open some file from TotalCommander in PSPad, exit PSPad. Than run PSPad again. Back are files you previously edited, but not files you opened from Total Commander or with double click in Windows Explorer. See Save desktop.

I moved it under Tools. "Show color" works not only for HTML. And name was changed to "Color Selector" (or possibly Color Translator)

Resize it with mouse. Simply drag right edge of project. Width is remembered.

Maximize any of them and they all maximize.

Settings > Program Settings > Editor - Settings > set "Position of right edge" to 0

Additional tool button icon sets are stored in the Skin (.\PSPad\Skin) folder. Using you favorite graphics editor, make whatever changes you wish and be sure to save your changes. Open PSPad and select the updated icon set from Program Settings > Program - Look > Tool button icon set. Click OK.

If you would like to edit the default skin but cannot find it in the Skin folder you may need to extract it using a resource editor.

PSPad does not need a typical installation process: no registry entries etc. But it assumes a certain folder structure in the folder from which it is run. The PSPad.exe binary will run from anywhere with no auxiliary files, but only in its default language, which is Czech.

If you want PSPad in your native language and PSPad's advanced functionalities, you should have a folder structure like this:

PSPad.exe
PSPad.ini
-Lang (folder)
--English.ini
--Deutsch.ini
--Francais.ini
-Script (folder)
--JScript (folder) 
---YourScript.js
--VBScript (folder)
-(etc.)

The installer will create all these folders for you. If for some reason you do not want an installer for PSPad, you can choose to download an archived version, which is basically all these folders compressed into one large file. This file will have a name that is similar to PSPad12345.cab.

You must uncompress this archive file with the option "preserve subfolders" (or similar) enabled. Good programs to get this done are IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/) or 7-Zip (http://7-zip.org/). Just uncompress PSPad with "preserve subfolders" option checked, and everything will be fine.

It will swap lines with the line below it. Now called, "Swap with Line Below" Right click on a line, select Special / Swap Lines.

It works with M$ product. E.g. if you copy to clipboard from IE, you can paste it into PSPad as HTML source, not only as plain text. You can use it as paste from Word too, if you don't mind Word's HTML jungle (dirty HTML).

Select Edit > Lines manipulation > Remove Blank Lines | Remove Redundant Blank Lines

Select Edit > Lines manipulation > Join Lines

No. After file is saved, one blank line is added to the end, unless one already exists. Blank lines don't keep adding up.

Reformat delete line breaks and make new format of paragraph with right edge.

paragraph=blank line: Its mean that paragraph end is blank line. All to blank line is taken as one paragraph.

paragraph=short line: Paragraph end is sort line (about half of right edge).

And now imagine case, when you open file, make some changes, save it. Modified status is reset. Then you undo all your changes, even those before the save. PSPad makes it possible do UNDO even after file Save. (AFNAB)

PSPad base editor component hasn't this support. When new version of this component will be available, I try to add this functionality.

Word wrap has a bug, it is a bug in the component SynEdit and the people now working on SynEdit to resolve this issue.

Don't use Word Wrap function when editing is required

If you have enabled Trim Trailing spaces, Word Wrap is disabled.

Selected the text (file path, url, email) > right-click on select text > Open file appointed by selection or Click File menu > Open Special > Open file appointed by selection. You may also press and hold Ctrl key and left click to launch a URL.

Tab Width means number of spaces when you press TAB. Where Indent Width means number of spaces when you use Indent block.

There are several ways to find text:

1. Ctrl+F or Select > Find
2. F3 to find Next or Shift+F3 to find Previous
3. Shift+Ctrl+Up or Shift+Ctrl+Down to quickly find current word or selected text
4. Ctrl+E to do Incremental Search (see Statusbar Explained)

Very powerful addition to the Find command. I used: Caption=[A-Z]\w+ to find all lines with Caption followed by = and a Capitol Letter, followed by any letters and a space. Then F3 gave me the next. Learn them! (See Regular Expressions)

Use Ctrl+H to Find/Replace text in active file. Alt-F is the key I assigned to Find/Replace in Files. Be careful. Use the List button to see proposed changes. Find/Replace in Files is very powerful, and thereby dangerous. Can change all occurrences in all files in a directory.

Replace from the end of file, being sure to set direction appropriately to backwards. Its base component limitation.

RegExp for multi-line search/replace may be performed with a script.

The base component SynEdit doesn't support this yet.

RegExp for multi-line search/replace may be performed with a script.

After you start it, a window will show up to the right. This window will capture all of your Copy (to clipboard) commands, such as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and menu Edit / Copy. Then if you want to Paste one of them, you just double click on it in the Clip Board Monitor. Once open, you can: Start/Stop monitoring, Delete all items from list, Copy text to clipboard, Paste text to your document, or delete an item from the list.

Code explorer only works with some environments at this time. Try it with your English.INI files. You will see headings followed by items for that heading. You may need to click the plus to expand. This was buggy, not allowing you to open it, close it and open it again. Being fixed in next version.

Tools / Highlighter Settings / External Applications. These can be set independently for each language in the list on the left.

Every highlighter has space to set 5 external programs and one compiler. You can run it With hotkeys (F9 ...), from menu File / Open Special / Open With or from menu File / Compile. You can also show Control Toolbar (Menu View / Toolbars) or Right Click on Toolbar you have buttons on toolbar to run it.

If you have Apache installed, set correct HT Docs directory in Program Setting / Internet. If you use Shift+Ctrl+F10 instead F10, internal browser will browse from your Apache server, not from local file. You can see PHP results, CGI scripts run, ...

Download and Install Mozilla ActiveX control. Then you will be able to use Mozilla as the internal HTML preview (first button on toolbar switches between Mozilla and IE).

You can assign any external browsers in Settings / Highlighter settings / HTML / External application.

Use ViewSourceWith, available from dafizilla.sourceforge.net.

PSPad Extensions are delivered as plain text files called scripts. Scripts have to be extracted into folders according to the scripting language they are written in (*.VBS into Script\VBScript, *.JS into Script\JScript, ...). Scripts are automatically compiled when PSPad opens. (See Script Menu)

No, currently on the todo list.

You can get different Clips (highlighting) when you are inside the JavaScript part of an HTML file. That is useful when you have, say, PHP or JavaScript embedded inside your HTML. Try it (Ctrl+Space) in HTML with PHP or JScript in Multihighlighter. You get a template for the specific part of code you are in. In PHP part, you get PHP template, in HTML part, you get HTML Clips. Clips can also be interactive (like most of HTML Clips are.)

Jan: Already corrected (still in my comp). Some user from forum told me. In new version all variables in Perl will be highlighted.

If you mean user highlighter, go to Tools / Highlighter Settings / Filters. Click on your highlighter (one of the bold) and in list, click on blank line on top.

You can't modify the Filter Mask in Highlighter Settings / Filter for the User highlighters (bold font). Other highlighters are editable there. User highlighter Filter Mask you can edit in Tools / User highlighter

If you are looking at a User Highlighter (bold font), then you must edit the File Filter mask in: menu Tools / User Highlighter / File types, comma delimited. However, all the others can be edited in Tools / Highlighter Settings. (Why? Seems unnecessarily difficult)

First check out AutoCorrect: menu Tools / Spell Settings ... and enter some values for words you want replaced when you hit a space after you write them. For example, I put in my initials "sel" and my name "Steve LeBlanc". So anytime I type sel, followed by a space, it gets changed to "Steve LeBlanc". It was designed for fixing common typos, but works great for abbreviated entries. For more complex items, use Clips and User Clips. Follow the first few letters of the command (or tag) with Ctrl+Space. Or follow the full name with Shift+Space. Clips are predefined for the major languages, like C, HTML, PHP and Perl.

No, it is just a fast way to enter the rest of any single word you have started to write, a word which is already in the current document. It saves me little time. But I'm a pretty good typist. Some people love it.

It will repeat pasting template item without leaving it. e.g. when you need to add more of the same item in the list.

Sure, I think. It would have to go in the ???.DEF file.

User variables are used in Clips (See Context Files) They are always surrounded by %percentsigns% and you may use predefined ones or add/edit/delete your own using User variables dialog box (See Menu - Settings).

Clip variables are listed at top of context file. May are premade: HTML, Perl, PHP, INI, XML, JavaScript. If a For example, you define in User variables %PI%=3.141592654. In clip list you can write:
[pi | Insert number value pi]
%MyTestVariable%;

To insert the value of PI into your document, press Ctrl+Space and select pi. You must add or modify the clip in the language.def you use with your language/filetype.
i.e. PSPad\Context\HTML.def for html files.

You are not required to use them, you could wrote 3,1415... directly in the clip unter "[pi | Insert number value pi]", but the other way you could modify the value easly using User variables dialog box. You can also use the build-in variables in clips. i.e. %FileName%, %Company% or %Date% and so on.

No! PSPad only handles text files. To upload binary files, you will need a full functioning FTP client, such as ws_FTP LE or FileZilla. Even if you Open in Hex Editor, the "Save To FTP" will be grayed out. There is no Binary transfer mode available in this FTP client.

Open as Text creates a local copy of the file in the Windows Temp folder. This makes for fast edits and saves. You may then Right Click the tab and select Save To FTP. Direct Edit, on the other hand, never saves a local copy. Any time you hit Save, it saves to the FTP host. Direct Edit is better for quick edits and will also prevent you from forgetting to save your changes to the FTP site. When you double click a file, you get a Direct Edit.

No. This is really the Windows Temporary directory. In Temp is created PSPad subdirectory and files are stored in this subdirectory. But I found a bug. The path missed part of FTP_Path, so all files was stored into TEMP\PSPad\server\file.

You may disable the feature in FTP connection properties dialog. [ ]Change File Name to Lower Case

All I need is content, preferably in HTML. I want modify English pages like the Czech - right menu. Then we can publish your tutorial on PSPad web pages.

I don't publish any address without owner consent.

I can tell you how to do it. Run PSPad, minimize (with Esc) it and run it again direct with PSPad link (e.g. on Desktop). Only happens on W9x and only if you Run PSPad without file as parameter. I tried everything, but I don't know reason. All these bugs are my nightmare.

You may create or find a .HLP or .CHM file for your particular computer language on the Internet. You can then configure it in Tools / Highlighter Settings / Filters tab / Help file:. But the template definition files do a pretty good job too, if you only need a syntax reminder. In an HTML document, type the word BODY and before you hit space, press Ctrl+Space. Just remember, you don't have to fill out all the fields. (Make tutorial for this???)

Now is used only if some special cases. Now PSPad auto-sizes maximum line length. But before this number used to limit maximum line length.

No! Project from Directory creates new project from selected directory. Being renamed to: "Create Project from Directory...""

Since PSPad 4.3.1 beta (1989), Date: 07-20-2004 some features are only available by selecting Setting > Program Settings... > Click Direct Edit > Select [Special settings] section.

Real Tabs and word wrap force PSPad to guess what text you realy want to select. Do not use column select with real tabs (See Editor - settings). Do not use column select with word wrap on (See View Menu). In addition, be sure that Alt Sets Column Mode is enabled (See Editor - behaviour). It may also help to enable Scroll Past EOL.

Enable Scroll past EOL option in Program settings > Editor - behaviour.

Edit HLOnUpToSize value. (See Special settings)