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First off, thanks for creating such a nice program! PSPad is fast, feature-rich, and free! I almost thought I found the perfect editor and was switching from my long-beloved ConTEXT editor to PSPad. Then I hit the speed bumps: Various bugs, some big, some small. The biggest two bugs that prevented me from using PSPad are: 1. It does not respect the permission setting on a Unix system. I use ConTEXT or PSPad to write to a Unix server using Samba, and ConTEXT respects the permission setting on the existing file. If the file I was editing has 0755 before, it stays 0755; if it was 0644, it stays 0644. But PSPad always change EVERY executable file (0755) to the awkward 0675! (but 0644 stays the same). This is a killer bug that really prevented me from even using PSPad at all (who remembers resetting Unix file permissions every time you modifies it with PSPad?). 2. Every time one changes any key mapping, PSPad loses recognition of all the control characters (Home, End, arrow keys, numpad, even backspace!). It renders the editor almost unusable, or the key mapping feature useless. Some other users also mentioned losing numpad, backspace etc. recognition, and I bet that's due to the same reason. I found if you load a customized key mapping file, same happens. If you name the keymapping file as the ini file so that key mapping is loaded at start (it's surprising why it wasn't done in the distribution), then the program losing recognition after start. What frustrates me was that being such serious bugs, they persisted from the PSPad 4.3.x to 4.5.0, a span over half a year - I happily downloaded 4.5.0 only to find out it still has these serious bugs and still was unusable! I would definitely consider PSPad again if all critical bugs are fixed. Thanks in advance! For now, I have to go back to my reliable ConTEXT, even though it has much less features. With ConTEXT, there's also sometimes long wait between releases, but there're no critical bugs in release and annoying smaller bugs are usually fixed between versions. -- PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
