Notepad2-mod

======================================================================= = = = = = Notepad2 - light-weight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows = = = = = = Notepad2 4.2.25 = = (c) Florian Balmer 2004-2011 = = http://www.flos-freeware.ch = = = = = ======================================================================= Description Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages. It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component and works on NT-based versions of Windows. Features - Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration Files, Apache Config Files, PowerShell, Batch Files, Diff Files - Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2 - Basic regular expression search and replace - Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts - Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse) - Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions - Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files - Open shell links - Mostly adjustable New in Version 4.2.25 (released May 06, 2011) - "Align Lines" with several options (Alt+J) - "Modify Lines" supports several variables to insert numbers (Alt+M) - "Sort Lines" (Alt+O) handles column sort (rectangular selection) - "Sort Lines" also handles shuffle, remove duplicates and uniques - "Merge Blank Lines" block command (Alt+Y) - Use built-in Windows functionality for "Title Case" on Windows 7 - Convert between characters and hex codes (Ctrl+Alt+X, Ctrl+Alt+C) - "Recode file as default encoding" (Ctrl+Shift+F) - UTF-16 and UTF-16 BE formats are valid recoding options - Enable case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII text - Regex quantifier ? to match 0 or 1 times - Regex quantifiers * and + available as non-greedy forms *? and +? - Regex syntax for tagged regions simplified from \(...\) to (...) - Updated HTML5 and CSS3 schemes according to current working drafts - Updated Assembly scheme with x64 and SSE4 instructions - Several minor updates to syntax schemes and keywords - Merged caret styles into a single item and added "noblink" option - /l and /l- cmd switches to control auto-reloading of modified files - Ini-option to specify auto-reload timeout (see FAQ on my website) - Support combination of /g and /m command line switches - /o and /o- cmd switches to control "Always on top" option - Copy window position to clipboard as cmd line switch (Ctrl+Shift+K) - Move window to default position on current screen (Ctrl+Shift+P) - Fixed Notepad .LOG feature (broken since 4.1.24) - Launch command uses current file directory as working directory - Don't lock any directories except the one containing Notepad2.exe - Forward system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour to new windows - Always show file name extensions (ignore Windows Explorer setting) - Check availability of "Consolas" when set as default font - Support a few more file variables (see FAQ on my website) - Configure whether backspace should reformat indenting whitespace - Transform backslashes function understands \u#### hex codes - Several F2, F3 and F4 hotkeys work in find and replace dialogs - Removed "Select Up" and "Select Down" buttons from find dialog - Ini-options to block suppression of notification messages - Simplified appearance of word wrap settings dialog - Remapped "Unescape C Special Chars" to Ctrl+Alt+R (fix duplicate) - Reloading keeps scrolling position more unerringly with word wrap - Jumps with /g switch locate position more accurately with word wrap - Various internal optimizations and fixes - Improved look of disabled toolbar buttons on Windows XP and above - Improved overall look of toolbar buttons on Windows 2k - Lower frequency of NFS access delays by caching file display names - Improved compatibility with Windows 7 - Released x64 build of Notepad2.exe - Updated Scintilla library to 2.24 New in Version 4.1.24 (released March 02, 2010) - /z command line switch (support registry-based Notepad replacement) - /u command line switch (launch Notepad2 with elevated privileges) - Fixed some /p command line switch options not working properly - Display more informative error messages for file operation failures - Hotkey to copy pathname of current file to clipboard (Shift+F9) - Window title indicator when running with elevated privileges - Ini-options to control system MRU, taskbar and jump list behaviour - Enhanced portability for directory settings inside My Documents - Configure whether tab key should reformat indenting whitespace - Revised word wrap settings dialog and added more detailed options - New style setting to control font smoothing (see FAQ on my website) - New style setting to control size of visible white space dots - Improved cursor visibility on any background color - Added new "HTML Element Text" and "XML Element Text" styles - Improved default style utilization for HTML-embedded schemes - Updated PowerShell keywords to version 2.0 - Added missing keywords to VBScript scheme - Fixed deleted files reappearing in MRU lists - Updated Scintilla library to 2.03 New in Version 4.0.23 (released October 06, 2009) - Added PowerShell Script syntax highlighting - Added missing keywords to JavaScript schemes - Further simplified syntax schemes by consolidating certain styles - More accurate "mode" file variable matching with tightened rules - Avoid repetitive zone checks when running Notepad2.exe internally - Fixed choice of encoding conversion prompt being ignored - Fixed recent file dialog hang with inaccessible UNC paths - Internal changes to allow complete internationalization (future) New in Version 4.0.22 (released July 28, 2009) - Support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO, Mac and EBCDIC encodings - Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9) - "Recode" (F8) to reload file with different source encoding - "Recode file as system default ANSI" (Ctrl+Shift+A) - "Recode file as system default OEM" (Ctrl+Shift+O) - "Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8" (Shift+F8) - Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default) - Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default) - Issue warning if data can't be converted to selected file encoding - Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes - /e command line switch to specify file source encoding - "Insert Encoding Identifier" (Ctrl+F8) - "Tabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Untabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+S) - "Increase Number" (Ctrl+Alt++) and "Decrease Number" (Ctrl+Alt+-) - Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs - Hotkey (Alt+F5) and auto-reset option for file change notification - Manual and automatic reloading of files keeps current encoding - Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border - Enabled new Scintilla indent modes for wrapped lines - Option to set any characters as boundaries for word wrap - Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096) -