TED Notepad Full Feature list

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This full comparison table lists all available features and compares them between different legacy and current versions of TED Notepad. Note that only basic and inevitable functions are omitted from the list, thus the list is also a complete enumeration of all available features and functions.

Editing features

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
Multi-level Undo/Redo yes yes
  → with The last document save-point information yes yes
  → Setting: Suppress multi-level Undo/Redo yes yes
  → Setting: Reduce Undo/Redo steps upon Save yes yes
Legacy single-level Undo through Alt+BkSpace yes yes
Cut/Copy Selection to Clipboard yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Option to Auto-select upon no selection yes yes
  → with Settings to Auto-copy upon mouse selection yes yes
    » Setting to configure mouse auto-copy combinations yes yes
Cut/Copy Append Selection to Clipboard yes yes
Paste from Clipboard yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Setting to Mimic case upon pasting yes yes
  → with Support to Paste with mouse Right-click yes yes
    » with Setting to configure mouse pasting combinations yes yes
Swap Clipboard and Selection yes yes yes yes yes
9 more Permanent Clips yes yes yes yes yes yes
Drag&Drop editing, moving and copying text by mouse yes yes
  → with Ctrl key to copy instead of moving yes yes
Support for Triple/Quadruple/Quintuple-click mouse selecting yes yes
  → Setting: Entire Words, Lines, Paragraphs, Document yes yes
Improved and enriched Right-click menu yes yes
  → with Web Search Selection yes yes
  → with Launch selected URL yes yes
Insert/Overwrite mode yes yes
  → with Bold caret in Overwrite mode yes yes
User-defined Text and Background colors yes yes
  → with Random Color Scheme generator yes yes
ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomReset yes yes
Text Coloring yes yes
Selection highlighter yes
  → Setting: Minimum selection length yes
  → Setting: Match case while highlighting yes
  → Setting: Color of Selection highlighter yes
Detect and highlight URLs yes yes
  → Setting: Color for detected URLs yes yes
  → with Launch selected URL in the Right-click menu yes yes
Line Numbers yes yes
Visible Newlines yes yes
  → showing different Newline types yes yes
Line Lengths yes yes
Visible Tabs yes yes
Visible spaces yes yes
  → showing Non-breaking spaces differently yes yes
Visually highlight Current Line yes yes
Insert Recently Deleted Text yes yes
Insert Recently Inserted Text yes yes
Complete Word yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Longest auto-completion yes yes yes
  → Setting: Sort suggestions yes yes yes
  → Setting: Ignore case yes yes yes
Complete Line yes yes yes yes
  → with Lookup thru the entire document yes yes
Smart Return yes yes yes yes yes yes
Copying Return yes yes yes yes yes yes
Go to Line/Position yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Option for Relative Jumping yes yes yes
  → while Selecting Text Along the Jump yes yes yes
Select Current/Next Word yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Add Next Word yes yes yes yes yes yes
Select Current/Next Line yes yes yes
  → Add Next Line yes yes yes
Select Current/Next Paragraph yes yes
  → Add Next Paragraph yes yes
Select All yes yes yes yes yes yes
Convenient select upwards from the first line yes yes
Convenient select downwards from the last line yes yes
Push Line Up yes yes
Push Line Down yes yes
Cut off Word yes yes yes yes yes yes
BkSpace Word yes yes yes yes yes yes
Cut off Line yes yes yes yes
BkSpace Line yes yes yes yes
Delete Line yes yes yes yes
Hotkeys: Scroll Up/Down yes yes yes yes yes yes
Hotkeys: Scroll Left/Right yes yes yes yes yes yes
Hotkeys: Scroll PageUp/PageDown yes yes yes yes yes yes
Hotkeys: Scroll Home/End yes yes yes yes yes yes
Hotkey: Scroll Back to Cursor yes yes yes yes yes yes
Horizontal mouse-wheel scrolling yes yes
Option: Word Wrap mode yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Immediate re-wrapping yes yes
  → observing Hyphens and Zero Width Spaces and Joiners yes yes
  → observing No-break Spaces and Joiners yes yes
Option: Wrap Margin guideline yes yes
  → with Support for soft word-wrapping yes yes
  → Setting: Color of the Wrap Margin yes yes
Setting: Auto-indent Text yes yes yes yes
Setting: Smart Home and End keys yes yes
Setting: Insert Spaces instead of Tab yes yes yes yes
  → with Unindent removing batches of Spaces yes yes
Text storage engine with support for editing huge files yes yes
  → with Support for very long lines, up to 1 MiB yes yes
  → with Progress shown while drawing long lines yes yes
  → with Improved support for files with truckloads of lines yes yes
  → with Text buffer tree, Line index tree, Marker indexes, Caches, etc. yes yes

Info features

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
Insert File Name yes yes yes yes
Insert Full File Path yes yes yes yes
Insert Short Date yes yes yes yes yes yes
Insert Long Date yes yes yes yes yes yes
Insert Time and Short Date yes yes yes yes yes yes
Insert Time and Long Date yes yes yes yes yes yes
Insert Short Date and Time yes yes yes
Insert Long Date and Time yes yes yes
  → Setting: Time/date glue string yes yes
  → Setting: Include seconds when inserting Time/date yes

Text-processing Tools

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
All Lower Case yes yes yes yes yes yes
All Upper Case yes yes yes yes yes yes
Case Inversion yes yes yes yes yes yes
Word Capitals yes yes yes yes yes yes
First Capital yes yes
Up to Sentences yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → renamed to Make Sentences yes yes
Random Case yes yes
Fun Case yes yes
Indent Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Unindent Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Quote Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Only Non-Empty Lines yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Skip Leading Spaces yes yes yes yes
UnQuote Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Shift Lines Left yes yes yes
Close Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Only Non-Empty Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Skip Tail Spaces yes yes
Unclose Lines yes yes
Shift Lines Right yes yes
Trim Tail Spaces yes yes yes
Trim Empty Lines yes yes
Tabify Indentation yes yes yes yes
UnTabify Indentation yes yes yes yes
Remove Empty Lines yes yes yes
Collapse Empty Lines yes yes
Unique Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Find Duplicate Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with All or Unique or Duplicate lines only yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Ignore Case yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Leave Empty Lines yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Count Duplicate Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Columns, Numbers yes yes yes yes
  → with Escapes/Variables in the Mask yes yes yes yes
  → with Up to 9 Different Columns to Cut yes yes yes yes
  → with Column alignment modifiers in the Mask yes yes yes yes
  → with Automatic Preview Box yes yes yes yes
  → Variable: Automatic Line Number Counter yes yes yes yes
  → Variable: Random Numbers Generator yes yes
  → Variable: Line length and Column length yes yes
  → Option: Modify Only Non-Empty Lines yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Skip Leading Spaces yes yes yes yes
Grep, Filter by Pattern yes yes
  → with Keep matching lines yes yes
  → with Also keep all empty lines yes yes
  → with Remove matching lines yes yes
  → with Only matched line parts yes yes
  → with Add line numbers yes yes
  → with Extra lines before and after yes yes
  → Option: Match Case yes yes
  → Option: Match only Whole Words yes yes
  → Option: Match only Whole Lines yes yes
  → Option: Escapes yes yes
  → Option: Regular Expressions yes yes
Translate Characters yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Delete All Other Characters yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Escapes and Ranges yes yes
Extended Replace yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Match Case yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Match only Whole Words yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Regular Expressions yes yes
  → Option: Mimic case upon replacing yes yes
Extract Words yes yes
Enclose Selection yes yes yes yes yes
Enclose with XML/HTML Tag yes yes yes
  → with Better Multi-line support yes yes yes
  → Option: Remember Attributes value in dialog yes yes
  → Option: Remember Empty checkbox value in dialog yes yes
Reverse Text yes yes yes yes yes yes
Reverse Order of Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
Reverse Order of Words yes yes yes
Reverse Order of Words on Each Line yes yes yes
Reverse Each Word yes yes yes yes
Reverse Each Line yes yes yes
Sort Lines yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Up to 5 independent Sorting Keys yes yes
  → with Advanced Columns definition for Sorting Keys yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Sort Naturally as Numbers yes yes yes yes yes
    » with Very large and floating-point numbers yes yes
  → Option: Ignore specific characters yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Options: Ignore entire character classes yes yes
Sort Ascending/Descending shortcuts yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Always ignore case for these shortcuts yes yes
Shuffle Lines yes yes
Commit current Word-Wrapping yes yes yes yes yes yes
Unwrap Paragraphs yes yes yes yes yes yes
Unwrap Lines yes yes
Statistics of Selection and Document yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Number of Characters, Letters, Spaces yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Number of Words, Lines, Paragraphs, Sentences yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Average, Minimum and Maximum Line Lengths yes yes yes yes yes yes
Compare Strings yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Ignore case yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Ignore spaces and/or newlines yes yes
  → Setting: Use the main font in the Compare tool dialog yes yes
Filters Architecture yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Batch variables for user parameters yes yes yes yes yes yes
    » with Quoting/escaping variable modifiers yes yes
  → Variable: Current file yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Variable: Current selection yes yes
  → Option: Skip the launch dialog yes yes
  → Option: Convert all text to/from UTF-8 yes yes
  → Option: Push no input (stdin) into filter yes yes
  → Option: Ignore output (stdout/stderr) from filter yes yes
  → Option: Mix output (stdout/stderr) from filter together yes yes
  → Option: Display filter output as message instead of replacing yes yes
  → Option: Auto-exit when filter is finished yes yes
  → Option: Ignore filter's return value yes yes
Repeat Last Tool yes yes yes yes yes yes
Tools show their progress and support cancel yes yes
Tools can auto-select current word/line/paragraph/document yes yes
All tools can be used in a handy Search and Last Tool feature yes yes

Files and File management

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
Full Mixed Newlines support yes yes
  → no need to convert newlines upon loading yes yes
  → support for files with any conbination of newlines yes yes
    » with Setting to Forbid saving Mixed Newlines yes yes
Transparent Unix Newlines support yes yes yes yes
  → Convert Newlines from/to Unix yes yes yes yes
Transparent Mac Newlines support yes yes
  → Convert Newlines from/to Mac yes yes
Unicode support yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Big-endian Unicode support yes yes yes yes yes
  → with auto-detection of Unicode without BOM via statistical analysis yes yes
UTF-8 Encoding support yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Auto-recognition of UTF-8 without BOM yes yes
  → with Option to save files without BOM yes yes
Recent Files menu yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Clear Recent Files option yes yes
Favourite Files menu yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Relative paths support yes yes
  → with Single dash "-" as separator yes yes
Revert Current File yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Persistent Selection yes yes yes
  → with Persistent Scroll yes yes yes
  → with Persistent Encoding or code page if manually chosen yes yes
Reopen file in specific chosen Encoding yes yes
  → with Support for all system Codepages yes yes
Import file from specific chosen Encoding yes yes
  → with Support for all system Codepages yes yes
Export file to specific chosen Encoding yes yes
  → with Support for all system Codepages yes yes
Include Text from File yes yes yes yes yes yes
Exclude Selection to File yes yes yes yes yes yes
Drag & Drop Files from Explorer support yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Option to auto-merge multiple dropped files yes yes yes yes yes yes
Auto-create New File upon Missing File yes yes yes yes yes
  → Command-line Parameter /b Skips the Create new file question yes yes
Full Binary Files support for advanced users yes yes
  → with Support for loading and handling huge files yes yes
    » able to load files up to 700MB long yes yes
    » able to save files up to 800MB long yes yes
  → with Progress shown while loading huge files yes yes
  → with Warning about loaded file being binary yes yes
    » with Option to skip the Loaded file is binary warning yes yes
Open Containing Folder yes yes
Open Command Line at the Containing Folder yes yes
File Properites system dialog yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Create backup files yes yes yes
  → with Option to create backup files with hidden attribute yes yes
  → with Option to create multiple backup files and rotate them yes yes
  → with Option to create backups in the Temp path instead of current directory yes yes
  → with Option to specify the Temp path for storing files to yes yes
    » with Relative paths support yes yes
  → with Option to delete the backup file after successful saving yes yes
Setting: Create auto-save recovery files yes yes yes
  → with Question about loading lost auto-save file version yes yes
  → with Option to set the saving period timer yes yes
  → with Option to create recovery auto-save files with hidden attribute yes yes
  → with Option to auto-save documents directly to their original files yes yes
  → with Option to auto-save to the Temp path instead of current directory yes yes
  → with Option to specify the Temp path for storing files to yes yes
    » with Relative paths support yes yes
Setting: Create auto-save recovery files for Untitled documents yes yes
  → storing files in the Temp path yes yes
Setting: Watch for outside file modifications yes yes yes
  → with Option to stop watching upon frequent changes yes yes
  → with Option to auto-revert the file without asking yes yes
Setting: Only one instance of each file yes yes yes
Setting: Template file for new documents yes yes
  → with Relative paths support yes yes
Setting: Suggest filename from first line yes yes yes
Setting: Force saving of Read-Only files yes yes yes
Setting: Automatically flush file buffers upon Save yes yes
Setting: Memory-optimized saving yes yes
Setting: Default encoding for new files yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Default BOM for UTF-8 files yes yes
Setting: Default newlines for new files yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Default file type for Save As dialog yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Default path for Open/Save dialogs yes yes yes
  → with Relative paths support yes yes
Setting: Filter strings for Open/Save dialogs yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Warnign about loading a big file yes yes yes yes yes yes
Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
Search and Replace yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Search bar instead Find dialog yes yes
    » with Regular Expressions in search/replace patterns yes yes
        · RegExp flavour mimics most of Perl RE yes yes
        · with Capture groups and Back-references yes yes
        · with Cluster groups and Branch reset groups yes yes
        · with Possesive groups and possesive intervals yes yes
        · with Extended and Unicode character classes yes yes
        · with Back-references in replace patterns yes yes
        · with Matched lengths in replace patterns yes yes
        · with Replacement numbers in replace patterns yes yes
        · with Random numbers in replace patterns yes yes
        · with Positive zero-width look-ahead assertions yes
        · with Negative zero-width look-ahead assertions yes
        · with Positive zero-width look-behind assertions yes
        · with Negative zero-width look-behind assertions yes
        · Config: Limit for look-behind assertions yes
    » with Easy search and replace over multiple lines yes yes
  → with Abort dialog on long searches yes yes
  → with Grouping Undo steps upon Replace All yes yes
  → with Total count of replacements upon Replace All yes yes
  → with Search/replace patterns up to 64 KiB long yes yes
  → Option: Mimic case upon replacing yes yes
  → Option: Match only whole words yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Wrap around the document end yes yes yes
Search and Last Tool yes yes
  → all tools can be used in Search and Last Tool yes yes
  → with Total count of replacements upon Last Tool All yes yes
Secondary Search yes yes yes yes
  → with Ability to start from Search bar yes yes
Search highlighter yes
  → with Total number of occurrences in the Search Bar yes
  → Setting: Color of Search highlighter yes
Search history yes
  → Setting: Include searches via Find Selected in Search history yes
Replace history yes
Select to Next yes yes yes yes yes yes
Select to Previous yes yes yes yes yes
Find Selected yes yes yes yes
  → with Auto-select option yes yes
Find Later yes yes yes
  → with Auto-select option yes yes
  → with Message in the Status Bar yes yes
Setting: Suggest Selection to Search yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Keep Escapes on if possible yes yes
Setting: Reset search options upon new search yes yes
Setting: Auto-hide Search bar yes yes
  → Setting: Only after successfull match yes yes

Command-line, System and Others

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
64-bit version yes
  → Support for huge files yes
Original Notepad's .LOG feature yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Order of time and date parts yes yes
Command-line Parameter /l Go to Line Number yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Support for negative numbers, counting from the last line yes yes
Command-line Parameter /c Go to Character Position yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Support for negative numbers, counting from the document end yes yes
  → can be used with /l Go to Line Number, moving relatively from a specififc line yes yes
Command-line Parameter /s Set Selection Positions yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Support for negative numbers, counting from the document end yes yes
Command-line Parameter /a Select all text yes yes yes yes yes yes
Command-line Parameter /E Go to the End of the Document yes yes
Command-line Parameter /v Paste the Clipboard into the document after opening yes yes
Command-line Parameter /T Session on Top yes yes
Command-line Parameter /m Start minimized yes yes
Command-line Parameter /M Start maximized yes yes
Command-line Parameter /F Start in Fullscreen yes yes
Command-line Parameter /H Start with Hide to Tray yes yes
Command-line Parameter /x Start at given position from left yes yes
Command-line Parameter /y Start at given position from top yes yes
Command-line Parameter /w Start with given width yes yes
Command-line Parameter /h Start with given height yes yes
Command-line Parameter /A Load the command-line file as ANSI yes yes
Command-line Parameter /W Load the command-line file as UNICODE yes yes
Command-line Parameter /U Load the command-line file as UTF-8 yes yes
Command-line Parameter /p Print and Exit yes yes yes yes yes
Command-line Parameter /b Skips the Create new file question yes yes
Command-line Parameter /i Load specified INI file yes yes
Command-line Parameter /u Check for Updates yes yes
Command-line Parameter /nl Do not load settings yes yes yes yes yes yes
Command-line Parameter /ns Do not save settings yes yes yes yes yes yes
Command-line Parameter /nw Ignore unknown command line parameters yes yes
Command-line Parameter /nn Ignore the next command line string yes yes
Command-line Parameter /nm Ignore the rest of the command line yes yes
Command-line Parameter /nf Load specified file yes yes
Command-line Parameter //p Reset saved window position yes yes
Command-line Parameter //s Reset saved window size yes yes
Command-line Parameter /? Launches Online Manual yes yes
Print Document yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Print Page Setup yes yes
  → with Print Font Setting yes yes
  → Option: Print Selection Only yes yes yes yes yes
  → Command-line Parameter /p Print and Exit yes yes yes yes yes
Fullscreen yes yes yes
Stay on Top yes yes yes yes yes yes
Session on Top yes yes
Hide to SysTray yes yes yes yes yes yes
DPI-aware yes yes
  → with further improvements yes
Spawn New Window yes yes yes
With RequestedExecutionLevel permission AsInvoker yes yes
Status Bar yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Current Line, Line Column, and Document Position yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Count of Lines, Line Length, and Document Length yes yes yes yes
  → with Length of the Current Selection yes yes
  → with Current character ASCII code value yes yes
  → with Current file Encoding yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Current file BOM indicator yes yes
  → with Current file Newlines yes yes yes yes
  → with Progress and messages displayed during operations yes yes
  → with Support for invoking actions upon mouse clicks yes yes
Document modified indicator in Window Title yes yes yes yes yes
Exit by Esc-key yes yes yes yes yes yes
Save and Exit yes yes yes yes yes yes
Exit without Saving yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Disable "Exit without saving" hotkey yes
Session Hard to Close yes
Check for Updates yes yes
  → with Auto-check for Updates yes yes
  → with Hint in the Status Bar upon new version available yes yes
  → Command-line Parameter /u Check for Updates yes yes
Utility info dialog yes yes
  → with Clear All Undo Steps yes yes
  → with Compact Editbox memory usage yes yes
  → with ODO meter and Trip meter for amusement yes yes
Menu item hints yes yes
  → with All functions properly described yes yes

Options and Settings

Version number
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Feature6.46.35.45.04.54.3
Version number
Settings Saving between Sessions yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Categories of Settings to be saved yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Option: Saving into Portable INI File yes yes yes yes
    » Improved INI files with UTF-8 encoding yes yes
    » Support for hierarchical INI file loading yes yes
        · option to load from executable's directory yes yes
        · option to load from user's profile directory yes yes
        · option to load from current working directory yes yes
    » Command-line Parameter /i Load specified INI file yes yes
    » Location of current INI file in Settings dialog yes yes
Settings: Primary/Secondary Fonts yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → with Fast dual-font switch support yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Tab size yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Left selection margin yes yes yes yes yes yes
Setting: Auto-indent text yes yes yes yes
Setting: Indent selection (of multiple lines) with Tab key yes yes
Setting: Prevent insertion of control characters yes yes
Setting: Disable Overwrite mode yes yes
Setting: Keep distance between the Caret and Window borders yes yes
Settings: Word Definition: Unicode characters yes yes
  → Settings: Word Definition: Include underscore yes yes yes yes yes yes
Settings: Override user locale settings yes yes
  → number formats yes yes
  → date/time formats yes yes
Setting: Exit by Esc key yes yes yes yes yes yes
  → Setting: Confirm, whether to exit by Esc key yes yes
Setting: Full document path in Window Caption yes yes yes
Settings: Pesistent selection in Tools yes yes yes yes yes yes
Settings: Pesistent scroll in Tools yes yes
Restore Default Settings yes yes yes yes yes yes
Export settings to file yes yes
Import settings from file yes yes
Settings properly merged upon conflicts yes

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