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Version History
Notepad2
This shows you how often Notepad2 was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).
version 2.1.19 - posted on Apr 10, 2008
- "Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
"Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
"Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
Original Notepad .LOG feature
/f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
/p command line switch trumps sticky window position
/p0 uses system default settings for new window position
Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
Improved handling of relative path names
File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
Selected find results are better scrolled into view
Restore scrolling positions on revert
Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
Ctrl+Space doesn t select initial line indentation whitespace
Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator
Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit
Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
Updated filename extension lists with more default types
Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
Print margins can be set to "0"
Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
Fixed bug with cursor movement at the start and end wrapped lines
Updated Scintilla library to 1.76
version 2.0.18 - posted on Jul 26, 2007
- No further details available
version 2.0.16 - posted on May 15, 2007
- No further details available
version 2.0.15 - posted on Apr 08, 2007
- The most important changes in Notepad2 2.0.x compared with version 1.0.12 include support for ini-file storage of the program settings, modeless find and replace dialogs, multiline find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, and many more.
version 1.0.12 - posted on Jun 26, 2004
- Notepad2 source code now released under the GNU GPL
`Read Only` option handles file attributes
Enhanced find and replace dialogs with new options
Optionally auto close HTML/XML tags (Ctrl+Shift+H)
Improved tabify/untabify selection functions
New hotkey to select XML scheme (Shift+F11)
version 1.0.11 - posted on May 31, 2004
- Simple favorites management based on file shortcuts (Alt+I)
Optional toolbar buttons for favorites management
Improved undo / redo handling of auto indent text
Better cursor behaviour for line editing commands
Clipboard text is converted according to font character set
Auto-select ANSI code page option (File, Encoding, Default...)
Windows system text and background colors used by default
Enabled some new comment styles for C/C+
related languages
version 1.0.10 - posted on May 22, 2004
- Option to select a default syntax scheme (F12)
Find, replace, upper
and lowercase handle umlauts and accents
Paste board feature (cmd switch /b) to collect clipboard entries
Text is copied to clipboard in Unicode format (Windows NT/2k/XP)
Reload current file without encoding detection (F8)
Updated CSS properties to version 2.1
`Reuse Window` disabled by default to allow multiple windows
version 1.0.09 - posted on May 13, 2004
- Convert tabs to spaces and vice versa (Ctrl+Shift+S/T)
Insert time/date (short form/long form) (Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+F5)
Insert filename/path and filename (Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9)
Added missing copy line command (Ctrl+Shift+C)
Enabled script selection in font dialogs
version 1.0.08 - posted on May 09, 2004
- Find and replace dialogs accept Unicode input (Windows NT/2k/XP)
Warning message for large files (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
Default file extension is `txt` (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
New command line parameters: /c, /g, /?
Fixed writing of hidden and system files (Windows XP/2k)
Fixed some handling problems with relative pathnames
Notepad2.txt outlines how to import and export Notepad2 settings
version 1.0.07 - posted on May 04, 2004
- Select default encoding for new files
Select default line endings for new files
Right clicking moves cursor if no selection
Zooming with Ctrl+Mousewheel recalculates line number width
version 1.0.06 - posted on May 01, 2004
- Word wrap settings, show word wrap symbols (Ctrl+Shift+0)
Move line up/down (Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down)
Remove blank lines (Alt+R)
Bookmarks for file navigation (Ctrl+F2)
Minimal print header and footer customization
Remapped some keyboard shortcuts (see Notepad2.txt)
Added a few comments to Notepad2.txt
version 1.0.05 - posted on Apr 25, 2004
- Support for XML, ActionScript 2.0, Python, NSIS Script
Fully customizable second default style (Shift+F12)
Find matching brace (Ctrl+B)
Select to matching brace (Ctrl+Shift+B)
Goto column (Ctrl+J)
Optionally change background color of long lines
Transparent mode on Windows 2k and above (Alt+U)
Fixed line endings detection for Unicode files
version 1.0.04 - posted on Apr 20, 2004
- Fixed loading of UTF-8 files with signature
version 1.0.03 - posted on Apr 19, 2004
- Toggle word wrap toolbar button
New block command: strip first character (Alt+Z)
Strip trailing blanks uses selection, if any
version 1.0.02 - posted on Apr 18, 2004
- Reload current file (F5)
Revised printing functionality
Zooming recalculates line number width
