release notes
- TextPad 9.6.2
- TextPad 8.20.2
- TextPad 9.6.1
- TextPad 8.20.1
- TextPad 9.6.0
- TextPad 8.20.0
- TextPad 9.5.2
- TextPad 8.19.2
- TextPad 9.5.1
- TextPad 8.19.1
- TextPad 9.5.0
- TextPad 8.19.0
- TextPad 9.4.1
- TextPad 8.18.1
- TextPad 9.4.0
- TextPad 8.18.0
- TextPad 9.3.1
- TextPad 8.17.1
- TextPad 9.3.0
- TextPad 8.17.0
- TextPad 9.2.3
- TextPad 8.16.2
- TextPad 9.2.0
- TextPad 8.16.1
- TextPad 9.1.0
- TextPad 8.16.0
- TextPad 9.0.1
- TextPad 8.15.1
- TextPad 9.0.0
- TextPad 8.15.0
- TextPad 8.14.2
- TextPad 8.14.0
- TextPad 8.13.0
- TextPad 8.12.0
- TextPad 8.11.0
- TextPad 8.10.0
- TextPad 8.9.0
- TextPad 8.8.1
- TextPad 8.8.0
- TextPad 8.7.0
- TextPad 8.6.1
- TextPad 8.6.0
- TextPad 8.5.1
- TextPad 8.5.0
- TextPad 8.4.2
- TextPad 8.4.1
- TextPad 8.4.0
- TextPad 8.3.0
- TextPad 8.2.0
- TextPad 8.1.2
- TextPad 8.1.1
- TextPad 8.1.0
- TextPad 8.0.2
- TextPad 8.0.1
- TextPad 8.0.0
- TextPad 7.6.4
- TextPad 7.6.3
- A native build of TextPad 9 is now available for ARM64 processors.
- When the insert position was to the right of the rightmost character in the view and moved up or down, it was moved to the top left of the view.
- Fixed a crash when deleting a macro from the menu.
- If only two lines were selected, the Sort command did not sort them.
- The Transpose Lines command did not work if the document only contained two lines.
- See version 9.6.2.
- The Shift+Insert shortcut should not have invoked the command to insert files.
- The Shift+Del shortcut should not have appended the deleted text to the clipboard contents.
- When syntax highlighting was enabled in the Text document class with text.syn as the definition file, lines could be wrapped at quote characters and brackets.
- Fixed a crash when deleting a macro.
- Document scrolling could lock up after deleting very long word-wrapped lines.
- See version 9.6.1.
- A “Duplicate” command on the Edit menu. It duplicates either the current line or the selected text.
- The undo command now restores the selection.
- The “EditUnicode” command (Alt+X) now converts the hexadecimal digits in the selection, or to the left of the insert position, to the corresponding Unicode character, and vice versa.
- The browse button on the Quick Open dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+O) now invokes a folder browser instead of a file browser.
- The toolbar icon image editor now supports 32 bits per pixel transparency. (Version 9 only.)
- Removing a macro could change the shortcuts of any remaining macros.
- Fixed a memory leak after adding macros to the menu and then cancelling it.
- The command to close all documents always prompted to save each modified document.
- The clipboard did not show TextPad as the contents creator.
- The line number field on the statusbar truncated 8-digit numbers.
- Fixed a crash when selecting wordwrap while in print preview.
- When multiple instances are disabled, a prompt should not have been made to save the workspace when another is opened by a new instance.
- See version 9.6.0.
- See version 9.6.0.
- Context menus for the document selector and document tabs were missing from the non-English user interfaces.
- See also version 8.19.2.
- The output from a user tool writing a line at a time was buffered.
- Eliminated the requirement for the Num Lock key to be on when entering character codes on the numeric keypad.
- New tab groups were not evenly spaced.
- An option to show slanted document tabs in a theme was missing.
- Could not dock the Document Selector, Clip Library or Explorer after dragging and dropping it onto tabbed documents.
- The Properties command on the document context menu changed the document class to Custom.
- Cancelling changes to a document's properties had no effect.
- In .editorconfig files, 'trim_trailing_whitespace' was always set to true.
- A duplicate entry in a .editorconfig file was reported as an error.
- Fixed a crash when running the Browse Folder command on the Document Selector's context menu.
- Fixed a rare crash when switching between workspaces with and without docked Tool Output windows.
- Fixed a crash when the license key file could not be created by the Update License command.
- The tabs on auto-hidden windows did not display their labels.
- See also version 9.5.1.
- More themes are available for customizing the appearance of the user interface.
- Scripts in languages such as Python, PHP and awk can now be used to edit documents. For more information, see "HOWTOs" in the forum.
- If a workspace containing modified new documents was open at the time Windows Update automatically restarted the operating system, when TextPad was restarted, it reported that it could not save backup files for each of the new documents.
- When Windows Update recovered modified files on restart, a separate prompt to reload the file should not have been issued.
- In HTML files, numbers were not syntax highlighted.
- The target document should have been activated when the Tool Output window was closed.
- The dialog box for Manage History Lists could not be resized vertically.
- The Save Configuration command did not save the selected appearance.
- If the option to "Minimize when last document is closed" was set, TextPad was minimized when switching workspaces.
- Macro commands to change the case of selected text only changed the first character, if the default scope of the macro was "Selection".
- Copying text within a single line in block mode should not have appended a newline character.
- Scripts in languages such as Python, PHP and awk can now be used to edit documents.
- See version 9.5.0.
- The option to reload the last workspace at startup was ignored.
- The command to manage history lists crashed when the number of recently used files was set to zero.
- There should have been a prompt to save modified documents on exit.
- When sorting numerically, IP v4 addresses are now in the correct order.
- On a heavily loaded system, a new instance could crash while opening a file moved from another instance.
- See version 9.4.1.
- Added a command to the Configure menu to save the configuration.
- Added a command to compare files to the context menu of the document selector.
- The line and column numbers of the insert position can be displayed by assigning a keyboard shortcut to the command Edit:CaretPosition.
- If TextPad is running when Windows Update reboots the computer, its files are automatically reopened after startup.
- New documents which have not been saved to files are saved in the open workspace.
- Implemented a command line option to open files in the first instance of TextPad using a '-1' parameter.
- New installations are initialised to backup every 10 minutes.
- After hiding the clock on the statusbar, other indicators were truncated from the right when reducing its width.
- Document tabs could not be reordered using drag and drop.
- Some commands on the popup menu for the clip library did not work.
- The index for the Japanese help file was corrupted.
- See also version 8.18.0.
- See version 9.4.0.
- Scrolling by dragging the scrollbar thumb on a file comparison longer than 32 thousand lines only worked for the first 32K lines.
- Macro shortcuts were dependent on their order on the menu.
- The command line option '-cd' did not work.
- After removing a monitor which was used to display the find and replace dialog boxes, they were not repositioned onto the primary display.
- Reduced the virtual width of views, so that horizontal scrolling is more constrained to the text.
- Popup tips for Unicode characters did not work.
- Fixed an apparent workspace overwrite when the readme.txt file is opened on the first run after TextPad is installed.
- Status bar indicators are no longer truncated from the right, when the main window width is reduced.
- See also version 8.17.1.
- Replace All commands which changed the length of lines by substituting matched text using \1, instead of $1, could corrupt the text.
- Right clicking text which had been selected from right to left cleared the selection.
- Added git and ssh to the list of recognized URLs.
- Improved recognition of URLs that are preceded by symbols.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when reloading a word-wrapped document and .editorconfig was enabled.
- The options to display full paths on the document selector and document tabs are now independent.
- A context menu command to save the documents selected on the Document Selector.
- A context menu command to move documents to a new instance.
- Added a button to the Spelling Preferences dialog box for adding new languages.
- Prompt to save a new shortcut that has not been assigned to a command, when closing Keyboard Preferences.
- Cache .editorconfig files, to speed up processing on network filesystems.
- Optimise the number of times a file is checked for external updates, to reduce delays on network filesystems.
- Context menu commands did not work for the Search Results window when it is docked.
- The options to display full paths on the document selector and document tabs are now independent.
- A context menu command to save the documents selected on the Document Selector.
- A context menu command to move documents to a new instance.
- Prompt to save a new shortcut that has not been assigned to a command, when closing Keyboard Preferences.
- Cache .editorconfig files, to speed up processing on network filesystems.
- Optimise the number of times a file is checked for external updates, to reduce delays on network filesystems.
- Both the search and replacement text were selected when the Replace dialog box opened.
- Relative file name paths typed in the file open dialog box did not work.
- The Delete key can now be used in the open file dialog box to delete a file.
- The document selector, clip library and file explorer windows can now be lined up vertically.
- The positions of the find and replace dialog boxes were not saved.
- See also version 8.16.2.
- The font size in the document selector and clip library is now updated when the accessibility setting for fonts is changed.
- The output from the Compare Files command did not display the names of the files.
- Certain replacement expressions caused the Replace All command to insert garbage characters.
- Some macros which manipulated the selection failed to work.
- SVG icons can be used for custom toolbar buttons. This option is selectable on Configure » Preferences » View.
- A bold font is used to emphasise the active document tab.
- The History List dialog box is now resizable.
- Custom toolbars can now be created.
- The last active document is now activated when closing a tabbed document.
- Fixed the non-docked Search Results window closing when Find in Files is closed.
- When document tabs were at the bottom of the frame but turned off, they were turned on again after a restart.
- The New vertical tab group command was disabled.
- Sort didn't report the number of lines deleted on the status bar, when invoked from the toolbar.
- Could not change the spell checker language without also changing another setting.
- See also version 8.16.1.
- Fixed a crash when .editorconfig was enabled and a workspace containing a word wrapped document was opened.
- Keyboard shortcuts for macros that are removed from the menu are released.
- Private document classes were not always recognised in workspaces.
- After deleting some tools from the Tools menu, some of the remaining ones were disabled.
- A more appropriate icon is displayed on the valid macro message box.
- The Find and Replace dialog boxes were not repositioned, after a multiple display layout was changed.
- Macros with their scope set to the selection and containing a Replace All command with scope set to selected text did not do anything.
- An optional regular expression builder for the Find and Replace commands. Select this on Configure » Preferences » Editor.
- A user interface to manage history lists. See the Configure menu.
- An option to display a Windows navigator when switching between documents with Ctrl+tab. Select this on Configure » Preferences » View.
- An option to use the Windows standard file open dialogs for users who require more functionality than is available from the themed ones. Select this on Configure » Preferences » File.
- When TextPad was not running and several files were opened at the same time from Windows Explorer, the first failed to open.
- The option to display tabs at the bottom of the window did not persist.
- The option to create new document tabs to the right of existing ones was not available.
- The docked Search Results window could obscure documents.
- Characters could not be input by typing their codes on the numeric keypad while the Alt key was pressed.
- The limit of 256 characters for file names in the open file dialog has been increased.
- Menus could temporarily disappear when using the Alt and down-arrow keys.
- The window background color in the dark theme could not be changed.
- The selected clip library was not reselected after a restart.
- See also version 8.16.0.
- A user interface to manage history lists. See the Configure menu.
- The scrolling and cursor positions were not updated after undoing or redoing edits.
- The initial selection was lost after drag selecting backwards and forward from a word selected by double clicking it.
- Corrected the behaviour of "indent_size" and "tab_width" to match EditorConfig standard 0.15.0.
- The spell checker option to ignore capitalised words also affected words in mixed case and all capitals.
- When Explorer opens multiple files associated with TextPad they will now open in a single instance, if the association is made using Configure » Preferences » Associated Files.
- Document windows were not created in the correct size when files were opened from Windows Explorer's context menu.
- New icons for toolbar buttons could not be created.
- Document tabs should have been created to the left of existing ones.
- Preferences for file associations can now be configured
- The New Document Class wizard did not list any syntax definition files.
- EditorConfig is now documented in the help file.
- Also see version 8.15.1.
- Keywords were not syntax highlighted.
- The Replace All command did not replace text on the last line of a document if it was unterminated and it was the only matching text.
- The interline spacing is only increased when the current line is highlighting with a box.
- A line starting with spaces and with no other break characters in it was not split at the right margin.
- The user interface has an optional theme with a dark background
- The spell checker uses the dictionaries for languages installed in Windows.
- When run as administrator, Preference options has a page for setting system policies.
- See version 8.15.0.
- Word wrapped text was not updated on the display, after running a Replace All command.
- The remainder of the view of a binary file was not erased for files that did not fill the view.
- The keyboard shortcut to toggle case matching on the incremental finder did not work.
- For some fonts, underscores were obscured when the current line was highlighted with a box.
- The Preferences dialog box insisted on being centered on the display.
- The Copy as HTML command now generates HTML 5.
- The Save As command now defaults to the encoding specified for the new document class.
- In certain circumstances, the Replace All command could lose its place after 5000 replacements.
- Spaces should not have been rejected in document class names.
- The Match Case button on the Incremental Finder did not work.
- Improved the algorithm which determines if foreground and background colors are too similar to be visible.
- Could not insert more than one separator on the Tools menu.
- The text cursor width was not scaled for high resolution displays.
- Improved the speed of the Replace All command, the Bookmark All command, and the Clear and Invert All Bookmarks commands.
- Improved the speed of Undo/Redo of the Replace All command.
- Show the document class name on the Document Properties page.
- Commands added to the Tools menu could not be renamed.
- Could not paste multiple lines into edit boxes on the Find and Replace dialog boxes.
- Context sensitive help did not work for some contexts.
- When the foreground and background colors were the same, the current line should not have been highlighted with a box.
- Fixed a crash when running a Replace All command which reduced the number of lines in selected text up to the end of the document.
- Fixed a crash caused by closing the Find dialog box while an error message about the regular expression is displayed.
- Prevented a memory exception from causing a crash when adding text to the clipboard history on memory constrained systems.
- The IME window was misplaced after character conversion.
- Implemented the following keyboard shortcut to toggle the case of the incremental finder: "IncrementalMatchCase".
- After splitting a view, the size of the scrollbar thumb was incorrect in the new view.
- Macros could not be edited with the 32-bit edition.
- The Find Next in All Documents command now steps through all open documents.
- The syntax highlighter now recognises C++ binary literals, and Unicode and raw string literals.
- The Block Fill command didn't insert right aligned text correctly.
- Lines could be wrapped at seemingly random places.
- Repeat typing didn't allow for any white space that is automatically inserted after return is pressed.
- Repeat typing only worked with Unicode characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- The EditUnicodeChar command only worked with Unicode characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- Character code popup tips showed incorrect codes for surrogate pairs and they only worked on the left side of wide characters.
- The cursor position indicator now takes account of wide characters.
- Fixed a crash in Replace All commands that did hundreds of line insertions and deletions.
- The shortcuts for characters Ÿ, œ and Œ on Qwerty keyboards did not work.
- Selecting a whole line and then typing characters over it could not be undone.
- Clicking the middle mouse button on a document tab or the document selector now closes the corresponding document.
- Macro names which are too long to fit in the Macro Properties dialog box are displayed in popup tip windows.
- Now detects the C/C++ include path for Visual Studio 2022.
- The indent more/less buttons were swapped on the toolbar.
- Fixed the requirement to specify the encoding on the Save As dialog box to make insert file and save selection work.
- The option to replace Notepad does not work on Windows 11 so it is not available.
- Breaking change: in macros, the display name, author, description, search and replace strings were not saved as Unicode characters. Macros saved with this release are not backwards compatible with previous releases.
- Optimized memory reuse when editing existing files.
- Macro commands to open, save and insert files can now accept codepage numbers.
- Enhanced syntax coloring of JSON files. Keys are now displayed in the color set for Keywords 2, and ',' and ':' in the color set for operators. true, false and null are recognized as values, and comments are highlighted.
- Implemented touchscreen zooming.
- Line numbers in the file comparison window were truncated when displayed in certain fonts.
- TextPad prevented Windows from restarting without manual intervention.
- Fixed a crash when turning on word wrap after zooming in or out.
- Corrected a regression error in the Windows recovery manager interface.
- Fixed file system error with //network/.editorconfig when opening files.
- Fixed a crash while opening files on Windows 7 when .editorconfig was enabled.
- Implements a context menu for inserting commands in the macro editor.
- Supports the use of .editorconfig files.
- Changes to the scope of a macro using the macro editor were not saved.
- Security policies for opening and saving files could be bypassed with the macro editor.
- Added a new security policy setting to disallow the editing of macros (0x0800).
- The last line of a document could be partially obscured, when word-wrap was enabled.
- Implemented an editor for keystroke macros.
- The Find Next command ignored the option to wrap searches when the cursor was at the end of file.
- The Extend Selection Down command did not work if the cursor was previously on a higher line number.
- A crash when displaying long system time formats in the status bar has been fixed.
- When the time was displayed on the status bar, it was partially obscured.
- The Replace All command took too long on files with many lines.
- Fixed a crash when paging down to the end of a word wrapped document, with critical combination of page size and font.
- The width of the space character increased, when viewing the properties of a document.
- The progress bar was not being updated while opening very large files.
- Crash while replacing all text in a selected range at the end of a document.
- The replacement expression "\i{...}" output its results in reverse order.
- Implemented a new command to repeat the last characters typed. Its default shortcut is Ctrl+. (dot).
- Speeded up the Replace All command to split very long lines of text.
- Updated the keywords in the C++ syntax definition file for conformance with version 20.
- The Unicode code point U+FFFE is no longer treated as the end of a file.
- Changes to Preferences were not written to disk until the program terminated.
- Using the regular expression "^\n" to match empty lines and replace them with nothing did not delete all consecutive empty lines.
- When opening files, 3-byte UTF-8 characters that straddled multiples of 4KB may have been replaced with "?".
- Fixed rare crash with the EndOfWord keyboard command at the end of a line.
- Detection of the location of the WIN32 SDK and MFC folders only worked on English versions of Windows.
- You can now use the tab key to navigate to the URL on the About dialog box.
- Zooming is implemented with default shortcuts Ctrl + and Ctrl -. This can also be done using the new zoom toolbar. The default font size can be reinstated with Ctrl 0.
- In the File Preferences, there is a new option to save the list of recently used files in workspaces.
- The Save As dialog is now redisplayed when save is cancelled due to a character encoding conversion error.
- The setting for visual file comparisons is persisted between sessions.
- CSS syntax highlighting was lost after closing all open .css files, then opening one.
- The installation directory of JDK 14 was not detected.
- Tool output buffering prevented display of text a line at a time.
- The option to choose which instance of TextPad to open a file with was not added to Explorer's context menu.
- The Ordering Information button on the Help dialog box did not work.
- Fixed crash when the clipboard history was active, but TextPad was in the background.
- The Open File dialog box could create files without a confirmation prompt.
- The accessibility setting for the width of the text cursor was ignored.
- The background color of text for the Compare Files document class was ignored.
- Made some corrections to the Polish user interface.
- Polish UI and spell checker.
- Improvements to the Italian UI.
- Macros which did a lot of copying and pasting could be interrupted, because the clipboard could not service the requests quickly enough.
- Uncommon crash opening files, reported by 2 users.
- Crash doing replace all of '^' with anything, when the last line of the document is empty.
- When doing replace all '^' with anything, lines following blank lines were not changed.
- Crash when TextPad is forcibly closed by signing out of Windows.
- Help did not link to documentation for comparing files visually.
- Clip libraries can now be created with UTF-8 encoding.
- Added an option for the bare minimum of keystroke shortcuts, so that users can more easily define their own preferences.
- When opening C/C++ include files, now searches for them in the Visual C++ 2019 and Windows 10 SDK installation paths.
- Fixed infinite loop when replacing '.*' with anything at the end of a line.
- Fixed small font in the clip library.
- UTF-8 files containing invalid characters were truncated on input.
- Improved quality of large toolbar icons.
- Improved detection of UTF-8 characters when opening files.
- Selected line not brought into wrapped view when the total number of wrapped rows before it is greater than the number of lines in the file.
- File modified marker not cleared after saving file in a macro.
- When full paths are displayed on the document selector and a modified file is saved, the last 2 characters of its name were truncated.
- In file URLs, '+' was converted to space.
- Fixed some multi-monitor and DPI issues.
- Random crash on exit on some PCs.
- Fixed crash on opening a file with a final null character.
- Fixed occasional crash when saving workspaces without Search Results.
- Match Whole Words was not enabled on Find/Replace for words starting or ending with underscore.
- Setting the COMSPEC environment variable from within TextPad had no effect.
- Increased the 64KB line length limit in Find in Files to 1MB.
- Dropped files did not use the default encoding defined in their document classes.
- The tool output buffer is now flushed at end of line.
- Preserve existing file's attributes when overwriting.
- Bitmaps on config tree on hi-res displays.
- When the cursor is out of the window, Ctrl+Up/Down should move it into the window, before scrolling.
- Double and triple click using MS conventions should not have been actioned until button up.
- Under MS mouse conventions, triple click now only selects the current paragraph in word wrap mode, otherwise the current display line is selected.
- Default DOS encoding didn't work in v8 for quick opened, double clicked or dropped files.
- If the default codepage for a document class was UTF-8, but a member file did not contain UTF-8 characters, non-ASCII characters were replaced with '?' when it was opened.
- Fixed crash when opening syntax highlighted files where the final character is a digit.
- The selected encoding on the Open File dialog box was ignored.
- The codepage which is displayed on the statusbar was incorrect for Tool Results.
- Autosaving cleared the undo stack.
- Implemented Unix diff format as an option for file compare results.
- The colors used in the File Comparison output can now be configured using its own document class.
- For non-DOS tools, the Default Encoding of the Tool Output document class is use to convert user tool output.
- When files contain only ASCII characters, the document class should have been checked to determine if they should be treated as UTF-8.
- Crash after changing fonts in the Tool Output window.
- Crash while exiting on some multiprocessor PCs.
- The help window was always on top.
- Could not replace a regular expression with literal '\i' using '\\i'.
- OnEditReformat now reformats the current paragraph only when nothing is selected.
- Find in Files stopped searching files with lines longer than 64 KB. Now they are split at that length.
- Changed the font used in the document selector and clip library for better rendering on high resolution displays.
- The system preference for use of ClearType fonts in the incremental finder was ignored.
- Drag and drop to other applications did not work.
- The application for TextPad.dde, in the registry, was TextPad.7 instead of TextPad.8.
- Pasting multiple lines into a Find/Replace edit control didn't work.
- If a line selected by double clicking in the left margin was searched for, its end of line characters should not have been included in the Find dialog box.
- The height of the main window was reduced on restart, if the bottom was close to the taskbar.
- Couldn't compare open files if 'Keep files locked while editing them was set'.
- The code page for new documents was not initialised to its document class setting.
- The BOM setting on Save As was overridden by the document class setting.
- URLs were not highlighted in the text document class, unless they were preceded by white space.
- The MS Surface pen could not be used for right clicks.
- On high definition displays:
- Item colour listbox text overlapped.
- Font name listbox text overlapped.
- The list of suggestions for spelling mistakes overlapped.
- The font was too small in the Update License dialog box.
- Visible space glyphs were too small.
- Large toolbar icons are now automatically selected.
- The initial size of docking panes for high definition displays was too small.
- Increased the initial size of the help window.
- A command to Refresh the view on the Compare Files context menu.
- Crash when clicking the dividing line between the file name and its contents in the Compare Files window.
- When saving files with the UTF16BE encoding, only the first half of each buffer written had its bytes swapped.
- The UNICODE BOM setting for the document class overrode the one on the Save As dialog box.
- Line breaking did not follow the rules for Japanese text.
- The spell checker did not ignore Japanese text.
- Crash due to non-ASCII characters in syntax definition keywords. (These are invalid.)
- Find in Files did not use the corresponding document class encoding for files with indeterminate encodings.
- Compare Files reported differences between no space and spaces, when Ignore Spaces is set.
- Sort was disabled in block mode.
- Checkboxes in scrollable lists overlapped, and toolbars did not scale correctly, on high pixel density displays.
- Changes to the state of scrollable check boxes were not updated for screen readers.
- HTML Validator output was written to the Search Results window.
- When started with "-f path" and "path" did not exist or did not contain ConfigState.xml, per user files were stored in the samples subfolder.
- Text was not displayed correctly in the Incremental Finder when the display is scaled at 200%.
- Operates internally in Unicode UTF-16 encoding, so files containing character sets from different, left-to-right code pages can now be edited and searched.
- To determine the Unicode code point of any non-ASCII character, you can hold the cursor over a character to get its code point in a pop-up tip.
- There is a new command to input Unicode code points in hexadecimal. Its default shortcut is Alt+X, but if you have customised any shortcuts, you will need to assign a shortcut to EditUnicodeChar. It overlays an edit control in which you can type a hex value at the current insert position. Enter inserts the character and Esc cancels input.
- There is an option to select from an additional list of code pages when opening and saving files. To use it, select 'More ...' from the Encoding drop-down and click OK.
- The heuristics for detecting the encoding of files now includes a search for the declaration in HTML/XML markup and resource compiler files.
- Visual file comparison.
- When timed backups are enabled, modified files can be automatically recovered after unexpected terminations.
- See version 7.6.0 below.
- Double and triple click using MS conventions should not have been actioned until button up.
- Under MS mouse conventions, triple click now only selects the current paragraph in word wrap mode, otherwise the current display line is selected.
- Fixed crash when opening syntax highlighted files where the final character is a digit.
- In the 64-bit edition, line endings were not interpreted correctly in sections of files bigger than 2GB.
- Crash while exiting on some multiprocessor PCs.
- The help window was always on top.
- Could not replace a regular expression with literal '\i' using '\\i'.
- OnEditReformat now reformats the current paragraph only when nothing is selected.
- Changed the font used in the document selector and clip library for better rendering on high resolution displays.
- The system preference for use of ClearType fonts in the incremental finder was ignored.
TextPad 9.6.2 (December 4, 2024)
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TextPad 8.20.2 (December 4, 2024)
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TextPad 9.6.1 (November 12, 2024)
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TextPad 8.20.1 (November 12, 2024)
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TextPad 9.6.0 (November 2, 2024)
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TextPad 8.20.0 (November 2, 2024)
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TextPad 9.5.2 (September 5, 2024)
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TextPad 8.19.2 (September 5, 2024)
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TextPad 9.5.1 (August 10, 2024)
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TextPad 8.19.1 (August 10, 2024)
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TextPad 9.5.0 (June 9, 2024)
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TextPad 8.19.0 (June 9, 2024)
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TextPad 9.4.1 (February 25, 2024)
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TextPad 8.18.1 (February 25, 2024)
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TextPad 9.4.0 (February 4, 2024)
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TextPad 8.18.0 (February 4, 2024)
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TextPad 9.3.1 (September 17, 2023)
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TextPad 8.17.1 (September 17, 2023)
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TextPad 9.3.0 (August 1, 2023)
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TextPad 8.17.0 (August 1, 2023)
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TextPad 9.2.3 (June 7, 2023)
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TextPad 8.16.2 (June 7, 2023)
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TextPad 9.2.0 (April 2, 2023)
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TextPad 8.16.1 (April 2, 2023)
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TextPad 9.1.0 (February 27, 2023)
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TextPad 8.16.0 (February 27, 2023)
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TextPad 9.0.1 (January 22, 2023)
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TextPad 8.15.1 (January 22, 2023)
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TextPad 9.0.0 (January 16, 2023)
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TextPad 8.15.0 (January 16, 2023)
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TextPad 8.14.2 (22-Nov-2022)
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TextPad 8.14.0 (8-Nov-2022)
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TextPad 8.13.0 (10-Oct-2022)
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TextPad 8.12.0 (14-May-2022)
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TextPad 8.11.0 (15-Mar-2022)
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TextPad 8.10.0 (20-Jan-2022)
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TextPad 8.9.0 (07-Oct-2021)
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TextPad 8.8.1 (13-Jun-2021)
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TextPad 8.8.0 (1-Jun-2021)
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TextPad 8.7.0 (12-May-2021)
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TextPad 8.6.1 (11-April-2021)
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TextPad 8.6.0 (05-April-2021)
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TextPad 8.5.1 (21-Jan-2021)
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TextPad 8.5.0 (24-Sept-2020)
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TextPad 8.4.2 (07-July-2020)
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TextPad 8.4.1 (28-May-2020)
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TextPad 8.4.0 (17-Apr-2020)
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TextPad 8.3.0 (18-Mar-2020)
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TextPad 8.2.0 (26-May-2019)
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TextPad 8.1.2 (07-Mar-2017)
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TextPad 8.1.1 (07-Dec-2016)
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TextPad 8.1.0 (10-Nov-2016)
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TextPad 8.0.2 (27-Feb-2016)
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TextPad 8.0.1 (17-Jan-2016)
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TextPad 8.0.0 (01-Dec-2015)
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TextPad 7.6.4 (07-Mar-2017)
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TextPad 7.6.3 (10-Nov-2016)
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