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)
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)
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)
New in Text Edit Plus 3.9 (Dec 21, 2017)
New in Text Edit Plus 2.6 (Jun 29, 2017)