TED Notepad FAQ

Unfortunatelly, this seems to be a non-trivial issue that I did not fully anticipate beforehand as I do not write right-to-left myself. It might take some time to fix this, I'll have to study how RTL works first.

I appologize for the inconvenience. Please, stick with version 5.4.2 to retain bi-directional features for now.

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Since version 6.3.1: There is /W command line parameter, which opens the command line file in UNICODE.

Since version 6.3.1: There is Auto-detect Unicode files setting in the Settings dialog, on the Save/Load page. It is, for now, disabled by default. Try to enable this setting and let me know whether it works out.

Prior to version 6.3.1: Auto-recognition of UNICODE files is troublesome because of 畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 problem, and is not currently automatically supported in TED Notepad. Only UTF-8 files are auto-recognized without BOM.

Unfortunatelly, TED Notepad allows you to save UNICODE files easily without BOM, even though it does not recognize such files correctly later on, upon loading. In order to prevent this from happening, always save UNICODE files with BOM. Note: You can check the BOM option in the Settings dialog, if you use UNICODE as default for all your files.

If you need to open UNICODE file with no BOM, click menu File » Re-open » Unicode. The file will be re-opened as UNICODE even without BOM. Note: This way you can also fix many other encoding and codepage troubles you might encounter when working with broken, foreign or invalid files.

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Since version 6.0: In the Settings dialog, the Appearance page.

The easiest way to change text size is by zooming. This is available since version 6.0 in the Options menu.

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Since version 6.0: In the Settings dialog, the Appearance page.

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Yes. Check the Escapes checkbox in the Search bar and then use \n to specify newlines.

You can also use the Alt+F3 hotkey while having a text with newlines selected.

Or you can use the Extended Replace tool, which allows newlines to be inserted directly.

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Yes, it supports many scrolling keys. Hold down the Alt key and then try different navigation keys, like Down/Up/Left/Right arrows, PageUp/PageDown keys, Home/End keys, Insert key. Try adding the Ctrl key to scroll more, e.g. Alt+Ctrl+Down scrolls down by five lines.

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Yes, since version 6.0.

TED Notepad features a perl-like syntax: \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,}\b

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... and TED Notepad is refusing to save it into Registry. Why?

TED Notepad always verifies the length of each Extended Clipboard in order to prevent the user from saving a full dump truck of data into the Registry. Doing so would slow down the system, and it is rarely required. Therefore, TED Notepad shows a warning and truncates long data automatically while saving into the Registry.

Note: The content of Extended Clipboard itself is never truncated within the same session.

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Of course. There are several spell checkers that can be used with TED Notepad, some of them even free. Google is perhaps the best way to find one you might like the most.

However, if you are lazy (like me) to search or one on your own, try TinySpell. It has been tested with TED Notepad by other users already and there is a portable version available as well.

And if you happen to have experience with some other spell checkers within TED Notepad, please, drop me a message. I will then create a list out of it and post it here. Thanks.

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Please, file a bug report here. I will try to help you out as soon as possible.

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That is a good question indeed. I actually no longer remember. It has been 20 years you see, and I didn't really write it down back then. I remember it was a play on a few things.

Playing with acronyms was very popular back then: Text EDitor, Tiny EDitor, Tools and EDitbox. And then there was the predecessor to the TED Notepad project: my university Notepad project written in Delphi. And also my Win32 API exam, at which I discussed the sample Popup Editor by Charles Petzold. I think that code had some impact on the naming as well. And finally there was Medvedik, which translates to Teddy bear in my language.

I really wished I had written it down back then.

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If you need to ask, please don't. Testers are supposed to be experienced/advanced computer users capable of understanding fringe issues, solving marginal cases and working intuitively when necessary.

Just kidding. Join the tester's group and let's get started! :)

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Actually, you can. I've decided to arrange fundraise for testing and development purposes: purchase of hardware suitable for time-consuming extensive fuzzy testing of TED Notepad features and tools.

TED Notepad's testing is partially done by extensive fuzzy testing, which requires huge amounts of CPU time to be most effective. Since my opportunity to use community hardware for this purpose diminished lately, I've decided to buy my own dedicated testing set.

For this purpose, I humbly ask you to donate now, or support the project financially in other ways. Fundraise target is $2000. For donation, please follow to the donations page. Any spare amount would be welcome. Thank you.

Please, contact me for bank account details, if you plan to send more significant amounts. Paypal is suitable for small donations only due to fees and unfavorable conversion rates.

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