May 6th, 2011· "Align Lines" with several options (Alt+J)
· "Modify Lines" supports several variables to insert numbers (Alt+M)
· "Sort Lines" (Alt+O) handles column sort (rectangular selection)
· "Sort Lines" also handles shuffle, remove duplicates and uniques
· "Merge Blank Lines" block command (Alt+Y)
· Use built-in Windows functionality for "Title Case" on Windows 7
· Convert between characters and hex codes (Ctrl+Alt+X, Ctrl+Alt+C)
· "Recode file as default encoding" (Ctrl+Shift+F)
· UTF-16 and UTF-16 BE formats are valid recoding options
· Enable case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII text
· Regex quantifier ? to match 0 or 1 times
· Regex quantifiers * and + available as non-greedy forms *? and +?
· Regex syntax for tagged regions simplified from \(...\) to (...)
· Updated HTML5 and CSS3 schemes according to current working drafts
· Updated Assembly scheme with x64 and SSE4 instructions
· Several minor updates to syntax schemes and keywords
· Merged caret styles into a single item and added "noblink" option
· l and /l- cmd switches to control auto-reloading of modified files
· Ini-option to specify auto-reload timeout (see FAQ on my website)
· Support combination of /g and /m command line switches
· o and /o- cmd switches to control "Always on top" option
· Copy window position to clipboard as cmd line switch (Ctrl+Shift+K)
· Move window to default position on current screen (Ctrl+Shift+P)
· Fixed Notepad .LOG feature (broken since 4.1.24)
· Launch command uses current file directory as working directory
· Don't lock any directories except the one containing Notepad2.exe
· Forward system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour to new windows
· Always show file name extensions (ignore Windows Explorer setting)
· Check availability of "Consolas" when set as default font
· Support a few more file variables (see FAQ on my website)
· Configure whether backspace should reformat indenting whitespace
· Transform backslashes function understands \u#### hex codes
· Several F2, F3 and F4 hotkeys work in find and replace dialogs
· Removed "Select Up" and "Select Down" buttons from find dialog
· Ini-options to block suppression of notification messages
· Simplified appearance of word wrap settings dialog
· Remapped "Unescape C Special Chars" to Ctrl+Alt+R (fix duplicate)
· Reloading keeps scrolling position more unerringly with word wrap
· Jumps with /g switch locate position more accurately with word wrap
· Various internal optimizations and fixes
· Improved look of disabled toolbar buttons on Windows XP and above
· Improved overall look of toolbar buttons on Windows 2k
· Lower frequency of NFS access delays by caching file display names
· Improved compatibility with Windows 7
· Released x64 build of Notepad2.exe
· Updated Scintilla library to 2.24
March 20th, 2010· /z command line switch (support registry-based Notepad replacement)
· /u command line switch (launch Notepad2 with elevated privileges)
· Fixed some /p command line switch options not working properly
· Display more informative error messages for file operation failures
· Hotkey to copy pathname of current file to clipboard (Shift+F9)
· Window title indicator when running with elevated privileges
· Ini-options to control system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour
· Enhanced portability for directory settings inside My Documents
· Configure whether tab key should reformat indenting whitespace
· Revised word wrap settings dialog and added more detailed options
· New style setting to control font smoothing (see FAQ on my website)
· New style setting to control size of visible white space dots
· Improved cursor visibility on any background color
· Added new "HTML Element Text" and "XML Element Text" styles
· Improved default style utilization for HTML-embedded schemes
· Updated PowerShell keywords to version 2.0
· Added missing keywords to VBScript scheme
· Fixed deleted files reappearing in MRU lists
· Updated Scintilla library to 2.03
February 8th, 2010· /z command line switch (support registry-based Notepad replacement)
· /u command line switch (launch Notepad2 with elevated privileges)
· Fixed some /p command line switch options not working properly
· Display more informative error messages for file operation failures
· Hotkey to copy pathname of current file to clipboard (Shift+F9)
· Window title indicator when running with elevated privileges
· Ini-options to control system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour
· Revised word wrap settings dialog and added more detailed options
· New style setting to control font smoothing (see FAQ on my website)
· New style setting to control size of visible white space dots
· Added new "HTML Element Text" and "XML Element Text" styles
· Improved default style utilization for HTML-embedded schemes
· Updated PowerShell keywords to version 2.0
· Updated Scintilla library to 2.02
December 16th, 2009· /z command line switch (support registry-based Notepad replacement)
· Fixed some /p command line switch options not working properly
· New style setting to control font smoothing (see FAQ on my website)
· Hotkey to copy pathname of current file to clipboard (Shift+F9)
· Updated Scintilla library to 2.01-cvs $Date 2009/12/16 $
October 7th, 2009· Added PowerShell Script syntax highlighting
· Added missing keywords to JavaScript schemes
· Further simplified syntax schemes by consolidating certain styles
· More accurate "mode" file variable matching with tightened rules
· Avoid repetitive zone checks when running Notepad2.exe internally
· Fixed choice of encoding conversion prompt being ignored
· Fixed recent file dialog hang with inaccessible UNC paths
· Internal changes to allow complete internationalization (future)
July 28th, 2009· Support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO, Mac and EBCDIC encodings
· Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9)
· "Recode" (F8) to reload file with different source encoding
· "Recode file as system default ANSI" (Ctrl+Shift+A)
· "Recode file as system default OEM" (Ctrl+Shift+O)
· "Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8" (Shift+F8)
· Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default)
· Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default)
· Issue warning if data can't be converted to selected file encoding
· Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes
· /e command line switch to specify file source encoding
· "Insert Encoding Identifier" (Ctrl+F8)
· "Tabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Untabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
· "Increase Number" (Ctrl+Alt++) and "Decrease Number" (Ctrl+Alt+-)
· Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs
· Hotkey (Alt+F5) and auto-reset option for file change notification
· Manual and automatic reloading of files keeps current encoding
· Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border
· Enabled new Scintilla indent modes for wrapped lines
· Option to set any characters as boundaries for word wrap
· Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096)
· Allow setting extra line spacing (through "Default Text" scheme)
· Dropping directories displays file open dialog
· Consolidated styles to simplify configuration (patch by Kai Liu)
· Ensure cursor visibility on any background color (patch by Kai Liu)
· Enabled improved Scintilla Pascal lexing module (patch by Kai Liu)
· Updated HTML keywords to version 5.0
· Remapped "Manage Favorites" hotkey to Alt+F9
· Remapped "Invert Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+U
· Remapped "Title Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+I
· Remapped "Sentence Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+O
· Fixed various minor bugs
· Notepad2.exe program file no longer compressed with UPX
· Updated Scintilla library to 1.79
July 12th, 2009· this version further refines the code folding control interface.
June 22nd, 2009· No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
· "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
· Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
· "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
· "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
· "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
· "Pad With Spaces" block command (Alt+B)
· "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
· Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
· Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
· Simple XML detection for files without extensions
· Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
· Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
· Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
· Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
· Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
· Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
· Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
· Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
· Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
· More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
· /r command line switch to reuse existing window
· /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
· Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
· /t command line switch to set window title
· Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
· Save relative pathnames for recent files (ini-option to disable)
· Save relative directories for "Open with..." and "Favorites"
· "Open with..." no longer sends short pathnames to external programs
· External commands use current file directory as working directory
· Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
· Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
· "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
· Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
· "Find Wrap" notification dialogs provide "Cancel" button
· Option to suppress replace count notifications
· Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
· Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
· Patches to default styles, file types and auto-detection by Kai Liu
· Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
· Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
· Fixed some minor file variable problems
· Fixed some encoding detection issues
· Fixed some find and replace problems
· Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
· Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
· Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file
June 22nd, 2009· Notepad2 converted to a native Win32 Unicode application
· "Copy Add" (Ctrl+E) to append selected text to clipboard
· "Unwrap Paragraphs" (Ctrl+Shift+J)
· "Strip Last Character" (Alt+U)
· "Select Line", can be used repeatedly (Ctrl+Shift+Space)
· Remapped "Delete Line" hotkey to Ctrl+Shift+D
· Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Alt+O
· Allow easy toggling of find and replace dialogs (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H)
· Save and restore find and replace dialog positions (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+P)
· Files with UTF-8 Signature always loaded in UTF-8 mode
· Simple HTML detection for files without extensions
· Support basic Emacs file variables (see FAQ on my website)
· Update timestamps (Shift+F5) (see FAQ on my website)
· %APPDATA% searched for existing ini-file
· Modest enhancements to scheme customization dialog
· Improved performance for saving settings to ini-file
· Less restrictive handling of quoted filenames on command line
· Keep scrolling positions when reloading changed files
· Modified /s command line switch to work with extensions, not ids
· /m command line switch to match specified text
· /q command line switch to force creation of new files
· Pass command line switches to existing windows: /s /t /h /x /g /q
· Proceed to next match after choosing "replace" in replace dialog
· Fixed some more find and replace problems
· Improved visual appearance on Windows Vista
· Updated Scintilla library to 1.77
June 22nd, 2009· "Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
· "Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
· "Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
· Original Notepad .LOG feature
· /f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
· /p command line switch trumps sticky window position
· /p0 uses system default settings for new window position
· Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
· Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
· Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
· Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
· Improved handling of relative path names
· File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
· Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
· Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
· Selected find results are better scrolled into view
· Restore scrolling positions on revert
· Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
· Ctrl+Space doesn't select initial line indentation whitespace
· Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator
· Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit
· Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
· Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
· Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
· Updated filename extension lists with more default types
· Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
· Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
· Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
· Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
· Print margins can be set to "0"
· Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
· Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
· Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
· Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
· Fixed bug with cursor movement at start and end of wrapped lines
· Updated Scintilla library to 1.76
June 22nd, 2009· "Select To" command in find dialog allows expanding the selection
· "Select To Next" (F2) and "Select To Previous" (Shift+F2)
· "Save Find Text" (Alt+F3) for later use with F2, F3, etc.
· "Swap" (Ctrl+K) to exchange selected text with clipboard contents
· Notepad2.exe program file is compressed with UPX by default
June 22nd, 2009· Option to allow only one Notepad2 window for each file
· Option to display filename in window title in various forms
· Hotkey Shift+Esc to save file and exit Notepad2
· Indent size can be specified separately from tab width
· Indent guides are highlighted along with matching braces
· Caret can be displayed as a block (specify "block" for caret width)
· Find and replace dialogs can be toggled from the toolbar
· Tray icon is restored when Explorer is restarted
· Fixed bug with brace matching
· Fixed bug with replacement of ^c cutting the last character
· Fixed bug with regular expression search causing infinite loop
· Updated Scintilla library to 1.74
May 16th, 2007· The msvcr70.dll runtime library is no longer required
· "Enclose Selection" helper tool (Alt Q)
· Single line files are opened with default line ending mode
· Remapped hotkey Ctrl Shift Z from "Undo" to "Redo"
· Remapped hotkey Ctrl Shift Y from "Redo" to "Undo"
· Fixed bug: problem with MRU lists causing random crashes
· Fixed bug: moving lines up/down not working properly
· Fixed bug: window settings overwritten on new screen resolution
April 10th, 2007· BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
· "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt X)
· Regex support for d, D, s, S, w, W, xHH
· Text selection can have "eolfilled" style (on by default)
· Caret blink rate is set to system default on startup
· Support for opening makefiles without filename extension
· Dropped Windows 9x support
· Requires msvcr70.dll runtime library
· Updated Scintilla library to 1.73
January 23rd, 2007· Notepad2 source code now released under the GNU GPL
· "Read Only" option handles file attributes
· Enhanced find and replace dialogs with new options
· Optionally auto close HTML/XML tags (Ctrl Shift H)
· Improved tabify/untabify selection functions
· New hotkey to select XML scheme (Shift F11)
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