What's new in NFOpad 1.81
Nov 27, 2022
- Fixed issue with using alt + keypad numbers to insert special characters
New in NFOpad 1.8 (Apr 3, 2022)
- Added support for zooming the text with Ctrl+plus/Ctrl+minus/Ctrl+0 or scrollwheel
- Added support for adding/removing a specified string to the start of all selected lines (typically used for commenting lines in scripts/source code)
- All icons updated and 256x256 version added
- Untabify now remove spaces as well as tabs
- Added Reset all settings button to Options/Misc
- "Allow changes to text" checkbox moved from menu to Options/Misc to avoid accidental use of feature and READ ONLY status bar item will be shown when set
- bugfix: ctrl-stepping the caret did not work for some cases
- bugfix: open new file with F6/F7 did not ask to save unchanged changes
- bugfix: horizontal scroll position restored properly for a bunch of cases
New in NFOpad 1.75 (Feb 9, 2020)
- Triple clicking now selects the whole line
- Open dialog now shows all file types by default
- Recent files list now shows 10 files instead of 6 by default
- Bugfix: opening a new file with the same contents as the currently open did not scroll the text to the top
- Minor tweaks and fixes
New in NFOpad 1.74 (Jun 18, 2018)
- Improved detection of when to load text as unicode (tries to detect UTF-8/UTF-16 even when the BOM is missing)
- Fixed so non-text files containing null is displayed as expected
- Pasted text with non-windows line endings (n instead of rn) is now displayed properly
- Fixed Replace/Replace all not working for some cases if clipboard was locked
- URL detection improved to handle URLs within other tags
- Initial paths set in Open/Save dialog when passing a file as argument to the exe
- Misc. optimizations
- Localization updates
New in NFOpad 1.73 (Sep 9, 2017)
- Added command for sorting the selected lines alphabetically
- Recent files list instantly updated for all open NFOPad instances
- Scrolled position is preserved so the selected text is kept in view (for when reopening files, changing wordwrap/font etc)
- When reopening a file the text selection is no longer preserved if the selected text has changed
- Fix for detection of email addresses within citation marks
- Tabify behavior tweaked
- .LOG feature (adding current date and time on open) now marks file as dirty as expected
- Bugfix: Opening a file which ends with a non-empty line will no longer add one empty line
- Bugfix: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert no longer toggles OVERWRITE
- Bugfix: Tabify honors read only setting
- Minor fixes to both NFOPad and the installer
New in NFOpad 1.72 (Nov 17, 2016)
- Tab key will indent the current selection (tabify)
- Hebrew localization added
- Url/email detection improvements
- Apostrophe added as word delimiter by default for better word selection in scripts/source code
- App path registration fixed for non admin windows accounts
- Installer updated to fix windows 10 issues
- Bugfix: Delete line did not work as expected if word wrap was enabled
New in NFOpad 1.71 (Feb 22, 2016)
- Load times for large text files improved
- Double clicking a word and keeping the button held down now allows the user to select several words just as ctrl + click
- Slovak localization added
- Set the NFOPad icon on "Edit with NFOPad" in the windows context menu
- Opening an empty NFOPad, adding text and removing it again will no longer prompt to save on close
- Added help text about starting the app as administrator when writing to the registry fails
- Localization fixes
- Bugfix: when having the menu bar hidden, AltGr no longer flickers the menu when held down
- Bugfix: Auto Window Width no longer changes the window size when NFOPad is maximized
New in NFOpad 1.7 (Jul 31, 2015)
- Search while typing setting added
- Different icons can now be selected when associating files with NFOPad, the old one updated and five new added
- Fixed the file extension description to display the correct file type when associating files with NFOPad
- Associating files from NFOPad should now always work and will immediately update the explorer icons
- Bugfix: Shell/Edit extension dialog was not always checking the "Use NFO font" setting correctly
- Bugfix: auto width was not calculated correctly for some cases
- Localization fixes
New in NFOpad 1.69 (Apr 7, 2014)
- French localization added
- Fixed so CTRL + backspace removes the whole word
New in NFOpad 1.68 (Jan 27, 2014)
- Italian localization added
- Minor localization and code fixes
New in NFOpad 1.67 (Oct 28, 2013)
- Brazilian Portuguese added
- Added so F6/F7 will open the next/previous file in the directory of the currently open file
- Double click on path in status bar will copy it to the clipboard
- Fixed so the NFOPad window and dialogs don't open outside the desktop
- Bugfix: text in main window could get manipulated using keyboard shortcuts when the Find dialog had focus
- Bugfix: restoring scrolled position in text failed for some cases if selection was outside of the view
- Bugfix: minor fixes
New in NFOpad 1.66 (Jan 21, 2013)
- Ukrainian localization added
- INI file location can be selected from Options
- Find text will try to scroll so the matched string is not at the bottom of the screen for better overview
- Fixed so undo works for the following operations: delete line, replace, replace all, change case and insert date
- Bugfix: "Count search hits" and "Replace all" dialogs could end up behind the NFOPad main window
- Bugfix: When searching to the end and then reversing search direction Find had to be pressed twice
New in NFOpad 1.65 (Oct 1, 2012)
- Word selection updated, now works for ctrl + click, ctrl + arrow keys and double click. Also appending a word to the selection with ctrl + shift + click works as expected now
- Added a customizable list of word delimiters
- Performance fixes for opening and saving large documents
- Bugfix: NFO files not shown correctly on some systems, changed default setting for "load nfo files with western latin encoding" to false for all except users with asian operating systems
- Bugfix: When NFOPad was set to be always on top some dialogs were hidden by the main window
- Bugfix: Windows information/warning sounds were played incorrectly on some dialogs
- Bugfix: Some dialogs was not positioned correctly if the main window had been moved
- Bugfix: Filesize was not shown on locked files
- Bugfix: Portuguise localization file updated
- Minor fixes
New in NFOpad 1.64 (Oct 1, 2012)
- Hungarian localization added
- Direct scrolling (scroll the text using the arrow keys) and a bunch of options for when to enable it
- Improved dialog shown when trying to save unicode characters with the wrong encoding
- Menu bar can be hidden (use ALT to show it again)
- You can specify where on the screen to open NFOPad by sending in two extra command line arguments (nfopad.exe [file to open] [x coordinate] [y coordinate])
- Specifying a shortcut as command line argument now opens the referenced file
- Bugfix: opening files from network shares or really long paths could fail
- Bugfix: error message for setting NFOPad language was sometimes incorrectly shown when pressing OK on the Options dialog
New in NFOpad 1.63 (Nov 21, 2011)
- Korean localization added
- Tweaked some default values
New in NFOpad 1.62 (Oct 24, 2011)
- Russian localization added
- URL detection now also detects URLs starting with www (without http://)
- Pressing insert will switch input mode (overwrite/insert)
- Input mode indicator on the status bar and a setting to turn it off
- Potential fix for NFOPad requesting administrator rights every time it starts
- Bugfix: title of the document was never sent to the printer when printing
- Bugfix: "View with NFOPad" was not removed properly from the context menu
- Bugfix: scrolled position and selection could be reset for some rare cases
New in NFOpad 1.61 (Oct 3, 2011)
- Chinese localization added
- Added alpha blending support for the program window (and a setting + shortcut)
- Added an asterisk to the program title when the text is changed and unsaved
- Added a setting to disable all registry writes to ensure 100% portability
- Fixed so ctrl-clicking a word to select it also works when holding down the mouse button to select several words
- Context menu renamed "View with NFOPad" -> "Edit with NFOPad"
- Minor layout fixes and code optimizations
- Bugfix: switching font selection using F9-F12 now keeps the scrolled text position
- Bugfix: tabs was handled incorrectly when printing
New in NFOpad 1.6 (Oct 6, 2010)
- Polish localization added
- Added option for toggling all status bar items on/off
- Added new status bar items: file size, unicode indication, selection length (not shown by default)
- "Match case" in the Find dialog is not saved between sessions anymore
- Added setting for always using the standard tab width 8 for nfo files, since some nfo files assumes this (default true)
- When reopening a file (F5) the text is scrolled back to the previous location
- Find/replace/count performance greatly improved
- Changed some default values for Auto Width
- Fixes and tweaks on how to select text by double clicking and ctrl-clicking
- Added a warning if trying to use a language when the language file has not been installed
- Fixes, checks and warnings regarding reading and writing registry keys for all users using an windows account without admin rights
- bugfix: Find dialog was always on top all other windows
- bugfix: Changing font selection using the menu or keyboard shortcuts did not update the Save As dialog's default extension
- bugfix: Misc localization fixes
New in NFOpad 1.59 (Jul 23, 2010)
- Program language can be set in options
- Quick switch between NFO/text mode can be done from menu or with shortcut keys.
- URL detection now work within xml tags
- Default encoding for saving files can be set in options
- Fixed taskbar icon to use the one with high resolution
- German localization added
- Portuguese localization added
- Spanish localization added
New in NFOpad 1.58 (May 25, 2010)
- Added support for multiple languages in the GUI. Added localizations for Swedish
- Added setting to select whether to save the window position/size on exit
- Added word count in the search dialog
- Hourglass cursor shown during large operations
- "New Window" will open the new window with a small offset
- Replace All optimized
- "Open" defaults to system default encoding and "Reopen" remembers the selected encoding
- Bugfix: The program settings INI file is now saved as Unicode
- Bugfix: Changing the word wrap setting no longer resets the tab width
- Bugfix: Printing large texts with lots of tabs was very slow
- Bugfix: Application could crash if unable to read the INI file
New in NFOpad 1.57 (Apr 10, 2010)
- Tab width can be set in Options
- NFOPad warns if trying to save a text with unicode characters with an incompatible encoding
- More intuitive word selection when double clicking a word.
- Double clicking an URL or e-mail address will select it
- Adding ".LOG" at the top of a text tells NFOPad to automatically add the current date and time to the text upon opening, just as Notepad.
- Recent files list always sorted so the most recent files are shown first.
- Word wrapping added when printing to make sure all text fits the page.
- Bugfix: Removed false warning when printing
- Bugfix: Tabs where not handled correctly when printing
- Bugfix: URL/e-mail detection did not work in the end of really long texts
- Bugfix: Delete line was possible in read only mode
- A bunch of minor tweaks
New in NFOpad 1.56 (Oct 2, 2009)
- Program settings can now be saved to an INI file or the windows registry.
- Added a READ ONLY notification in the status bar.
- "TXT file" is now shown in the Windows Explorer's New menu (can be turned off in Options).
- bugfix: fixed so force western latin encoding setting doesn't apply to unicode files.
- bugfix: Save As and changing encoding would reload the wrong file (file saved correctly but wrong text loaded).
New in NFOpad 1.55 (Jun 23, 2009)
- New Options dialogue
- Added Auto width, including settings in Options
- Added operations for making the selected text uppercase, lowercase, sentence case, title case and inverted case
- Added "Insert Time/Date"
- Added support for URLs within {} and
- Save dialog tweaks
- bugfix: URL detection didn't work on uppercase addresses
New in NFOpad 1.54 (May 17, 2009)
- Made a new icon for NFOPad (and all associated files)
- Added option to search text in reverse direction (shift+F3)
- Improved URL/e-mail detection to handle addresses within parenthesis/brackets and detect the following keywords: http://, https://, ftp://, ftps://, file://, gopher://, news://, nntp://, telnet://, wais://, prospero://
- Added Reopen current file (F5)
- Optimized "Replace all" to be >40 times faster
- Changing the encoding of a file when saving will refresh the text to reflect the change
- Bug fixes
New in NFOpad 1.53 (Apr 14, 2009)
- Added option "Load NFO files with western latin encoding", true by default. NFO files was not displayed properly for users with a non latin OS language (such as Chinese or Japanese).
- Added separate colors for nfo/txt
- Made is easier to associate new extensions with NFOPad and also made it possible to set what font to use for each extension
- Fixed so you can use Start->Run "nfopad" to start NFOPad, even when the program wasn't installed using the installer
- Removed unwanted shortcuts (CTRL + H, J, I, M)
- Font character set is used and saved properly
- Improved unicode support in Find/Replace dialog
- Suggested filename cleared on New
- Program renamed to NFOPad with a capital P
- Various fixes
New in NFOpad 1.52 (Feb 11, 2009)
- Added support for some rare line ending characters, fixes problems with some NFO files having double blank lines
- SaveAs dialog now suggests the previous path and filename
- Bugfix: extension detection was case sensitive
- Bugfix: you could open several font/color dialogs in Options which would stall NFOpad
- Bugfix: parts of the recent items list could be cleared and using several NFOpad could overwrite recent items
- Some minor fixes
New in NFOpad 1.51 (Jan 12, 2009)
- Fixed so locked files can be opened by NFOpad (files used by some other process)
- Additional Unicode support, encoding can be selected upon open and save
- Fixed so the scrolled location in the file is preserved upon replace
- The SaveAs dialog suggests the default extension from the opened file
- Shift+delete to remove a line only applies if nothing is selected in the text (else the selection is removed as expected)
New in NFOpad 1.5 (Dec 3, 2008)
- Full Unicode support
- "Copy on select" added which copies the selected text on mouse up, can be enabled in Options
- "New Window" menu item added. Opens a new instance of NFOpad
- Replace functionality added
- Selected text is automatically copied to the search field
- Search dialog has new settings for "always start from top" and "close on search"
- Search dialog uses ASCII font if that is used in the text
- Added support for Vista/XP themes.
- Loading and saving of files rewritten (loading a large text is much faster)
- Added option when using "extension determines font"to use either nfo or txt as default extension when saving and viewing files without extension
- Increased max number of recent items to 20
- Dropping a shortcut (.lnk) on NFOpad will open the referenced file as expected
- Optimized url and e-mail detection which could be really slow on large text files
- Changed how the application settings are stored, this unfortunately means all your old settings will be wiped