EditPad Lite Version History

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The most recent version of EditPad Lite is 6.6.4, released 17 June 2010. This version is more recent than the one you have.

Remember that EditPad Lite is free for non-commercial use only. If you want a text editor for business use, or if you want a more powerful editor, please upgrade to EditPad Pro.

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EditPad Lite 6.6.4 - 17 June 2010

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://\\server\share\file.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.

EditPad Lite 6.6.3 - 21 March 2010

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.

EditPad Lite 6.6.2 - 1 March 2010

Improvements:

Windows 7 & Vista: EditPad's icon next to the system clock now shows (as administrator) in its tooltip if EditPad is running with elevated rights. There will be two icons if there is one instance of EditPad running with elevated rights and another without elevated rights.
Windows 7 & Vista: Running EditPad as administrator reuses the existing EditPad instance if that instance is also running as administrator.
Windows 7: If EditPad is closed to the tray in a partially maximized state (created by dragging EditPad's top window border to the top of the screen or by pressing Windows+Left or Windows+Right on the keyboard) EditPad now fixes itself into that partially maximized state instead of coming back in its restored state.

Bug fixes:

Edit, Go to Line: Shift+Click immediately after going to a line selected the text between the clicked position and the previous position of the cursor rather than between the clicked position and the line gone to.
Print: Changing the font in the print preview when word wrapping is set to a specific number of characters did not correctly update the pagination.
Syntax coloring sometimes made EditPad repaint more of the screen than needed.

EditPad Lite 6.6.0 - 9 December 2009

Improvements:

Windows 7: Disable EditPad's icon next to the system clock by default, as Windows 7 hides all notification icons by default.
Windows Vista & 7: Running EditPad as administrator no longer reuses the existing EditPad window, if any. This makes sure that the instance with elevated rights will actually run rather than bring a previous instance with normal rights to front again.
Windows Vista & 7: Running EditPad as administrator now shows (as administrator) in the caption bar, so you can easily distinguish between EditPad instances running with elevated rights from those running with normal rights.
Windows Vista & 7: Vista-style open and save dialog boxes.

Bug fixes:

Deleting a rectangular selection of which the first line was totally blank moved the cursor down one line.
EditPad needlessly checked at regular intervals whether the current file still exists on disk.
Searching reloads the file after the search instead of before the search if it was modified on disk, causing incorrect search matches and other trouble.

EditPad Lite 6.5.2 - 25 September 2009

Bug fixes:

EditPad's icon next to the system clock now reappears automatically when Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) crashes or is forcibly terminated and then restarted.
Tip of the day and font size settings were not saved when closing EditPad (6.5.x only).

EditPad Lite 6.5.1 - 6 September 2009

In PowerGREP 3.5.5 we fixed a bug that caused PowerGREP to freeze when loading a large undo history. The code that caused the bug is also used in EditPad 6.5.0. It could theoretically cause EditPad 6.5.0 to lock up when switching between large files. Even though this has not actually happened in our tests and nobody has reported EditPad 6.5.0 locking up, we feel it is prudent to issue a new release of EditPad that includes the same fix we made for PowerGREP.

EditPad Lite 6.5.0 - 1 September 2009

Improvements:

File|Close All: If more than one file is unsaved, the prompt for the last unsaved file should continue to show the "save all" and "don't save any" buttons so there's no surprise button movement for the last file.
Word wrap: Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.

Bug fixes:

EditPad cannot keep up with the scroll wheel of Logitech mice when put into free scrolling mode.
EditPad fails to restore itself after begin minimized if the active file is modified in EditPad and has been modified on disk by another application.
File Types, Encoding: The "preserve presence or absence of the Unicode byte order marker" setting was ignored for XML files with an XML declaration and HTML files with a content-type meta tag.
Print: Typing in the page number for "from page" or "to page" caused the other number to be reset while you typed in the number, instead of adjusting the range when you finished typing in the number.

EditPad Lite 6.4.5 - 10 March 2009

Bug fixes:

File|Save: Trying to save an empty file caused an access violation error (6.4.4 only)
Pressing the delete key while at the same time making a selection with the mouse caused an access violation

EditPad Lite 6.4.4 - 3 March 2009

Improvements:

HTML content-type meta tag and XML declaration checks should offerto change the meta tag or declaration to indicate the encoding used in EditPad, to save the file as is (reinterpreting it using the encoding from the meta tag or XML declaration in EditPad), or to cancel the save, instead of merely presenting an error message.
Portable installation: Lists of files previously opened files should survive changing drive letters.
Windows 7: Disable EditPad's icon next to the system clock by default, as Windows 7 hides all notification icons by default.
Windows 7: Show full window caption in the tasbar button's popup menu, instead of the shortened caption that appears directly on the button in previous versions of Windows. In Windows 7, the taskbar only shows the icon, and the popup menu has plenty of space for the full caption.

Bug fixes:

Editor: Avoid clipping of (italic) characters with overhang.
Editor: Spacing combining marks (Unicode category Mc) are no longer allowed to be separated from their base characters. This improves editing of text in South Asian scripts, such as Devanagari, that use spacing combining marks.
File Types: Changing the word wrapping setting in the file type configuration (i.e. for all files of that type, rather than for the current file via the Options menu) would crash EditPad if a file of that type was open but not the active file, and that file was larger than 64K, and the changed setting required a change in word wrapping for that file.
File|Rename/Move did not rename the file if the new name was the same as the old one, except for differences in case.
HTML content-type meta tag check is now more accurate, so it checks only HTML files, and not on other files storing random bits of HTML that happent to include a content-type meta tag.
In some situations, the text cursor became invisible until you switched keyboard focus within EditPad, such as by opening or clicking on the Search panel.
Scrolling a file by dragging the scroll bar's thumb immediately after opening the file did not always allow the end of the file to be reached, even if EditPad has already finished scanning it for line breaks. Making any scrolling or cursor movement (using the scroll bar or not) would update the scroll bar to allow the thumb to scroll through all lines in the file.
Shift+Tab deleted the whole selection if the selection was on a single line, and there was whitespace to the left of the cursor. Only the whitespace should be deleted, up to one tab stop in size.

EditPad Lite 6.4.3 - 9 August 2008

Bug fix:

Encoding: EditPad failed to check the HTML content-type meta tag if the file is larger than 64K. This could cause EditPad to complain when saving the file, if it was larger than 64K when opened, but smaller when you try to save it.

EditPad Lite 6.4.2 - 10 July 2008

New features:

Command line switch to add the main form instead of the application to the taskbar. Pass /taskbar as the first command line parameter. This fixes issues with certain Alt-Tab and taskbar replacement/enhancement utilities. It also puts items like "Move" on the taskbar button's right-click menu. Disadvantage is that the taskbar button will then display the same text as the caption on EditPad's window, which shows the full path to your file. Without the command line switch, EditPad shows only the file name on the taskbar button.

Bug fixes:

Search: Replace All should be disabled for read-only files.
Print: Changing the font in the print preview for a large file caused EditPad to lock up.
File|Save As: Saving an untitled file did not set the folder you saved it into as the most recently used folder (6.4.x only).
File|Exit: If you used File|Exit, or the X button if EditPad doesn't have a tray icon, and you clicked Cancel Close when prompted to save a modified file, EditPad would terminate anyway if you then used a file dialog like File|Open.

EditPad Lite 6.4.1 - 12 March 2008

Improvement:

URLs that don't indicate the protocol but begin with www or ftp are now also highlighted. I.e. www.editpadpro.com will be highlighted just like http://www.editpadpro.com/.

Bug fix:

Configure File Types: The spinner controls on the Editor tab were positioned incorrectly, and non-functional (6.4.0 only).

EditPad Lite 6.4.0 - 3 March 2008

New features:

Drag and drop: Drag tabs from EditPad to Windows Explorer to copy the file.
Drag and drop: Drag tabs from one EditPad instance to another. Hold down Shift to move the file between the instances, instead of opening it twice. Unsaved files can be dragged.
Drag and drop: Dragging text from one EditPad instance to another with the Shift key held down will now move the text (i.e. deleting it from the source instance).
Drag and drop: When dropping files with the Alt key held down, insert the full path to the file into the clip rather than the file's contents. This works with files dragged from Windows Explorer (or any other application) as well as tabs dragged from EditPad.
File Types, Encoding: Option to write the BOM only if already present, using the write/don't write option as the default for new files.
Setup: Create Portable Installation directly from the self-extracting setup. The Install on Removable Drive menu item in the Help menu was renamed for consistency.
When saving a file, check if the encoding matches the XML declaration or the HTML content-type meta tag (if either of these is present). The reason for this is that when you open a file, EditPad looks for an XML declaration and HTML content-type meta tag. If either of these is found, the encoding specified in it overrides any settings you made in the file type configuration. This means that if you save a file with an incorrect XML declaration or HTML content-type meta tag, EditPad will open it with the wrong encoding next time, as would any other application that supports XML or HTML.

Improvement:

EditPad now uses a plain menu bar without images if a screen reader is running when you start EditPad, as some screen readers cannot read EditPad's owner-drawn menus.

Bug fixes:

Screen readers will now properly "see" spaces in EditPad's editor control. This was broken since version 6.1.0 due to the fix to force consistent spacing when Windows XP does font substitution. This fix is still in place, but now improved to be compatible with screen readers.
U3: The U3 version of EditPad Lite 6.3.x failed to save its preferences; EditPad Pro did not have this problem.

EditPad Lite 6.3.1 - 16 August 2007

Improvement:

Ctrl+Arrow Up/Down now treats a block of lines separated by a blank line as a paragraph instead of just moving to the next line when word wrap is off.

Bug fixes:

File|Reopen|Remove Obsolete Files: Files on drives that are no longer available were not removed from the list of files (6.2.2 and 6.3.0 only).
File|Save causes an "access denied" error when saving to a hidden file.

EditPad Lite 6.3.0 - 26 June 2007

New feature:

Preferences, Editor: Option to focus the main editor when a search match is found.

Improvements:

EditPad Lite 6 now leaves two pixels of space between the left edge of the editor and the actual text, like EditPad Lite 5 used to do.
Encoding: Detect encoding based on the HTML Content-Type meta tag.
Read only: If a file is opened as read only because its read only attribute is set, and you turn off the read only mode in EditPad, and you save the file with File|Save, EditPad will automatically clear the read only attribute instead of showing an error.
Read only: When checking if a file needs to be reloaded from disk, EditPad will now also check the status of the read only attribute, and toggle the status of the file in EditPad accordingly if it wasn't modified in EditPad.
Show a friendly error message when opening a file larger than 2GB instead of crashing.
Window caption and taskbar button now indicate with a * if the active file is modified.

Bug fixes:

Double-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer did not restore EditPad if it was minimized with the taskbar button still visible (version 6.2.2 only).
Files with the read only attribute set are now properly swapped out to disk if they're larger than the "huge files" setting.

EditPad Lite 6.2.2 - 19 March 2007

Improvements:

Editor: EditPad will now only allow Thai vowel signs to be typed after Thai consonants, and Thai tone marks only after Thai consonants or vowel signs. This makes sure you won't type any Thai character combinations that cannot be properly displayed.
Editor: The Delete key will now also delete all combining marks (diacritics, vowel and tone signs, etc.) that follow the character being deleted. This makes sure the marks aren't unintentionally combined with the preceding character.
Editor: When typing S-with-comma or T-with-comma on a Romanian keyboard into a file using the Windows 1250 or ISO-8859-2 encoding, EditPad will now insert S-with-cedilla or T-with-cedilla into your file, instead of a question mark. (Windows 1250 and ISO-8859-2 do not contain the characters S-with-comma or T-with-comma, so they cannot be represented exactly. Some fonts may display S/T-with-comma instead of S/T-with-cedilla, however.)
File|Reopen|Remove Obsolete Files: EditPad now first checks if the drive each file is on is still available, to avoid having to check individual files on unavailable drives, as this may be quite slow with certain network configurations.
Help|Install on Removable Drive now also copies over all history lists.

Bug fixes:

EditPad 6.2.1 did not take over preferences stored in the registry by earlier EditPad 6.x.x releases; EditPad 6.2.2 will properly take over preferences from all previous 6.x.x releases.
Editor: Typing in a character that could not be represented in the file's encoding no longer shows the warning message twice in a row if you don't disable it.
Editor: When using the block cursor (e.g. in overwrite mode), clicking beyond the end of the line placed the cursor on top of the last character instead of after it.
Print: EditPad did not properly calculate the width of characters that aren't included in the default Windows code page. This caused those characters to be spaced too widely or cut off when using a proportionally spaced font.
Print: EditPad would lock up when printing a file larger than 64K if word wrap was off in the editor. This was a side effect of a fix applied in 6.2.0 for a Vista-related lock-up problem.
Search: EditPad did not adapt the line break style of the search text to the file being searched if that file had never been activated since being opened in EditPad. Searching for a multi-line string through all files will now activate files during the search if they hadn't been activated yet.
Search|Show Search Panel: Pressing Ctrl+F when there is no selection at all will now turn off the "selection only" option. Previously, Ctrl+F would turn on "selection only" when there's a multi-line selection and turn it off when there's a single-line selection. It would do nothing when there was no selection at all.
Vista: Checkboxes and buttons in dialog boxes like the preferences or file type configuration no longer disappear when you press the Alt key.
Vista: Text would be shifted adding whitespace before or after the selected text if the line on which the selection starts and/or ends contains combining marks (characters displayed combined with the preceding character).
Windows 98/ME: Copying and pasting between two EditPad instances caused random characters to be appended to the pasted text.

EditPad Lite 6.2.1 - 22 January 2007

Improvement:

Command line: Allow forward slashes instead of backslashes in file names.

EditPad Lite 6.2.0 - 1 January 2007

Improvements:

Help|Install on Removable Drive: Option to force EditPad to treat any drive as a removable drive.
Reduced memory usage for the undo history when searching and replacing using literal text.
View|New Editor: If EditPad is maximized and configured to split itself in the Editor Preferences, then the two instances will now occupy the full screen instead of the size EditPad would occupy when being "restored".

Bug fixes:

EditPad 6.1.2 did not always remember certain things between EditPad sessions. This included the font selected in Options|Font, the last folder used by File|Open, whether to check if EditPad is the default editor, and the last tip shown as the tip of the day.
Edit|Go to Line did not move keyboard focus to the editor, making it appear the command did nothing if the editor didn't have keyboard focus already.
Preferences, System: The option to erase history lists did not erase the search history.
Search: "loop automatically" did not work when using Find Previous with "all files" turned off.
Search: "selection only" skipped the first and last lines in a rectangular selection if it was made from the upper right corner to the lower left corner.

EditPad Lite 6.1.2 - 27 October 2006

Improvements:

Mouse wheel: If the scroll step is set to a very large number of lines in the Control Panel, automatically limit it to the number of lines visible in EditPad (i.e. one page).
Preferences, Editor: The option to sound a beep on search failure will now also sound another beep if a match was found after looping automatically.
Preferences, System: When keeping the registry clean, save the settings in an .ini file in a user-specific folder rather than the folder where EditPad is installed (except when EditPad is run from a USB stick).
Tabs: Scroll all the visible tabs out of view when Ctrl+clicking the arrow buttons on the tabs.

Bug fixes:

Mouse pointer did not snap to the default button when this option is turned on in the Control Panel.
Preferences, Cursors: The option to change the cursor's shape depending on insert or overwrite mode did not work in EditPad Lite 6.x.x (worked fine in Pro).
Rectangular blocks containing tabs paste with spaces instead of tabs. Note that if blocks with tabs are pasted at different column positions, the columns may not align in the same way depending on the tab stop positions.
Search: The "selection only" option did not always work properly with rectangular selections (6.1.0 and 6.1.1).

EditPad Lite 6.1.1 - 15 September 2006

Bug fixes:

Convert|Initial Caps did not work properly with rectangular selections like the other 3 case conversion commands.
Double-clicking an email address did nothing in EditPad Lite.
Printing did not work in EditPad Lite 6.1.0, causing an access violation error. This problem did not occur in EditPad Pro.

EditPad Lite 6.1.0 - 7 September 2006

New feature:

File Types, Associations: Button to use the green EditPad icon for a particular file type

Improvements:

Ctrl+Del at the end of a line now only deletes the line break and the next line's leading whitespace rather than all following non-word characters spanning any number of lines.
Due to Windows XP font substitution, the size of a space is not always constant. This caused text to "jump around" when part of a line was selected and the cursor position to be off when fonts were being substituted. Font substitution occurs when the active font doesn't support the script the text is written in. E.g. opening a Unicode file containing Thai characters with the font set to Courier New will cause the Thai characters to be displayed with a Thai font, and spaces between the Thai words would be smaller than the Courier New space width. EditPad Pro now forces the text to be spaced consistently.
File Types, Encoding: Allow the option not to write the BOM to be used even when the default encoding is not a Unicode encoding; require the option to auto-detect files without a BOM to be on instead.
File Types, Encoding: Option to detect UTF-8 as well as UTF-16 files without a byte order marker. (If the file contains at least one non-ASCII character and no invalid UTF-8 sequences in the first 64K of the file, treat it as UTF-8.)
Large screens like the preferences or file type configuration now automatically reduce themselves and add scroll bars on computers with very low resolution screens.
Paste: If there's a rectangular selection, and the text on the clipboard was not copied by EditPad Pro, paste it as if it was a rectangular selection.

Bug fixes:

Ctrl+Backspace to delete a single character at the very start of the file caused an access violation.
Cursor movement through tabs was sometimes inconsistent.
EditPad would hang or crash when trying to interpret certain binary files as UTF-8 files (e.g. when opening a file with an .xml extension that's actually a binary file rather than an XML file).
File Types, Encoding: The default line break style was not applied properly when creating new files.
Options|Stay on Top: If the stay on top option was active and the tip of the day screen was not disabled, the tip of the day screen would be hidden behind EditPad the next time EditPad was started, making it impossible to close with the mouse. Now, the stay on top option will not actually take effect until the tip of the day window has been dismissed.

EditPad Lite 6.0.3 - 26 June 2006

Bug fixes:

File|Print: Trying to print certain files got EditPad stuck on a "list index out of bounds" error
File|Reload from Disk: EditPad 6 didn't keep the cursor at the end of the file like EditPad 5 used to do
Tray icon: The Reopen menu in the tray icon would be empty until EditPad Pro was actually opened when starting EditPad Pro minimized to the tray

EditPad Lite 6.0.2 - 19 June 2006

Improvements:

Convert|Text Encoding: Enlarging the text encoding screen now enlarges the preview of the converted file rather than the list of available encodings.
Convert|Text Encoding: The preview will now maintain its scrolling position when you select another encoding rather than scrolling back to the top.
Edit|Paste: Show the text encoding warning if the pasted characters cannot be represented in the current file's encoding (causing them to be substituted with question marks).
Options|Font: Show a hint about rotated characters when selecting a Chinese/Japanese/Korean font for vertical printing.

Bug fixes:

Tabs: If EditPad prompted to reload a file when you clicked on a tab, that tab would "stick" to the mouse pointer the next time you moved it over the row of tabs.
Unicode input from virtual keyboard drivers is now accepted correctly.

EditPad Lite 6.0.1 - 9 June 2006

Improvements:

Clipboard: On Windows 98/ME, EditPad Pro now copies text both as ANSI and Unicode to the clipboard, so other applications can paste either format. Windows 2000/XP/Vista automatically convert Unicode text down to ANSI, so EditPad needs to copy only one format.

Bug fixes:

Clicking after a character with a mark encoded as a separate character now always places the cursor after the mark, never (virtually) between the character and its mark
Convert|Case shifted the text if the text cursor was beyond the end of the line
Convert|Initial Caps did not expand the selection to span whole words like in EditPad 5
Media player keys on Microsoft keywords did not work when EditPad had keyboard focus
Preferences, Cursors: The standard arrow cursor option had no effect
Right-clicking while moving the mouse pointer with the left mouse button held down caused a harmless access violation error
View|Browser prompted for the file name if the file was previously saved and was modified after saving, instead of automatically saving it with the same name, as EditPad 5.x.x used to do

EditPad Lite 6.0.0 - 24 May 2006

Major new features:

Install on Removable Drive command, so you can carry EditPad with you wherever you go.
Preferences, Cursors: Configure the appearance of the text cursor (previously only possible in EditPad Pro).
Preferences, Cursors: Select the mouse pointer to use for the editor (instead of the standard Windows I-beam pointer).

Major improvements:

Full support for Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.) and a wide range of legacy code pages (Windows, DOS, 8859, EBCDIC, KOI8, etc.). Edit all Unicode and legacy files directly, without conversion. Convert files between any encoding with the Convert|Text Encoding menu item. Set default encoding and auto-detection options for each file type in Options|Configure File Types.
Redesigned search-and-replace panel, with all commands and options now available through the new Search menu.
Improved rectangular block editing or column editing, with many new commands in the Block menu. Rectangular selections are now truly rectangular. They no longer need to start and end at a character, but can extend beyond the end of the line.

New features:

At startup, EditPad will check if it is the default program for opening text files. If not, it will ask you if the default should be changed.
Auto Indent: When auto indent is on, pressing the Backspace key when there is only whitespace to the left of it will unindent the line to the previous indentation level.
Command line: Interpret and open file:/// URLs.
Ctrl+Click to select the entire paragraph; Ctrl+Click+Drag to select several paragraphs.
Double-click after the last tab to add a blank, untitled tab (as does File|New).
Edit|Go to Previous Editing Position moves the text cursor to the position of the last inserted or deleted character. Repeating the command cycles around the last 4 editing positions.
File Types: Ability to enter a regular expression that must match at the very start of a file to determine the file type if it cannot be determined based on the file mask.
File Types: Default line break style for new files.
File Types: Default text encoding and options to auto-detect Unicode files with missing BOM and binary files.
File|Close All But Current.
File|Print: New "selection only" checkbox on the print preview limits the printout to the paragraphs that are (partly) selected. The difference between marking "selection only" and using the Block|Print menu item is that the latter will print only the selection itself, re-applying syntax coloring as if the selected block is a complete file, while the former will always print entire paragraphs, using exactly the same syntax coloring as when printing the whole file (even if syntax elements span across paragraphs, and are only partly included in the printout).
Forward and back buttons on 5-button mice such as the Microsoft Explorer mouse now activate the next or previous file.
Keyboard shortcut Alt+Up that can be used instead of double-clicking on an URL or misspelled word.
Middle mouse button click and move mouse pointer to scroll.
Middle-click on a tab to close it.
Preferences, Editor: Option for View|New Editor to cascade EditPad instances (i.e. open the new instance with the same size, but moved slightly to the right and below).
Preferences, Editor: Option to highlight the active line. The actual color can be configured as "highlight active line" on the Colors tab. The line is only highlighted when the editor has input focus.
Preferences, Editor: Option to make View|New Editor open the current file in the new EditPad instance
Preferences, Editor: Smart Home key: Pressing the Home key moves the text cursor to the first non-whitespace character. If the text cursor is already at that position, move it to the very start of the line.
Preferences, Files: Additional option for the default folder for open/save dialogs: the folder which editpad.exe itself is in. Useful for EditPad installations on removable disks.
Preferences, Files: For the default open/save dialog folder, you can now toggle the option to use the folder containing the active file in addition to specifying a default folder used when the active file is unsaved
Preferences, Files: If the option to automatically reload files from disk is on, add the option to always prompt, even if the file is not modified in EditPad Pro
Preferences, Files: Option to lock files, preventing them from being overwritten by other people or applications
Preferences, System: Specify the default web browser
Preferences, System: You can now select the web browser to be used by View|Browser
Scroll Lock: When scroll lock is active on the keyboard, the cursor stays where it is when using the Arrow keys, etc. and the display is scrolled
Search: "Loop automatically" option to automatically start searching from the start of the document again if no search match could be found in the remainder of the document
Search: History button to recall a previous search. Click to toggle between the current search settings and the previous search settings. Use the drop-down menu to retrieve one of the last 16 search settings.
Special shortcut keys on Microsoft multimedia keyboards and compatible keyboards now work in EditPad
Triple-click to select the entire paragraph; triple-click+drag to select several paragraphs
View|Previously Edited File: Activate the file that you last made a change to in EditPad. Repeating the command cycles around the last 4 editing positions.

Improvements:

Automatic scrolling while selecting text with the mouse, and while dragging and dropping, is now three times as smooth.
Clicking on a file's tab or opening a file now moves the keyboard focus to the editor, so you can start editing the file right away.
Convert|Uppercase, lowercase, etc. no longer disable themselves when there is no selection, but will convert the line the text cursor is on.
Ctrl+Backspace (truncate word left) no longer deletes non-word characters between the current word and the previous; if the cursor is pointing at non-word characters, Ctrl+Backspace deletes the non-word characters up to the previous word
Ctrl+Del (truncate word right) no longer deletes non-word characters between the current word and the next; if the cursor is pointing at a non-word character, Ctrl+Del deletes the non-word characters up to the next word
Ctrl+PageUp/Down should scroll the text so that the active line becomes the bottommost/topmost visible line; if it already is, scroll one page up or down.
Don't scroll the cursor in view when resizing EditPad, unless the cursor was already visible or "keep text cursor in view while scrolling" in the editor preferences is set to always keep the cursor in view.
EditPad's window caption now shows the full path of the file being edited, and taskbar button now shows the file's name
File Types: Instead of a list of extensions, you can now specify any kind of file mask (including a list of extensions, of course) that will be used to check the file type of a file
File Types: Known backup extensions are now ignored when determining the file type. E.g. myfile.html.bak is treated as a .html file (unless a .bak file type has been defined).
File Types: The "clickable URLs" syntax coloring scheme now supports relative file:// URLs, and URLs with spaces if surrounded by quotes
File|Print: In addition to the fixed zoom percentages of 33%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 150% and 200%, there are now two additional zoom percentages that show the whole page or the width of the page, which are automatically adjusted when you resize the preview.
File|Print: The print preview is now more accurate at lower zoom levels, eliminating clipped words or words with too much whitespace between them.
File|Reload from Disk: If the text cursor is at the very end of the file when reloading it, the cursor will be automatically moved to the end of the new file.
File|Save (Copy) As, Block|Write: Remember the folder last used for Save Copy As in conjunction with the folder the current file is in, rather than defaulting to the folder the current file is in.
Keyboard: Pressing the Escape key now only closes the pane that has keyboard focus. If no pane has keyboard focus, all panes are closed like in the past. Pressing Escape twice will always close all panes.
Keyboard: Pressing the context menu key on the keyboard (to the left of the right hand Control key) now pops up the right-click menu near the position of the text cursor rather than in the upper left corner.
Last letter of lines shown in italics will no longer be partially clipped when using a TrueType font. Bitmapped fonts will still be clipped.
Preferences: Added a browse button wherever a path needs to be specified
Rectangular selections are now truly rectangular. Select any rectangle, regardless of whether it covers any text or not.
Right-clicking on the selection now shows a different popup menu than right-clicking outside the selection. The former menu shows commands related to the selection, the latter has commands related to the whole file.
Search: Alt+Up and Alt+Down cycle through the history list of the search box or replace box (whichever has keyboard focus)
Search: Do not activate tabs when searching through all open files, so the search is not delayed by on-demand syntax coloring
Search: Do not show a message box when the text could not be found. Show a message in the status bar and flash the toolbar button icon instead.
Search: Eliminated "start from beginning" checkbox. Use the Find First button to search from the beginning. Replace All now always starts from the beginning.
Search: The "selection only" option now supports rectangular selections. Previously, rectangular selections were searched as if they were linear, causing the text to the sides of the rectangular selection to be searched.
Search: When "selection only" is on, the selection will be marked as the search range. When a search match is selected inside the search range, searching again will continue the search inside the same search range. Previously, EditPad would automatically turn off "selection only". When making a new selection (partially) outside the search range, the new selection is used as a new search range for the next search.
Search: Whether the selected text is used as the search text, or whether the "selection only" option is turned on, is now determined by the fact if the select spans multiple lines rather than by the length of the selection.
Tabs: Different tab color for read only files.

EditPad Lite 5.4.6 - 17 March 2006

Bug fixes:

Convert|Unicode->ANSI: If a file had an odd number of Unicode characters, the last character was stripped from the file during conversion.
Windows: EditPad sometimes prevented other windows from staying on top of itself, and sometimes failed to stay on top of other windows when Options|Stay On Top was on.

EditPad Lite 5.4.5 - 28 September 2005

Improvements:

Options|Stay On Top: The setting now persists between EditPad sessions. This was disabled in version 5.3.0 because the option confused some people. Now, an information message appears when the option is first chosen to avoid surprises when somebody picks it by accident.

Bug fixes:

When starting EditPad minimized, the Reopen menu in the tray icon's right-click menu was not loaded until EditPad is made visible at least once. If the computer was shut down without making EditPad visible, EditPad would lose its history information.
Word wrap: Toggling word wrap off and on wrapped at the window border, rather than at the previous wrapping position.
Opening multiple files by right-clicking on them in Windows Explorer while EditPad was not yet running caused an Access Violation on a small number of systems
The status bar did not scale when Windows is configured to use large fonts.
The X button to the far right of the tabs was always black when the "silver" Windows XP theme was selected, rather than white when inactive, and black when active, as with the other themes.
Linux: Block|Outdent did not have a glyph, and Block|Indent used the outdent glyph.

EditPad Lite 5.4.3 - 26 January 2005

New features:

X button at the right hand side of the tab control to close the current tab.

Bug fixes:

Linux Fedora Core 2: EditPad would fail to run at all, aborting with a segmentation fault.
Linux: File names with spaces in them could not be opened from the command line when using the shell script.

EditPad Lite 5.4.0 - 9 August 2004

Bug fixes:

Delete key does not properly delete double byte characters (Far East ideographs)
If a line starts with a tab and is followed by more than 256 characters when a proportionally spaced font is being used, clicking on the line on column 128 or beyond does not place the text cursor at the clicked position
Linux: On some Linux systems, it was impossible to select colors in Options, Preferences, Appearance
Windows: Turning on the option "run maximized" in a shortcut to EditPad does not maximize EditPad, but does change the maximize button in the caption bar as if EditPad were maximized