WriteMonkey Changelog

What's new in WriteMonkey 3.3.0

Jan 22, 2023

Added: New AI helper plugin integrates GPT-3 (ChatGPT) artificial intelligence text generation in WM (you must obtain your free API key from <openai.com>)
Added: New Pandoc plugin - run Pandoc (a universal document converter) commands directly from WM to export/import from/to multiple document formats / Pandoc (<pandoc.org>) must be installed separately
Added: Clean command will remove redundant spaces, empty lines and tabs from the document or selection. Optionally it will also normalize all quote marks to straight quote marks
Added: Anchored reading option for fast reading. Similar to Bionic reading (<bionic-reading.com>)
Added: Automatic folding for multilevel markdown lists (similar to heading folding)
Added:Drag and drop local image files into WM
Added: Command to Convert tabbed items to markdown table
Changed: Today view in library pane substituted with Last opened view - will show a list of last opened documents
Added: Support for YAML style metadata block delimiters (--- and ...)
Added: Use alternative field names in metadata - title instead of name, and keywords instead of tags
Added: Open setting files in the default JSON editor via the command palette
Added: Open the current theme file in the default CSS editor via the command palette
Added: Syntax Highlighting (theme definitions) for markdown footnotes
Improved: Improved jumps list category selection
Added: New theme - Black mamba
Added: New Search with Google command
Fixed: Scroll position jumping up and down sometimes when typing with the typewriter scrolling on in a document with different line heights
Fixed: ClickClack plugin: characters invoked via the Alt key didn't make any noise
Fixed/improved: Many small fixes, changes and improvements all over the place

New in WriteMonkey 3.2.0 (Apr 19, 2020)

Improved: Improved sentence boundaries detection and hence better sentence highlighting
Added: Sentence breakup mode - show sentences in paragraphs line-by-line, separated by a divider CTRL+F8
Added: Show comments in editor as "post-it stickers" via Collapsed ranges (F5)
Added: Word frequencies plugin - shows word cloud and frequencies list of used words for the current document
Added: Increase / decrease markdown heading level via keyboard ALT+UP / DOWN
Added: A setting to disable "jump to the place of last edit" on document open
Fixed: Don't count heading hash-tag characters (markdown) as words / characters
Fixed: Mark single trailing space at the end of the line when Show White Spaces is on - F8
Added: "Changes not saved" indicator - dot icon next to the document name
Added: Show last 7 recently used palette commands at the top of the list
Updated: Katex library for math rendering
Removed: Keyboard bindings for Rotate sepia and brightness
Fixed: The possessive forms of learned English words (from custom dictionary) are not marked as a spelling error any more
Changed / Improved: Option for "normal indented paragraphs" - paragraphs starting with tabs or spaces that won't translate to markdown code blocks (you can optionally enable this in settings file to override default markdown behavior - normal_line_indenting)
Removed: Visuals plugin; Google changed its image search service and it is no longer possible to extract images reliably
Added: Preview plugin - double click anywhere to Update the preview
Added: New themes - Red and Terminal
Improved: General theme improvements
Fixed: No more false positive detections of markdown tables in collapsed blocks
Fixed: Documents within folders not saving custom order in some cases
Fixed: The word count was incorrect if there was a hyperlink in the paragraph
Changed / Fixed: Shift + End/Home now selects from the cursor to the edge of the screen line (not to the start/end of the paragraph)
Changed / Improved: Lots of small tweaks & fixes
Changed: Version number arbitrarily jumped to 3.2

New in WriteMonkey 2.7.0.3 (Nov 10, 2014)

New in WriteMonkey 2.6.0.3 (Mar 17, 2014)

New in WriteMonkey 2.6.0.2 (Mar 10, 2014)

New in WriteMonkey 2.5.0.9 (Sep 11, 2013)

New in WriteMonkey 2.5.0.7 Preview 2 (Jul 13, 2013)

New in WriteMonkey 2.5.0.6 Preview 1 (May 11, 2013)

fixed: Nasty crash on combination: blinds on & info bar hidden at startup.
removed: "Inverse colors in repository" option is no longer available in this version.
fixed: False positive "The file was saved outside wm" message when saving files to remote machine with out of the sync system clock.
fixed / changed: Automatic word selection (when selecting with mouse) is now disabled. This allows more precise "character per character" selecting.
changed: Updated sound library IrrKlang to version v1.4.0. for .NET 4.0
added (EXPERIMENTAL): You can optionally show non printable whitespace characters — paragraph breaks, tabs and redundant spaces. Useful if you want to keep your text file as clean and well formated as possible. Use CTRL+8 to toggle on / off.
added: Ability to set default wm file extension other than ".txt". Preferences / Open&Save / File format.
added: Javascript based plugin engine with some plugins. More info below:
Plugins engine:
This will allow 3rd party extensions/plugins to add to and interact with existing core wm functionality.
Included plugins:
Corkboards for Writemonkey [initialized at startup]
Namely - generate random names using huge database of real names
Smarty pants - replace straight quotes with curly ones, -- to en dash, --- to em dash etc.
Wordwrap at 75 - hard break the text at certain position:
Quick search - find text quickly, [initialized at startup]
Deploy: CTRL+E,S
Find: start writing
Next down: Down arrow, Enter
Next up: Up arrow
First: Home
Last: End
Clear search field: Delete
Exit: Escape
Back to original location: Insert
Block comment - add or remove "//" from the paragraphs of selected text [initialized at startup]:
Deploy: CTRL+E,C (comment) / CTRL+E,U (uncomment)
If nothing is selected, paragraph under the caret will be acted upon
Rounded monkey - show borderless window with rounded corners [initialized at startup]:
Deploy / toggle: CTRL + click right side of the wm window
Set radius and opacity in js file
Clipboard picker - keep clipboard history and allow text snippets to be accessed later [initialized at startup]
Deploy / toggle: CTRL+E,E or /clip replacement trigger
Pomodoro - show timer and completed pomodoros with words written for each of them. Track how productive you were during the session. More about this technique at [initialized at startup]
Show / hide: CTRL+E,P
Click timer to start / void pomodoro
Click session label to start new session
More settings at the beginning of the plugin file
Auto indent - On enter match the indent of the previous line, auto insert markdown bullets and increment numbers [initialized at startup]
Toggle plugin active / inactive: CTRL+E,I
SHIFT+ENTER: bypass auto indent
Modes of deployment:
Individual plugin can be initialized when wm starts or it can be deployed later using plugin menu. That depends on plugin's nature. Some plugins need to run all the time, other just do stuff when needed in a single step.
All plugin .js files with names starting with "exe_" will execute at startup. For example: exe_someplugin.js will run and someplugin.js won't.
You can deploy "one step" plugins using plugins menu - CTRL+F10. Run last used plugin with CTRL+ALT+F10. Plugin menu does show "exe" plugins (maked with green icon) but you can't re-run them. Use plugin shortcuts to deploy actions.
If implemented, running plugin can listen for keyboard (and other) events and reacts on them. Since core wm already occupies a big chunk of shortcut space, wm 2.5.0.3 adds a new feature that will allow plugins to assign shortcuts without interfering with existing combinations. To use this extended shortcut space hit CTRL+E, release, and hit another key. Plugin Quick search, for example, uses CTRL+E,S to open quick search field at the top left corner of the screen. Users can modify this shortcut by editing the plugin file.
Version 2.5.0.4 also allows replacements to not just replace text, but to execute scripts or send keyboard commands. You can for example type /go and wm will execute command predefined in replacement string. If you want to execute plugin use {full_plugin_path} for the replacement string. To execute keyboard command, use {^es} for example. That means that CTRL+E,S command will be executed. Note that {H} will send SHIFT+H and h will send just H. Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.aspx to learn more. Plugins can register their own trigger/replacement pairs using `monkey.setReplacement(trigger, replacement)` method. Plugin Quick search for example defines trigger /s that brings up search field.
Plugins can be disabled in Preferences / Misc.

New in WriteMonkey 2.4.0.17 (Dec 8, 2012)

New in WriteMonkey 2.4.0.15 (Dec 3, 2012)

changed: Writemonkey is now targeted to .NET Framework 4.X and is compatible with Windows 8 without the need to install older .NET version 3.5. That also means that users with older systems who don't have .NET 4.0 installed must upgrade their machines.
added: Single / multiple window option. You can now choose whether new instances of wm are allowed. If disabled (default) all actions will happen in the same window. Preferences / Open&Save / Open. This new functionality also makes Writemonkey usable as a default system text editor without the need for multiple windows.
Jumps / Files — "Open in new window" command in context menu (SHIFT+ENTER) will open new wm instance with selected file. Preferences / Open&Save / Allow multiple windows must be enabled for this to work.
added: Left and right blinds in full screen mode. Blinds mimic typing on a sheet of paper and will also lessen the screen glare when using bright backgrounds. Toggle blinds on / off with CTRL+9. Or use Preferences / Screen elements where you can choose whether to use solid or striped blinds.
removed: Text area markers are no longer available in this version.
added: You can now set caret position for each replacement item in Preferences / Replacements / Add, Edit. For example: Set qq as a trigger and »«~1 as a replacement. "~1" (must be at the end of the string) will tell wm that it should put the caret between the smart quotes --> »|«. That way you can start writing without moving the caret between the quotes by hand. Another example: Set a replacement for markdown link syntax [](http://)~10 and you'll be able to write the url on the spot. Use the "Set caret position after replace" button to append ~Number automatically.
added: Wm will check if file, while opened, has been modified by some other application / process. Then it will give you the option to reload it or not. This is the standard behavior of programs that don't put exclusive lock on files while using them.
added: Use ALT+Up/Down to move paragraph under caret up or down.
added: Use CTRL+0 to reset font zoom factor to 0 and text column width to 1/2 of the screen's real estate (default view).
added: Jumps window will now show structurally indented markup headings (for Markdown, Textile and WikiCreole).
changed: More minimal and compact representation of items in Jumps window.
added: Open recent Files or recent Folders in Jumps window by pressing ALT+UP or ALT+DOWN.
added: New help menu item with descriptions of hidden features for donors & direct PayPal link.
added: Use ALT+H to toggle syntax highlighting on / off.
added: Sentence segment focus: use ALT+F6 to focus on a sentence under the caret. Note that the concept of sentence is not easily defined. Please test this feature for exceptions so it can be improved.
added (experimental): Step through sentences with ALT+F7. The sentence under the caret will be selected / highlighted, then next, next, till the end of the file. You can focus on selected sentence any time by pressing F6. CTRL+F7 will step through paraghraphs.
improved: Jumps window, bookmarks or custom view activation: jump item nearest to the current caret position is now automatically selected / highlighted.
changed / added: Jumps filter now works differently and has more functionality: "red green blue" will match items that contain red and green and blue. Use "green -blue" to match all items that are green and not blue. You can also use "red or green or blue" to match all items that contain at least one of those tags.
fixed: Wm has been unable to read files marked as Read-only. New behavior: Read-only file will open in Read-only mode, but because file is write protected, upon save, wm will show Save As dialog to give you the option to save changes if file has been locked by some other process after you opened it in wm.
added: You can now set opened file to be Read-only so it can't be modified by Writemonkey or any other application until the flag is removed. This is a good way to additionally protect your valuable files. Toggle Read-only mode with CTRL+F9. In Jumps window, read-only file will have its name marked with an asterisks (*).
added: Jumps / Folders button — in addition to existing project folders list, there is now also a list of child folders (plus link to the parent folder) of currently opened project. It helps you navigate the folder structure without the need to use "Open ..." command.
changed: Default bookmark string from @@ to ///. This way bookmarks, if at the beginning of the paragraph, work also as comments, will be highlighted & excluded from word count and exported documents. You can still use them in the middle of paragraphs, though.
added: Jumps window — The maximize and minimize buttons are now both enabled and have different functions. Maximize button (quasi) docks jumps window left or right and keeps it there. Minimize button undocks jumps window stays where it is even after full screen / window toggle (old behavior).
added: Right click on the file name in info bar brings up recent files menu. Click opens Jumps window (as before).
changed: New application icon and new default color scheme.

New in WriteMonkey 2.3.5.0 (Apr 27, 2012)

added / changed: Writemonkey installation now includes RICHED20.DLL ver. 6.0 / 12.0.6606. This is to ensure that this library overrides other potentially older installed versions of rich edit control. It has many small improvements, for example: it now supports system block caret (Win7: Control Panel / Ease of Access Center / Make the computer easier to see). Also, the typewriter scrolling works better now and is out of experimental phase
added: Quick mask in Custom mask view. If you prepend your filter string with a character "&" when in Custom mask view, the filter string itself will become a mask. If you use "&mike", you'll actually search for all occurrences of the string "mike". Quick jump mask is, like ordinary jump mask, regex enabled
added: The writing column (text area) will automatically move left or right when Jumps window is opened and will recenter when closed. Only in full screen mode
added: New marker in Bookmarks and Custom mask view - gray vertical stripe shows you item's relative position inside full text. You will also get the idea how far apart are individual items
changed / fixed: Backup directories for individual files are now named "projectName_fileName" instead of only "fileName". That way backup will properly handle files with the same name but in different project folders. Also browsing backup files in file manager is easier that way - sorting by name will nicely put together all project files
improved: Large markup documents will open up to 50 percent faster
improved: Better responsiveness when working on very large documents
fixed: Updated Markdowndeep (www.toptensoftware.com/markdowndeep/) library that fixes footnote issue
fixed: Some inconsistencies with exported lists and comment (//) lines
fixed, changed (version 2.3.5 preview #6): The _PROJECT.DAT file no longer holds complete file paths but only file names. The order is now preserved even if you move the project folder to some other location or use it inside DropBox folder on different machines
changed: Jumps "Paragraphs" item is no longer available as a stand alone option. You can reproduce this functionality by creating new Jump mask (Preferences / Jumps). Use custom mask ".+" (without brackets) to achieve that
fixed / improved: Lower memory consumption - improved stability and speed. Fixes: syntax highlighter memory leak -> potential stability issues; spell checker memory leak -> very high memory consumption when using multiple times; lower memory imprint for dialogs like Preferences and Jumps
added / improved: Better Find&Replace tool - no more nagging message boxes, Undo for Replace All command and placeholders for paragraph and tabulator ([n] and [t]). You can now for example easily convert texts with double space after paragraphs to single and vice versa ... The tool will always search trough whole text. If you want to perform Find and Replace on a block of text, use Focus command first
added: You can now set number of lines the text scrolls when you roll the mouse wheel (also when you use blind scrolling or keyboard scrolling). Default is 2, maximum is 5. Preferences / Misc / Scrolling
added: Standard Open and Save As dialogs now include Markdown filter (for files with extensions .md and .markdown). For those who prefer naming markdown files that way. When saving new "scratch" file as Markdown file, WM will always use .md extension (most commonly used)
fixed / changed: Problems with decimal point when using math parser (ctrl+shift+R). You can now use a dot or a comma - depending on your local settings. The default is dot (en-US standard). WM is now using different math library - Parser .NET - which is also a bit faster (used to calculate page count and reading time info bar values). You can't use thousands separator (dot or comma) when doing math in WM. Parser will regard it as a decimal point and fail miserably

New in WriteMonkey 2.3.0.0 (Dec 1, 2011)

New in WriteMonkey 2.2.0.1 (Dec 1, 2011)

added: Support for WikiCreole markup standard. More info: http://wikicreole.org/wiki/Home. Keyboard shortcuts for bold and italic are not yet supported in this version. No help card content either.
added: Markup "syntax highlighting" for headings, bullets&numbers and block quotes. Paragraphs marked as headings ("#" for Markdown, "h1." for Textile or "=" for WikiCreole) will be automatically stylized based on your settings (Preferences / Colors&Fonts / [...] button). Schemes in permanent slots will hold this new info, so you can create different styles for different type of work. You may like plain centered headings for your novel and bolded&underlined for more structured pieces. Paragraphs marked as indented block quote (">" for Markdown and "bq." for Textile) will be indented by 60 pixels. Paragraphs marked as list items (- * + 1.) will be indented properly. In order for this to work, there must be exactly one space between list mark and first letter of the text. Nest items by starting the paragraph with tabs or spaces (Markdown style), or use multiple marks (##, ** - Textile and WikiCreole). Wm highlighting helps you visually discern semantic chunks of texts (headings, block quotes, lists and comments) and has nothing to do with printing styles. Those are defined in css export sheets and are utilized (if enabled) when exporting markup text (CTRL+SHIFT+E) or using new "copy formatted" feature (CTRL+SHIFT+F).
added: Similar to CTRL+SHIFT+H that copies the html representation of markup text into clipboard, you can now use CTRL+SHIFT+F to copy formatted text. It will (instantly) give you the same result as the following procedure: Open Markup export options (CTRL+SHIFT+E) / Export to web browser, then in web browser window - Select All and Copy. Use this to quickly paste your markup document (or selection) to any program that supports rich text. For example: write your elaborate and structured email using wm and Markdown syntax, hit the shortcut and paste your nicely formatted text into email client editor. Or Word ... The chosen wm template (css style sheet) is applied if enabled in Export options. If nothing is selected when using this command, whole text will be copied (no need for Select All).
added: Drag&Drop support. You can move or copy selected text with your mouse. Hold CTRL for Copy. Remember: you can also drop text files into writing area to open them.
improved: Faster handling of large files (opening, toggling repository or segment focus) when syntax highlighting for markup is enabled. Faster Jumps tool.
fixed / improved: Filter box in Jumps is now more responsive with large files.
fixed: Nasty desktop flickering on some XP systems when using syntax coloring.
fixed / changed: When CTRL+TAB-ing recent files the list will show first item (not second) when employed from an unsaved document (scratch).
fixed: Freeze when pasting over selected text from sources outside wm.
fixed: Exception error message when exporting to ms word with previous export of the same file already opened.
fixed: Some inconsistencies with applying meta data values (word target, partial count ...) when opening existing files.
fixed: White noise sound won't stop when wm is closed to system tray (soft exit).
fixed: Wm crashes when hitting CTRL+SHIFT+W and there is no white noise sound files in Sounds folder.
fixed / improved: Annoyance when leaving focus mode or opening new file with caret restore on - the caret line always appeared at the very top of the screen. It is now conveniently shown a couple of lines down.
fixed: Wm crashes at start on some corporate machines with FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) policy enforced. MD5 algorithm (used to check for text changes) has been replaced with SHA1 which is FIPS 140 compliant.
fixed: When using Textile, paragraph marked with "#" were threated as Markdown headings (underlined).
fixed / changed: Shortcut for "caret centering" has been causing problems on Polish systems - the users were unable to type capital letter "Ł" due to shortcut collision. Shortcuts for typewriter scrolling (CTRL+SHIFT+L) and caret centering (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+L) are now changed to CTRL+L and CTRL+SHIFT+L.

New in WriteMonkey 2.0.1.0 (Dec 1, 2011)

New in WriteMonkey 2.0.0.0 (Dec 1, 2011)

changed: Version number jump. One would expect that this version of writemonkey should be called version 1.0. I think this would be somehow misleading as wm is already quite mature program and versions 1 usually aren't. 2.0 is (in my humble opinion) more appropriate. The complete numbering scheme for future releases (1.2.3.4): 1 – major release, 2 – release, 3 – service release, 4 – not needed and will be depreciated.
added: UI language packs. Individual language packs are available for download here. Unzip xx-YY directory into writemonkey's application directory. Then change application language in Preferences / Language tab. You will need to restart wm for changes to take effect. Currently there are only few packs available; more will follow soon. Special thanks to all translators working on the project!
added (new in 2.0 preview2): Decent "syntax coloring" engine. This version only implements it for dimming commented paragraphs, but it has much more potential. Will probably evolve in the future.
added (new in 2.0 preview2): Inline comments solution. You can start any paragraph with two slashes "//" and the whole paragraph will be regarded as a comment. It will be dimmed on the screen (as all other "non text" elements), so you will be able to easily distinguish comments from ordinary text. Comments are excluded from word count and all other statistics. Export dialog has a new option to keep or exclude comments from exported texts. If kept, they will be presented (printed) with yellow (gray on b&w printers) background, but this could be changed in export templates. You can choose strikeout style for example … Great for printing first drafts!
Commenting as implemented in Writemonkey is a simple yet powerful (=elegant) concept known to all computer programmers. It is used for two main purposes: a) adding comments to code elements or b) for commenting out (disabling) certain parts of code with an option to easily enable them again later. Writing text is not that different process so I dare to argue that a writer should benefit too (from a and b). You can comment out meta data at the beginning of the document, mark parts that need further attention or some other kind of "note-to-myself" comments. … Or you can just comment out some parts of text – if you are over your word count limit, but still want to keep deleted parts in your original text document, for example. Or you can comment out alternative sections of your story. You may want to use them later.
added: Reading time progress unit – It measures approximate reading time for your texts. The default value is set to 150 words per minute, but you can easily change that in Preferences / Misc tab. You can achieve very accurate results if you measure your actual reading speed and adjust the formula. Best when preparing texts for spoken media, speeches, lectures … You can show live count value in info bar or just check it in progress dialog (F12) along with other statistics.
added: Additional text statistics. There are some new values in Progress dialog (F12) – Unique words, Average words per sentence, Reading time, Hard words (words with 3 or more syllables), Lexical density (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_density) and Gunning fog index (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index). You can also inspect the list of word frequencies with marked hard words. Words with less than 3 characters are not shown.
added / improved: New info bar look&feel options. You can now optionally show inverse info bar with dimmed (background or text) color. Experiment with Inverse colors setting in Preferences / Colors&fonts.
added / improved: New Colors&Fonts tab in Preferences dialog. Some new settings (or moved from other dialogs) and completely new permanent slots interface. You can now save and manage as many schemes as you wish. The individual slot holds values of all items in Colors&Fonts tab. This Preview version won't import your existing 4 saved schemes.
added: Progress limit value, corresponding unit setting and partial count value are now file dependent – writemonkey will save those values as file's meta data (NTFS file system only) and restore them when the file is reopened. Note that those values are lost when you copy the file to non NTFS drive (or the file is sent via e-mail …).
added: (new in 2.0 final) You can now lock the wm window on top of window stack. The "^" sign in status string reminds you that lock is active. Use F8 to toggle on / off. Wm will always start with "lock on top" off.
added: (new in 2.0 final) You can now bring the typewriter metaphor to the extreme. Already present horizontal typewriter scrolling is now accompanied with optional vertical lock, so that caret will always stay fixed in the center of the screen and the text will move left and right. Like the sheet of paper in the typewriter does ;) Use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+L to toggle on / off. It only works in full screen mode.
Fixed / improved: Hide mouse pointer when writing. Users my occasionally experience annoying mouse cursor flickering. This is because mouse visibility is very system dependent and some background (or even internal) processes can trigger the flickering. The "hide mouse pointer when writing" workaround has been part of wm for a long time – the mouse pointer was moved to the right bottom corner of the screen, but original mouse position was not kept. It is now. Also, the pointer is now sent to middle right edge of the screen to prevent conflicts with Win7 "Hide windows" feature. This setting is now on by default for new installs; existing users should enable it in Preferences / Misc tab.
Fixed / improved: More robust sound engine. There were quite a few reports of problems (even crashes) with typewriter sounds. This version has more robust sound engine and some dependent system files were included into installation pack in case your system installation lacks them. There are also some noticeable reaction time improvements – clicks and clacks should sound even more in sync and realistic.

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.9.0 (Nov 1, 2010)

added: You can now use markup export with predefined templates (CTRL+SHIFT+E). This enables you to export / print your texts with specific look and fill. You can have one template for the novels, one for poems, essays, articles ... or one for drafting, one for paper friendly version or fancy one for some other purpose ...
Under the hood: At export, Writemonkey will first convert your markups (Markdown or Textile) to standard html elements. Added css style sheet (wm template file) will then provide visual styles for exported html elements. Created doc or html files are portable and can be opened on any modern computer. The individual template files are stored in writemonkey/templates folder and are fully portable (users can exchange them). Writemonkey uses CSS standard which is widely accepted and not hard to learn. You can modify existing bundled templates or create your own.
Templates: At the moment there are few bundled demo templates. These first templates use only basic aspects of otherwise very powerful css templating standard; much more colud be achieved with it. You are free to experiment. Suggestions are welcomed!
added: Till now there have been two target options for markup export - Default web browser and Default doc editor. Wm 0990 brings you third - Print from preview. When selected, export will open print preview window (using Internet Explorer via .net browser component) which you can use to put your formatted document on paper. Use it also to adjust page margins, page numbers and headers/footers.
added (EXPERIMENTAL): Typewriter scrolling (or bottom padding) is a new ergonomic feature that will allow your typing words to appear fixed at the certain vertical position of the screen. With traditional scrolling your text scrolls from top to bottom until it reaches lower edge of the screen. Eventually you will end up constantly looking down at the last line which is not most natural and neck friendly posture. Typewriter scrolling instead will keep your current writing line fixed, the text will always scroll up so your eyes never have to stray too far from one spot. At the moment the feature works well with short to medium length documents (up to 70.000 characters / cca. 50 pages of text). It will automatically turn itself off beyond that. Use segment focus to keep using it after that limit. Typewriter scrolling is off by default. Enable it in Preferences / Misc / Scrolling or toggle it with CTRL+SHIFT+L.
added: Ability to disable visibility of standard menu bar and/or program bar (border) in windowed mode. See Preferences / Screen elements / More settings. Standard menu bar is now hidden by default; wm looks even more austere this way and all commands are available via right click context menu any way. You can combine those two settings with window transparency (CTRL+F3) and desktop picture of your choice. When program bar is hidden you can use the following mouse "tricks": grab right edge of the window to move the window, grab bottom right corner to resize (if info bar is visible and docked to the bottom, grab just above the info bar) ... or CTRL + right edge click to toggle border visibility.
added: Copy and Cut commands are now paragraph aware. If nothing is selected, wm will copy/cut current paragraph (under the caret). The same goes for "move to repository" command - you can use that to write simple one line paragraph as a note and then hit CTRL+M to send it to repository for latter consideration without losing flow.
added / changed: Context menu (right click) now shows keyboard shortcuts for all items. This is primarily due to new default windowed look which lacks standard menu bar. It is easier that way to memorize common shortcuts.
fixed: Problems with scroll indicator when CTRL+TABing between documents. The indicator initially showed wrong value when "restore caret after open" was enabled.
changed: Different default positions for info bar items. It is more logical to have current time and file name on the right side and notices on the left. The result is that notices are more noticeable this way.
changed: Info about particular preview version is now included in both splash and about boxes. No more version info in program bar for final releases. Also: about box can be called with CTRL+F1.
added / changed: New info bar status item. When in main text "+" sign indicates that repository part of the document has some contents and that you should not forget about it. = sign indicates that typewriter scrolling is on. Plus no more square brackets for other status string items.
added: Optionally decrease info bar font size when in windowed mode. Handy for large screens. Preferences / Screen elements / More settings.
added: Ability to "force save" opened text using selected encoding standard. If "Preferences / Open&Save, File format / Always save with selected encoding" is checked, the text will be converted to selected encoding format. Otherwise wm will keep existing encoding
added: New "hidden feature" available to donors: Calculate math expressions (CTRL+SHIFT+R). Transform strings like 1+1 or ((126/3,5)^2)+3*pi with a single keystroke into: 1+1 = 2 and ((126/3,5)^2)+3*pi = 1305,42
changed: Default auto save interval is changed from 30 to 120 seconds. It should be more than enough for normal use.
fixed / changed: Keyboard shortcut for "Copy as HTML" is changed from CTRL+ALT+C to CTRL+SHIFT+H due to keyboard conflict when trying to type character "c" on Polish keyboards.
fixed / changed: Support for the new twitter OAuth authentication. Old basic auth. from wm 0980 won't work after August 2010.
fixed: Problems with help card layout when using custom system fonts size (greater than 100%).
added: Use mouse wheel to move through tabs in preferences dialog.
added: Writemonkey web site has it's own RSS feed with information about new releases and other important notices. Click RSS icon in the browser's address bar.

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.8.0 (Mar 25, 2010)

added: You can now optionally use Textile markup standard (http://textile.thresholdstate.com) to export your texts. You can select your preferred markup style in Preferences / Print&Export / Markup standard. Markdown is still the default option.
added: Complete keyboard scrolling solution. The idea is that one can scroll without using the mouse. To simulate mouse scrolling use CTRL + , (comma) to scroll up and CTRL + . (period) to scroll down. Use CTRL+SHIFT combination to scroll one page up or down (CTRL+ALT+PgDn/PgUp in previous versions). To quickly return back to the current caret position hit ALT+SPACE (ALT+C in previous versions). If you want to put caret on the current screen, hit CTRL+SPACE (the caret will be positioned in the center of current writing area).
added / improved: Mouse "blind scrolling" feature has new functionality: you can ALT click next to the text area (left or right) and the text will scroll to the exact (vertical) spot of your click. You can also blind drag the mouse cursor while holding ALT key. This will have the same effect as dragging the standard Windows scroll thumb.
added: Copy selection as HTML command (CTRL+ALT+C). Markup will be translated into well formed HTML and stored in Windows clipboard. If nothing is selected, the whole text will be copied. The copied HTML won't include "Head" items as is the case when you use Export option.
added: Many users run wm on their laptops or netbooks in full screen so there is no way to see how much battery juice is left. This version brings you the ability to show battery status in info bar. The status mark ±X% will only show when the percent of juice remaining is lower than value stored in Preferences / Screen elements / More settings. The status mark won't show at all when computer is on power line. The feature is disabled by default.
added: When "soft exit" is enabled (Preferences / Open & Save / Exit) you can force "hard exit" by using CTRL+SHIFT+Q or holding SHIFT when closing the program with mouse click. If soft exit is disabled, the shift key has no effect.
added: Adjust the Opacity of wm's workspace. Use CTRL+F3 to toggle value from 100 to 30 percent.
fixed: Scrolling with "mouse wheel" using touch pad on some laptop computers. The scrolling should now be smooth and fast enough. Also, some advanced touch pad functions like "edge continuous scrolling" should now work just fine.
fixed (partially): Mouse pointer flickering when writing. The flickering occurs every time the visual progress bar is updated (it's size is changed). It is a very strange bug and I do not know why it happens nor I am able to fix it. Nevertheless, I managed to eliminate flickering when visual progress bar is not enabled or when auto hide info bar function is on.
fixed: If you quit WM with unsaved "SCRATCH" document, it asks you to save the file. If you select "Yes", the "Save As" dialog is presented. In all older versions, including 0971, wm will quit if you choose Cancel at that point. 0980 will just close the Save As dialog and keep the itself alive. This is expected behavior for all Windows applications.
fixed: You can now use space as a thousands separator in info bar progress string (thanks to Jan).
added: New notice that will tell you if repository has contents when you open an existing file.
added / changed: New optional tag next to the scroll marker that shows you the scroll position in percent. It only shows when scroll marker is visible i.e. when scrolling, jumping, moving with cursor ... Percent tag is off by default. Enable it in Preferences / Screen elements / More settings.
changed: Different directory structure in installation zip file. You can now "install" wm with single mouse move.
changed / added: Markup export feature is now selection aware. You can export only a selected portion of the document. If nothing is selected the whole document will be exported.
changed: There are few hidden / not documented features (easter eggs if you want) in WM. One has just been added for this release. Hidden features are not important features and they are certainly not part of core wm feature array. They are more like nice hidden cherries. From now on all hidden features are available only to donors i.e. owners of wm.donated files with writer's name tags. And what are those secret features? You will know if you read writemonkey Google group or Twitter posts

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.7.1 (Feb 6, 2010)

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.7.0 (Jan 18, 2010)

added: New info bar replaces old progress bar and adds some new functionality. Info bar can be docked to the bottom or top and can contain 5 info items (2 left, 2 right and 1 in the middle). The items could be positioned freely or disabled for that matter. The good old visual progress bar is still there. Also the ability to auto hide info bar when writing. ALT-P toggles the visibility of info bar
Info bar items
Configurable date/time. Go to Preferences / Screen elements / More settings to set the format
File name. You can choose to show only the file name or file name with the path. Only the parent directory and drive letter is shown i.e. "c:..worksome.txt". Click on the info bar item opens "Open file" dialog
Progress. The progress string can contain current word count, partial count and / or sprint timer. The progress string is configurable through Progress dialog (F12 or click on the info bar item)
Notices. Notices are only shown for a couple of seconds. They inform you of stuff going on in Writemonkey. It is nice to have a visual confirmation that the file was actually saved when you hit CTRL+S
Status. Status marks are permanent reminders of your whereabouts. You will always know if you are in focus mode, flow mode or in repository
changed: Settings and Progress dialogs have been changed. There is a new Screen elements tab in Settings dialog. Progress dialog shows stats and provide settings for info bar progress string
changed: All non text screen elements (new info bar, visual progress bar, text area marks and scroll indicator are now members of the same family. You can dim all of them with one slider
added / changed: There is an option now to allow you to trigger replacement only after the space is pressed (instead of auto fire). No more "collision" problems - the triggers like /t /tr /tri can now coexist peacefully with each other. This is enabled by default. It is also the recommended option - the "space" method is faster which could be of importance with very long documents
added: There is a new button "Make replacement" in Insert symbol dialog. You can quickly add new replacement trigger for the selected symbol
added: CTRL+SHIFT+C keyboard command copies whole text to the clipboard. Same as CTRL+A CTRL+C but more handy
added: Improved sprint timer. You can toggle sprint timer (paused/running) with ALT+F11. No need to open Progress dialog. Also: when time is up, wm will inform you about the fact with a notice and 3 short beeps
added: You can include "percent done" in the progress string for the info bar. Progress dialog / Progress count / Show percent. For example, the count string will look like: "Words: 100 / 10%" if your goal is 1000 words. Show percent, if enabled, will also show in partial count
added: You can choose weather to show count unit label (Words:, Characters: ...) in progress string. Progress dialog / Progress count / Show unit
added: Thousands separator can be customized (dot, comma or even space). Preferences / screen elements / More settings
fixed: Lookup url string is stripped of unwanted punctuations (.,;:?!)
fixed: Some dialog colors has been changed from "absolute" to "relative" system colors. WM now looks good even with more exotic windows themes (color schemes)

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.6.0 (Dec 1, 2009)

added: Segment focus feature. Ability to show only a segment of the current text and hide the rest. Good for longer & structured texts - Will help you to focus on the part you are working on. No long scrolls ... You can focus on different things using different shortcuts:
F6: Hide all focus: if nothing is selected whole text will vanish and you will start inserting text at the caret position.
F6: Block focus: if you select a block o text and hit F6, only selected text will stay on the screen.
CTRL+F6: Paragraph focus: Hold CTRL when hitting F6 (or selecting "Segment focus" from menu) and the current paragraph will stay in the focus.
SHIFT+F6: Heading section focus: Hold SHIFT and you can work on the current heading section (#, ## / ==, -- markup)
SHIFT+CTRL+F6: Bookmark segment focus: You can work on the text between bookmarks (@@ or user defined string)
You can exit segment focus by hitting F6 again. Existing documents will always open with segment focus off, even when last saved focused. There is a subtle visual reminder when segment focus is activated - the corner marks (if visible) are presented with dotted line. Exit segment focus and corner marks become solid again.
Alternative usage: You can use segment focus instead of partial count - start writing with "Hide all focus" and word count will show only current session. If you have a large repository text and you need to reference a part of it often, focus on that part and you can easily access it later. If you want to spell check only part of the doc. you can do it on a segment focus.
added: Complete Markdown support. See: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax The only exception is emphasis syntax (*bold*, _italic_, __underline__).
changed: The application is now targeted to .NET framework ver. 3.5. The users with .NET 2.0 should upgrade to 3.5. This is due to some development features I intend to use and are not available in 2.0. One of the advantages is also much smaller memory usage.
changed: New shape and new position for scroll marker. The new position (near to the text) is optional - the old one is still the default one (Preferences / Misc / Scrolling / Next to the text).
added: Progress bar now supports pages. You can set your own page count formula in Preferences / Progress / Page count. Then hit F12 and select "pages" from "Use unit" drop down. Your live count will now give you the estimate of pages written in 0.0 format.
added: You can optionally show live numeric count with thousands separator. Off by default. (Preferences / Progress / Use thousands separator)

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.5.0 (Sep 2, 2009)

New in WriteMonkey 0.9.4.0 (Jun 2, 2009)

Added: Ability to export or import user profiles (Preferences / Manage profiles button or F9 shortcut). You can export all current setting into a file and then restore it if needed. For example, you can keep different profiles for different tasks. You can also restore to default "factory" settings. The profiles are stored in [application_directory]/profiles.
Added: Default portable settings profile. Is you save profile with the name "portable" (i.e. if valid file "portable.config" exists in profiles folder) and wm is installed on a USB thumb drive, the settings from portable config will automatically become default settings on the host machine. This feature enables you to prepare yourself a portable Writemonkey installation with personalized settings.
Added: Partial count. When using numeric progress bar, hit ALT+F12 (or use Progress dialog) to show/reset partial word count. Usage example: The document already contains some text and I want to write another 1000 words from now on. So I'll reset partial count and monitor my partial progress. This feature is not available with visual progress bar.
Added: Restore caret position when opening files. If this is enabled, the existing files will open with last caret position (at the end of the document for example). This feature only works with NTFS file system (default on Win XP, Vista and Win7). Future releases will employ other file based preferences.
Added: File name is suggested in Save As dialog when saving unsaved doc. The suggestion is based on document text and prefix wm_.
Added: Undocumented feature - Flow mode. Use your Vulcan touch and hit CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+F. Backspace and delete buttons will be disabled. No cut, copy and paste. For first drafts and other creative seances. Just let it go ... You can exit the flow mode only by restarting wm.
Fixed: Maximize window button now performs wm's full screen maximize instead of Windows default maximize behavior which was not necessary and also somewhat buggy. You can still double click the program bar to toggle between maximized and windowed state.
Changed: PgUp and PgDown keyboard keys are now also moving the caret (this is Windows default behavior). If you want to use them "scroll like" with static caret - use CTRL+ALT combination. PgUp and PgDown keys can also be used with other control keys combinations.

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