Text Edit Plus Changelog

What's new in Text Edit Plus 14.1

Mar 25, 2024
  • Added “Compare Side by Side”
  • Installer adds SendTo icon, so that multiple files can be opened in multiple tabs
  • Fixed conflict between “Auto Refresh File” and “Monitor External File Modification” options
  • Improved horizontal ScrollBar

New in Text Edit Plus 14.0 (Feb 27, 2024)

  • Added “Remember Current Session for Next Launch”
  • Added “Enable Session Snapshot”
  • Improved command line arguments
  • Improved settings.ini error handling
  • Improved HTML stripping
  • Fixed “Move Up” and “Move Down”

New in Text Edit Plus 13.8 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • Improved text statistics analysis
  • Removed ping command (timeout alternative for Windows XP) because some antivirus programs deemed it suspicious

New in Text Edit Plus 13.7 (Dec 5, 2023)

  • Fixed “invalid class typecast” error when exporting to PDF and HTML
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 13.6 (Nov 24, 2023)

  • “Monitor External File Modification” is enabled by default
  • Added “Add context menu item” translation into installer
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 13.5 (Nov 22, 2023)

  • Fixed delay problem upon opening a file through command line parameter

New in Text Edit Plus 13.4 (Oct 11, 2023)

  • Supported loading files in use by another process

New in Text Edit Plus 13.3 (Sep 27, 2023)

  • Improved “Unicode Detector”, editor caret goes to the first unicode occurence
  • Added “Auto Refreshed” text

New in Text Edit Plus 13.2 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Improved “Highlight Selected Text”
  • Improved automatic theme selection
  • Changed default “Active Line Color”
  • Added “Debug Mode”
  • Uninstaller reverts .txt filetype association

New in Text Edit Plus 13.1 (Aug 9, 2023)

  • Fixed some tab problems
  • Fixed reopen bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 13.0 (Aug 5, 2023)

  • Added “Disable File History”
  • Added “Enable File History”
  • Improved Spell Checker
  • Improved settings.ini usage
  • Improved startup positioning
  • Improved quick sort
  • Improved Extras menu
  • Fixed “Application opens already loaded file in a new tab” problem
  • Fixed “List index out of bounds” problem

New in Text Edit Plus 12.8 (Jul 11, 2023)

  • Added “Change Active Line Color”
  • Added “Change Text Color”
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 12.7 (Jun 12, 2023)

  • Fixed Syntax bug

New in Text Edit Plus 12.6 (Jun 5, 2023)

  • Added “Highlight Selected Text”.

New in Text Edit Plus 12.5 (Jun 3, 2023)

  • Added “Auto Recover Unsaved Changes”
  • Added “Auto Save”

New in Text Edit Plus 12.4 (May 8, 2023)

  • Added “Delete Duplicate Lines (quick sort)“
  • Improved “Convert Non-English Chars to English Chars”
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 12.3 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • Improved “Clip Lines”
  • Improved “Extract Text”
  • Improved “Reset to Defaults”

New in Text Edit Plus 12.2 (Mar 29, 2023)

  • Improved “Spell Checker”
  • Improved “Auto Refresh File”
  • Improved “Monitor External File Modification”
  • Added Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut to change tabs
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 12.1 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • Added right-click “Customize Tool Bar” shortcut
  • Improved “HTML Decode”
  • If there is text selected, “Uppercase and Lowercase” is applied to the selected text
  • Fixed “Syntax” bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 12.0 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • Added “Customize Tool Bar”
  • Fixed “Select All” bug
  • Improved “Always on Top”
  • Improved UI
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 11.9 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • Added “Undo” and “Redo” into tool-bar
  • Improved “Redo” behavior
  • Fixed “FindDialog” shortcut bug
  • Improved trial version behavior
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Fixed “SynEdit doesn’t show vertical scroll-bar after loading file”
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 11.8 (Jan 7, 2023)

  • Fixed “View” menu bugs related to multiple tabs
  • Fixed “Code Folding” bugs
  • Fixed C++ syntax bug
  • Fixed “Add Thousand Separator to Numbers” bug
  • Fixed new tab creation glitch
  • Increased default tab caption width
  • Improved Text > Filter Fines > using Text Length

New in Text Edit Plus 11.7 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Added View > Code Folding menu item
  • Supported code folding for C++, JavaScript and Python
  • Added “Add Thousand Separator to Numbers”
  • Added “Convert Non-Breaking Spaces to Regular Spaces”
  • Fixed “Ctrl+Z doesn’t work after Delete All Spaces or Delete Extra Spaces”
  • Improved uppercase and lowercase conversion (non-English converts using system locale)
  • Fixed “Convert Numbers to Text” bug
  • Fixed tab related “Open” bug
  • Moved some menu items
  • All “Text” menu items now handle all text, instead of selected text

New in Text Edit Plus 11.6 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Implemented grayed out save button
  • Improved menu icons
  • Fixed “Big Icons” bug
  • Fixed tab close related bugs
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 11.5 (Oct 11, 2022)

  • Fixed tab close related bugs
  • Fixed “KeyPress Simulator” bugs
  • Fixed “Auto Refresh File” bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 11.4 (Sep 20, 2022)

  • Improved memory usage
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 11.3 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • Added “Auto Paste When Clipboard Changes” menu item
  • Added new syntax highlighters (BAT, INI, Inno Setup Script, Unix Shell Script, Unreal Engine Script)
  • Tabs remember syntax
  • Added “Close” menu item
  • Fixed tab close bug
  • Fixed “Delete After” bug
  • Fixed “Access Violation” errors when opening multiple files
  • Improved error messages
  • “runwith.txt” is now UTF-8 encoded

New in Text Edit Plus 11.2 (Aug 20, 2022)

  • Improved loading files using command line parameters
  • Fixed drag and drop related bug
  • Fixed reopen related bug
  • Fixed scaling problem of tab caption font
  • Ctrl+N opens new tab, instead of new window

New in Text Edit Plus 11.1 (Aug 16, 2022)

  • Supported multiple tabs
  • Fixed form close bug

New in Text Edit Plus 11.0 (Jul 29, 2022)

  • Supported UTF-16 encoding
  • Application automatically detects byte order marks
  • “Set as Default Encoding” is only functional when saving files
  • Added Insert - Clipboard menu items
  • Fixed Insert - Multiple Files menu item
  • Implemented thousand separator when displaying filesize in bytes
  • Classic text engine warns before opening file bigger than 1 MB
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.8 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Fixed “Always on Top” issues in “Split Lines” menu items
  • Fixed “Separate by String”
  • Improved “Change Line Spacing” window
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.7 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • Fixed “Always on Top” related issues
  • Updated text analysis
  • Improved “Insert Numbers”
  • Improved “Delete Chars”
  • Improved “Delete Unnecessary Lines”
  • Improved “Even Numbered Lines” and “Odd Numbered Lines” menus
  • Opening large files automatically disables spell checker
  • Implemented loading icon while opening files
  • Fixed SynEdit line count bug

New in Text Edit Plus 10.6 (Jun 23, 2022)

  • Supported Ukrainian language
  • Added “Copy Highlighted Lines” and “Delete Highlighted Lines”
  • Improved Reopen menu
  • Added “Clear File History”
  • Added “Extra Line Spacing”

New in Text Edit Plus 10.5 (Jun 9, 2022)

  • Implemented “Convert Numbers To Text”
  • Fixed “Update Available window crashes FindDialog and ReplaceDialog”
  • Fixed extract text bug
  • Updated “Spell Checker”
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.4 (May 1, 2022)

  • Added “None” to Syntax menu for displaying files faster
  • Added “Menu Hotkeys” into View menu
  • Fixed “Tab Options” bug
  • Fixed “Ctrl+Click doesn’t open URLs”
  • Fixed “invalid class typecast” error when loading some filetypes
  • Improved “Select Language” menu item for Spell Checker
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.3 (Apr 15, 2022)

  • Added “Search” and “Search Every Line with Google” menu items
  • “settings.ini” file supports UTF-8
  • Fixed: font settings can’t be saved when theme is “Automatic”
  • Added Ctrl+G shortcut for “Go to”
  • Added “Diagnose” menu item
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.2 (Feb 1, 2022)

  • Improved “Convert Non-English Chars to English Chars”
  • Added “URL Processor” menu
  • Added “Generate Domain Name List”
  • Added “Generate Hostname List”
  • Added “Generate URL List”
  • Mproved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 10.1 (Jan 16, 2022)

  • Fixed some text engine problems
  • Classic text engine utilizes popupmenu provided by Windows
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 10.0 (Jan 11, 2022)

  • Added “Text Engine” option, allowing Classic or SynEdit
  • Added “Filter Lines using File”
  • Added new datetime format into Insert menu
  • Improved “Regular Expression” form
  • Suppressed “File includes non-unicode characters.“ message
  • Added “Fix Broken UTF-8 Encoding” menu item

New in Text Edit Plus 9.9 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Added “Finnish” language
  • ESC key closes “Find” and “Replace” dialogs

New in Text Edit Plus 9.8 (Oct 4, 2021)

  • Added “Insert Same Text Multiple Times” into Insert - Text menu
  • Added “Ordinal Values of Characters” into Text - Net Encoding menu
  • Fixed “Full Screen” bug
  • Fixed form move bug

New in Text Edit Plus 9.7 (Sep 27, 2021)

  • Fixed word-wrap related “Spell Checker” bug
  • Fixed theme change bug
  • Fixed status-bar bug
  • Improved translations
  • Missing translations are placed at the bottom of language files so that translators can access them more easily

New in Text Edit Plus 9.6 (Sep 24, 2021)

  • Executable includes secondary icon for .txt file association
  • “Playful” menu renamed as “Extras”
  • Added “Increase Font Size” and “Decrease Font Size” allowing Ctrl + mouse wheel scroll
  • Fixed “Change Font” bug
  • Fixed “Modified” bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 9.5 (Aug 19, 2021)

  • Added “Export Lines to Files”
  • Added “Find Lines”
  • Implemented Windows theme detection
  • Improved online activation
  • Improved installer
  • Fixed About box related bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 9.4 (Jul 15, 2021)

  • Added “Net Encoding” menu
  • Improved “Syntax Highlighter”
  • Improved UI
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 9.3 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • Fixed “DictionaryIndex” bug
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 9.2 (Jul 1, 2021)

  • Implemented live spell checking
  • Implemented “Add Word To Dictionary”
  • Improved “Suggested Corrections”
  • Improved spell checker dictionaries
  • Added “URL Opener” menu item
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 9.1 (Jun 23, 2021)

  • Added “Random Text Generator” menu item
  • Fixed word-wrap space problem
  • Improved translations
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 9.0 (Jun 2, 2021)

  • Introduced Language menu (Syntax Highlighter)
  • Added “Unicode Detector”
  • Added “Highlight Active Line”
  • Changed BorderStyle to None in order to remove glitch
  • Fixed capitalize related bugs
  • Improved license check algorithm
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 8.9 (May 18, 2021)

  • Added “Go to” menu item into “Edit” menu
  • Added “Delete All Spaces” menu item into “Text” menu
  • Fixed reopen autohotkey bug that occurs when filename contains non-latin characters
  • “Export to HTML” and “Export to PDF” preserve font name and font size
  • Improved translations

New in Text Edit Plus 8.8 (Apr 18, 2021)

  • Added Ctrl+Y shortcut for “Redo” menu item
  • Ctrl+V shortcut works inside Find and Replace dialogs
  • Fixed unicode related “Reopen” bug
  • Fixed “Randomize Line Order” bug
  • Improved language files

New in Text Edit Plus 8.7 (Apr 6, 2021)

  • Translation support
  • Improved “Convert Erroneous UTF-8 to ANSI” menu item

New in Text Edit Plus 8.6 (Mar 9, 2021)

  • Added “Random Number Generator” into Playful menu
  • Added “Delete Extra Spaces” into Text menu
  • Added “Delete Starting or Ending Strings” into Text menu
  • Fixed “Reopen” bug

New in Text Edit Plus 8.5 (Mar 5, 2021)

  • Added “Tab Options”
  • Application brings to front after drag and drop

New in Text Edit Plus 8.4 (Feb 22, 2021)

  • New “URL” color and “Visited URL” color for “Dark Mode”
  • Implemented high-DPI awareness for “Big Icons”
  • Fixed “Extract Text” related bugs

New in Text Edit Plus 8.3 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Added “Big Icons” menu item
  • Added “Auto Refresh File” menu item
  • Improved “Filter Lines using Text” window by including “Case Sensitive”, “Contains”, “Starts with” and “Ends with” options
  • Improved “Extract Text” window by including “GETURLREADABLE” and “GETURLWORDS” commands
  • Fixed “Reset to Defaults” related bug
  • Improved UI

New in Text Edit Plus 8.2 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Added “Multiple Files” into “Insert” menu

New in Text Edit Plus 8.1 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • Implemented SynTaskDialog library
  • Fixed empty ANSI file problem

New in Text Edit Plus 8.0 (Dec 27, 2020)

  • Implemented hyperlink highlighting
  • Implemented clickable hyperlinks by pressing Ctrl button
  • Added “Highlight Odd Lines” menu item
  • Improved “Line Numbers”
  • Added “Separate Long lines (Keep Words)“ menu item
  • Disabled trim trailing spaces

New in Text Edit Plus 7.9 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Fixed “Can’t read last modified date” bug
  • Clears existing text before opening a binary file
  • Binary files are only visible using ANSI encoding

New in Text Edit Plus 7.8 (Oct 20, 2020)

  • Added “Spell Checker Options” form
  • Fixed “Line Order” up and down bug

New in Text Edit Plus 7.7 (Sep 27, 2020)

  • Renewed Encoding menu
  • Added optional UTF-8-BOM menu item
  • Fixed invalid filename problem after theme changes

New in Text Edit Plus 7.6 (Sep 20, 2020)

  • Fixed UTF-8 related parameter problem
  • Fixed trying to open directory problem

New in Text Edit Plus 7.5 (Sep 13, 2020)

  • Remembers form position instead of screen center
  • Tries to open files using UTF-8 encoding if UTF-8 is the default encoding
  • Implemented optional .txt file association
  • “E-mail Processor” improvements
  • “Drag and Drop Filenames” improvements

New in Text Edit Plus 7.4 (Sep 2, 2020)

  • Added “Reopen” menu
  • Updated English dictionary file for spell checking
  • Document name is sent to print queue
  • “Reset to Defaults” menu item also clears “reopen” and “run with” history

New in Text Edit Plus 7.3 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • Right-click popup-menu displays spell checker suggestions
  • Pressing alt key allows selecting columns
  • “Spell Checker” displays message if no spelling error is found
  • Encoding improvements
  • Default encoding is now UTF-8

New in Text Edit Plus 7.2 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Fixed “Replace Dialog” bug that causes recursion and application crash
  • Removed “Language File Editor”
  • Changed installer’s welcome image

New in Text Edit Plus 7.1 (Aug 15, 2020)

  • Fixed “Spell Checker” dictionary load bug occurs on non-English computers.

New in Text Edit Plus 7.0 (Aug 14, 2020)

  • Introduced “Spell Checker” functionality
  • Added “Export to HTML”
  • Added “Export to PDF”
  • Added “Highlight Even Lines”
  • Improved “ASCII Art”
  • WordWrap is now under Options menu
  • Default font for Windows XP is now Fixedsys

New in Text Edit Plus 6.8 (Jul 8, 2020)

  • Supported portable deployment.

New in Text Edit Plus 6.7 (Jun 23, 2020)

  • Fixed "invalid char" bug that prohibits SaveDialog execution
  • Fixed "too long filename" bug that prohibits SaveDialog execution
  • Suppressed the error message when last modified date of file can't be read

New in Text Edit Plus 6.6 (Jun 14, 2020)

  • Fixed the "tab char" bug that prohibits SaveDialog execution

New in Text Edit Plus 6.5 (May 2, 2020)

  • Added "Redo" menu item
  • "Fixed-Pitch Fonts" is now optional
  • Improved "Dark Mode"
  • Fixed bug causing tab obstacle

New in Text Edit Plus 6.4 (Mar 14, 2020)

  • Added "Display Special Chars" menu item

New in Text Edit Plus 6.3 (Feb 23, 2020)

  • Added "New Window" menu item.

New in Text Edit Plus 6.2 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • Improved "Dark Mode"

New in Text Edit Plus 6.1 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Fixed "undo" bug
  • Fixed "full screen" bug
  • Fixed "sample text" bug
  • Text font dialog is restricted to "Fixed Pitch Only"

New in Text Edit Plus 6.0 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Utilized SynEdit text engine
  • Implemented real-time line numbers display
  • Increased high-DPI awareness for wide screens such as Full HD and 4K
  • Implemented load time display
  • Revised Find and Replace dialogs

New in Text Edit Plus 5.7 (Sep 15, 2019)

  • Added "Auto Copy Highlighted Text to Clipboard" into Options menu
  • Default font size changed from 9 to 11
  • Menu font settings are remembered on next launch
  • Dark and Light theme font settings are separated and remembered on next launch
  • Statistics data columns are now resizable

New in Text Edit Plus 5.5 (Jul 16, 2019)

  • Added "Edit with Text Edit Plus" to the right-click context menu for all file types
  • First non-empty line content is now suggested as new filename

New in Text Edit Plus 5.4 (May 21, 2019)

  • Improved regular expression support
  • Added "Run with" menu for opening text file using external executables
  • Speed enhancement for "Delete Chars" menu items
  • Improved insert datetime menu
  • Added Ctrl+W support for closing the application in addition to Alt+F4

New in Text Edit Plus 5.3 (May 21, 2019)

  • Improved text statistics analysis

New in Text Edit Plus 5.2 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • Implemented Dark Mode in addition to the classic Light Mode
  • Settings INI file is now suitable for portable usage

New in Text Edit Plus 5.0 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Improved DPI awareness for high resolution screens
  • Improved UI
  • Added separate lines by string

New in Text Edit Plus 4.9 (Oct 3, 2018)

  • If the search string is not found, Replace Dialog asks whether to start searching from the beginning or not.

New in Text Edit Plus 4.2 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in Text Edit Plus 3.9 (Dec 21, 2017)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in Text Edit Plus 2.6 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Fixed bugs.