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OK thanks for the quick turnaround. I guess there's no change: "Convert tabs to spaces when saving files" does literally what it says: it converts all tab characters in the file, but only when saving - the editor still shows tabs.

If I turn off "Smart Home key behavior", it stays off during the session, but after restarting EDP it's always back. All other options I care about are simply saved.

If I set "Convert tabs to spaces when saving files" on, and save a file (whether it was edited or not and whether it contains tabs or not), EDP crashes. This is the 64 bit version on Windows 7. I reset all pages in the options to make sure.

I don't really care about this option in its rather brutal ...

.svn directories still show up in directory comparisons. I never considered that to be a bug. Perhaps they should be marked as "ignored" but that is not a feature in directory comparisons (in EDP 3.4). Then again, it's called exclude pattern , not ignore pattern . On the other hand, the include ...

I'm not sure what options were there before, but given the opportunity, I chose "FILE.EXT in the following directory" and typed the same relative directory as in Dir Comparison > More > Subdirectory for backup. Which may not be what was intended, but there's no complaint about the directory not ...

For months I've had both backup options under Dir Comparison > More turned on ( Back up files replaced during Copy operation and Ignore backup subdirectory in comparions ). Very nice. Except when you try to explicitly compare the backup directory to the "current" one. EDP shows the backup directory ...

If Match whole word only is on, find often sets a selection one character off to the left.
E.g. compare a file with the line nowww www with an empty file or so.
Do Ctrl-F www and turn on Match whole word only . Find finds " ww" instead.

This in 29/11 beta (and the one I had before).
Note that if ...

Working perfectly! And much appreciated.

Ignoring any technical reasons, isn't 'Options | Dir Comparison | More' a more appropriate place for this option?

A directory comparison shows "blocks" of files. For instance if you order by column Status, you're likely to have four blocks: Same files, Changed files, Deleted files, Added files.
Copying those "blocks" isn't as easy as in file comparisons. You need to select all the files in the block and as far ...

Sounds like a good protection against recursive directory structures. But it's a real disappointment for those who use junctions properly. Being able to switch off this protection is now definitely #1 on my personal wish list.

It doesn't matter to me if EDP loops indefinitely in case I'm stupid ...

Windows supports something resembling symbolic links to directories, under the name junctions or reparse points. AFAIK they exist since Windows 2000 and NTFS 5 but support became official with Windows XP. Don't ask me how it works but you can create them off empty directories.

When comparing ...

"Copy to Clipboard" actually does copy files to the Clipboard.
Not on any operating system I know, which does not include XP. Just like the Copy operation in Windows Explorer, it records only the names of files on the clipboard. If you overwrite the original file before pasting, the pasted "copy ...

it's similar to "Copy to Clipboard" and to "Copy as Text"
I have a hard time figuring out what similarity you mean. Surely it's not about the copy operation itself. Neither "Copy to Clipboard" nor "Copy as Text" actually copy files. They just write to file descriptions to the clipboard. Neither ...

I didn't find any bug in the latest beta so I have to nitpick...

I'm always looking for the "Copy to Third Directory" right-click menu entry on directory comparisons; why is it hidden between the Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-C items and not next to the other two "Copy to ... directory" items?

And these ...

Beta 10/10/2005. In a directory comparison, when Use View Filter is on and prunes the items displayed, Copy as Text does a half-hearted job. Only some of the selected lines are copied and some are pasted as empty lines.