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This chapter describes all basic commands and features available within TED Notepad,
except for {{menu|Tools}}. See chapter [[Tools reference]] for more details on {{menu|Tools}}.

{{tip}} When you hover over menu items, short descriptions are shown in the {{feature|Status Bar}}.

=====Table of Contents:=====

*[[File menu]]
**[[Large files]]
**[[Drag & Drop files]]
**[[Recovering auto-save files]]
**[[.LOG extension]]
**[[Large files]]

*[[Edit menu]]
**[[Using mouse]]
**[[View scrolling]]

*[[Search menu]]
**[[Regular expressions]]

*[[Favourites]]
*[[Clips menu]]
*[[Options menu]]
*[[Help menu]]

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*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Introduction}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Agreement}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Installation}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|UnInstallation}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|ChangeLog}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Basic commands reference}}'''
**{{Table of Contents/Link|File menu}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|Large files}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|Drag & Drop files}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|Recovering auto-save files}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|.LOG extension}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Edit menu}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|Using mouse}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|View scrolling}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Search menu}}
***{{Table of Contents/Link|Regular expressions}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Favourites}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Clips menu}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Options menu}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Help menu}}
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Tools reference}}'''
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Case tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Lines tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Text tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Reverse tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Sort tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Wrap tools}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Text Filters}}
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Settings dialog}}'''
**{{Table of Contents/Link|General page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Edit page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Appearance page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|File page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Save/Load page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Clipboard page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Search page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Tools page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Favourites page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Filters page}}
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Settings page}}
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Saving Config}}'''
**{{Table of Contents/Link|Cascading Portable INI files}}
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Command line parameters}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Hotkeys}}'''
*'''{{Table of Contents/Link|Appendix}}'''

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ChangeLog

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This listing describes all major changes between previous versions of TED Notepad.
Minor changes that did not affect difference between major versions listed here are omitted.

; Version 6.4.1 (Jun 4, 2026)
: ''Introducing a 64-bit version.''
:: * 2GB file loaded in 6 seconds in ANSI version, using 2.5G of memory (12 seconds in Unicode version, using 4.5G of memory).
:: * 4GB file loaded in 12 seconds in ANSI version, using 5.0G of memory (26 seconds in Unicode version, using 9.0G of memory).
:: * 8GB file loaded in 20 seconds in ANSI version, using 10.0G of memory (50 seconds in Unicode version, using 18.0G of memory).
:: * Note: ANSI version only: Set the Default encoding to ANSI (on the File page in Settings dialog), to avoid text conversion.
:: * Note: Unicode version only: Set the Default encoding to UTF-8 (on the File page in Settings dialog), to speed up the text conversion.
: + Added: Selection highlighter, highlighting all occurrences of the selected text.
: + Added: Setting for minimum selection length and whether to match case while highlighting.
: + Added: Setting for the Color of Selection highlighter.
: + Added: Search highlighter, highlighting all search matches via the Search Bar.
: + Added: Showing the total number of occurrences in the Search Bar when highlighting all matches.
: + Added: Setting for the Color of Search highlighter.
: + Added: Search history, Replace history.
: + Added: Setting to include searches via Find Selected in Search history.
: + Added: Positive zero-width look-ahead assertions in Regular Expressions.
: + Added: Negative zero-width look-ahead assertions in Regular Expressions.
: + Added: Positive zero-width look-behind assertions in Regular Expressions.
: + Added: Negative zero-width look-behind assertions in Regular Expressions.
: + Added: Config to change the limit for look-behind assertions.
: + Added: Setting to include seconds when inserting date/time.
: + Added: Setting to disable the "Exit without saving" hotkey.
: + Added: Session Hard to Close option in the Options menu, refusing to close the current window.
: - Fixed: Configs are merged upon conflicts in Filters, Favourites, Recent Files, Search History.
: - Fixed: Warning is shown upon conflicts in Clips when saving them into Config.
: - Fixed: Back-tracking through nested lazy groups could potentially lead to matching too many times.
: - Fixed: Back-tracking through nested lazy groups could potentially lead to incorrect last-match positions.
: - Fixed: Matching \K while breaking a newline.
: - Fixed: Grep newline matching.
: - Fixed: Search Bar no longer auto-closes after changing replace pattern and replace-related options.
: - Fixed: Search Bar always resets Match Case, Whole Words and RegExps options upon Find Selected and Find Later.
: - Fixed: Search and Last Tool working with zero-length matches.
: - Fixed: Search and Last Tool selection when searching upwards.
: - Fixed: Search and Last Tool shows "No more matches" message as expected.
: - Fixed: Improved stability of Filters upon memory errors.
: - Fixed: Creating new Filters could sometimes duplicate existing entries.
: - Fixed: Sort dialog no longer validates currently disabled fields.
: - Fixed: Columns dialog no longer validates currently disabled fields.
: - Fixed: Widened Status Bar panel with selection.
: - Fixed: Drawing visible spaces optimized.
: * In the Info dialog, both Document length and Document size are shown.
:: Document length is the number of characters in the current document.
:: Document size is the size of the document text, either in ANSI or Unicode, depending on the version.
: * Unicode file detection checks for illegal Unicode characters.
: * Warning is shown when loading Unicode files with odd number of bytes.
: * Path to the current Cascading Portable INI file location, shown in Settings dialog, can be selected and copied to clipboard.
: * Confirmation is required before settings are restored to default values.
: * Replace tool keeps random numbers within 31-bits (i.e. up to 2147483647).
: * Find and Replace keeps random numbers within 31-bits (i.e. up to 2147483647).
: * Autosave timer maximum accepted value is 131072 seconds (~36.4 hours).
: * Values loaded from Config are validated, and updated, if necessary.
: * Using MS Shell Dlg font, instead of outdated MS Sans Serif, for dialogs.
: * Copying to clipboard optimized.
: * Better handling of corrupted clipboard data.
: * Search routines optimized.
: * Better DPI aware-ness.

; Version 6.3.1 (Dec 1, 2021)
: + Added: Memory-optimized document loading, able to load files up to 700MB long.
: + Added: Memory-optimized document saving, able to save files up to 800MB long.
: + Added: More detailed progress shown while loading big files.
: + Added: Large document saving shows progress.
: + Added: Detect and highlight URLs.
: + Added: Option to set the color for detected URLs.
: + Added: Launch selected URL in the Right-click menu.
: + Added: Web Search Selection in the Right-click menu.
: + Added: Visible spaces.
: + Added: Non-breaking spaces drawn differently from breaking spaces.
: + Added: Session on Top (i.e. Stay on Top for the current window only).
: + Added: Cut Append to Clipboard.
: + Added: Copy Append to Clipboard.
: + Added: Export settings to file.
: + Added: Import settings from file.
: + Added: Setting to change the saving period timer for autosave.
: + Added: Setting to auto-detect Unicode files without BOM by applying statistical analysis.
: + Added: Setting to auto-revert without asking when file is modified from outside.
: + Added: Setting to automatically flush file buffers upon Save.
: + Added: Setting to automatically delete the backup file after successful saving.
: + Added: Setting to Keep Escapes on if possible when suggesting selection to the Find dialog.
: + Added: Setting to use the main font in the Compare tool dialog.
: + Added: Setting for the Color of the Wrap Margin.
: + Added: Clear All Undo Steps in the Utility Info dialog.
: + Added: Compact Editbox memory usage in the Utility Info dialog.
: + Added: Clear Recent Files from Recent Files menu.
: + Added: Open Containing Folder, i.e. folder with current document.
: + Added: Open Command Line at the Containing Folder.
: + Added: Menu hints describing individual functions for convenience.
: + Added: Favourite files menu shows a separator if a dash "-" is specified.
: + Added: Replace pattern \L& to add the length of the whole match.
: + Added: Replace pattern \L1..9 to add the length of the given captured group.
: + Added: Replace pattern \L+ to add the length of the last successfull captured group.
: + Added: Replace pattern \#d to add decimal number of the current replacement.
: + Added: Replace pattern \#x to add lowercase hexadecimal number of the current replacement.
: + Added: Replace pattern \#X to add uppercase hexadecimal number of the current replacement.
: + Added: Replace pattern \#b to add binary number of the current replacement.
: + Added: Replace pattern \#o to add octal number of the current replacement.
: + Added: Replace pattern \*d to add a random decimal number.
: + Added: Replace pattern \*x to add a random lowercase hexadecimal number.
: + Added: Replace pattern \*X to add a random uppercase hexadecimal number.
: + Added: Replace pattern \*b to add a random binary number.
: + Added: Replace pattern \*o to add a random octal number.
: + Added: Command line parameter /E that jumps to the end of the document.
: + Added: Command line parameter /v that pastes the Clipboard into the document after opening.
: + Added: Command line parameter /T that turns on Session on Top.
: + Added: Command line parameter /m that starts the session minimized.
: + Added: Command line parameter /M that starts the session maximized.
: + Added: Command line parameter /F that starts the session in Fullscreen.
: + Added: Command line parameter /H that starts the session with Hide to Tray.
: + Added: Command line parameter /x that starts the window at given position from left.
: + Added: Command line parameter /y that starts the window at given position from top.
: + Added: Command line parameter /w that starts the window with given width.
: + Added: Command line parameter /h that starts the window with given height.
: + Added: Command line parameter /A that opens the command line file as ANSI.
: + Added: Command line parameter /W that opens the command line file as UNICODE.
: + Added: Command line parameter /U that opens the command line file as UTF-8.
: + Added: Command line parameter /nf that specifies the file to be loaded.
: + Added: Command line parameter /nw that ignores unknown command line parameters.
: + Added: Command line parameter /nn that ignores the next command line string.
: + Added: Command line parameter /nm that terminates the command line.
: + Added: Command line parameter //p that resets the saved window position in Config.
: + Added: Command line parameter //s that resets the saved window size in Config.
: + Added: Command line parameter /? that launches the Online Manual.
: - Fixed: Autosave directly to original file.
: - Fixed: Saving modified documents while loading new documents.
: - Fixed: Missing Ctrl+Shift+Z hotkey added for Redo.
: - Fixed: Unindent multiple spaces when Insert Spaces instead of Tab is turned on.
: - Fixed: Save Checked now button in Settings dialog no longer saves greyed-out categories.
: - Fixed: Restore Defaults button in Settings dialog re-applies Cascading Portable INI files.
: - Fixed: Restore Defaults button in Settings dialog re-applies Status bar, Word Wrap, Placement, etc.
: - Fixed: Chosen categories of Settings are saved into Config after being previously unchosen.
: - Fixed: Unsaved document is automatically saved before execution of filter with %F variable.
: - Fixed: Filters always create stdin/stdout/stderr pipes, even with %F variable.
: - Fixed: Filters can push input and capture output even with %F variable.
: - Fixed: Filters can run "cmd.exe /c %~F" without crashing cmd.exe.
: - Fixed: Warning when filters are used with characters, which cannot be converted to as ANSI.
: - Fixed: Warning when filters produce characters, which cannot be converted back (to non-unicode version).
: - Fixed: All newlines are converted to Win type before they are sent to Filters.
: - Fixed: Binary characters (i.e. null character) are replaced with spaces before they are sent to filters.
: - Fixed: Reading multi-byte characters from Filters improved.
: - Fixed: Word Wrapping after Hyphens and Zero Width Spaces and Joiners.
: - Fixed: Not Word Wrapping after No-break Spaces and Joiners.
: - Fixed: Fixed text rewrapping sweeps upon loading big files.
: - Fixed: Fixed text rewrapping sweeps upon replacing lots of lines.
: - Fixed: Handling horizontal mouse wheel.
: - Fixed: Page Up and Page Down movement with very short windows.
: - Fixed: Switch to already opened document, while the other window is minimized.
: - Fixed: Mimic case in the Extended Replace tool.
: - Fixed: Extended Replace tool and Replace all: Regexp zero-length find and replace loop.
: - Fixed: Running Text Filter from Search and Tool.
: - Fixed: Aborting Search and Tool short-circuits the running Tool, aborting faster.
: - Fixed: BOM flag in the File menu is enabled only for relevant encodings.
: - Fixed: Error reported correctly when /p command line parameter is cancelled or fails.
: - Fixed: Collation and copies are left to be handled by the printer drivers due to "known OS issues".
: * Selecting upwards from the first line more user-friendly by moving to the beginning of the first line.
: * Selecting downwards from the last line more user-friendly by moving to the end of the last line.
: * Optimized and improved text drawing, drawing very long lines, using drawing cache, etc.
: * Optimized and improved drawing binary characters, word-wrapping on binary files, etc.
: * Progress shown while painting long lines.
: * Positioning caret within ligatures improved.
: * More progress shown while loading huge files.
: * Settings dialog now says System Registry when the Config is stored in System Registry.
: * Added messages around file recovery from an autosave to navigate the user through the recovery.
: * View All Clips a little bit more accessibility-friendly and keyboard-only friendly.
: * Moving caret to the left by whole words is now slightly more granular.
: * Search Later shows a message in the Status Bar when Search is updated.
: * Search and Last Tool All also shows the total number of replacements.
: * The application now complains about unknown command line parameters.
: * File Properties moved to File -> System sub-menu.
: * Up to Sentences tool renamed to Make Sentences.
: * Save'n'Exit renamed to Save and Exit.
: * Increased maximum pattern size in Grep tool to 64 KiB.
: * Increased maximum pattern size in Find And Replace to 64 KiB.
: * Increased maximum pattern size in Extended Replace tool to 64 KiB.
: * Increased maximum string size in Compare tool to 64 KiB.
: * Raised the "Clip too long" warning threshold to 64 KiB.
: * Wrap Margin is turned on by default.
: * Line Numbers are turned on by default.
: * Some menu mnemonics were updated.
: * Reduced icon sizes.
: Changes against version 6.2.1.

; Version 6.2.1 (Aug 22, 2019)
: + Added: Text Coloring.
: + Added: Grep, Filter lines by Pattern tool.
: + Added: Visually highlight Current Line.
: + Added: Length of the Current Selection shown in the Status bar.
: + Added: Visible newlines based on actual newlines.
: + Added: Visible Tabs.
: * Optimized drawing long lines and lines containing surrogates, composite characters, clusters.
: * Left margin no longer obscures text shifted to the left by horizontal scroll.
: * Added hint to Replace All Abort dialog suggesting Extended Replace tool instead.
: * Changed default value for File size warning setting to 10MiB.
: - Fixed: Undoing all changes makes the document unmodified.
: - Fixed: Unicode and non-unicode version no longer share the same config when storing strings.
: - Fixed: Preventing one file operation to run within another one, e.g. auto-save while loading a document.
: - Fixed: Including an empty file no longer changes current document's newlines.
: - Fixed: Drag-and-drop editing and Right-click on a single-character selection no longer impossible.
: - Fixed: Longer lines were not fully drawn with larger fonts due to limitations in Windows API.
: - Fixed: Default font size, printing font size, and font sizing algorithms, better DPI aware-ness.
: - Fixed: Line lengths are no longer jumping back and forth when selecting lines.
: - Fixed: Resizing window height recalculates potentially changing size of the horizontal scrollbar.
: - Fixed: Horizontal scrolling no longer recalculates horizontal scrollbar.
: - Fixed: Printing leading line tabs with non-zero left page margin.
: - Fixed: Replacing text unnecessarily redrawing following lines.
: - Fixed: Tab size visual extent rendering.
: - Fixed: Replace tool zero-length matching after non-zero-length matches.
: - Fixed: Partial loading of files over 4GB large.
: - Fixed: Partial UTF-8 BOM recognition.
: Changes against version 6.1.1.

; Version 6.1.1 (Dec 4, 2016)
: + Added: Support for IME composing window.
: + Added: Added support for DPI-aware scaling.
: + Added: Push Line Up and Push Line Down for moving lines around.
: + Added: Drag&Drop editing; moving text by mouse is available via both buttons.
: + Added: Setting: Auto-save Untitled documents (into the Temp path).
: + Added: Setting: Store auto-save files in the Temp path instead of current directory.
: + Added: Setting: Store backup files in the Temp path instead of current directory.
: + Added: Setting: Temp path for storing autosave and backup files to, with relative paths support.
: + Added: Setting: Create backup files with hidden attribute.
: + Added: Setting: Create multiple backup files and rotate them.
: + Added: Setting: Warn on loading binary files.
: + Added: Setting: Ignore case in quick Sort tools.
: + Added: Check for Updates and Automatic Check for updates.
: + Added: If there is a new version available, hint is displayed in the StatusBar.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /u Check for Updates.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /l Go to Line accepts negative numbers and works from the end of the document.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /c Go to Offset accepts negative numbers and works from the end of the document.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /s Set Selection accepts negative numbers and works from the end of the document.
: + Added: Command line parameters: /l Go to Line and /c Go to Offset can be used together.
: - Fixed: Italics fonts are no longer clipped.
: - Fixed: Selection background does not clip nearby characters anymore.
: - Fixed: Each tab character now enforces at least some minimum visual extent.
: - Fixed: Selected end-of-line extent and visible end-of-line extent were unified.
: - Fixed: When switching to another instance of the same document, no unexpected questions are asked anymore.
: - Fixed: Message about another instance of the same document takes precedence over message about lost auto-save found.
: - Fixed: Document is not auto-saved if there are no modifications since last auto-save.
: - Fixed: The user is now warned that it is necessary to save recovered document.
: - Fixed: Auto-save file was not always removed after successful recovery.
: - Fixed: Canceling Revert operation no longer removes current auto-save.
: - Fixed: Chosen encoding or code page is no longer reset during Revert.
: - Fixed: Overwrite flag is no longer reset during Revert or Re-open.
: - Fixed: Creating a new file during loading adds such new file to Recent files.
: - Fixed: Relative paths are supported for Template file and are not updated during loading.
: - Fixed: Changing current encoding also changes BOM flag to reasonable default.
: - Fixed: Default newlines are used upon no newlines in the loaded file.
: - Fixed: Default newlines are used upon mixed newlines in the loaded file when No mixed newlines setting is in force.
: - Fixed: Default newlines are used upon mixed newlines in the document if No mixed newlines setting is turned on.
: - Fixed: Lists of available codepages split into categories for easier navigation.
: - Fixed: Shift+BackSpace deletes previous character just like a simple BackSpace.
: - Fixed: Insert Recently Inserted text was needlessly unavailable sometimes.
: - Fixed: Sorted Complete Word dialog was inserting incorrect suggestions.
: - Fixed: Right-click menu could appear on a wrong position upon several displays.
: - Fixed: Scrolling by mouse via selecting text outside of edit window has been slowed down.
: - Fixed: Message is displayed after successful replace and no further occurrences.
: - Fixed: Replace tool used empty string upon undefined back-references, even when the user chose to skip such occurrences.
: - Fixed: Propper icon recovery while re-starting crashed Windows Explorer.
: - Fixed: Keyboard focus was not relinquished properly upon Hide to Tray.
: - Fixed: Saving widnows position and/or size and restoring them was reviewed.
: - Fixed: Config INI file is only updated upon actual changes in the config data.
: - Fixed: Some funky edge cases were fixed in various tools and features.
: * Esc key cancels any ongoing mouse operation.
: * Right-click can also be used to select text before the Right-click menu appears.
: * Paste from clipboard thru Ctrl+Right-click occurs only upon releasing the button.
: * Selected lines are slightly accentuated by double-drawing the text.
: * ODO meter and Trip meter were added to the Utility info dialog for amusement.
: * Overwrite mode menu item added to Options menu for convenience.
: * Date/time glue setting moved from the Tools page to the General page.
: * Warning is show in the Status Bar upon saving Unicode file with no BOM.
: * Document title is always displayed in the taskbar and caption, even if also showing the full file path.
: * Stay on Top is saved along with other common options in the Basic Options category.
: * Newlines are now decoded in Could not find messages; with a new setting to disable this.
: * Progress percentage during re-wrap has been rewritten to give a more linear user experience.
: * The .reloc section was removed from executables in a hope all future Windows will accomodate.
: * Executable code was moved back to the .text section where it belongs.
: * Read-only data was moved back to the .rdata section where it belongs.
: * Text storage engine improved to support files with truckload of lines.
: * Text storage engine memory usage and general behaviour optimized.
: * Edit box behaviour and other code optimized.
: * Utf-8 recognition algorithm fortified.
: Changes against version 6.0.2.

; Version 6.0.2 (Nov 30, 2011)
: - Fixed: Initialization of Random number generator in multi-threaded tools.
: Changes against version 6.0.1.

; Version 6.0.1 (Nov 2, 2011)
: This version is a complete rewrite of the entire project. Small changes might be left out by omission.
: + Search and Replace dialog replaced by Search Bar.
: + Added: Support for Escapes and Regular Expressions in search/replace patterns.
: + Added: Experimental Search and Last Tool concept. Similar to Search and Replace.
: + Added: Long searches automatically display an abort dialog.
: + Added: Option to Mimic Case upon Search and Replace.
: + Added: Auto-search for current word upon no selection in Find Selected.
: + Added: Extended Replace also supports Escapes, RegExps and Mimic Case.
: + Added: Support for user-defined color of text and background.
: + Added: Random Color Scheme generator in Settings dialog.
: + Added: Display Line Numbers, Newlines and Line Lengths.
: + Added: ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomReset.
: + Added: Auto-recognition of UTF-8 files without BOM.
: + Added: Import/Export/Reopen file in chosen encoding or codepage.
: + Added: Full transparent support for binary files (load+edit+save).
: + Added: Full transparent support for mixed newlines (load+edit+save).
: + Added: Command line parameter: /b Skips the "Create new file" question.
: + Added: Option to auto-save documents directly to their original files.
: + Added: Option to create recovery auto-save files with hidden attribute.
: + Added: Question, whether to auto-load a lost auto-save version of a file.
: + Added: Question about saving before closing is skipped for empty Untitled documents.
: + Added: Favourite files now support relative paths.
: + Added: Template file for new documents.
: + Added: Shuffle Lines tool.
: + Added: First Capital, Random Case and Fun Case tools.
: + Added: Unclose Lines, Trim Empty Lines and Shift Lines Right tool.
: + Added: Collapse Empty Lines tool.
: + Added: Unwrap Lines tool.
: + Added: Extract Words tool.
: + Added: Most tools are now showing their progress and support cancel.
: + Added: Classic old system edit control replaced by new improved editbox.
: + Added: Text storage engine with improved support for working with huge files.
: + Added: Support for very long lines (current limit is set to 1 MiB).
: + Added: Multi-level Undo and Redo. Better Undo granularity.
: + Added: Legacy single-level Undo still available through Alt+BkSpace.
: + Added: More sensitive navigation through entire words.
: + Added: Support for Triple/Quadruple/Quintuple-click and mouse selecting.
: + Added: Option to auto-Copy to clipboard upon mouse selection.
: + Added: Paste/Swap from clipboard upon mouse Ctrl-Right-click.
: + Added: Option to Mimic Case upon Paste from clipboard.
: + Added: Option to auto-select current word/line/paragraph/document upon empty Copy/Cut.
: + Added: Insert Recently Inserted and Recently Deleted text.
: + Added: Support for Smart Home and End keys, working with indentation
: + Added: Support for moving/selecting by entire paragraphs.
: + Added: Option to keep distance between the Caret and window borders.
: + Added: Improved and enriched Right-click menu.
: + Added: Support for Insert/Overwrite mode.
: + Added: Horizontal mouse-wheel scrolling.
: + Added: Improved INI files for saving settings into Config.
: + Added: Support for hierarchical INI file loading.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /i Load specified INI file
: + Added: Location of current INI file added to Settings dialog.
: + Added: Printing font.
: + Added: Page Setup for printing.
: + Added: Check Updates shortcut.
: + Added: Sort tool: Up to five independent sorting keys available.
: + Added: Sort tool: Range of columns can be specified in each sorting key.
: + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore white-spaces and/or punctuation while sorting.
: + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore all but alpha-numeric characters while sorting.
: + Added: Sort tool: Option to ignore blank and/or control characters while sorting.
: + Added: Sort tool: Options to ignore characters supported even while sorting as numbers.
: + Added: Sort tool: Uses current user locale settings while sorting as numbers.
: + Added: Sort tool: Support for positive signs while sorting as numbers.
: * Modif: Sort tool: Sorting keys no longer depend on previous keys.
: + Added: Columns and Sort tools: Option to "delimit by entire phrase" rather than "separate characters".
: + Added: Columns and Sort tools: Options for saving info from tool dialogs into the Config.
: * Modif: Columns and Sort tools: Tool dialogs accept ranges and columns inverted.
: + Added: Columns tool: Random number insertion point (%r).
: * Modif: Columns tool: Center alignment modifier changed from ^ to !.
: + Added: Translate Charaters tool: Supports escapes and ranges.
: + Added: XmlTag tool: Works more carefully with singleline/multiline selections.
: * Modif: XmlTag tool: Reselects the original selection after enclosing it.
: + Added: XmlTag tool: Option to keep or reset fields "Attributes" and "Empty".
: + Added: Compare tool: State of checkboxes from tool dialog are saved into Config.
: + Added: Compare tool: Option for saving the compared strings into Config as well.
: + Added: Filters: New variable %S, which expands with current selection.
: + Added: Filters: Option to convert all text to/from UTF-8.
: + Added: Filters: Option to push no input (stdin) into filter.
: + Added: Filters: Option to ignore output (stdout/stderr) from filter.
: + Added: Filters: Option to mix output (stdout/stderr) from filter together.
: + Added: Filters: Option to display filter output as message instead of replacing.
: + Added: Filters: Option to auto-exit when filter is finished.
: + Added: Filters: Option to skip saving upon auto-exit when filter is finished.
: + Added: Filters: Option to ignore filter's return value.
: + Added: Filters: Option to wait for filter to finish.
: + Added: Filters: Option to skip the launch dialog.
: + Added: Filters: Quoting variable modifiers, which escape all double-quotes while expanding.
: + Added: Search and Replace All feature groups Undo steps into one Undo step.
: + Added: Search and Replace All feature shows total count of replacements in the Status Bar.
: + Added: Progress and info messages displayed in the Status Bar during most operations.
: + Added: Undo feature can now remember the last document save-point.
: + Added: Double-clicks on the Status Bar supported (as shortcuts to anticipated actions).
: + Added: Word Wrap indicator in the Status Bar.
: + Added: Current character value in the Status Bar.
: + Added: Suggest filename from first line supports longer filenames.
: + Added: Suggest filename from first line now works also in Exclude File feature.
: + Added: Option to confirm with user whether to exit by Esc key.
: + Added: Option to prevent insertion of control characters.
: + Added: Option to show bold Caret upon Overwrite mode.
: + Added: Option to improve definition of what a word consists of.
: + Added: Option to Indent selection (of multiple lines) with simple Tab key.
: + Added: Option to reduce Undo steps to the last single step upon Save.
: + Added: Option to persist current scrolling during tools.
: + Added: Option to auto-hide the Search Bar after it has been used.
: + Added: Option to auto-hide the Search Bar only after a successful use.
: + Added: Options to reset/keep specific search attributes in the Search Bar.
: + Added: Option to execute search as non-abortable (for compatibility).
: + Added: Option to execute all tools as non-abortable (for compatibility).
: + Added: Option to warn, when a file being loaded is bigger than a specific value.
: + Added: Support for overriding user locale settings (number formats, date/time formats).
: + Added: Many more settings and options to subtly adjust behaviour of features.
: - Fixed: Malformed UTF-8 files could cause loading troubles.
: - Fixed: Save As dialog allows read-only files when read-only files can be forced.
: - Fixed: Save As dialog no longer changes current working directory on the way.
: - Fixed: Switch to already opened document, while the other document's window is in tray.
: - Fixed: Troubles with changing the opened-and-watched-for-modifications file too rapidly.
: - Fixed: The opened-and-watched-for-modifications file no longer share-locked unnecessarily.
: - Fixed: Statistics tool: Average line length computed over non-empty lines only.
: - Fixed: Statistics tool: Line lengths (avg/min/max) ignore tail white-spaces.
: - Fixed: Unique Lines tool: Duplicates of empty lines not counted upon Leave empty lines.
: - Fixed: Unique Lines tool: Improved algorithm used in the tool (bug with quadratic impact).
: - Fixed: SysTray icon reappears after explorer/taskbar crash and recreation.
: * Improved and more user-friendly Go to dialog.
: * Statistics tool dialog supports copying of the values into clipboard.
: * Settings dialog now remembers the last active tab for convenience.
: * All tools working with selection can now auto-select word/line/paragraph/document.
: * Changing document Encoding or Newlines makes the document modified.
: * Old Margin Bar renamed to Wrap Margin. It soft-wraps lines upon Word Wrap.
: * Message "Search pattern not found!" now includes the search pattern.
: * Current selection and scrolling try to persist Search and Replace All operation.
: * Search and Replace All draws all changes at once if there is no idle CPU.
: * Undo is available in the Search Bar, when selection is pre-filled as new pattern.
: * Ability to define and use the Second Search through the Search Bar.
: * Longer patterns (up to 8 KiB) allowed in the Search Bar.
: * The selection is reversed upon searching upwards.
: * Word Wrap rewraps the line being edited correctly, including previous word.
: * Better maintenance of current scrolling and selection upon reverting the document.
: * Better maintenance of current scrolling upon rewrapping lines of the document.
: * Horizontal Scroll Bar tries to be a bit smarter and less resource consuming.
: * Quote Mail tool removed.
: * Few hotkeys modified or switched between functions.
: * Tools sub-menu and Edit sub-menu rearranged a bit. All dialogs improved.
: * Defaults for some of the settings modified to fit the new capabilities.
: * Few config names changed or moved to prevent sharing with old versions.
: * Core memory-handling and text-processing routines improved.
: * Non-linear generator of pseudo-random numbers used in tools.
: * Default fonts changed to Courier New and Arial.
: * New application icon introduced.
: Changes against version 5.4.1.

; Version 5.4.2 (Jun 17, 2009)
: - Fixed: Invalid characters in Suggest filename from first line.
: Changes against version 5.4.1.

; Version 5.4.1 (Apr 30, 2009)
: + Added: Fullscreen mode.
: + Added: Spawn New Window feature.
: + Added: Option for Longest completion in Complete Word feature.
: + Added: Option for Ignore case in Complete Word feature.
: + Added: Option to rotate the Search over the edge of the document.
: - Fixed: Favorites menu not numbered with accelerator keys.
: - Fixed: Unique Lines and Unique Lines with Ignore case interchanged.
: - Fixed: Number of Favorites menu items unnecessarily limited to 10.
: - Fixed: Could not Delete Line when there was only one line left in the document.
: - Fixed: Remove Empty Lines tool, which could result in crash.
: * Size of the printing font and printing margins modified.
: * When a loaded file has no newlines, the default newline type is assumed.
: * When a loaded file is empty (zero length), the default encoding is assumed.
: * XML/HTML Tag tool adds newlines to the content, if used on multiple lines.
: * Recent Files recollection option removed from the Settings.
: Changes against version 5.3.1.

; Version 5.3.1 (Apr 18, 2007)
: + Added: Indent selection is also possible by Tab key. Unindent by Shift+Tab key.
: + Added: Option to show full path and file name within the caption.
: + Added: Option to warn upon loading, if the same file is already opened in another window.
: + Added: Option to watch the opened file and ask for a Revert, when it is changed from outside.
: + Added: Option to auto-save the document every 5 minutes to a temporary recovery file.
: + Added: Option to keep the file name even when the loading has failed (for advanced users).
: + Added: Option to save UTF-8/Unicode files without the leading BOM (for advanced users).
: + Added: Option to load UTF-8/Unicode files without the leading BOM (for advanced users).
: + Added: Option about the default path for Open/Save dialogs.
: + Added: Option to force saving of read-only files.
: + Added: Support for saving of hidden/system files.
: + Added: Option to use the first line as a Filename instead of Untitled.
: + Added: Option to create backup files.
: + Added: Select Line feature.
: + Added: Date/Time and Long Date/Time tools.
: - Fixed: Statistics tool calculated values with active word wrapping.
: - Fixed: Saving of 3-byte long UTF-8 characters was half-broken.
: - Fixed: Occasional bug in backward searching routine.
: - Fixed: While saving filters/favourites into the Registry, old values were not deleted.
: * Filter dialog is skipped, when no parameters are required for an invoked filter.
: * Complete word dialod is skipped, when there is only one possible completion.
: * BkSpace/Delete/Truncate Line features no longer works according to the actual word-wrapping.
: * While quoting/indenting non-empty lines, only zero-length lines are considered to be empty.
: * Saving/loading routines rewritten and optimized for better and safer performance.
: * When unicode characters are loaded in a non-unicode version, warning is displayed.
: * The selection persists the Revert feature.
: * Application can also remember, whether the window was maximized upon exit.
: Changes against version 5.2.1.

; Version 5.2.1 (Nov 11, 2006)
: + Added: Find Later.
: + Added: XML/HTML Tag tool.
: + Added: Relative jumping in Go to dialog.
: + Added: Selecting text in Go to dialog.
: + Added: Trim Tailing Spaces tool.
: + Added: Shift Lines Left tool.
: + Added: Remove Empty Lines tool.
: + Added: Reverse Words on Line, Reverse Each Line, Reverse Words tools.
: + Added: New variable (%n) for newlines in Cut Columns tool.
: - Fixed: Minor bug with Status Bar panel sizes calculation.
: * Enclose Selection places the caret between its strings, if the selection is empty.
: Changes against version 5.0.1.

; Version 5.0.3 (Jan 11, 2007)
: - Fixed: Saving of 3-byte long UTF-8 characters was broken.
: - Fixed: Occasional bug in backward searching routine.
: Changes against version 5.0.1.

; Version 5.0.1 (Jul 12, 2006)
: + Added: Secondary search.
: + Added: Copy Similar Line.
: + Added: Copy Word Above.
: + Added: Cut Columns tool.
: + Added: Find Selected.
: + Added: Both searches are saved, along with other settings.
: + Added: Full support of storing the settings in a portable INI file.
: + Added: Full support for Mac newlines. Convert from/to Mac tools.
: + Added: Insert Tabs as Spaces and automatic Smart Return auto-indentation.
: + Added: Tabify Indentation and Untabify Indentation tools.
: + Added: Non-empty lines counter into Statistics dialog.
: + Added: Delete Line, Truncate Line, BkSpace Line.
: + Added: Reverse Each Word tool.
: + Added: Option that leaves empty lines in the Unique Lines tool.
: + Added: Option that skips white-spaces in Quote/Indent Selection tool.
: + Added: File modified asterix flag within main window caption.
: + Added: More Status Bar info: Number of lines, line length and document length.
: + Added: Insert File Name and Insert File Title tools.
: + Added: To the next/previous Line, disobeying wordwrapping.
: + Added: Moveable and hideable Right Margin Bar.
: + Added: Setting that counts Line numbers unwrapped even in the Status Bar.
: - Fixed: Continuous whole words matching minor bug fixed.
: - Fixed: RE clone: Some newline bugs and minor searching bugs fixed.
: * Smart Return and Copying Return work with last non-empty unwrapped line.
: * Indent Selection tool does not indent empty lines.
: * Several features/tools are more compatibile with the Undo feature.
: * Go to Line and Go to Char command-line parameters are no longer exclusive.
: * The Tabs as Spaces setting also affects the Indent Selection tool.
: * Tools converting Unix/Mac newlines no longer work with an entire document.
: * New Search menu has been created for both searching mechanisms.
: * Hotkeys of Select Word, Add Word and Complete Word have been changed.
: * Application is returning negative error codes upon startup troubles.
: * Several routines have been optimized to achieve better performance.
: * Sorting tool optimized a bit. All line-oriented tools optimized.
: Changes against version 4.5.1.

; Version 4.5.5 (Jan 04, 2007)
: + Added: File modified flag is also shown within window caption.
: + Added: Text limit value is allowed to be zero for no actual limit.
: + Added: Printing the selection only is available.
: - Fixed: Saving of 3-byte long UTF-8 characters was broken.
: - Fixed: Posible memory leaks caused by unhandled realloc failure.
: - Fixed: Occasional bug in backward searching routine.
: - Fixed: Printing mechanism has been fixed.
: - Fixed: Characters recognition is now fully user locale friendly.
: - Fixed: Find mechanism is now gathering dialog info only when appropriate.
: * Find/Replace mechanism modified to resemble the default notepad behavior.
: * Recent files are remembered upon successful file saving.
: * To open Manual, it has to be in the same directory, as the executable is.
: Changes against version 4.5.1.

; Version 4.5.1 (Jul 1, 2005)
: + Added: Full UTF-8 files support.
: + Added: Full Big-endian UNICODE files support.
: + Added: Swap clipboard and selection (copy and paste together).
: + Added: Find previous, Select to previous features.
: + Added: Find/Replace works in both directions with whole word option enabled.
: + Added: Favourites menu.
: + Added: Whole words option in Extended Replace.
: + Added: Delete all other characters option in Translate Characters.
: + Added: .LOG extension support from Windows Notepad.
: + Added: File Properties dialog of the current document.
: + Added: Word wrapping into printing support.
: + Added: Command line parameter: /p Print.
: + Added: Printing the selection only.
: - Fixed: Printing mechanism has been completely rewritten.
: - Fixed: Window creeped-up when taskbar was located at the top of the screen.
: - Fixed: RE clone only: Find/Replace mechanism counted newlines incorrectly.
: * Sorting tool rewritten and optimized a bit. Supports better numbers sorting.
: * Enclose Selection tool modified. Enclose Selection dialog added.
: * Replace All mechanism now works with the entire document, as supposed to.
: * Find/Replace algorithms rewritten and optimized a lot.
: * Saving, loading and managing of settings modified.
: * Finally, all read and write share locks were removed.
: * A warning is raised when conversion from UNICODE to ANSI is not to be lossless.
: * A question about creating a new file is raised upon opening a missing file.
: * Some tools allowed on empty selections too.
: * Assembly-level code optimizations. Speed increased, application size decreased.
: Changes against version 4.3.1.

; Version 4.3.1 (Sep 14, 2004)
: + Added: Complete Word.
: + Added: Select to Next.
: + Added: Drag & Drop support.
: + Added: Copying Return.
: + Added: Revert.
: + Added: Add Next Word.
: + Added: Save and Exit as F10 hotkey.
: + Added: Full binary files support.
: + Added: Full and transparent UNIX-files support.
: + Added: Last Used Tool.
: + Added tools: Unique Lines, Close Lines.
: + Added tools: Unindent Selection, Unquote Selection.
: + Added tools: Include From File, Exclude Fo File.
: + Added tool: Extended Replace. (Without regular expressions. Use grep as a filter.)
: + Added tool: Filters Architecture. (Simple text-filtering plug-ins architecture.)
: + Added tool: More options and Show column button added to the Sorting tool dialog.
: + Added tool: Crc32 sum value to Statistics tool.
: + Added: Command line parameters: /l Go to line, /c Go to char, /s Set Selection.
: + Added: Command line parameters: /a Select All, /d Do Command.
: + Added: Command line parameters: /nl NoLoad Settings, /ns NoSave Settings.
: + Added: Variety of view scrolling hotkeys. See hotkeys list.
: + Added: Hotkeys to Extended Clipboards dialog.
: + Added: Option of definition of a word: Whether include underscore.
: + Added: Disobey Word Wrapping in Go to Line.
: + Added: RE clone only: auto URL detection.
: - Fixed: Troubles with the size and position of minimized/maximized main window.
: - Fixed: Multibyte characters save troubles and binary files load minor bug.
: * All read-share locks removed, write write-share lock removed.
: * Unwrap tool has been modified to preserve paragraphs.
: * Missing GetLongPathName export function added for Win95 and WinNT4.
: * Smart Return, Title Case and Compare Strings modified a bit.
: * Select Word, Delete/BkSpace Spaces (now Delete/BkSpace Word) features modified.
: * First RichEdit (RE) clone released.
: Changes against version 3.1.1.

; Version 3.1.1 (Nov 26, 2003)
: + Added: Recently opened files.
: + Added: Delete Spaces, BkSpace Spaces.
: + Added: Possibility of replacing multiple lines.
: + Added: Automatic use of the selection in Find/Replace Dialogs.
: + Added: Dual font switching (Fixed/Proportional - Default/Custom).
: + Added tools: Date/time Tools.
: + Added tools: Sort Ascending, Sort Descending.
: + Added tools: Indent Selection, Quote mail.
: + Added tools: Comit Word Wrap, Unwrap Selection.
: + Added: Left selection margin, Tab size, Default file type.
: + Added tools: Compare, Statistics.
: + Added: Select Word, Smart Return.
: + Added tools: Title and Sentence Case tools.
: + Added: Manual and instalation. Help was removed.
: * Sorting tool optimized. Reading/saving of files optimized.
: * Maintenance of Settings was completely modified.
: * Hotkeys of some tools were modified.
: Changes against version 2.6.1.

; Version 2.6.1 (Dec 16, 2002)
: + Added tool: Sort - beta version of the sorting tool.
: + Added: Word Wrap option.
: + Added: Save Settings option.
: + Added: Tab characters can be inserted into dialog boxes easily.
: + Added tools: Reverse Text, Reverse Lines and Translate Characters.
: + Added: Saving of extended clipboards content.
: + Added: Warning that file length differs from loaded text length.
: + Added: Warning about Text Limit value.
: + Added tools: Enclose selection, Quote text.
: + Added: Save settings between sessions (Window position, Status bar, ...).
: + Added: Text Limit value -> Unlimited text size possibility.
: Changes against version 2.4.

; Version 2.4 (Jul 24, 2002)
: * This version was something like the original Windows Notepad; with a status bar and nine extended clipboards; with text case conversion tools and UNICODE/UNIX/Win compatibility. It was full of hotkeys and dreams... Dreams to be implemented.

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