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.

In the list:

+ indicates a new feature or tool,

- indicates a bug fix,

* indicates a modification in behavior or a note.

Version 5.3.1

+ 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 the user 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 being deleted.

* Filter dialog is being skipped, when no parameters are required for an invoked filter.

* 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 for better and safer performance.

* When unicode characters are being 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.

Version 5.2.1

+ 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.

Version 5.0.1

+ Added: Secondary search.

+ Added: Copy Similar Line.

+ Added: Copy Word Above.

+ Added: Cut Columns tool.

+ Added: Find Selected.

+ Added: Both searches are being 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.

* Goto Line and Goto 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.

Version 4.5.4

- Fixed: Occasional bug in backward searching routine.

Version 4.5.3

+ 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: File modified flag is also being shown within window caption.

+ Added: Text limit value is allowed to be zero for no actual limit.

+ 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: Characters recognition is now fully user locale friendly.

- 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.

* Find/Replace mechanism modified to resemble the default notepad behavior.

* Recent files are being remember even upon successful file saving.

* 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.

* To open Manual, it has to be in the same directory, as the executable is.

* Assembly-level code optimizations. Speed increased, application size decreased.

Version 4.3.1

+ 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 Goto line, /c Goto 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 Goto 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.

Version 3.1.1

+ 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 sc-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.

Version 2.6.1

+ 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.

Version 2.4

* 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.