metapad Changelog

What's new in metapad 3.6 Beta 5

May 10, 2011
  • Minor visual refresh to the toolbar buttons

New in metapad 3.6 Beta 4 (May 10, 2011)

  • Fixed bug where “save options menu” wasn’t persisting in settings dialog
  • Fixed convert to Title Case bug where apostrophes counted as word boundaries

New in metapad 3.6 Beta 3 (May 10, 2011)

  • Open/save folder is remembered across launches with option to disable

New in metapad 3.6 Beta 2 (Mar 7, 2011)

  • fixed “Randal Munroe bug” where Shift+Enter inserted invalid newlines
  • fixed Metapad 3.6 not loading on Windows 2000 or Windows 98
  • fixed INI mode leading/trailing spaces bug for quote string, find/replace history and quick buffers
  • updated external viewer toolbar icons with numbers for better usability

New in metapad 3.6 Beta 1 (Mar 7, 2011)

  • A new high resolution app icon, UI & usability updates, better defaults for general settings, UTF-8 file support and the biggest new feature: portability mode.

New in metapad 3.51 (Jan 31, 2007)

  • support for GUI language plugins (see web site)
  • ten quick buffers (ctrl alt numbers to set, alt numbers to paste)
  • added native Windows XP theme support
  • new Windows XP icon (truecolor with shadow)
  • new Insert File function
  • toolbar button for always on top
  • read only status rechecked on save
  • scroll window horizontally with Alt Left & Alt Right
  • sentence case capitalization after any ?, ! and n
  • no maximum number of favourites (was 16)
  • Shift Escape for quick save and exit
  • command line option to override plugin version checking
  • command line option to skip loading language plugin
  • opening the settings dialog loads all options from registry
  • can use non-executable files as viewers (e.g., scripts)
  • fixed page at a time mouse scroll wheel bug
  • fixed Chinese Windows copy text bug
  • Shift Enter adds carriage return
  • fixed crash on loading BOM-less unicode files
  • fixed single character lines changing in WinXP bug
  • fixed minor replace "n" bug
  • fixed goto line 5 digit limitation
  • upper/lower case changes for intl characters
  • additional minor bug fixes