I really appreciate the responses from oXygen and the community. Here's a quick re-cap (I'll use Meta in place of Ctrl/Cmd.) 1. I learned that last Meta-E can be repeated with Meta-Slash. However, I'm not the only one to believe it would be more intuitive, with no negative side-effects, for Meta-E to simply remember the last value instead of always defaulting to 'a'. This would be especially useful if combined with my 2nd suggestion, allowing .class and #id in the Meta-E dialog.
When you hit Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X and nothing is selected in the editor the actions Copy and Cut are disabled. If they are disabled they cannot modify the clipboard. This is true for oXygen and other applications, on the Mac OS X and Windows machines where I tested these actions.
I have tested this repeatedly, and Meta-C and Meta-X certainly clears the clipboard when nothing is selected. I think what it is doing is Copying/Cutting the current line. Is this an option in Preferences?
5. Cursor movement up/down: always remember x position from line to line, even after pasting.
A unique, useful feature of Textpad, it seems. It will be considered for future inclusion -- thanks, Sorin.
6. The "Delete Tag" keyboard shortcut on Mac (Cmd-Opt-X) doesn't work
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