What's new in BowPad Portable 2.8.9
Jun 22, 2023
- List of issues solved for 2.8.9
- Fixed problem where file was not loaded/shown empty when encoding detection failed
- updated to Scintilla 5.3.5
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.8 (Jun 2, 2023)
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.7 (Dec 30, 2022)
- Fixed bug that when clicking on a tab the tab was not selected
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.6 (Dec 28, 2022)
- updated to Scintilla 5.3.2 and Lexilla 5.2.1
- List of issues solved for 2.8.3
- Improved visibility of active tab
- Mark modified lines in the left bar
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.5 (Sep 28, 2022)
- Issues solved in this release:
- Crash when spell checker is activated
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.4 (Sep 25, 2022)
- updated to Scintilla 5.3.0
- List of issues solved for 2.8.3
- build for ARM64 based OS is now available
- change markers shown in the left margin
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.3 (May 31, 2022)
- Updated to Scintilla 5.2.3
- List of issues solved for 2.8.3
- Auto-completion for math formulas that are on a single line
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.2 (Feb 19, 2022)
- Updated to Scintilla 5.2.0
- Use the uchardet lib for better detection of file encodings
- List of issues solved:
- Numeric Conversion Tool-Tip Questions
- Spell Checker not Functioning for Text Subsequent to internet Address
- [Feature Request] Numeric Conversion recognizes binary prefix
- Feature Request: Allow for search/replace EOL in regex mode
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.1 (Nov 20, 2021)
- context menu entry for the Win11 explorer
- updated to Scintilla 5.1.3
- List of issues solved for 2.8.1
New in BowPad Portable 2.8.0 (Jul 26, 2021)
- updated to Scintilla 5.1.0
- List of issues solved for 2.8.0
New in BowPad Portable 2.7.1 (May 24, 2021)
- Updated to Scintilla 5.0.2
- Huge list of issues solved
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.5 (Nov 25, 2020)
- Updated to Scintilla 4.4.5
- Fixed a few issues with clipboard handling
- Fixed drag and drop when run elevated
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.4 (Sep 9, 2020)
- Bugs fixed:
- Title Bar is not redraw on time when toggle theme(dark->light or light->dark) Incorrect Auto Braces results for XML CDATA and XML comment
- Enhancements:
- Feature Request: Keep the file last opened and keep the edits enhancement
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.3 (Sep 1, 2020)
- Better detection of numbers for tooltips
- More command tooltips contain the keyboard shortcut
- Updated to Scintilla 4.4.4
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.2 (Jul 19, 2020)
- when moving a tab to another instance, it lost the lexer
- styling fixes for Nant and makefiles
- improved the simple lexer
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.1 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Fixed broken update check
- New regex capture dialog
New in BowPad Portable 2.6.0 (Jun 22, 2020)
- custom styling files
- added a simple lexer
New in BowPad Portable 2.5.2 (May 21, 2020)
- Updated to Scintilla 4.3.3
- Improved folding
New in BowPad Portable 2.5.1 (Apr 7, 2020)
- Update the version check file.
New in BowPad Portable 2.5.0 (Feb 1, 2020)
- The 'uncomment' function failed to work properly for some lexers language files were the wrong version
New in BowPad Portable 2.4.5 (Jul 29, 2019)
- The 'uncomment' function failed to work properly for some lexers language files were the wrong version
New in BowPad Portable 2.4.3 (Jan 27, 2019)
- update the version check file
New in BowPad Portable 2.4.2 (Oct 9, 2018)
- Language files were missing in 2.4.1
- Improved icons for dark mode
New in BowPad Portable 2.4.1 (Oct 8, 2018)
- List of issues solved for 2.4.1
- updated to Scintilla 4.1.2
- improved jumplist, added an entry to start BowPad with Admin privileges
- BowPad uses the proper dark mode for the ribbon with Windows 10 update 1809
New in BowPad Portable 2.4.0 (Sep 12, 2018)
- New main icon
- Updated to Scintilla 4.1.1
- Fixed wrong filename when tearing a tab to a new BowPad instance
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.9 (Jul 19, 2018)
- Fixed: crash with long lines in .editorconfig file
- Updated to Scintilla 4.1.0
- Performance improvements for the file tree
- Preliminary support for R2L languages
- Fixed: Replace All on invalid regex causes lockup
- Fixed: Line end LF may suddenly change to Windows CR+LF
- Fixed: Feature request: Remembering text encoding when reloading document
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.8 (May 10, 2018)
- fixed: documents were loaded before a restored session instead of after it
- updated to Scintilla 4.0.5
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.7 (Apr 30, 2018)
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.6 (Mar 28, 2018)
- Button in statusbar to allow turning the .editorconfig off
- fixed delay when closing the window
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.4 Build 2060 (Nov 22, 2017)
- Performance improvements in the file tree
- Fixed possible hang if a file got deleted
- Fixed editor config issues
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.3.2042 (Jul 12, 2017)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.7.5
- recognize more file extensions for lexers
- fixed hiding the cursor when scrolling
- fixed handling of EOLs in certain situations
- allow to set the default EOL for new files
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.2.2008 (Apr 10, 2017)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.7.4
- improved UI responsivness
- improved UI using animations
- fixed situation where the tab-to-spaces and spaces-to-tabs skipped a lot of code
- the setting spaces/tabs is now stored per document instead of globally
- reduced flicker when drawing the scrollbars
- fixed styling issue when reloading
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.1.1940 (Feb 27, 2017)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.7.3
- improved status bar
- fixed startup flickering
- fixed flickering when resizing the window
- fixed losing the lexer when refreshing/reloading
New in BowPad Portable 2.3.0.1883 (Jan 30, 2017)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.7.2
- enabled folding for Python
- possibility to mark a file as write protected
- performance improvements
- fix drawing when showing a dialog during file loading
- better tooltip when showing colors
- styles for EDIFact files
- tracking tooltip showing the current line
- allow moving lines without a selection
- fix sizes for high dpi monitors
- improved function detection
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.5.1754 (Nov 7, 2016)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.7.0
- fixed color highlighting in tooltip
- bookmarks were not updated in the scroll bar immediately
- selection count wasn't shown if equal to search mark
- wheel scrolling of tab bar works now on all OS versions
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.4.1703 (Sep 18, 2016)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.6.7
- improved function parsing
- fixed crash when searching a path that does not exist
- improved searching binary files
- option to load files as utf8 by default
- fixed recognition of EOLs
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.3.1681 (Aug 22, 2016)
- improved c# function parsing regex
- new variables for run commands: $(TAB_NAME) and $(TAB_EXT)
- improved performance when loading many files
- improved auto-brace feature
- tab bar can be scrolled with the mouse wheel
- fixed showing wrong mouse cursor
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.2.1642 (Jun 23, 2016)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.6.6
- New command: goto symbol/function
- improved "goto brace"
- more improvements to session loading
- improved the hoover tooltip
- two new buttons on the top right to close the current tab and to open a new one
- various small bug fixes
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.1.1571 (Apr 3, 2016)
- Fixed a crash when open files get renamed/deleted
- Improved and extended the search feature
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.6.4
- Improved speed when restoring a session
- changing style colors does not switch to bright mode anymore
New in BowPad Portable 2.2.0.1506 (Apr 3, 2016)
- Fixed problem with prev/next command
- Improved the custom style dialog
- Fixed problem with cursor hiding
- Improved the search/replace feature
- Fixed problem where a tab-move to a new BowPad instance would lose not-saved data
- Failed to ask to save changes in some situations
- Improved C++ function recognition
New in BowPad Portable 2.1.3.1463 (Nov 5, 2015)
- Files can be opened into an existing empty tab with the Ctrl key pressed
- Fixed problem when quitting and hitting Cancel in the save-as dialog
- Improved tab UI
- Fixed a few issues with the function lists
New in BowPad Portable 2.1.2.1429 (Sep 22, 2015)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.6.1
- Fixed an issue when pasting HDROP items from the clipboard
- Allow dropping file tabs onto the file tree to move/copy the file
- Improved lexer detection for files without extensions
New in BowPad Portable 2.1.1.1411 (Aug 21, 2015)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.6.0
- Fixed an issue with opening files as a notepad replacement
- Allow specifying a lexer based on a filename
- When opening files from a previous session, don't show errors if the file(s) don't exist anymore
New in BowPad Portable 2.1.0.1396 (Jul 24, 2015)
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.5.7
- Fixed an issue with coloring regex search matches
- Fixed printing when the dark theme was active
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.20.1385 (May 11, 2015)
- Fixed:
- Provide option to turn of auto tag completion for HTML and XML
- Path issue when opening files using the new /z option
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.5.5
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.19.1374 (Apr 6, 2015)
- Fixed: LUA Comment / Uncomment does not works correctly
- Fixed: Add command line argument to ignore following arguments
- Fixed an issue in the file tree when opening folders two levels below root
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.18.1363 (Mar 31, 2015)
- Speed improvements when searching
- Spell checker improvements, doesn't stall if the document is big
- File tree refreshes if the document is refreshed
- updated to latest Scintilla component 3.5.4
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.17.1340 (Mar 2, 2015)
- Fixed: Spell check comments
- Fixed: File tree does not show in 64bit portable versions higher than 2.0.13.
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.16.1326 (Feb 24, 2015)
- Fixed issues with the file tree not updating correctly
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.15.1320 (Feb 23, 2015)
- Improved handling of brace highlighting
- When a file is changed outside of BowPad, it is reloaded automatically if the file has no edits in BowPad
- File tree expands automatically if the current tab is in a subfolder of the file tree root
- Fixed problems with converting tabs to spaces (and vice versa) in html/xml files
- new feature to automatically save modified files
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.14.1302 (Feb 16, 2015)
- File Tree opens with duplicate names and random resizing issues.
- Some jscript functions require dummy parameter
- Add "Collapse all" and "Expand all" to dropdown menu
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.13.1285 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Fixed a few issues with the file tree handling
- Fixed problems with the detection of modifications
- Fixed search for text in folder
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.12.1273 (Jan 28, 2015)
- file tree loads in separat thread, no longer blocking the UI
- Updated to the latest Scintilla component 3.5.3
- Fixed issues:
- Possibly excessive Scroll Bar painting
- Function list drop down fails to find function
- BowPad freezes
- Bowpad shows | which is unusual.
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.11.1248 (Dec 17, 2014)
- Improved load speed in the file tree
- Updated to the latest Scintilla component 3.5.2
- Solved issues:
- Improve bracket highlighting
- BowPad looks not really useable in the Windows High Contrast Theme
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.10.1231 (Dec 2, 2014)
- Improved the file tree
- Fixed problem when opening BowPad with a right-click in explorer from a folder background
- Solved issues:
- Highlight between brackets
- Add new c++ type for header source
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.9.1215 (Nov 17, 2014)
- Added explorer context menu entry for folders and folder backgrounds
- List of issues solved for 2.0.9:
- Add shortcut names as shortcut ids
- File SaveAs
- Touch support in 2.0.5 and newer breaks Windows Server 2008
- Implement an MRU list for encodings
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.8.1195 (Oct 27, 2014)
- Added a file tree, showing the directory of the first loaded file
- Fixed:
- zoom control
- Hide cursor after period of mouse inactivity.
- Autodetect line endings
- Auto-detect lexer based on file contents
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.7.1166 (Oct 6, 2014)
- Updated to the latest Scintilla component 3.5.1
- Added coloring for the new BibTex lexer
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.6.1157 (Sep 22, 2014)
- Fixed:
- Verilog syntax highlighting colours cannot be seen
- Status Bar Changes
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.5.1137 (Sep 22, 2014)
- Fixed:
- Toggle display of line numbers
- Extend functionality on Find All Window on Find/Replace dialog
- Summary command
- Automatic language lexer for OpenFOAM files (C/C++)
- improvements for high dpi monitors
- handling touch gestures
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.4.1077 (Aug 25, 2014)
- new command to sort lines
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.5.0
- Fixed issues:
- Long time issue of cursor not restoring properly.
- Problem with opening large files e.g. >200MB
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.3.1019 (Jul 28, 2014)
- Dropping a folder onto BowPad opens all files recursively
- Improved GotoLine for search matches and file-open
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.4.4
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.2.927 (Jun 30, 2014)
- "Functions" command miss-jump for JavaScript source
- VBScript Syntax highlighting
- help command showing the command line syntax of BowPad
- Top ribbon line difficult to read in dark theme
- use a different icon for documents
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.1.862 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Fixed plugin installation fails.
New in BowPad Portable 2.0.0 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Added support for plugin scripts written in jscript or vbscript
- List of issues solved for 2.0.0
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.4.3
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.8 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Fixed issue in utf8 detection
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.7 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Better handling of readonly files
- Fixed issues with scrollbar repainting
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.6 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.4.1
- Status bar shows tooltips with more detailed info
- Improved handling of high dpi mode
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.5 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Updated to latest Scintilla component 3.4.0
- AS and Markdown lexer styles
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.4 (Jun 3, 2014)
- List of issues solved for 1.1.4
- It's now possible to delete the file that's shown in the current tab
- The size of visible whitespace has been reduced
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.3 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Allow null matches in regex searches
- replace strings in regex replacements are escaped
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.2 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Fix: "Find all" was broken
- Issue #57: Rearrange buttons
- Issue #58: Find replace default button and polishing
- Issue #59: Reload fails to set the * modified indicator
- Issue #63: Can't create a file from the command line if other tabs are open
- New command to open a file at the caret position
New in BowPad Portable 1.1.1 (Jun 3, 2014)
- Fix: opening a file via doubleclick in Explorer failed to add it to the MRU list
- Issue #45: Find still retaining highlights after close
- Issue #46: enhance readability of tab strips
- Issue #48: Name section icons on the tool bar
- Issue #49: Find/Replace dialog suggestions
- Issue #50: improve the "corresponding file" interface
- Add French translation
- Issue #52: improve command line argument handling if file does not exist
- Issue #40: rearranging some optionst