What´s New in version 7.1.1:

Bug fixes:

• Clip Collection: When not using AceText, the drop-down menu of the Open button on the Clip Collection panel did not always remember the collections that you opened previously.
• WINE: EditPad 7.1.0 crashed upon startup when run on Linux using WINE.

What´s New in version 7.1.0:

New Feature:

• 64-bit: EditPad's installer now automatically installs a 64-bit version of EditPad on 64-bit Windows.

Improvements:

• Dockable panels: New mechanism for docking panels makes it easier to position panels exactly where you want. Instead of moving the mouse pointer to an invisible area next to the edge of another panel, you now move the mouse pointer to icons that appear in the center of the panel that you're dragging over.
• Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines now shows a progress meter.
• File|Open: Show a warning when opening a file causes a working copy of that file to be opened along with it.
• Forum: The button to delete messages is now labeled Cancel for messages that are being edited, to make it more obvious that this button deletes the edited message, but leaves the original message in place.
• Search: Selection as Search Text now escapes regex metacharacters if the Regular Expressions search option is active.

Bug fixes:

• Clip Collection: When not using AceText, the drop-down menu of the Open button on the Clip Collection panel did not always remember the collections that you opened previously.
• Editor: Home and End when Scroll Lock is active now scroll to the first and last column in the file instead of the first and last line; Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End still scroll to the first and last line when Scroll Lock is active.
• Search: Pressing Ctrl+Z (Undo) while the large search box has keyboard focus after Ctrl+F (Prepare to Search) now correctly reverts the search term to what it was before Ctrl+F replaced it with the word selected in the main editor.
• Tabs: Double-clicking the tab background to add a blank tab immediately closes that tab when double-clicking at the spot where the new tab's X button appears.
• Tabs: Dropping a file onto the file tabs background should make it the last file in the project.
• Windows 7: Progress meter was sometimes shown on the taskbar button when there was no progress to indicate, and was sometimes not shown on the taskbar button when a progress meter was being shown.

What´s New in version 7.0.9:

Improvements:

• Editor: Right-clicking on the blank space after the end of a selected line now shows the context menu for selected text.
• Installer: Create portable installation without admin rights.

Bug fixes:

• Editor: If a file had more than 9,999 lines then the width of the margin was sometimes inconsistent until you caused all visible lines to be repainted.
• Editor: Opening a file larger than 64K with line numbers turned on by default sometimes caused an access violation error.
• Editor: Right-clicking on blank space inside (rectangular) selections now shows the context menu for selected text.
• Portable: Do not prompt to be the default editor when running a portable installations as portable installs should not touch the host PC.
• Printing failed if the font was not a TrueType font.
• Search|Copy Search Matches: If searching for all the matches took long enough for a progress meter to appear, EditPad failed to close the progress meter after copying the search matches, making further interaction with EditPad impossible

What´s New in version 7.0.8:

• Editor: Adding lines to or deleting lines from a file that was still being word wrapped in the background caused the file to be wrapped incorrectly, possibly resulting in errors when trying to edit the incorrectly wrapped lines.
• Preferences|Keyboard: Changes in key combinations were not actually applied to the menu items.
• Search|Prepare to Search did not show the full search panel when both the search toolbar and search panel were invisible (7.0.7 only).
• View|Browser showed an error code 42 even though the file was correctly opened in the browser (7.0.7 only).
• Windows 7: If you minimized EditPad, restored it and moved it to a different monitor, then some commands such as File|Open moved EditPad's window back to the position it was previously restored to.
• Windows 7: If you placed EditPad on a monitor that has the taskbar at the left or at the top, minimized EditPad, and then restored it, EditPad's position would be shifted by the width or height of the taskbar.

What´s New in version 7.0.7:

New features:

• Forum: Attach the clip selected in the Clip Collection panel and add attached clips to the Clip Collection panel.
• Forum: Attach the collection from the Clip Collection panel and load attached clip collections into the Clip Collection panel.

Improvements:

• Forum: Change cursor when toggling between insert and overwrite mode if the text layout for the default file type uses different cursors for insert and overwrite mode.
• Search: If the Search drop-down list is already visible (on a custom toolbar) even when the Search toolbar is not, focus the Search drop-down list rather than showing the full Search panel.

Bug fixes:

• Editor: Backspace moved the cursor without actually deleting any characters when the cursor was positioned after the indentation spaces on a line and all preceding lines in the file have equal or more indentation and ´backspace unindents´ was enabled in Options|Preferences|Cursors and ´auto indent´ was enabled in the Options menu.
• Editor: Pressing the arrow right key while the cursor was at the end of the line did not move the active line highlighting to the next line if the cursor was invisible (blinking on/off) at the moment it was moved.
• File Types, Colors: Apply button did nothing.
• File|Print: Printing the second time failed if the file was larger than 64K and part of it was selected.
• Forum: Pressing Ctrl+C when the list of conversations or messages had keyboard focus copied an URL using the editpadlite: protocol instead of the editpad: protocol that EditPad actually responds to.
• Preferences, Panels: Font setting for side panels is now also applied to the spell checker.
• Preferences, Save Files: Specifying a specific folder for backups with a trailing backslash no longer causes errors when saving backups.
• Search: Padding was not applied to placeholders for capturing groups such as ´GROUP1:6L´.
• Search: Replace All using a regular expression sometimes results in incorrect line breaks.
• Statusbar: Keyboard indicator did not correctly indicate the first key of a two-stage key combination.
• Toolbars: Main menu is missing the Go and Extra menus when adding it as a toolbar button.
• View|Browser: If the default browser did not use DDE, the View|Browser launched the browser but did not pass it it the file to be viewed.

What´s New in version 7.0.6:

Bug fixes:

• Opening files on UNC paths via the command line or via Windows Explorer failed in version 7.0.5 because EditPad 7.0.5 interpreted UNC paths incorrectly.
• View|Browser: If the default browser did not use DDE, the View|Browser command executed the file to be viewed rather than executing the browser and passing it the file to be viewed.

What´s New in version 7.0.5:

New feature:

• Editor: Ctrl+Left Shift and Ctrl+Right Shift toggle the direction of the text to left-to-right or right-to-left when a keyboard for a right-to-left language is installed (though not necessarily active).

Improvements:

• Search: Auto-completion of the Search drop-down list on the search toolbar (when using it without the full search panel) is now case sensitive when the Case Sensitive search option is turned on; the Replace drop-down list is now always case sensitive.
• Search: Pressing Esc while the search or replace drop-down list has keyboard focus (while using the search toolbar without the full search panel) moves keyboard focus back to the main editor.
• Text Layout|Cursors: Cursor shape now has two flag options. One makes the flag indicate the direction of the input language (as in Notepad), the other the direction of the text the cursor is at (as EditPad 7 did previously).

Bug fixes:

• Convert: Convert menu commands inserted an extraneous space when converting a rectangular selection that spans only a single line.
• Editor: Characters were squished together when using a bold proportionally spaced font and the first file you opened with that font had word wrapping set to a specific line length.
• Editor: Pasting while a rectangular block is selected does not correctly replace the selection unless the cursor is in the upper left corner.
• Editor: When line numbers are being shown and word wrap is off, the left hand gutter does not expand to accommodate line numbers beyond 9,999 when adding lines to the file if it previously had fewer than 10,000 lines.
• Forum: Editing a message and then deleting the edits instead of sending them incorrectly decremented the message count for the conversation.
• Help|Create Portable Installation did not copy over the layouts of the toolbars and side panels.
• Keyboard: Pressing F10 activated the main menu instead of invoking the command it was assigned to (View|Files Panel by default).
• Options|Text Layout: Pressing F1 or clicking the Help button on the text layout configuration window did nothing.
• Preferences|Save Files: Saving backups in a specific folder should be disabled when the ´hidden history folder´ option is selected.
• Search: Alt+Letter keyboard shortcuts that aren´t used on the search toolbar but are used by main menu items don´t work when the search or replace drop-down list has keyboard focus.
• Search: Replacing with the ´MATCH´ placeholder triggered an access violation when a regular expression found a zero-length match.
• Tabs: Right-clicking on the X when close buttons are shown directly on tabs caused a ´list index out of bounds´ error.
• Text Layout: The strictly monospaced left-to-right layout now correctly spaces the full-width variants of ASCII characters as ideographs even when the option to space all ASCII characters as ideographs is off.
• Toolbars: The Large Icons item in the right-click menu for toolbars did not change its checked state when changing the same option via the Customize item in the right-click menu.
• Undo and redo should not work on files that have been marked as read-only after saving the changes.
• View: Switching between custom layouts or restoring the default layout sometimes failed with a ´cannot focus disabled or invisible window´ error, causing further errors when trying to interact with the toolbars and/or side panels.
• Windows 7: Maximizing EditPad, then minimizing it, and then double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer brought up EditPad´s window in its restored size (not maximized).

What´s New in version 7.0.4:

• Bugfix: Options|Stay On Top causes EditPad to stay on top of some of its own dialog boxes.

What´s New in version 7.0.3:

Improvements:

• Editor: Full double-buffering of all edit controls to eliminate flicker.

Bug fixes:

• Editor: Changing the font size with Ctrl+wheel, switching to another file, and then switching back displayed the file with the original font but spaced as if it was still using the changed font size.
• Editor: Lines containing tabs were not displayed correctly when using a right-to-left text layout.
• Editor: The text cursor was positioned incorrectly on lines containing both tabs and ideographs when using the ´monospaced left-to-right´ text layout.
• Editor: Typing or pasting into an empty file and then Shift+Clicking somewhere selected the text from the start of the file until the click instead of from the end of the file (where the text cursor is) until the click.
• Options|Stay On Top causes EditPad to stay on top of some of its own dialog boxes.
• Search: Incremental search was not reset when you moved the cursor, causing incorrect incremental search results, or errors if you closed the file and then changed the search term (Lite only).
• Tabs: Right-clicking on the tabs now shows the context menu when the mouse button is released rather than when it is pressed.
• Windows 7: If the icon next to the system clock was enabled, maximizing EditPad, minimizing or closing it, and clicking on the icon next to the system clock restored EditPad but did not maximize it.
• Windows 7: If the icon next to the system clock was enabled, restoring EditPad (so it´s not maximized), closing EditPad with the X button, then right-clicking the icon next to the clock and selecting Exit caused EditPad to pop up briefly before closing, instead of closing without showing itself.

What´s New in version 7.0.2:

Improvements:

• File|Reload from Disk: Do not clear out the file in EditPad if it no longer exists on disk; prompt to retry reloading the file; do nothing if canceled.
• Menus: When using Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts to access menu items that have submenus but are also commands in themselves, holding down Alt will open the submenu while releasing Alt will activate the command. For example: holding down Alt, pressing F, pressing O, releasing Alt will open the File|Open submenu with recent files. Holding down Alt, pressing F, releasing Alt, pressing O will activate the File|Open command and show the open file dialog.
• Text Layout: Ideographs are now exactly twice as wide as ASCII characters when using the ´monospaced left-to-right´ text layout with the option to use full-width ASCII characters turned off.

Bug fixes:

• Editor: Lines containing tabs were not displayed correctly when using a right-to-left text layout.
• EditPad could not be minimized after clicking the taskbar button twice (but don´t double-click) while the icon next to the system clock and the option to hide the taskbar button are enabled. Clicking on the icon next to the system clock allowed EditPad to be minimized again.
• EditPad could not be restored by clicking the taskbar button directly if it was minimized while the Clip Collection panel was open and AceText was running. Starting a new EditPad instance did restore the running instance and shutting down AceText made the problem go away.
• File Types|Colors and Syntax: Selecting ´Clickable URLs´ syntax coloring significantly slowed down EditPad 7´s handling of files with extremely long lines.
• Forum: The Help|Forum menu item now restores the forum window if it was minimized.
• Forum: With the EditPad icon next to the system clock enabled, clicking on one of the forum links in the help file to discuss a help topic caused EditPad to try to connect to the forum each time EditPad was restarted after closing it but not fully exiting it.
• Options|Text Layout: Changes made to the text layout configuration via Options|Text Layout were not preserved when restarting EditPad Pro unless other preferences were also changed after changing the text layout configuration.
• Search: The Loop Automatically option fails to loop if there is only one file open and the All Files search option is turned on.

What´s New in version 7.0.1:

New features:

• Forum: Attach file being edited.
• Forum: Attach search panel settings.

Improvements:

• File Types: Ignore unquoted spaces before and after each file mask in the list of file masks.
• Forum: Forum window stays enabled when EditPad´s main window is showing a modal dialog box.
• Search: Preserve state of the Highlight option when restarting EditPad.
• Search: Take the whole search match (selection) into account rather than just the end of the search match (cursor position) when scrolling the text to put the search match into view.

Bug fixes:

• Double-clicking on whitespace at the start or end of a line should not select the line break and any whitespace on the previous or next line.
• Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines failed with an access violation in EditPad Lite. The file being edited was unaffected by this.
• Open and save dialog boxes did not appear when ´disable visual themes´ was turned on in the compatibility settings for EditPad. Since EditPad is fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7, you should not turn on any of the compatibility settings.
• Options|Font: If only one file is open, changing that file´s font and then closing it does not use the default font for the new blank Untitled 1 file, even though it uses all other default settings for that file.
• Proxy settings were not saved unless you changed other preferences too.
• Search: Hiding the search toolbar, using the full search panel, closing the full search panel, and showing the search toolbar again did not update the search toolbar with the search term last used on the full search panel.
• Search: Line by line searches using regular expressions did not restrict the full regex match to a single line.
• Search: Pasting into the search and replace drop-down lists failed with a beep if the text on the clipboard included a line break; now it will paste the first line.
• Search: Pressing Enter in the Search drop-down list on the search toolbar (when not using the full search panel) always moved keyboard focus to the main editor, even when that option was disabled in the Search Preferences.
• Text Layout Configuration window now has scroll bars when the whole window doesn´t fit on the screen.

What´s New in version 7.0.0:

EditPad Pro features now available in EditPad Lite:

• Character map.
• Clip collection.
• Command line parameters for opening the file at a particular line or character. This will allow the next free minor updates of RegexBuddy, RegexMagic, and PowerGREP to select search matches in EditPad Lite 7, like they already can with EditPad Pro 6.
• Extra, Sort.
• Extra, Trim Whitespace.
• Preferences, Keyboard: Configure keyboard shortcuts.
• Preferences, Save Files: Auto-save and backup options.
• Preferences, Shortcuts: Create ´Open with EditPad´ context menu item.
• Search: Regular expression support.
• Search: Highlight search matches.
• Search: Incremental search.
• Large toolbar icons.

What´s New in version 6.7.0:

• Drag and drop: Dropping large amounts of text on EditPad sometimes caused EditPad to crash.
• Print: Printouts were truncated if the file was edited without word wrapping and the printout required lines to be wrapped and nothing was changed in the print preview that triggered a refresh of the page count.
• Search: Replace & Find Next resets the search range to the match that was replaced if it occurred right at the start of the search range (i.e. the selection being seached through with the ´selection only´ option).
• Tabs: Opening and closing a file with a name longer than fits on the tabs could cause the tabs to become invisible.

What´s New in version 6.6.4:

Improvements:

• EditPad now cleans up obsolete history item registry keys or ini sections when saving its state.
• EditPad now retries opening the clipboard several times instead of immediately showing a \"cannot open clipboard\" error if another application such as a clipboard monitor is interfering with EditPad´s ability to access the clipboard.

Bug fixes:

• Double-clicking URLs such as file://\\serversharefile.txt did nothing.
• Search: If a file other than the active file needed to be reloaded from disk while searching through all files, an access violation occurred if the file is larger than 64K.

What´s New in version 6.6.3:

Bug fixes:

• Preferences, System: Hiding the taskbar button when minimizing EditPad only worked on Windows 7. This bug was introduced in version 6.6.2 by the fix for the new partially maximized window state in Windows 7.
• French translation: Create portable installation screen showed an error and did not substitute placeholders.