January 24th, 2012Bug fixes:
· Clip Collection: When not using AceText, the drop-down menu of the Open button on the Clip Collection panel did not always remember the collections that you opened previously.
January 16th, 2012New feature:
· 64-bit: EditPad's installer now automatically installs a 64-bit version of EditPad on 64-bit Windows.
Improvements:
· Dockable panels: New mechanism for docking panels makes it easier to position panels exactly where you want. Instead of moving the mouse pointer to an invisible area next to the edge of another panel, you now move the mouse pointer to icons that appear in the center of the panel that you're dragging over.
· Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines now shows a progress meter.
· File|Open: Show a warning when opening a file causes a working copy of that file to be opened along with it.
· Forum: The button to delete messages is now labeled Cancel for messages that are being edited, to make it more obvious that this button deletes the edited message, but leaves the original message in place.
· Search: Selection as Search Text now escapes regex metacharacters if the Regular Expressions search option is active.
Bug fixes:
· Clip Collection: When not using AceText, the drop-down menu of the Open button on the Clip Collection panel did not always remember the collections that you opened previously.
· Editor: Home and End when Scroll Lock is active now scroll to the first and last column in the file instead of the first and last line; Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End still scroll to the first and last line when Scroll Lock is active.
· Search: Pressing Ctrl+Z (Undo) while the large search box has keyboard focus after Ctrl+F (Prepare to Search) now correctly reverts the search term to what it was before Ctrl+F replaced it with the word selected in the main editor.
· Tabs: Double-clicking the tab background to add a blank tab immediately closes that tab when double-clicking at the spot where the new tab's X button appears.
· Tabs: Dropping a file onto the file tabs background should make it the last file in the project.
· Windows 7: Progress meter was sometimes shown on the taskbar button when there was no progress to indicate, and was sometimes not shown on the taskbar button when a progress meter was being shown.
December 9th, 2011Improvements:
· Editor: Right-clicking on the blank space after the end of a selected line now shows the context menu for selected text.
· Installer: Create portable installation without admin rights.
Bug fixes:
· Editor: If a file had more than 9,999 lines then the width of the margin was sometimes inconsistent until you caused all visible lines to be repainted.
· Editor: Opening a file larger than 64K with line numbers turned on by default sometimes caused an access violation error.
· Editor: Right-clicking on blank space inside (rectangular) selections now shows the context menu for selected text.
· Portable: Do not prompt to be the default editor when running a portable installations as portable installs should not touch the host PC.
· Printing failed if the font was not a TrueType font.
· Search|Copy Search Matches: If searching for all the matches took long enough for a progress meter to appear, EditPad failed to close the progress meter after copying the search matches, making further interaction with EditPad impossible.
October 20th, 2011Bug fixes:
· Editor: Adding lines to or deleting lines from a file that was still being word wrapped in the background caused the file to be wrapped incorrectly, possibly resulting in errors when trying to edit the incorrectly wrapped lines.
· Preferences|Keyboard: Changes in key combinations were not actually applied to the menu items.
· Search|Prepare to Search did not show the full search panel when both the search toolbar and search panel were invisible (7.0.7 only).
· View|Browser showed an error code 42 even though the file was correctly opened in the browser (7.0.7 only).
· Windows 7: If you minimized EditPad, restored it and moved it to a different monitor, then some commands such as File|Open moved EditPad's window back to the position it was previously restored to.
· Windows 7: If you placed EditPad on a monitor that has the taskbar at the left or at the top, minimized EditPad, and then restored it, EditPad's position would be shifted by the width or height of the taskbar.
October 20th, 2011New features:
· Forum: Attach the clip selected in the Clip Collection panel and add attached clips to the Clip Collection panel.
· Forum: Attach the collection from the Clip Collection panel and load attached clip collections into the Clip Collection panel.
Improvements:
· Forum: Change cursor when toggling between insert and overwrite mode if the text layout for the default file type uses different cursors for insert and overwrite mode.
· Search: If the Search drop-down list is already visible (on a custom toolbar) even when the Search toolbar is not, focus the Search drop-down list rather than showing the full Search panel.
Bug fixes:
· Editor: Backspace moved the cursor without actually deleting any characters when the cursor was positioned after the indentation spaces on a line and all preceding lines in the file have equal or more indentation and "backspace unindents" was enabled in Options|Preferences|Cursors and "auto indent" was enabled in the Options menu.
· Editor: Pressing the arrow right key while the cursor was at the end of the line did not move the active line highlighting to the next line if the cursor was invisible (blinking on/off) at the moment it was moved.
· File Types, Colors: Apply button did nothing.
· File|Print: Printing the second time failed if the file was larger than 64K and part of it was selected.
· Forum: Pressing Ctrl+C when the list of conversations or messages had keyboard focus copied an URL using the editpadlite: protocol instead of the editpad: protocol that EditPad actually responds to.
· Preferences, Panels: Font setting for side panels is now also applied to the spell checker.
· Preferences, Save Files: Specifying a specific folder for backups with a trailing backslash no longer causes errors when saving backups.
· Search: Padding was not applied to placeholders for capturing groups such as %GROUP1:6L%.
· Search: Replace All using a regular expression sometimes results in incorrect line breaks.
· Statusbar: Keyboard indicator did not correctly indicate the first key of a two-stage key combination.
· Toolbars: Main menu is missing the Go and Extra menus when adding it as a toolbar button.
· View|Browser: If the default browser did not use DDE, the View|Browser launched the browser but did not pass it it the file to be viewed.
August 19th, 2011Bug fixes:
· Opening files on UNC paths via the command line or via Windows Explorer failed in version 7.0.5 because EditPad 7.0.5 interpreted UNC paths incorrectly.
· View|Browser: If the default browser did not use DDE, the View|Browser command executed the file to be viewed rather than executing the browser and passing it the file to be viewed.
August 16th, 2011New feature:
· Editor: Ctrl+Left Shift and Ctrl+Right Shift toggle the direction of the text to left-to-right or right-to-left when a keyboard for a right-to-left language is installed (though not necessarily active).
Improvements:
· Search: Auto-completion of the Search drop-down list on the search toolbar (when using it without the full search panel) is now case sensitive when the Case Sensitive search option is turned on; the Replace drop-down list is now always case sensitive.
· Search: Pressing Esc while the search or replace drop-down list has keyboard focus (while using the search toolbar without the full search panel) moves keyboard focus back to the main editor.
· Text Layout|Cursors: Cursor shape now has two flag options. One makes the flag indicate the direction of the input language (as in Notepad), the other the direction of the text the cursor is at (as EditPad 7 did previously).
Bug fixes:
· Convert: Convert menu commands inserted an extraneous space when converting a rectangular selection that spans only a single line.
· Editor: Characters were squished together when using a bold proportionally spaced font and the first file you opened with that font had word wrapping set to a specific line length.
· Editor: Pasting while a rectangular block is selected does not correctly replace the selection unless the cursor is in the upper left corner.
· Editor: When line numbers are being shown and word wrap is off, the left hand gutter does not expand to accommodate line numbers beyond 9,999 when adding lines to the file if it previously had fewer than 10,000 lines.
· Forum: Editing a message and then deleting the edits instead of sending them incorrectly decremented the message count for the conversation.
· Help|Create Portable Installation did not copy over the layouts of the toolbars and side panels.
· Keyboard: Pressing F10 activated the main menu instead of invoking the command it was assigned to (View|Files Panel by default).
· Options|Text Layout: Pressing F1 or clicking the Help button on the text layout configuration window did nothing.
· Preferences|Save Files: Saving backups in a specific folder should be disabled when the "hidden history folder" option is selected.
· Search: Alt+Letter keyboard shortcuts that aren't used on the search toolbar but are used by main menu items don't work when the search or replace drop-down list has keyboard focus.
· Search: Replacing with the %MATCH% placeholder triggered an access violation when a regular expression found a zero-length match.
· Tabs: Right-clicking on the X when close buttons are shown directly on tabs caused a "list index out of bounds" error.
· Text Layout: The strictly monospaced left-to-right layout now correctly spaces the full-width variants of ASCII characters as ideographs even when the option to space all ASCII characters as ideographs is off.
· Toolbars: The Large Icons item in the right-click menu for toolbars did not change its checked state when changing the same option via the Customize item in the right-click menu.
· Undo and redo should not work on files that have been marked as read-only after saving the changes.
· View: Switching between custom layouts or restoring the default layout sometimes failed with a "cannot focus disabled or invisible window" error, causing further errors when trying to interact with the toolbars and/or side panels.
· Windows 7: Maximizing EditPad, then minimizing it, and then double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer brought up EditPad's window in its restored size (not maximized).
June 28th, 2011Bug fix:
· Options|Stay On Top causes EditPad to stay on top of some of its own dialog boxes.
June 27th, 2011Improvement:
· Editor: Full double-buffering of all edit controls to eliminate flicker.
Bug fixes:
· Editor: Changing the font size with Ctrl+wheel, switching to another file, and then switching back displayed the file with the original font but spaced as if it was still using the changed font size.
· Editor: Lines containing tabs were not displayed correctly when using a right-to-left text layout.
· Editor: The text cursor was positioned incorrectly on lines containing both tabs and ideographs when using the "monospaced left-to-right" text layout.
· Editor: Typing or pasting into an empty file and then Shift+Clicking somewhere selected the text from the start of the file until the click instead of from the end of the file (where the text cursor is) until the click.
· Options|Stay On Top causes EditPad to stay on top of some of its own dialog boxes.
· Search: Incremental search was not reset when you moved the cursor, causing incorrect incremental search results, or errors if you closed the file and then changed the search term (Lite only).
· Tabs: Right-clicking on the tabs now shows the context menu when the mouse button is released rather than when it is pressed.
· Windows 7: If the icon next to the system clock was enabled, maximizing EditPad, minimizing or closing it, and clicking on the icon next to the system clock restored EditPad but did not maximize it.
· Windows 7: If the icon next to the system clock was enabled, restoring EditPad (so it's not maximized), closing EditPad with the X button, then right-clicking the icon next to the clock and selecting Exit caused EditPad to pop up briefly before closing, instead of closing without showing itself.
June 8th, 2011Improvements:
· File|Reload from Disk: Do not clear out the file in EditPad if it no longer exists on disk; prompt to retry reloading the file; do nothing if canceled.
· Menus: When using Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts to access menu items that have submenus but are also commands in themselves, holding down Alt will open the submenu while releasing Alt will activate the command. For example: holding down Alt, pressing F, pressing O, releasing Alt will open the File|Open submenu with recent files. Holding down Alt, pressing F, releasing Alt, pressing O will activate the File|Open command and show the open file dialog.
· Text Layout: Ideographs are now exactly twice as wide as ASCII characters when using the "monospaced left-to-right" text layout with the option to use full-width ASCII characters turned off.
Bug fixes:
· Editor: Lines containing tabs were not displayed correctly when using a right-to-left text layout.
· EditPad could not be minimized after clicking the taskbar button twice (but don't double-click) while the icon next to the system clock and the option to hide the taskbar button are enabled. Clicking on the icon next to the system clock allowed EditPad to be minimized again.
· EditPad could not be restored by clicking the taskbar button directly if it was minimized while the Clip Collection panel was open and AceText was running. Starting a new EditPad instance did restore the running instance and shutting down AceText made the problem go away.
· File Types|Colors and Syntax: Selecting "Clickable URLs" syntax coloring significantly slowed down EditPad 7's handling of files with extremely long lines.
· Forum: The Help|Forum menu item now restores the forum window if it was minimized.
· Forum: With the EditPad icon next to the system clock enabled, clicking on one of the forum links in the help file to discuss a help topic caused EditPad to try to connect to the forum each time EditPad was restarted after closing it but not fully exiting it.
· Options|Text Layout: Changes made to the text layout configuration via Options|Text Layout were not preserved when restarting EditPad Pro unless other preferences were also changed after changing the text layout configuration.
· Search: The Loop Automatically option fails to loop if there is only one file open and the All Files search option is turned on.
May 30th, 2011New features:
· Forum: Attach file being edited.
· Forum: Attach search panel settings.
Improvements:
· File Types: Ignore unquoted spaces before and after each file mask in the list of file masks.
· Forum: Forum window stays enabled when EditPad's main window is showing a modal dialog box.
· Search: Preserve state of the Highlight option when restarting EditPad.
· Search: Take the whole search match (selection) into account rather than just the end of the search match (cursor position) when scrolling the text to put the search match into view.
Bug fixes:
· Double-clicking on whitespace at the start or end of a line should not select the line break and any whitespace on the previous or next line.
· Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines failed with an access violation in EditPad Lite. The file being edited was unaffected by this.
· Open and save dialog boxes did not appear when "disable visual themes" was turned on in the compatibility settings for EditPad. Since EditPad is fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7, you should not turn on any of the compatibility settings.
· Options|Font: If only one file is open, changing that file's font and then closing it does not use the default font for the new blank Untitled 1 file, even though it uses all other default settings for that file.
· Proxy settings were not saved unless you changed other preferences too.
· Search: Hiding the search toolbar, using the full search panel, closing the full search panel, and showing the search toolbar again did not update the search toolbar with the search term last used on the full search panel.
· Search: Line by line searches using regular expressions did not restrict the full regex match to a single line.
· Search: Pasting into the search and replace drop-down lists failed with a beep if the text on the clipboard included a line break; now it will paste the first line.
· Search: Pressing Enter in the Search drop-down list on the search toolbar (when not using the full search panel) always moved keyboard focus to the main editor, even when that option was disabled in the Search Preferences.
· Text Layout Configuration window now has scroll bars when the whole window doesn't fit on the screen.
May 16th, 2011EditPad Pro features now available in EditPad Lite:
· Character map.
· Clip collection.
· Command line parameters for opening the file at a particular line or character. This will allow the next free minor updates of RegexBuddy, RegexMagic, and PowerGREP to select search matches in EditPad Lite 7, like they already can with EditPad Pro 6.
· Extra, Sort.
· Extra, Trim Whitespace.
· Preferences, Keyboard: Configure keyboard shortcuts.
· Preferences, Save Files: Auto-save and backup options.
· Preferences, Shortcuts: Create "Open with EditPad" context menu item.
· Search: Regular expression support.
· Search: Highlight search matches.
· Search: Incremental search.
· Large toolbar icons.
New features:
· Automatic ASCII->Unicode interpretation for encodings that use sequences of ASCII characters to encode Unicode characters. This works with files encoded in VIQR, ASCII+\uFFFF, ASCII+, ASCII+ and ASCII+&html;. E.g. for ASCII+&html; typing é inserts those 8 ASCII characters into the file. When you type the ; the whole sequence will appear as é in EditPad. For VIQR, typing e' inserts those two ASCII characters, and EditPad will show é. If you want the ASCII codes to appear literally, you have to escape them yourself. EditPad does not automatically encode & as & for ASCII+&html; or ' as \' for VIQR. If you type in é with one of these encodings, EditPad will display the é and insert é or e' into the file.
· Character Map: Buttons to insert the character, its code page index in dec/hex, its Unicode code point in dec/hex or its XML entity.
· Character Map: Filter map on Unicode blocks and scripts in addition to or instead of Unicode properties.
· Character Map: Look up characters by typing in their code points.
· Context menu item on file tabs to copy the file's path to the clipboard.
· Convert|Text Encoding: ArmSCII (Armenian).
· Convert|Text Encoding: ASCII+\uFFFF ASCII+ ASCII+ ASCII+&html;
· Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-CN (Simplified Chinese).
· Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-JP (Japanese).
· Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-KR (Korean).
· Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-TW (Traditional Chinese).
· Convert|Text Encoding: GEOSTD8 (Georgian).
· Convert|Text Encoding: HZ (Simplified Chinese) (conversion only; no direct editing).
· Convert|Text Encoding: ISCII (Indic).
· Convert|Text Encoding: ISIRI-3342 (Persian).
· Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-CN (RFC 1922) (conversion only; no direct editing).
· Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-JP (RFC 1468), ISO-2022-JP-1 (RFC 2237), ISO-2022-JP-2 (RFC1554) (conversion only; no direct editing). Also known as "JIS".
· Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-KR (RFC 1557) (conversion only; no direct editing).
· Convert|Text Encoding: Kamenický (Czech and Slovak).
· Convert|Text Encoding: KZ-1048 (Kazach).
· Convert|Text Encoding: Macintosh character sets.
· Convert|Text Encoding: Mazovia (Polish).
· Convert|Text Encoding: MIK (Bulgarian).
· Convert|Text Encoding: PTCP154 (Cyrillic Asian).
· Convert|Text Encoding: TSCII (Tamil; conversion only; no direct editing).
· Convert|Text Encoding: US-ASCII (7-bit).
· Convert|Text Encoding: UTF-7 (conversion only; no direct editing).
· Convert|Text Encoding: Vietnamese code pages: VISCII, VIQR/Vietnet, VNI, VPS, TCVN
· Convert|Text Encoding: YUSCII.
· Edit, Insert Date and Time, Other Date and Time: Screen that list all available date and time placeholders to easily build up a date and time format.
· Edit, Insert Date and Time: History menu with recently used date/time formats instead of a single fixed date/time format configured in the preferences.
· EditPad Lite can now be licensed (purchased) for business and government use. It is still free for personal use.
· Extra, Consolidate blank lines: multiple blank lines are replaced by a single blank line.
· Extra, Remove blank lines.
· File Types, Colors: Ability to create multiple user-defined presets.
· File Types, Colors: Ability to select a color preset for each file type, to allow different file types to use different color combinations.
· File Types, Colors: Color buttons show a color wheel to select any color instead of boxes for entering R,G,B numbers.
· File Types, Editor: Font and text layout can now be configured per file type.
· File Types, Encoding: Option to auto-detect ASCII+UCN and ASCII+XML entities.
· File Types: Choose the default file type for new files.
· File Types: Multiple file types can now be selected at the same time in the file type configuration screen and any changes made in the file type configuration screen are applied to all selected file types.
· File, Save Copy As: Checkbox on the Save dialog to open the copy of the file in EditPad right after saving the copy (Windows Vista and 7 only).
· Go|Next Editing Position: Move in the opposite way from Go|Previous Editing Position. EditPad now remembers 16 editing positions per file instead of just 4.
· Keyboard: Ctrl+punctuation key combinations for typing of accented characters on a keyboard that does not support them.
· Keyboard: Key 5 on the numeric keypad scrolls the view to center the cursor in the screen when Num Lock is off.
· Options, Right-to-Left: Toggle between left-to-right and right-to-left writing.
· Options, Text Layout: Increase or reduce the line height and character width by one or more pixels, for a tighter or roomier display. Add one or more pixels of extra line spacing to make lines easier to distinguish. Set everything to zero to emulate EditPad 5 and 6. Set font size adjustment to zero, and extra line spacing to 1 pixel to emulate EditPad 4.
· Options, Text Layout: Option to display ASCII characters using full-width characters when a file is detected to contain ideographs, so columns made with spaces and tabs line up nicely when ASCII and ideographs are mixed.
· Options, Text Layout: Option to force the editor to be monospaced, even when a proportionally spaced font is used.
· Options, Text Layout: Option to toggle Ctrl+Left/Right between always going to the start of the next word (like programming editors) instead select the next word (EditPad style).
· Options, Text Layout: Option to treat all non-whitespace non-word characters as word characters, as whitespace characters (as in EPP 6), or to ignore them when double-clicking on a word to select it, or when using Ctrl+Del etc.
· Options, Text Layout: Presets and custom selections with combination of font, reading order, cursor movement, cursor appearance, and character spacing.
· Preferences, Cursors: Backspace unindents when Auto Indent is turned on in the Options menu. In EditPad 6 pressing backspace when there is only whitespace to the left of the cursor unindents the line when auto indent is on. Turning off this option restores the EditPad Pro 5 behavior, where backspace always deletes one character to the left of the text cursor.
· Preferences, Cursors: Option to make arrow left and right move the cursor at the left/right edge of the selection and clear the selection (like Notepad does) instead of moving the cursor left/right one character and clearing the selection (like Wordpad does).
· Preferences, Cursors: Smart End key.
· Preferences, Editor: Automatically turning on "selection only" when pressing Ctrl+F with a selection that spans multiple lines is now an option.
· Preferences, Editor: Double-clicking a word instantly highlights all occurrences of that word.
· Preferences, Editor: Option to always highlight the active line, even when the editor does not have keyboard focus.
· Preferences, Editor: Option to disable drag-and-drop editing as some people find it a little to easy to made inadvertant changes while clicking about with the mouse.
· Preferences, Editor: Option to make Ctrl+Wheel change the font size (zoom) instead of scroll one page. Zooms individual edit boxes without changing the font in the text layout configuration.
· Preferences, Open Files: Option to automatically reload all modified files when switching from another application to EditPad, instead of just the active file.
· Preferences, Open Files: Option to automatically reload local files, but not network files.
· Preferences, Panels: Change the font and colors used by the side panels.
· Preferences, Save Files: Backup option to add the date and time as an extension.
· Preferences, Save Files: Option to specify a specific folder to create all backup files in.
· Preferences, Save Files: Quick backup option that moves files and saves a new file (like EditPad Pro 6), vs. an overwrite option that makes a backup copy and overwrites the original file (like EditPad Pro 4 and 5). The key difference is that while the former option is faster, only the latter will guarantee that the file saved keeps all of its file attributes. Particularly if the file is on a non-Windows system this will make a difference, as EditPad cannot control the file attributes like UNIX file ownership that Windows does not control.
· Preferences, Save Files: Single backup appending ~.
· Preferences, Tabs: Font.
· Preferences, Tabs: Option to add new tabs at the end instead of to the right of the active tab.
· Preferences, Tabs: Option to have an X button directly on each tab.
· Preferences, Tabs: Use most recent order when switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab.
· Print preview: Select any of the color schemes defined in the Color Preferences, and remember the selected scheme in relation to the one used for the editor.
· Read Only: Toggle read only status via an item in the context menu of a file's tab.
· Search, Instant Highlight: Automatically highlight all occurrences of the selected text.
· Search, Inverted Line by Line: Match lines that do not contain the search term.
· Search, Line by Line: Search each line separately, and select the entire line if it contains the search term.
· Search, Toggle Search Panel: Toggles the visibility of the search panel, without changing the search text.
· Search: A progress bar now appears for long searches, allowing the search to be aborted.
· Search: Cut or copy all search matches to the clipboard.
· Search: Placeholders %MATCH%, %MATCHN%, %LINE%, %LINEN%, and %FILE% with padding and arithmetic options.
· Search: Search toolbar can now be used shown with or without the full search panel with multi-line search and replace edit controls. Small search and replace boxes appear on the toolbar when the search panel is hidden.
· Side panels can now be docked anywhere and made to float.
· Tabs: Holding down the Control button on the keyboard while clicking the X button on the tabs or pressing down the mouse wheel closes the tab without saving the file.
· Tip of the day: Previous Tip button.
· Toolbar and Menus: Side panel commands can now be added to context menus and the main toolbar.
· Toolbar and Menus: The main menu, all the toolbars and most of the context menus can now be configured by right-clicking and selecting Configure, allowing all items to be rearranged and unused items to be removed.
· Toolbar and Menus: Toolbars can now be docked anywhere or made to float.
· Unicode file name support.
· Unicode signature (BOM) status bar indicator, and an easy way to toggle writing the BOM for individual files.
Improvements:
· Block|Write and Block|Append have been renamed to Block|Write to File and Block|Append to File for clarity.
· Convert|Text Encoding: Converting from Unicode or any of the other legacy Vietnamese encodings to Windows 1258 now decomposes characters so that Vietnamese characters that are represented with combining marks in Windows 1258 are properly converted.
· Create Portable Installation: If a PortableApps folder exists, install into a subfolder of that folder instead of into a subfolder in the root of the drive.
· Drag and drop: Bring EditPad to front when dropping a file or text onto it.
· Drag and drop: Drag URLs as URLs rather than as text, so they can be dropped on a web browser to open them.
· Drag and drop: Dragging a tab now shows an image of the tab while dragging.
· Drag and drop: Dragging and dropping text onto the selected text (e.g. from the main editor onto the selected search term after opening the search panel) now replaces the selected text rather than inserting the dropped text in the middle of it when not using persistent selections.
· Edit|Delete Line: Do not move the cursor to the start of the line.
· Edit|Redo: The keyboard shortcut for Redo was changed to Ctrl+Y to be more in line with other Windows applications. You can change it back to Ctrl+R via Options, Preferences, Keyboard.
· Editor: Moving the cursor up and down when using a proportionally spaced font now maintains the horizontal pixel position instead of the column position of the cursor.
· Editor: Tabs now line up correctly when using a proportionally spaced font.
· Editor: The mouse pointer is now updated when the text scrolls underneath it (e.g. to change to a hand pointing at a link).
· EditPad 7 runs side by side with EditPad 4, 5, and 6 instead of reactivating a running instance of EditPad 4, 5, or 6 like those versions do. EditPad 7 only reactivates EditPad 7 instances.
· Eliminated 3d sunken border as to put the scroll bar against the edge of the screen if EditPad is maximized, making it very easy to hit with the mouse.
· Exit item is now at the bottom of the right-click menu of EditPad's icon next to the system clock for consistency with other Windows applications.
· Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines: Options what to delete: 1st occurrence of duplicate lines, 2nd and following occurrences of duplicate lines, and/or non-duplicated lines.
· File Types, Colors: Make the color for links configurable.
· File Types, Colors: The bold, italic, and underline checkboxes are now hidden for items on which they have no effect.
· File Types: Eliminated the distinction between core file types and other file types, so all file types can be reordered or deleted.
· File Types: Exporting file types saves all selected file types into a single .ini file.
· File Types: Importing file types now asks if file types that are already in the list should be replaced or not if some are determined to be duplicates (only works with file types exported from EditPad 7).
· File, New: Automatically number untitled files.
· File|Reload from disk: Auto-detect the file type based on the contents of the reloaded file if the file is using the "any file" file type.
· File|Reopen: Add files when closing them, and remove them when opening them, to make the Reopen menu an easy way to retrieve accidentally closed files instead of a list of recently opened files that mostly shows files you have already open at the top.
· Go, Back and Go, Forward move back and forward between files in the order they were last edited. These replace View, Previously Edited File which rotated through the last 5 files.
· HTML meta tag check for determining the file's encoding now supports the new HTML5 charset meta tag. must be in the first 512 bytes of the document.
· Keyboard: Do not use default keyboard shortcuts with Ctrl+Alt+letter if a keyboard layout is installed that uses AltGr, to prevent conflicts between Ctrl+Alt+letter and AltGr+letter.
· Keyboard: Tab key respects overwrite mode and replaces the next character(s) with the tab or its equivalent in spaces.
· Keyboard: When expanding a selection with Shift+Up/Down, select everything to the start/end of the file when up/down is pressed with the cursor already on the first/last line. Moving the cursor away again from the first or last line restores the cursor's previous column position.
· Mouse: Double-click on spaces to select a run of spaces, just like double-clicking on a letter selects words.
· Opening a file via Windows Explorer (or any other application) should place the tab for the new file after the tab for the current file, instead of at the end. The File|Open menu item in EditPad does the same. Closing the new file then reactivates the previously edited file.
· Paste: In Overwrite mode, pasting text should overwrite just like typing text does.
· Preferences, Import: Preferences exported by previous versions of EditPad can be imported.
· Preferences, Save Files: Turning on the option to automatically save working copies every few minutes now causes EditPad Pro to save working copies and leave them behind instead of prompting to save when you shut down Windows while EditPad has unsaved files open.
· Preferences, System: The option to save settings into an .ini file instead of the registry has been removed. EditPad now always uses an .ini file. On some systems, EditPad took a long time to close, possibly due to anti-spyware software checking registry writes, making them very slow.
· Read Only: Files forced to be read-only via the status bar indicator or the Open File dialog checkbox do not lose their read-only status when reloading from disk.
· Reload from disk prompt now has a button for closing the file.
· Search, Highlight: Highlighting multi-line search matches (which require the whole file to be scanned from the top rather than just the visible part) is now done in a background thread. If match highlighting hasn't reached the visible part of the file yet, it is displayed immediately without search matches until highlighting catches up, rather than waiting for all the matches to be found.
· Search, Highlight: Highlighting of search matches is now updated instantly as you type in the search match instead of after a fixed 2-second delay.
· Search: Alt+Letter mnemonics for search options that take priority over main menu items when the search panel has keyboard focus.
· Search: Ctrl+F starts the search if the search box already has keyboard focus.
· Search: Option checkboxes have been replaced with toolbar buttons.
· Search: Remember the visibility of the search panel and its size between EditPad sessions.
· Search: Selecting Remove All in one of the history menus now clears all 3.
· Spell check: The replacements added to the user word list now take precedence over the main dictionary. This allows you to delete words from the dictionary by adding an automatic replacement for that word.
· Undo: Changes made before and after saving a file now always result in separate items in the undo history, so there is always a way to undo to the point of each save. E.g. type "foo", save, type "bar", undo removes "bar" instead of "foobar".
· View, New Editor: How the new editor is opened can now be configured in a submenu of the View, New Editor command rather than via the Preferences screen.
· View, New Editor: Starting a new editor that splits the current editor now resets the size of the original editor when the new editor is closed and the original editor was not resized after the new editor was started.
· Vista & 7: EditPad now scales itself instead of letting Windows handle the scaling when the font size in Windows has been increased by more than 125% (i.e. the display resolution is more than 120 DPI) resulting in a much crisper appearance of EditPad.
· When EditPad is closed while maximized on a multi-monitor system, it now remembers which monitor it was maximized on in addition to being maximized.
· Windows 7: Long operations that show a popup window with a progress meter now also indicate the progress on the taskbar button.
February 17th, 2011Bug fixes:
· Drag and drop: Dropping large amounts of text on EditPad sometimes caused EditPad to crash.
· Print: Printouts were truncated if the file was edited without word wrapping and the printout required lines to be wrapped and nothing was changed in the print preview that triggered a refresh of the page count.
· Search: Replace & Find Next resets the search range to the match that was replaced if it occurred right at the start of the search range (i.e. the selection being seached through with the "selection only" option).
· Tabs: Opening and closing a file with a name longer than fits on the tabs could cause the tabs to become invisible.
June 17th, 2010Improvements:
· EditPad now cleans up obsolete history item registry keys or ini sections when saving its state.
· EditPad now retries opening the clipboard several times instead of immediately showing a "cannot open clipboard" error if another application such as a clipboard monitor is interfering with EditPad's ability to access the clipboard.
Bug fixes:
· Double-clicking URLs such as file://\\server\share\file.txt did nothing.
· Search: If a file other than the active file needed to be reloaded from disk while searching through all files, an access violation occurred if the file is larger than 64K.
June 17th, 2010Improvements:
· EditPad now cleans up obsolete history item registry keys or ini sections when saving its state.
· EditPad now retries opening the clipboard several times instead of immediately showing a "cannot open clipboard" error if another application such as a clipboard monitor is interfering with EditPad's ability to access the clipboard.
Bug fixes:
· Double-clicking URLs such as file://\\server\share\file.txt did nothing.
· Search: If a file other than the active file needed to be reloaded from disk while searching through all files, an access violation occurred if the file is larger than 64K.
March 22nd, 2010· Preferences, System: Hiding the taskbar button when minimizing EditPad only worked on Windows 7. This bug was introduced in version 6.6.2 by the fix for the new partially maximized window state in Windows 7.
· French translation: Create portable installation screen showed an error and did not substitute placeholders.
December 16th, 2009· Block|Move Lines did not work correctly when wrapped lines occurred before or after the lines being moved.
· Macros: Importing a macro that contained search-and-replace commands failed if the search panel had not yet been used.
· Macros: Keyboard shortcuts assigned to macros did not work (6.6.0 only).
· Search: Incremental search in hexadecimal mode failed with an access violation error if the search match could not be found and no incremental searches had been previously run in text mode.
December 9th, 2009New feature:
· Favorites: Import and export favorites to a separate .ini file via the Organize Favorites screen. This works for file, project, search, explorer, and FTP favorites.
Improvements:
· FTP: FTP URLs without a username now use the existing connection to the FTP server instead of prompting for the username.
· FTP: Warn if renaming a file will cause an existing file to be overwritten.
· Tools: When redirecting standard output EditPad now runs the tool minimized. This way there's no empty console window blocking your view while there's still a taskbar button that indicates the tool is running and that allows you to access the tool if it doesn't respond to standard I/O.
· Windows 7: Disable EditPad's icon next to the system clock by default, as Windows 7 hides all notification icons by default.
· Windows Vista & 7: Running EditPad as administrator no longer reuses the existing EditPad window, if any. This makes sure that the instance with elevated rights will actually run rather than bring a previous instance with normal rights to front again.
· Windows Vista & 7: Running EditPad as administrator now shows (as administrator) in the caption bar, so you can easily distinguish between EditPad instances running with elevated rights from those running with normal rights.
· Windows Vista & 7: Vista-style open and save dialog boxes.
Bug fixes:
· Deleting a rectangular selection of which the first line was totally blank moved the cursor down one line.
· EditPad needlessly checked at regular intervals whether the current file still exists on disk.
· Searching reloads the file after the search instead of before the search if it was modified on disk, causing incorrect search matches and other trouble.
· Drag and drop: Dropping a folder onto EditPad's editor area now shows the Open Folder screen instead of starting with a blank file with the name of the folder
· File Panel: Dragging multiple files from one project to another moved only one file and then failed with an "index out of bounds" error
· Folding: Pressing enter at the end of a line immediately before a folding range did not properly shift the range downward along with the lines it folds
· Keyboard: Using a two-key keyboard shortcut for certain commands that pop up a dialog box and then canceling that dialog box caused EditPad to remember the first key. The next key press would thus be interpreted as the second key in a two-key combination.
· Live spelling disabled the custom bracket matching specified in the syntax coloring scheme.
· Send To: Using the Send To menu in Windows Explorer to send a single folder to EditPad Pro now shows the Open Folder screen instead of starting with a blank file with the name of the folder.
· Tools: Some applications don't run correctly when standard output is redirected, but standard input is not.
· Windows Vista & 7: Running EditPad Pro as administrator while AceText was running caused EditPad Pro to hang for about 30 seconds while it tried to initiate its connection with AceText. That connection doesn't work unless AceText is also running as administrator, due to security restrictions on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Now, EditPad does not try to connect to AceText when run as administrator.
September 25th, 2009· EditPad's icon next to the system clock now reappears automatically when Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) crashes or is forcibly terminated and then restarted.
· Tip of the day and font size settings were not saved when closing EditPad (6.5.x only).
· Search: Highlighting search matches highlighted the last match until the end of the file if the regex found a zero-width match at the end of the file. E.g. x|$ highlighted from the last x in the file until the end of the file instead of just the x. Zero-length matches cannot be highlighted.
September 6th, 2009· In PowerGREP 3.5.5 we fixed a bug that caused PowerGREP to freeze when loading a large undo history. The code that caused the bug is also used in EditPad 6.5.0. It could theoretically cause EditPad 6.5.0 to lock up when switching between large files. Even though this has not actually happened in our tests and nobody has reported EditPad 6.5.0 locking up, we feel it is prudent to issue a new release of EditPad that includes the same fix we made for PowerGREP.
September 1st, 2009Improvements:
· File|Close All: If more than one file is unsaved, the prompt for the last unsaved file should continue to show the "save all" and "don't save any" buttons so there's no surprise button movement for the last file.
· Word wrap: Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.
Bug fixes:
· EditPad cannot keep up with the scroll wheel of Logitech mice when put into free scrolling mode.
· EditPad fails to restore itself after begin minimized if the active file is modified in EditPad and has been modified on disk by another application.
· File Types, Encoding: The "preserve presence or absence of the Unicode byte order marker" setting was ignored for XML files with an XML declaration and HTML files with a content-type meta tag.
· Print: Typing in the page number for "from page" or "to page" caused the other number to be reset while you typed in the number, instead of adjusting the range when you finished typing in the number.
March 10th, 2009Improvements:
· Clip Collection: Edit Clip should do a better job of bringing AceText to the foreground.
· Folding: The Fold All command will no longer reduce the entire file to a single line.
Bug fixes:
· File|Save: Trying to save an empty file caused an access violation error (6.4.4 only).
· Pressing the delete key while at the same time making a selection with the mouse caused an access violation.
· Search: Changing search options while there was no search term and incremental search was turned on caused an error.
· Search: Incremental search did not scroll the cursor back into view when backing up through the search by shortening the search term with the Backspace key.
· Search: Incremental search failed with an access violation when "all files" is turned on, and the search term is found in the next file, and the next file is in hexadecimal mode while the present file is in text mode (or vice versa). Now, incremental search will not proceed with the next file if the present file is in text mode and the next file is in hexadecimal mode (or vice versa).
March 10th, 2009Improvements:
· HTML content-type meta tag and XML declaration checks should offerto change the meta tag or declaration to indicate the encoding used in EditPad, to save the file as is (reinterpreting it using the encoding from the meta tag or XML declaration in EditPad), or to cancel the save, instead of merely presenting an error message.
· Portable installation: Lists of files previously opened files should survive changing drive letters.
· Word wrap: Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.
· AceText: Pasting an indented clip from AceText into EditPad Pro now uses tabs to indent the clip if the line the clip is being pasted into was indented with tabs.
· FTP: Uploading an unsaved file to FTP now adapts the file type used to the file to the name you give the file on the FTP server, similar to what happens when you save a file and give it a different extension.
· If you open a file that starts with .LOG, EditPad now flags the file as modified, and moves the cursor to the end of the file after the auto-inserted time stamp, to better mimic Notepad's behavior.
· Tabs: Don't show .epp file extension on project tabs.
· Windows 7: Disable EditPad's icon next to the system clock by default, as Windows 7 hides all notification icons by default.
· Windows 7: Show full window caption in the tasbar button's popup menu, instead of the shortened caption that appears directly on the button in previous versions of Windows. In Windows 7, the taskbar only shows the icon, and the popup menu has plenty of space for the full caption.
Bug fixes:
· Editor: Opening a file without a BOM, saving it with a BOM, switching to hex mode (showing the new BOM), and then back to text mode, corrupted EditPad's view of the file.
· Editor: Saving a file that is larger than the huge file threshold (set in Options, Preferences, Files) without a byte order marker (depending on the options in Options, Configure File Types, Editor) caused the display of the file in EditPad to be corrupted, requiring the file (which was saved correctly) to be reloaded before it could be edited again.
· Editor: Avoid clipping of (italic) characters with overhang.
· Editor: Spacing combining marks (Unicode category Mc) are no longer allowed to be separated from their base characters. This improves editing of text in South Asian scripts, such as Devanagari, that use spacing combining marks.
· EditPad fails to restore itself after begin minimized if the active file is modified in EditPad and has been modified on disk by another application.
· File Types: Changing the word wrapping setting in the file type configuration (i.e. for all files of that type, rather than for the current file via the Options menu) would crash EditPad if a file of that type was open but not the active file, and that file was larger than 64K, and the changed setting required a change in word wrapping for that file.
· File|Rename/Move did not rename the file if the new name was the same as the old one, except for differences in case.
· HTML content-type meta tag check is now more accurate, so it checks only HTML files, and not on other files storing random bits of HTML that happent to include a content-type meta tag.
· In some situations, the text cursor became invisible until you switched keyboard focus within EditPad, such as by opening or clicking on the Search panel.
· Scrolling a file by dragging the scroll bar's thumb immediately after opening the file did not always allow the end of the file to be reached, even if EditPad has already finished scanning it for line breaks. Making any scrolling or cursor movement (using the scroll bar or not) would update the scroll bar to allow the thumb to scroll through all lines in the file.
· Shift+Tab deleted the whole selection if the selection was on a single line, and there was whitespace to the left of the cursor. Only the whitespace should be deleted, up to one tab stop in size.
· File Types, Encoding: When using Save As to save a file with an extension not associated with a file type, EditPad uses the BOM settings of the "any file" file type instead of the file type selected for the file you're saving. E.g. opening an XML file with an unknown extension still uses the XML file type based on the XML declaration at the start of the file. Saving this file under a new name now uses the BOM settings for the XML file type instead of those for "any file".
· File Types: Perl syntax highlighting now properly handles backticks and regular expressions used with split().
· File Types: PHP syntax highlighting now handles {$name} variable iterpolation in double-quoted strings. Previously, only $name and ${name} where supported.
· File|Close All and File|Close All But Current prompted for a file name instead of automatically saving files back to FTP.
· Files Panel: If the active file was modified, and the file tree didn't have keyboard focus, the active file would appear as white text on a light gray background with the default color scheme on Vista.
· FTP: If EditPad Pro remembered multiple FTP connections to the same server using different logins, and you opened a project holding files on that server, EditPad Pro did not always use the correct login for each file.
· FTP: Login names are now URL-encoded in the URL that EditPad uses to reference FTP files in EditPad Projects. This means login names with special characters such as @ are now handled correctly.
· FTP: Opening multiple files from FTP did not make the tabs visible if they were configured to appear only when more than one file is open.
· If EditPad was started minimized to the tray (e.g. at Windows startup) the first attempt to open a file had no effect unless EditPad was brought to front by clicking on the tray icon.
· Macros: Macros that recorded inserting a before and after clip from the Clip Collection or from AceText could not be imported. This also caused EditPad to lose such macros when terminating EditPad.
· Print: If EditPad Pro remembered the "hide folded lines" option from a previous print job, the printout would sometimes put the last line on a separate page.
· Project: Closing the only modified file in a project without saving it did not remove the * from the caption bar, as if the project still had modified files in it.
· Regex: The POSIX classes [:space:] and [:blank:] did not match tab characters.
· Search: Highlighting search matches sometimes incorrectly updated regular expression matches when syntax coloring was being used for the file.
· Search: If the search toolbar was hidden in Options, Configure Toolbars and Menus, a failed search would pop up the error message "an OS function failed".
· Search: Searching for a regular expression that finds consecutive zero-width matches skipped ahead two characters with each search rather than just one.
· Spell check: Installing spell check dictionaries did not work on a portable installation running under Windows Vista if no spell check dictionaries were installed yet.
· Tools: Shortcut keys for tools were not always handled correctly. E.g. Alt+Number shortcuts did not work for tools.
· Working copies of unsaved files were not opened when EditPad was restarted with a file to open passed on the command line.
March 10th, 2009Improvements:
· File Types: The default HTML file type now uses the regular expression (?i)\s*
July 11th, 2008New features:
· File Types: JSON file type with syntax coloring and file navigation.
· File navigation: Additional XML schemes that add a "content" subnode to each element that links only to the contents of the element, without the element's opening and closing tags.
· File Types: PowerShell file type with syntax coloring and file navigation.
· Command line switch to add the main form instead of the application to the taskbar. Pass /taskbar as the first command line parameter. This fixes issues with certain Alt-Tab and taskbar replacement/enhancement utilities. It also puts items like "Move" on the taskbar button's right-click menu. Disadvantage is that the taskbar button will then display the same text as the caption on EditPad's window, which shows the full path to your file. Without the command line switch, EditPad shows only the file name on the taskbar button.
Improvements:
· Tools: Group the undo items when replacing the selected text after running the tool.
· Preferences, Editor: The option to focus the editor after a successful search is now off by default.
· Macros: Stop macro playback if View|Next/Previous File is at the last/first file already, instead of looping to the first/last file. Repeating a macro that does a View|Next File at the end is a way to repeat a macro across all open files. When not playing back a macro, View|Next/Previous file will still loop as in previous versions
Bug fixes:
· File|Favorites: If the option to preserve file settings was disabled in Options, Preferences, Files, trying to add the current file to the favorites caused an access violation.
· Macros: Selecting Options|File Types did not record the file type change into the macro.
· File Panel: The New Project button in the File Panel caused an access violation when no files were selected. The New Project button in the File Panel moves the selected files into the newly created project. The New Project item in the Project menu starts a blank project without moving any files.
· Editor: Syntax coloring was not updated correctly if an edit required a single color to be newly applied to a block of multiple lines, and the block of lines was only partially visible
· File Panel: Dragging and dropping an Untitled and empty file within a project caused EditPad to crash with an Access Violation. Note that the files in the File Panel are always sorted alphabetically. You cannot rearrange files within the same project on the File Panel.
· Favorites: Renaming a folder inside another folder in the favorites caused a "list index out of bounds" error.
· Search: Typing at the start of the search term in the hexadecimal section after opening the search panel in hexadecimal mode caused an access violation
· FTP: If the connection to the FTP server is lost, EditPad's FTP panel sometimes hangs instead of automatically reconnecting, making it impossible to reconnect to the FTP server or even close EditPad.
· Preferences, Colors: The "white on black" preset resulted in a color combination for paragraph symbols that made them invisible.
· Preferences, Editor: The option to always visualize spaces and line breaks on the search panel was only respected when the search panel was first opened; switching tabs would cause the search panel to use the settings from the Options menu.
· File status was not preserved for files that were still open when EditPad was terminated with File|Exit.
· Fold: If undoing an action required the cursor to be moved to a line made invisible by folding, the cursor would appear visually at the first line in the fold even though it was logically moved back to the correct line.
· Bookmarks: If multiple lines were pasted into the line immediately above a bookmarked line, the bookmark was not moved down along with the line it is on.
· Search: Replace All should be disabled for read-only files.
· Print: Changing the font in the print preview for a large file caused EditPad to lock up.
· Print: When printing, EditPad prints plain text as black on white, even if you have different colors configured in the editor. Depending on the syntax coloring scheme being used, EditPad sometimes forced the wrong color(s) to black and white.
· File|Save As: Saving an untitled file did not set the folder you saved it into as the most recently used folder (6.4.x only).
· File|Exit: If you used File|Exit, or the X button if EditPad doesn't have a tray icon, and you clicked Cancel Close when prompted to save a modified file, EditPad would terminate anyway if you then used a file dialog like File|Open.
March 25th, 2008· Block|Rectangular Selections: If there already is a selection, toggle the existing selection between linear/rectangular instead of clearing it.
· URLs that don't indicate the protocol but begin with www or ftp are now also highlighted. I.e. www.editpadpro.com will be highlighted just like http://www.editpadpro.com/. If you have created custom syntax coloring schemes, you will need to edit them like the provided schemes to get the same behavior.
· Configure File Types: The spinner controls on the Editor tab were positioned incorrectly, and non-functional (6.4.0 only).
· Drag and drop: Dragging tabs caused an access violation if the option to show an image indicating the file type on tabs was disabled in Options, Preferences, Tabs (6.4.0 only).
· FTP: After opening from FTP or uploading a file with a or % in its name, and editing it, clicking the Save button did not upload the file with the correct name.
· If EditPad was started at boot time (Startup icon created in Options, Preferences, Shortcuts), and the tray icon option was enabled in Options, Preferences, System, and the PC was rebooted or shut down without EditPad being used at all, the Favorites and Macros would be gone after the reboot.
· Macros: Playing back a macro that did text conversion (which clears the undo history for that file) caused EditPad to crash.
March 3rd, 2008New features:
· Drag and drop: Drag tabs from EditPad to Windows Explorer to copy the file.
· Drag and drop: Drag tabs from one EditPad instance to another. Hold down Shift to move the file between the instances, instead of opening it twice. Unsaved files can be dragged.
· Drag and drop: Dragging text from one EditPad instance to another with the Shift key held down will now move the text (i.e. deleting it from the source instance).
· Drag and drop: When dropping files with the Alt key held down, insert the full path to the file into the clip rather than the file's contents. This works with files dragged from Windows Explorer (or any other application) as well as tabs dragged from EditPad.
· Drag and drop: Drag files from one project to another, within the same EditPad instance or between different instances, to move the file from one project to another. You can drag file tabs or File Panel tree items, and drop files on the project or file tabs, or File Panel tree items.
· Drag and drop: Drop files onto the FTP panel to save or upload them. Also accepts files from Windows Explorer.
· Drag and drop: Files dropped onto the blank area next to the project tabs are opened in a new project. This works for files dragged within EditPad and from other applications.
· Drag and drop: Files dropped onto the File Panel are now opened in the project that you drop them on, or in the same project as the file that you drop them on, rather than always into the active project.
· Drag and drop: You can now drag file and project tabs onto the Explorer Panel. For previously saved files or projects, this will copy or move (with Shift key) the file or project. For unsaved files or projects, a Save As screen will be shown that defaults to the folder you dropped the file or project on.
· Drag and drop: You can now move and copy files by dragging and dropping them within the Explorer Panel.
· File Types, Encoding: Option to write the BOM only if already present, using the write/don't write option as the default for new files.
· Setup: Create Portable Installation directly from the self-extracting setup. The Install on Removable Drive menu item in the Help menu was renamed for consistency.
· When saving a file, check if the encoding matches the XML declaration or the HTML content-type meta tag (if either of these is present). The reason for this is that when you open a file, EditPad looks for an XML declaration and HTML content-type meta tag. If either of these is found, the encoding specified in it overrides any settings you made in the file type configuration. This means that if you save a file with an incorrect XML declaration or HTML content-type meta tag, EditPad will open it with the wrong encoding next time, as would any other application that supports XML or HTML.
· File Panel: Select Active File button, like in the Explorer Panel.
· Default file type for R source code, with syntax coloring and file navigation
· File Types: File navigation schemes for C and C
· File Types: Default file type for Visual Basic 6 .frm files, with syntax coloring and file navigation.
· File Types: Preconfigured file type for batch file output with syntax coloring and file navigation. You can select this file type for the output of batch files that you add to the Tools menu.
· File Types: Preconfigured file type for XML Schema. The only difference with the XML file type is that it uses a file navigation scheme that builds a tree of "name" attributes rather than XML elements.
· Preferences, Editor: Option to always visualize spaces and tabs in the search and replace boxes.
· Preferences, System: Choice to open FTP URLs in EditPad's built-in FTP, the default FTP client, or a specific FTP client.
Improvements:
· Edit|Undo: Remove a file's working copies if all changes have been undone.
· Explorer Panel: When a favorite folder is selected that's outside the scope of the current home folder, make that folder the new home folder.
· Extra|Sort Alphabetically: The file will no longer be marked as modified if the selected lines are already sorted, and the file was previously unmodified.
· FTP: The option to save working copies of files now saves files opened via FTP locally as Working Copy of filename.ext.txt instead of Working Copy of Untitled 1.txt, making the working copies easier to identify.
· Preferences, Tabs: Apply the configured tab colors to the tabs for the side panels (File Panel, FTP, etc).
· The menu bar will now automatically display itself without images when a screen reader is running, so the menu bar can be a standard menu rather than an owner-drawn menu. Owner-drawn menus don't work well with screen readers.
· Tools: If a tool specifies that the current file should be reloaded, EditPad will now also reload the clip collection (just in case).
· EditPad now uses a plain menu bar without images if a screen reader is running when you start EditPad, as some screen readers cannot read EditPad's owner-drawn menus.
Bug fixes:
· Excessive memory usage when making very large numbers of changes (e.g. Replace All) in files that are larger than the huge files threshold in Options, Preferences, Files.
· Explorer Panel: Favorite folders show a delete file icon rather than a folder icon.
· Explorer Panel: If the home folder is set to a drive that's no longer available, the Explorer Panel became unusable.
· Extra|Compare Files: If two files are compared before EditPad has finished scanning them for line breaks, only the part of each file that was already scanned was compared, causing the files to appear truncated in the comparison.
· File|Delete from Disk did not delete the file's working copy.
· File|Reload from Disk: Remove a file's working copies after reloading it from disk.
· FTP: Favorites displayed the name of the server rather than it's description or username@servername if there's no description. This made it impossible to create two favorite entries for the same server but for different users.
· FTP: For some FTP servers, EditPad did not show any files or folders (6.3.x only).
· Macros: Importing macros deleted all existing macros in the selected folder.
· Macros: Playing back a macro that did text conversion (which clears the undo history for that file) caused EditPad to crash.
· Macros: Renaming a macro (by editing its properties in the Organize Macros screen) did not properly update the list of macros.
· Opening a file larger than 64K of a type that has both column numbers and word wrapping turned on by default sometimes caused the cursor to be positioned incorrectly and characters to be clipped when using a monospaced font.
· Perl file navigation scheme did not work properly if # or an unbalanced { or } appeared in a regular expression.
· PHP syntax coloring schemes did not support the execution operator (string using backticks).
· Search: $' and $` in the replacement text when using regular expressions caused an access violation if the regex matched at the very start or very end of the file (i.e. meaning $` or $' substituted nothing).
· Search: Doing a replace all with a regex such as s that replaced the CR and LF of CRLF pairs as individual characters would cause the first character in the replacement of the LF or the first character after the CRLF to be dropped from the file. This problem did not occur when replacing the CRLF as a whole, e.g. with the regex s
· Search|Find Last caused an access violation if the options "regular expression" and "all files" were turned on, and the regex could not be matched in any open file.
· View|Close Panes: When changing or removing the keyboard shortcut for closing panes, the Escape key still closed the panes.
· Screen readers will now properly "see" spaces in EditPad's editor control. This was broken since version 6.1.0 due to the fix to force consistent spacing when Windows XP does font substitution. This fix is still in place, but now improved to be compatible with screen readers.
August 16th, 2007· Options, Preferences, Editor: If the option to make Ctrl Up/Down move between paragraphs is turned on, Ctrl Arrow Up/Down now treats a block of lines separated by a blank line as a paragraph instead of just moving to the next line when word wrap is off.
· Explorer Panel: Favorite Folders item in the context menu now expands to show the folders with options to add the selected folders and maintain the folders.
· FTP: Directory listings will now include files that the FTP server considers "hidden", such as the .htaccess file on a UNIX web server.
· File Types: Duplicate a file type by pressing Ctrl while clicking the New button in the file type configuration.
· Tools: Duplicate a tool by pressing Ctrl while clicking the New button in the tool configuration.
· Fixed: File|Reopen|Remove Obsolete Files: Files on drives that are no longer available were not removed from the list of files (6.2.2 and 6.3.0 only).
· Fixed: File|Save causes an "access denied" error when saving to a hidden file and no backup option is selected in Options, Preferences, Files.
· Fixed: Block|Begin Selection and End Selection did not always respect the Block|Rectangular Selections setting.
· Fixed: Clip Collection: The toolbar had two New Folder buttons instead of a New Collection and a New Folder button.
· Fixed: FTP: Don't disable the upload file button if no file or folder is selected. Simply upload it into the root folder.
· Fixed: Preferences, Files: Working copies were not opened when opening projects and when EditPad automatically opens the last workspace.
· Fixed: Search: Incremental search should never move the keyboard focus to the main editor, regardless of the setting in Options, Preferences, Editor.
· Fixed: Search: Turning on "case sensitive" when "adapt case" was turned on would disable the "adapt case" checkbox, but still apply the case adaptation even though it shouldn't.
· Fixed: Tools: Context menu items were not updated after reconfiguring the tools if the context menu items contained tools but the toolbar did not.
June 26th, 2007· Clip Collection: Context menu commands to cut, copy and paste clips.
· Clip Collection: Share collections with other EditPad Pro and AceText users.
· Configure Toolbar and Menus: Options to turn off the search toolbar and side panel toolbars.
· Explorer Panel: Command to use a particular folder as the root folder to make the file list more manageable. This will also speed up the performance of the Explorer Panel since it then has to access only one drive.
· Explorer Panel: Up button to select the parent folder of the selected item. This will also move up the home folder if the home folder is selected.
· FTP: Option to specify a base HTTP URL that the View|Browser command will use to translate FTP URLs into HTTP URLs to be previewed in the browser.
· FTP: Rename file/folder item in the right-click menu.
· File Status: Option in the Editor Preferences to disable remembering a file's status.
· Preferences, Editor: Allow an 8-bit code page to be chosen for the ASCII display in hexadecimal mode.
· Preferences, Editor: Option to focus the main editor when a search match is found.
· Preferences, System: Button to explore the folder where EditPad Pro saves its ini file when keeping the registry clean.
· Project|Favorite Projects.
· Tools: Path placeholders to EditPadPro.exe to be able to run tools installed along with EditPad on a USB stick. %EPPFILE% and other EPP path placeholders hold (parts of) the path to EditPadPro.exe. %EPPDRIVE% and %EPPPATH% will likely be the most useful placeholders for this purpose.
Improvements:
· Byte Value Editor: Allow Inf, -Inf and NaN to be typed into the 4 byte and 8 byte float boxes in the byte value editor.
· Encoding: Detect encoding based on the HTML Content-Type meta tag.
· File Status: Do not remember the cursor position for huge files. Otherwise, EditPad Pro will be unresponsive after opening the file until it has been scanned up to the last editing position.
· File Status: Remember previous editing positions used by Edit|Go to Previous Editing Position.
· File Types, Editor: Allow vertical rulers and tab stops at specific columns to be specified as relative to the previous tab stop. E.g.: 10, 5, 5,37, 7, 12 would be equivalent to 10,15,20,37,44,56.
· FTP: Clicking the Open button with a folder selected will now open all files in that folder, instead of merely expanding the folder and retrieving its directory listing. Double-clicking a folder still only expands it.
· Macros: The Export button will now save all selected macros, and all macros in all selected folders into the .ini file.
· Read only: If a file is opened as read only because its read only attribute is set, and you turn off the read only mode in EditPad, and you save the file with File|Save, EditPad will automatically clear the read only attribute instead of showing an error.
· Read only: When checking if a file needs to be reloaded from disk, EditPad will now also check the status of the read only attribute, and toggle the status of the file in EditPad accordingly if it wasn't modified in EditPad.
· Search: Add search terms to history when the Highlight and Fold commands are used.
· Search|RegexBuddy: RegexBuddy should load the file currently being edited in EditPad into the Test tab. Requires RegexBuddy 3 or later.
· Search|RegexBuddy: When EditPad is run from a removable drive, check if there's a copy of RegexBuddy on the same drive, and use that.
· Show a friendly error message when opening a file larger than 2GB instead of crashing.
· Window caption and taskbar button now indicate with a * if the active file is modified.
Bug fixes:
· Double-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer did not restore EditPad if it was minimized with the taskbar button still visible (version 6.2.2 only).
· Bracket matching doesn't work if the closing bracket is in a part of the file that's never been made visible, and the file is smaller than 64K.
· File Status: If a file was wrapped at a specific length different from the default line length configured for the file type, the default length was used when the file was reopened.
· File Types, Syntax & Navigation: The Edit buttons for syntax and file navigation schemes can now automatically open downloaded schemes into the editor.
· File Types, Syntax Coloring: Syntax coloring schemes with actions to open a file in EditPad that used forward slashes in the file names caused a duplicate of the file to be opened if the file was already open.
· Files with the read only attribute set are now properly swapped out to disk if they're larger than the "huge files" setting.
· Macros: Block|Prefix, Suffix and Fill Columns prompted for the characters to insert when these commands are played back as part of a macro, in addition to inserting the characters recorded in the macro.
· Print: Line spacing setting was not saved when the option to keep the registry clean was turned on in Options, Preferences, System.
· Regex: Doubly nested groups were not backtracked properly, and sometimes caused access violation errors.
· Regex: EditPad Pro's regex engine now supports the regex features new in RegexBuddy 3.0.0 (JGsoft flavor) and PowerGREP 3.4.0.
· Tabs: Hovering the mouse pointer over a tab now shows the full URL for files opened from FTP, just like it shows the full path for locally stored files.
· View|New Editor: The new instance should not reopen the last workspace or the working copies of the EditPad instance that's already running.
· When processing line breaks in the background when (re-)loading a file, EditPad sometimes locked up for a few seconds (versions 6.2.x only).
September 15th, 2006· Improved support for Unicode files without a byte order marker;
· minor fixes and improvements
June 9th, 2006· Added full Unicode support, better rectangular block handling, install on removable drive, redesigned search-and-replace.
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