EditPad® Lite Version History

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Don’t let the long lists of issues on this page make you think our products have a lot of problems. Quite to the contrary. All the bugs listed below are bugs that we have fixed. Many of these are corner cases reported by only one or perhaps a handful of our customers. Other software companies often don’t spend any effort addressing such issues, much less list them publicly. We take pride in producing high quality software, and often release free updates to ensure you won’t have any problems with our software.

EditPad Lite 8.6.1 – 8 April 2026

Improvements:

File|Open: Working copies are no longer added to the File|Open submenu when you close them.
Regex: Abort the matching process with an error if a match is found that matched \K inside lookaround at a position before the start of the match attempt (to prevent matches from overlapping with preceding matches) or after the overall regex match (to prevent backwards matches and infinite loops if the match ends at the start of the match attempt).
Uninstall completed message is now less likely to appear behind the Settings app on Windows 10 or 11 and if it does it will flash its taskbar button to make this situation easier to see.

Bug fixes:

Convert|Case: Rectangular selections that span beyond the end of the line are no longer filled with spaces.
EditPad could crash when editing a file that was less than 512 KB in size and had word wrap enabled and that had at least one wrapped line and the number of lines after wrapping was a multiple of 256 (since 8.5.0).
File Types: F# syntax coloring now allows double-quoted strings to span across lines and allows strings to be nested within multi-line comments.
News & Updates showed raw RTF on Windows 11 if “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” was enabled in the regional settings in Windows and EditPad was using its dark theme.
Regex: (?(DEFINE)([a-z]+))(?1)(?![0-9]) did not highlight the match ab in the string abc4.
Regex: \K was ignored inside a DEFINE group at the start of the regex.
Working copies: Opening a file’s working copy and then opening the file itself no longer results in two tabs for the working copy.

EditPad Lite 8.6.0 – 29 October 2025

Improvements:

File Formats: Separate syntax coloring scheme for Visual Basic 14 (Visual Studio 2015) and later that allows strings to span across multiple lines.
File Types: Customizing the same palette multiple times without renaming the new palettes now adds (modied 2), (modified 3), etc. palettes instead of multiple (modified) palettes.
RegexBuddy toolbar icon updated for RegexBuddy 5; the integration is fully compatible with RegexBuddy 4 and 5.
Working copies: Do not save a working copy and remove the previously saved working copy (if any) if a file is empty when the interval to save the working copy has elapsed.

Bug fixes:

Regex: a((?R)|b)c(?1) and (a((?1)|b)c(?2)) triggered access violation errors when trying to match abcabcb due to the (inner) capturing group being entered during the recursion of the whole regex or the call to the parent group during the subroutine call to that same (inner) group.
Working copies: Save working copies at the interval specified in the Save Files Preferences instead of at one minute after the specified interval.

EditPad Lite 8.5.4 – 26 June 2025

New feature:

Setup: Installer can now be run with /portable d:\folder /silent to automate a portable installation.

Improvements:

EditPad’s window no longer briefly flashes white when started with the dark theme.
File|Reload from Disk is now enabled when the file has unsaved changed regardless of whether EditPad has a lock on the file.
Files received via the command line or drag-and-drop are now opened in alphanumeric rather than alphabetic order.
Strip \\?\ and \\?\UNC\ prefixes from paths received via the command line or from File|Open and File|Save and similar dialogs.
Toolbar drop-down lists allow an item to be selected by entering the first letter(s) of the item.
Toolbar drop-down lists can be scrolled with the mouse when the drop-down list is expanded.

Bug fixes:

Convert|Case: Rectangular selections containing tabs had extraneous spaces appended to lines containing tabs.
Go|Go to Position: Cursor was moved one column further to the right than the specified column number.
Palette: Strikeout styles other than “font” did not appear when using a complex script text layout configuration.
Preferences: Apply button applied the settings and closed the dialog instead of applying the settings without closing the dialog.
Search: Highlighting matches in line by line mode no longer highlights lines when the regex finds a zero-length match after the line break; this makes it consistent wtih other search commands that also ignore zero-length matches after the line break in line by line mode.
Search: In rare circumstances, doing a search-and-replace across all open files could cause a file for which word wrap was enabled to appear blank in EditPad; this did not affect the file on disk.
View|New Editor|Split Vertically/Horizontally had some minor window placement issues that could either create a small gap between the two windows or place the window slightly too high putting the top part of the window caption off-screen; the issues differed depending on your version of Windows and whether the original EditPad instance was maximized or not.

EditPad Lite 8.5.3 – 4 November 2024

Improvements:

Tilting the mouse wheel on a mouse that supports mouse wheel tilt now scrolls EditPad’s editor control horizontally.
Two-finger horizontal scroll now works with touchpads that send horizontal mouse wheel messages in response to this gesture.

Bug fixes:

Access violation error when attempting to use the spell checker or open or start a file with live spelling enabled (8.5.x only).
File type configuration dialog now disables the option to hide the “unspecified file type” from file type selection lists because many of EditPad’s features assume that they can fall back to the *.* file type at the top of the list.
PHP syntax coloring schemes now only highlight \\ and \' as escaped characters inside single-quoted strings.

EditPad Lite 8.5.2 – 2 August 2024

Improvements:

Default sizes of fonts that can be configured now take into account the “make text bigger” setting in the Accessibility settings in Windows when EditPad is run for the first time.
Default toolbar icon size now takes into account the “make text bigger” setting in the Accessibility settings in Windows when EditPad is run for the first time in order to better balance the size of the toolbar icons with the toolbar font.
Windows 11: Dark window caption bars when using the dark theme.

Bug fixes:

Search: Closing the multi-line Search panel should only reduce the search term to a single line if the Search toolbar with single-line edit controls stays visible.
Undo and Redo buttons and menu items worked on the active editor (which could be the Search or Replace box) rather than the file being edited in 8.5.0 and 8.5.1, contrary to previous versions and contrary to what is explained in the help file. The fix made in 8.5.0 to allow the Undo and Redo commands to work in the small Search and Replace boxes has now been corrected so that the keyboard shortcuts for Undo and Redo work in the small Search and Replace boxes just as they always have in the multi-line Search and Replace boxes.

EditPad Lite 8.5.1 – 15 May 2024

New features:

File Types: F#.
File Types: TypeScript.

Improvements:

File Types: C# syntax coloring now supports digit separators and octal and binary numbers.
File Types: JavaScript syntax coloring now supports digit separators and octal and binary numbers and template literals with expressions colored as JavaScript code and which can contain nested template literals.
Keyboard: Additional characters can be typed with Ctrl+Punctuation key combinations. Ctrl+@ T types ™. Ctrl+& supports additional ligatures. Ctrl+. now types various letters with dot above as well as dotless ı and ȷ.

EditPad Lite 8.5.0 – 6 May 2024

New features:

File Types: Github Flavored Markdown syntax coloring scheme.
File Types: GoogleSQL syntax coloring scheme.
File Types: YAML file type with syntax coloring.

Improvements:

File Types: Delphi syntax coloring scheme now supports triple-quoted multi-line strings, binary literals, and underscores in literal numbers.
File Types: Java syntax coloring scheme now supports triple-quoted text blocks and separately highlights character escapes within strings and text blocks if the palette uses different colors for “character” and “character string”.
File Types: R syntax coloring scheme now treats the ]] in a[c[10]] as two closing brackets that are then correctly paired with the two opening brackets. It will even correctly match up all the single and double bracket pairs in something fanciful like list[[v[list[[i]]]]].
File Types: Updated MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Transact-SQL syntax coloring schemes.
File Types: When downloading syntax coloring schemes or spell check dictionaries, connect to EditPad’s server using HTTP instead of HTTPS on Windows 8.1 and prior to avoid connection errors if Windows wasn’t updated to support TLS 1.2.
Removing the printer that EditPad most recently printed on or the printer becoming unavailable due to a network issue while EditPad was still running caused a “printer selected is not valid” error when trying to print with EditPad until EditPad was restarted; now EditPad will show a more helpful error message suggesting to shut it down with File|Exit and restart it.
Spell check: Do not treat a word as misspelled if the word contains characters that do not occur in the dictionary’s character set (the assumption being that the word is in a different language than the dictionary).

Bug fixes:

Edit|Undo and Edit|Redo operated on the file instead of on the small Search box or Replace box when they had keyboard focus if the active file had undoable or redoable actions.
Extremely long regular expressions no longer cause EditPad to crash with a stack overflow (but may trigger an error message saying the regular expression is too long).
File Types: Delphi variant records have a “case” keyword that should not be paired with an “end” keyword.
File Types|Colors: Built-in palettes now use palette-specific colors for highlighting matching brackets and custom palettes now allow these colors to be customized.
List index out of bounds when using File|Open to open a file and its working copy if sorting the files in alphanumeric order put the actual file at the end of the list of files being opened.
Right-clicking certain files that have a context menu handler in a common file dialog box (such as the one used by File|Open) could crash EditPad.
Search: Pressing an Alt+letter key combination to toggle a search option while the small Search or Replace box had keyboard focus disabled all keyboard shortcuts other than Alt+letter combinations until you moved keyboard focus to another control.
Search: Replace All now produces the same results as using Find First and then repeatedly Replace And Find Next when a regular expression matches half of a CRLF pair.
Search|Multi-Line Search Panel: Switching from the multi-line panel to using only the Search toolbar while there was a multi-line search term or replacement showed only the first line of the search term and replacement on the toolbar (as expected) but EditPad continued to use the previous multi-line search term or replacement until you made a change to it.
Syntax coloring was sometimes not updated correctly when deleting a large part of a file using a “fast” syntax coloring scheme (a scheme selectable for editing huge files).
Vertical scroll bar was not painted correctly by the dark theme when using a right-to-left text layout.

EditPad Lite 8.4.2 – 21 July 2023

Improvement:

Improved scrolling performance, particularly when doing so by rotating a stepless mouse wheel.

Bug fixes:

Dragging a file from WinRAR and dropping it onto EditPad’s main editor created a blank tab with the name of the file instead of loading the temporary file that WinRAR extracted the file to (EditPad did correctly open the temp file when dropping anywhere onto EditPad except its main editor).
Edit|Delete Line now properly deletes the last line in the file when the cursor is after the last line break in the file.
File Types|Colors: Color picker was not restricted to the solarized, harmonized, or monochrome colors when customizing a solarized, harmonized, or monochrome palette (since 8.1.0).
Help|Create Portable Installation did not copy over the user word lists with learned words and learned replacements.
Regex: Subroutine calls to capturing groups defined inside lookbehind are now a syntax error; previously such calls were incorrectly matched from right to left, possibly causing the regex engine to get stuck in an infinite loop.
Text Layout: Visualizing control characters as IBM PC glyphs or as Unicode control pictures now highlights them with the “Editor: Control Characters” color (which has a wavy underline in most built-in palettes) when using a complex script text layout just as it does with left-to-right text layouts.
Word wrapping now takes into account the text layout’s option for visualizing control characters when determining the width of control characters.

EditPad Lite 8.4.1 – 7 November 2022

Bug fix:

Switching between a left-to-right and right-to-left text layout did not immediately move the vertical scroll bar to the other side of the editor; it would move after switching to another file and back.

EditPad Lite 8.4.0 – 27 June 2022

New feature:

Font used by the main menu, toolbars, and context menus can now be changed by right-clicking the main menu or any toolbar and selecting Menu Font.

Improvements:

Manifest now includes longPathAware to indicate support for paths longer than 260 characters (which EditPad has had since version 8.0.0).
Status bar now adjusts its height and the width of its panel to the size of the font.

Bug fixes:

Reducing font size after enabling line numbers no longer makes the cursor invisible at the start of the line.
Search|Highlight All: A zero-length regex match at the very end of the file is now highlighted.

EditPad Lite 8.3.1 – 1 March 2022

Improvements:

Do not copy text in AceText’s clipboard if PowerGREP 2.x.x is installed as this old version of PowerGREP was not correctly future-proofed for AceText’s new clipboard format.
Search: Allow Find Previous with a regular expression when the Line by Line search mode is active, going through the lines in the file from bottom to top and applying the regex to each line from left to right.

Bug fixes:

File Types|Encoding: If the default encoding is UTF-16 or UTF-32 but the file being opened is not a multiple of 2 or 4 bytes in size then open the file using the non-Unicode encoding instead of trimming the final bytes in the file to make it a multiple of 2 or 4 bytes in size. Previously, EditPad would check whether the file is likely valid UTF-16 or UTF-32 after the final bytes had been trimmed which could result in the file being opened using the non-Unicode encoding but with 1 or up to 3 characters missing at the end.
Search Options|Adapt Case: When searching in regular expressions mode (regardless of whether the seach term is a regex or a literal) and replacing with a literal string using the Adapt Case option, then doing a second replacement with a different replacement string continued to use the previous replacement until a regex match with different casing was found.
Search: Pasting 17 or more bytes from a hex editor into the small Search or Replace box failed with an access violation error.
Search: Regexes like \Gliteral that start with \G and then have nothing but literal text ignored the \G finding the literal text anywhere in the file.
Search|Replace Current as well as Replace and Find Next/Previous commands failed with an access violation error if the replacement text contained the %LINE% or %LINEN% match placeholders (8.3.0 only).

EditPad Lite 8.3.0 – 20 January 2022

Improvement:

Single-line edit controls now select all their contents when they receive keyboard focus as they used to do in EditPad 7 and as they do in most Windows applications.

Bug fixes:

AceText would sometimes paste into the Search or Replace box when the multi-line Search panel is a floating window even though EditPad’s main editor control had keyboard focus.
File Types|Brackets: Changing the option to highlight brackets within tags now immediately updates bracket matching in files that are already open.
Search|Find Next now indicates no match can be found instead of looping when the cursor is at the end of the search range and the option to loop automatically is off; this stops it from looping when searching for a regex that finds a zero-length match at the end of the search range.

EditPad Lite 8.2.5 – 7 September 2021

Bug fixes:

Changing the font size with Ctrl+Wheel only made the font larger when using a complex script text layout.
Search: Replacements were jumbled if the replacement string contained a case conversion backreference that is not at the end of the replacement and the case conversion has no effect because the matched text is already the correct case or doesn’t have any case; e.g. replacing 9 with \U0; resulted in ;9 instead of 9;.
Search|Find Last had issues when using a regular expression; now it will say that regular expressions cannot search backwards similar to Search|Find Previous.

EditPad Lite 8.2.4 – 31 May 2021

Bug fix:

Search: Replace Current did not substitute backreferences (8.2.3 only).

EditPad Lite 8.2.3 – 26 May 2021

Improvement:

Search: Show an error message if a regular expression search failed due to a regex matching error such as infinite recursion, catastrophic backtracking, or an excessive number of group repetitions.

Bug fixes:

File Types|Colors: The companion palette choices that you assigned to custom palettes reverted to (none) when restarting EditPad.
Opening a set of files that includes a file and its working copy no longer opens the working copy twice.
Preferences|Keyboard: Search commands that are not available in EditPad Lite can no longer be assigned keyboard shortcuts.
Search: The replacement string tokens $_, $‘ and $’ that represent the subject string (the file being searched), the text before the match, and the text after the match, were not correctly substituted.
Status bar: Negative line numbers that are shown when the cursor is on a line in the bottom part of the file before the file has been fully scanned for line breaks were off by one and did not immediately change to a positive number when line break scanning was completed.
View|Dark Theme: When switching between themes switches the active file between companion palettes the Search and Replace boxes did not switch to the companion palette until you switched between files.
Windows 7 and later: EditPad’s JumpList (right-click menu of the taskbar button) is now maintained by Windows as it was for EditPad 8.1.2 and all previous versions; EditPad’s own handling of the JumpList that was introduced with EditPad 8.2.0 caused too many issues for too little benefit.
Word wrap now continues to leave a cursor’s width at the end of each line when you edit a line after switching between Insert and Overwrite mode switched between a cursor that goes between the characters and a cursor that goes on top of the characters to avoid text being wrapped differently in the two edit modes.

EditPad Lite 8.2.2 – 9 April 2021

Bug fixes:

Edit|Delete Line now deletes the search term or replacement text when the small Search or Replace box has keyboard focus instead of deleting a line in the main editor; this is more consistent with Edit|Delete Line deleting a line in the search term or replacement when the multi-line Search or Replace box has keyboard focus.
File Types: Python syntax coloring did not highlight integer numbers containing zeros or any hexadecimal numbers (8.2.0 and 8.2.1).
Mouse pointer did not snap to the default button when this option is turned on in the Control Panel (8.2.0 and 8.2.1).
Preferences|Panels: Side panel colors were not correctly applied when using the dark theme (8.2.0 and 8.2.1).
When EditPad Lite 8 runs with administrator privileges it shows a red instead of a green icon; this icon now shows “Lite” instead of “Pro” at higher resolutions.
Windows 7 and later: If an error occurs when initializing the right-click menu of the taskbar button then EditPad now silently ignores that menu instead of showing an error message and failing to start.
Word wrapping at the window edge while using a left-to-right text layout with a monospaced font made lines too long if they were indented with tabs mixed with spaces that didn’t contribute to the indentation (because each run of spaces was shorter than the tab size setting).

EditPad Lite 8.2.1 – 31 March 2021

Improvements:

EditPad now gives priority to pasting its own clipboard format over pasting an AceText clip so that EditPad’s new ability (since 8.2.0) to pass its syntax coloring scheme and file name to AceText by copying an AceText clip does not interfere with EditPad-specific features such as pasting whole lines.
Syntax coloring is now more responsive when files contain very large sections of text that do not have any syntax color changes, such as a multi-line comment that runs until the end of the file (because you didn’t get around to typing the closing delimiter yet).
Syntax coloring is now updated more reliably when syntax coloring schemes use large “detail” subschemes, such as “here documents” in Perl scripts.

Bug fixes:

File Types|Tabbing: Changes to the quote character and escape character were not registered.
Preferences|Cursors: End key did not work correctly or at all if the cursor was placed beyond the end of a line, which can only happen if you enable “allow text cursor to be moved beyond the end of the line”.
Search: Regular expression syntax colors now follow the palette of the active file when switching between files.
Search: The small Search and Replace boxes had tiny fonts on Windows 8.1 and prior if the system used high DPI scaling (8.2.0 only).
Search: The small Search and Replace boxes now follow the palette of the active file when switching between files just like the multi-line Search and Replace boxes do.
Syntax coloring did not update itself correctly when using the “clickable URLs” syntax coloring scheme (8.2.0 only).
Windows 7 and later: If an error occurs while updating the right-click menu of the taskbar button then EditPad now silently stops updating that menu instead of popping up an error message.

EditPad Lite 8.2.0 – 17 March 2021

New features:

Clip Collection: Edit Clip dialog (which EditPad uses when you don’t have AceText) now lets you select a syntax coloring scheme and add an URL to the clip.
Clip Collection: Portable installations of EditPad can now integrate with portable installations of AceText; requires AceText 4.0.0 or later.
Preferences|Cursors: Additional options for the Home and End key to move the cursor to the start/end of the physical line and whether going to the first/last non-whitespace character should be done on the first or second press.
Preferences|Editor: Keep the same line active when selecting an entire line (place cursor at the start of the line).
Rectangular selections can now be copied and pasted between EditPad and RAD Studio and Visual Studio and other editors that support the clipboard formats used by RAD Studio or Visual Studio.

Improvements:

Clip Collection: Automatically refresh the active collection in AceText if it changes while EditPad has keyboard focus; this is particularly useful when the ClipHistory is the active collection.
Clip Collection: Collections saved by AceText 4.0.0 or later can now be loaded when using EditPad without AceText; older versions of EditPad and AceText will not be able to open collections saved by EditPad 8.2.0 and later.
Copy text as an AceText clip so that AceText 4.0.0 and later can capture the syntax coloring scheme and the URL (file link).
File Types: Batch file syntax coloring now highlights GOTO and CALL labels, PROMPT and TITLE strings, SET values, and more names of internal and external commands.
File Types: C# syntax coloring now supports digit separators and binary numbers; all contextual keywords are now highlighted as keywords.
File Types: JavaScript syntax coloring now highlights all keywords that are reserved words in some versions of JavaScript.
File Types: Python syntax coloring now supports digit separators and octal and binary numbers.
Help|Create Portable Installation now has the option to copy over syntax coloring schemes in EditPad Lite too.
Options|Text Layout: Actual font sizes of text layouts with fallback fonts are now much closer to font sizes of text layouts without fallback fonts; you may need to reduce the font sizes of text layouts with fallback fonts that you configured for or that were pre-configured by older versions of EditPad.
Search|Cut Matches: Status bar message now indicates matches were cut rather than replaced.
Search|Search Options|Line by Line: Status bar message now indicates matching lines rather than matches were replaced.
Tab-delimited values: Comment character that, if placed at the start of the line, disables interpreting separator characters on that line.
Tab-delimited values: Take the width of the last column into account if a line has fewer tabs than other lines.
Tab-delimited values: Use the column widths to set the range of the horizontal scroll bar.
Tools: The syntax coloring schemes for tool errors included with EditPad are now “fast” syntax coloring schemes.
Windows 7 and later: EditPad now maintains the list of recent files shown by the right-click menu of EditPad’s taskbar button by itself to make it show recently closed files like the File|Open submenu does; this only works for files for which EditPad is the default application.
Windows 7 and later: The right-click menu of EditPad’s taskbar button now shows files that you have open in EditPad and that you recently switched to as tasks.
Zero-width space is now consistently treated as a non-spacing character that is zero pixels and zero columns wide.

Bug fixes:

Automatic reload: Choosing to close the file when prompted whether you want to reload it fails if the file that is activated next also triggers a prompt to reload.
Block|Write to File and Block|Append to File now correctly write rectangular selections.
Clip Collection: Inserting an empty clip triggered an access violation error instead of doing nothing.
Command Line: File names beginning with “notepad” were ignored (8.1.2 only).
Elastic tab stops did not work when entering or pasting text into a new tab with elastic tab stops already enabled when the file was still blank.
Elastic tab stops stopped functioning correctly for files that were made completely blank until those files were reloaded or elastic tab stops were turned off and turned on again for the file.
Elastic tab stops: Selecting text from the top half of a large file until the very end of the file and replacing that by typing or pasting failed with an access violation.
Favorites: Organize Favorites dialog now allows top-level folders to be collapsed.
File Types: PowerShell syntax coloring scheme now highlights Foreach-Object as a cmdlet instead of as the “foreach” keyword.
File Types|Encoding: Non-Unicode encoding could not be selected correctly.
Print: Showing the print preview could fail if the state of the “print line numbers” checkbox remembered from a previous printout was different of the state of the Options|Line Numbers menu item for the active file.
Search: Path placeholders in the replacement string used the path to the first file in which a replacement was made instead of the path to the file that the replacement is made in when doing a Replace All across all open files.
Search: Single-line search and replace boxes now scale better on high DPI systems to avoid cutting off the tails of the letters.
Search|Highlight All: Regular expressions using \G were not highlighted correctly because \G was allowed to match at places where it shouldn’t.
Search|Highlight All: Regular expressions using \K could be highlighted incorrectly while editing a line.
Tabs: The file tab of a file saved in a folder that no longer exists could not be moved to another location in EditPad via drag and drop.
Word wrap now leaves a cursor’s width at the end of each line so that placing the cursor at the end of a line of the maximum length allowed by wrapping does not horizontally scroll the editor by the width of the cursor.

EditPad Lite 8.1.2 – 1 July 2020

Improvements:

Preferences|Save Files: Do not prompt to save unsaved files when Windows shuts down if EditPad is still running in the background to show its icon in the notification area with files kept in memory because the option to save the workspace is enabled.
Preferences|Save Files: Saving untitled files automatically when closing them now saves them as “Untitled 1.txt” instead of as “Working Copy of Untitled 1.txt” and adds them to the File|Open submenu of recently closed files.
This avoids confusion between untitled files that were saved automatically when you closed them and working copies of untitled files saved at regular intervals while you had them open. It also means they are no longer opened automatically next time EditPad starts unless you also turn on the option to automatically save and reopen the workspace.
Preferences|Save Files: Saving working copies at regular intervals is again enabled by default, as it was in EditPad 7.
Preferences|Save Files: The option for closing untitled files is now also used for files that were previously saved with a file name in the form of “Untitled 1.txt”.
This avoids confusion between untitled files that were saved automatically when you closed them and working copies of untitled files saved at regular intervals while you had them open. It also means they are no longer opened automatically next time EditPad starts unless you also turn on the option to automatically save and reopen the workspace.
Preferences|Save Files: Turning off the option to automatically save working copies at regular intervals now stops EditPad from saving working copies when the computer sleeps and stops EditPad from automatically opening working copies.

Bug fixes:

Keyboard: Pressing Arrow Up when the cursor is at the very start of the file or pressing Arrow Down when the cursor is at the very end of the file now clear the selection when selections are not persistent just as happens when you press Arrow Up or Down when the cursor is elsewhere on the first or last line of the file.
Preferences|Save Files: Automatically saving working copies when the computer sleeps no longer causes the working copies to be treated as the actual files when the computer resumes from sleep.
Preferences|Save Files: Shutting down or restarting your PC while EditPad has files with unsaved changes open no longer saves those changes unless you have selected this preference; a working copy (if enabled) will be left behind instead as EditPad 7 used to do.
Search: Small Search and Replace boxes do not fully scroll back to the left when their text is cleared.
Tab stop positions were slightly off when using the left-to-right text layout with a proportionally spaced font.
Windows XP: EditPad did not open certain file with certain names such as PhotoData.txt when passed on the command line or when those files were double-clicked in Windwos Explorer (since 8.0.0).

EditPad Lite 8.1.1 – 23 April 2020

Bug fixes:

Clip Collections: Shared clip collections could not be downloaded.
Command Line: /s did not always select the specified columns when used in combination with /l.

EditPad Lite 8.1.0 – 20 March 2020

New features:

File Types|Colors: Color for visualizing control characters that aren’t tabs or line breaks in text mode can now be customized in EditPad Lite too.
Preferences|Save Files: Closing empty files.

Improvements:

File Types|Markdown: List items nested 3 levels deep.
Improved visibility of the separator lines on toolbars when using the dark theme.
Maintain History List dialog now selects the first item when it appears and selects the next item when you remove the selected item(s).
Progress meter while opening a large set of files.
Shift+Alt+Page Up/Down now scroll one page like Shift+Page Up/Down does instead of moving the cursor to the first/last line as Alt+Page Up/Down do since 8.0.0.

Bug fixes:

Block|Move Lines and Columns|Move Line Up did not always update the syntax coloring of the line that was moved down as a result of moving the other lines up.
Block|Outdent triggers an access violation if the file is empty or if the cursor is on the final blank line of the file.
Convert|Line Break Styles failed to convert one line break in the middle of the file if the file was large enough for EditPad to use two background threads to scan for line breaks.
Go|Go To: Going to a line number greater than that of the last line in the file now moves the cursor to the last line instead of triggering an access violation when word wrap is on.
Italics that overhang the end of the line are no longer clipped.
Keyboard: If the cursor had a shape that put it over rather than between characters and the Home key was configured to go to the first non-whitespace character on the line and the cursor at the first non-whitespace character of a line with leading whitespace then pressing the Home key to move the cursor to the very start of the line and then Arrow Up or Down did not keep the cursor at the very start of the preceding or following line.
Mouse: Clicking at the start of the selection did not clear the selection when selections are not persistent.
Regex: POSIX classes using the \p notation matched only ASCII characters when used inside a character class along with other tokens instead of matching Unicode characters like they do outside character classes or when used alone in a character class.
Search: \r and \n were treated as literal line breaks that adapt to the file’s line break style instead of specifically matching only CR and LF when used in a regular expression or replacement string that consisted entirely of literal text and tokens that match or insert one specific character.
Search: Incremental search through all open files could fail with an access violation error.
Search|Selection Only: Searching through the selection did not work if the selection was rectangular and in the bottom half of a large file.
When working copies are automatically opened the explanatory message now takes into account whether the option to save working copies every few minutes is on or off; when it is off, EditPad still saves working copies when the computer hibernates or goes to sleep to prevent data loss if it runs out of battery while sleeping.

EditPad Lite 8.0.6 – 6 February 2020

Improvement:

Text Layout: The “monospaced left-to-right only” text layout now allows characters that are matched separately by the same element in the syntax coloring scheme to form ligatures; characters matched by different elements in the syntax coloring scheme still cannot form ligatures.

Bug fixes:

File Types: PHP and ASP syntax coloring schemes now allow up to 49 PHP or ASP code blocks inside an HTML tag. Previously only 4 were allowed. The limitation exists to prevent runaway syntax coloring when an HTML tag is missing its closing >.
Options|Text Layout: Customizing a text layout for which a bitmapped font was selected now automatically ticks “allow bitmapped fonts” instead of reverting the font to Segoe UI or Tahoma.
Options|Text Layout: OpenType fonts can now be selected without ticking the “allow bitmapped fonts” checkbox.
Regex: A subroutine call to a capturing group that contains an subroutine call to a non-existent group caused regex syntax coloring to disappear and triggered an error if you tried to search with it.

EditPad Lite 8.0.5 – 30 January 2020

Bug fixes:

Discard the .ini file instead of failing to start with a Unicode mapping error if EditPad’s .ini file is not a valid UTF-8 file.
Word wrap messed up line break positions when wrapping the bottom half of a file larger than 512 KB (64-bit 8.0.4 only).
Word wrap was not applied to the line in the middle of the file (or the only line in the file if it has no line breaks) when editing that line if the file was large enough for EditPad to have used background threads for line breaks and word wrapping when the file was loaded.

EditPad Lite 8.0.4 – 27 January 2020

Improvement:

File Types: Regex to detect magic value is now applied to files matched by the “without extension” file type.

Bug fixes:

64-bit version crashed with an “external exception” when trying to edit a file on a computer with a CPU that does not support SSSE3 or SSE4.1.
Adding a favorite could trigger an access violation (8.0.3 only).
Borders around edit boxes on toolbars were not always displayed correctly.

EditPad Lite 8.0.3 – 14 January 2020

Improvements:

Clip Collection: The Edit Clip dialog now uses the same text layout as the active file so that a clip’s contents appear in exactly the same way in the Edit Clip dialog as they would in the main editor if you inserted the clip into the active file.
Command Line: file:/// URLs are now truncated at the rightmost ? and # to strip off queries and fragments from the file path.
Options|Word Wrap: The message prompting that elastic tab stops will be disabled while word wrap is enabled now has a “don’t show again” checkbox.
Search: Line By Line mode now places the cursor at the start of the line when a matched line is selected so that the matched line is highlighted as the active line (instead of placing it at the end of the selection which is at the start of the next line as the line break is also selected).
Triple-clicking a line to select the entire line now places the cursor at the start of the selected line instead of at the start of the next line (where the selection ends as the line break is also selected) for consistency with selecting a line by double-clicking the line number.

Bug fixes:

Command Line: Files passed on the command line using file:/// URLs were not opened as the URL was not correctly converted to a file path (8.0.1 and 8.0.2 only).
File Types|Colors and Syntax: Selecting a scheme from the “syntax coloring” drop-down list could assign a different scheme to the file type if EditPad’s installation folder or the %APPDATA%\JGsoft\EditPad Pro 8 folder contained an invalid or incomplete .jgcscs file.
Search|Replace All: Replacing all matches of a regular expression with a replacement containing backreferences could cause EditPad to run out of memory when making tens of thousands or more replacements in a single file.
Search|Whole Words Only: Word character choices from the active text layout configuration are now used when determining whether Whole Words Only should be disabled (which it is when the search term is a literal that does not begin and end with a word character).
Searching for a search term that includes a literal line break failed when searching through all open files and some files had not yet been the active file after opening them.
Status bar used the font configured for the tabs instead of the (non-configurable) font for toolbars and menus; this could cause status bar labels to be clipped as the status bar did not adjust its size to the font for tabs.

EditPad Lite 8.0.2 – 4 January 2020

Bug fixes:

Options|Right-to-Left: Switching between different files with one file using a left-to-right and the other a right-to-left text layout now repositions the vertical scroll bar to match the text layout of the file switched to.
Options|Right-to-Left: Tabs were not laid out correctly when using a right-to-left text layout.
Preferences|Editor: Also highlighting lines wrapped from the active line did not always highlight the correct lines and did not remove the highlight when losing keyboard focus (if the option to maintain the highlighting was off).
Search|Find Previous would show the message that regular expressions cannot search backwards as many times as it had lines to search through when the Line By Line search option was turned on.
Search|Highlight All: When highlighting the matches of a regular expression in line by line mode, all lines visible below the bottommost visible line that needed to be highlighted were also highlighted.

EditPad Lite 8.0.1 – 31 December 2019

Improvements:

Forum: Ctrl+Shift+C copies the subject of the selected conversation or the summary of the selected message.
Options|Import Preferences now refuses to import .ini files that were not exported by Options|Export Preferences.

Bug fixes:

EditPad Lite 8.0.0 did not initialize its progress meter causing any command that may show a progress meter to fail with an access violation.
Horizontal scrollbar was needlessly enabled when wrapping text at the edge of the window if the file contained a line that fit exactly within the available width.
Options|File Types: Selecting a different file type triggered an access violation in EditPad Lite (the AV had no consequences other than preventing changing the file type).
Options|Font: Selecting a different Script (a setting that does not affect EditPad) no longer results in duplicate entries in the font history.
Preferences: Clicking OK or Apply in the Preferences dialog failed with an access violation on portable installs of EditPad 8.0.0.
Search|Prepare to Search did not always select the search term it prepared when using the Search toolbar with the small Search and Replace boxes.
Sending a long list of files from Windows Explorer to EditPad no longer causes a false error about paths longer than 260 characters.

EditPad Lite 8.0.0 – 23 December 2019

New features:

Encodings: ATASCII, EBCDIC 1047 Latin-1, EBCDIC 9067 and 8616 extending the Greek and Hebrew EBCDIC code pages, EBCDIC 924/1140/1148/1155/4971/12712 adding the euro symbol (replacing the generic currency symbol in some of these).
File Types: CSV (comma separated values).
File Types: TSV (tab separated values).
File Types: “Without Extension” file type that allows you to configure EditPad and make it the default editor for files without an extension.
File Types|Colors: Bold and italic now offer an “unchanged” choice that uses the style selected in the text layout configuration; this allows the “off” choice to force bold or italic to be off.
File Types|Colors: Color for visualizing control characters that aren’t tabs or line breaks in text mode.
File Types|Colors: Copy and Paste buttons to copy or paste the selected color so that you can easily make two colors the same or reuse colors from other palettes.
File Types|Colors: Extra space between lines color to make it easy to display ruled lines when adding extra space between lines in the text layout configuration.
File Types|Colors: Harmonized color palettes; customizing them automatically limits the color picker to a harmonized set of 12 grays and the 12 primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
File Types|Colors: Import and export color palettes.
File Types|Colors: Monochrome color palettes; customizing them automatically limits the color picker to a monochrome color set.
File Types|Colors: More predefined color palettes such as Silver, White on gray, Amber (dark), Green (dark), Night light (very dark, without any blues), Sunshine (light yellow), Log cabin (brown), Blue sky (light blue), Twilight (dark blue), Embarcadero dark, PowerShell ISE light and dark.
File Types|Colors: Printing palettes with black text on a white background; one of these is automatically selected when printing a file that you’re editing with a palette that does not have black text on a white background.
File Types|Colors: Solarized light and dark palettes; customizing them automatically limits the color picker to the 16 solarized colors.
File Types|Colors: Strikeout style and color.
File Types|Colors: Underline color can now be different from the text color for underline styles other than “font”.
File Types|Colors: Underline style can be unchanged (same as off in previous versions), none, font (same as on in previous versions), single, double, thick, half, wavy, dotted, dashed narrow, or dashed wide.
File Types|Colors: Visual Studio Light and Visual Studio Dark palettes that mimic VS 2017.
File Types|Definition: Show in file type selection lists option that determines whether the file type is available in File|New, File|Save, and Options|File Type allowing you to remove file types from these lists while still keeping it functional when detecting a file’s file type.
File Types|Encoding: If the default encoding is a Unicode encoding, provide a non-Unicode encoding as a fallback for files that aren’t valid Unicode files or if they reference unassigned code points. This makes it possible to set UTF-16 as the default encoding without having ASCII files show up as Chinese.
File Types|Encoding: Line break style inserted by Ctrl+Enter can now be set to any line break style supported by EditPad.
File Types|Syntax: All syntax coloring schemes included with EditPad Pro are now also included with EditPad Lite.
File Types|Syntax: The custom syntax coloring scheme editor is now included with the purchased version of EditPad Lite.
File Types|Syntax: The syntax coloring schemes that can be downloaded in EditPad Pro can now also be downloaded in EditPad Lite.
File Types|Tabbing: Detect indentation size of the text surrounding the block to be indented.
File Types|Tabbing: Elastic tabstops.
File Types|Tabbing: Regular expression to detect tab size and whether the tab key should insert a tab or spaces.
File Types|Tabbing: Turn on “tab-separated values” to show tab-delimited, comma-delimited (CSV), or any-one-character-delimited files with properly aligned columns.
Forum: +1 button that adds a “me too” vote to an issue such as a bug report or feature request.
Forum: Ability to filter down to conversations one participated in.
Forum: Ability to show complete conversations while searching.
Forum: Email notification level that includes conversations that you gave a +1 in addition to conversations that you participated in.
Forum: Server side search to search through the message bodies of all conversations, including ones you haven’t viewed.
Go|Go To Position: Move the cursor to a byte offset or to a line and/or column position; optionally expand the selection.
Keyboard: Alt+Page Up/Down scroll to make the line with the cursor the last/first visible line if the cursor is above/below the last/first visible line; otherwise they scroll one page up/down.
Options|File Type and File|New submenus are now available in EditPad Lite too.
Options|Text Layout: Layout: How to visualize control characters: two stair-stepped letters (RFC 1345); control+letter, stair-stepped hex codes; IBM PC glyphs; Unicode code points for displaying control characters; the last two only work with fonts that support these code points.
Preferences|Cursors: Mouse pointer over selected text can now be configured separately so you can have an I beam over unselected text and an arrow over selected text like in Word or Wordpad.
Preferences|Cursors: Option to place the cursor at the end of the file instead of at the top of the file when opening a file for which EditPad has not remembered an editing position.
Preferences|Editor: Option to highlight all wrapped lines when highlighting the active line.
Preferences|Panels: Same colors as the file editor option makes the side panels use the same colors as the editor, changing colors when switching between files that use different palettes.
Preferences|Save Files: Limit backup copies by size.
Preferences|Save Files: Option to save the file being edited rather than a working copy at regular intervals. Only allow this option when creating multiple backup copies per file, so automatically saved changes can be undone.
Preferences|Save Files: Option to use a specific folder for working copies rather than the folder containing the original file (or the My Documents folder for untitled files).
Preferences|Save Files: Reduce backup copies older than a certain number of days to one per day and backups older than a certain number of weeks to one per week, instead of deleting all backups older than a certain number of days.
Preferences|Save Files: Working copies are now saved when the system goes into standby or hibernation to prevent data loss if the system never resumes from standby or hibernation.
Preferences|Search: Prefer side-by-side arrangement of the Search and Replace boxes on the multi-line search panel.
Preferences|Search: Separate options for using the selected text or the word under the cursor as the default search term when using Search|Prepare to Search.
Preferences|Tabs: Bold font for active tab.
Preferences|Tabs: Minimum number of visible tabs, reducing tab width if there are too many tabs to fit within the width of the tab control.
Preferences|Tabs: Option to hide file extensions.
Print Preview: Selecting a palette that does not use a white background for plain text now shows a warning that printing with a colored background may use a lot of ink.
Proxy: Customize user agent string.
Regex: .NET-style capturing group subtraction (group balancing).
Regex: \h is a shorthand for horizontal whitespace.
Regex: \K keeps the text matched so far out of the match results.
Regex: \o{377} is now an octal escape and \0337 is now an error.
Regex: \R matches any line break, including Unicode line breaks, and treats CRLF pairs as indivisible.
Regex: \v is now a shorthand for all vertical whitespace instead of a character escape for the vertical tab.
Regex: Branch reset groups.
Regex: Character class intersection [left&&[right]].
Regex: Regular expression recursion and subroutines.
Regex: Relative backreferences \k<-1> and \k<+1>.
Regex: Replacement string conditionals in the form of (?1matched:unmatched) and (?{name}matched:unmatched).
Regex: XML shorthand character classes.
Search: Free-spacing regular expressions.
Setup: Per-user installations that don’t require admin rights and that can create shortcuts and file associations.
View|Dark Theme switches between the standard Windows theme and EditPad’s own dark theme.
View|New Editor: Command to launch a new instance with administrative privileges.

Improvements:

Automatically reloading files when their last modification date changes no longer reloads all files when your computer’s time zone changes (which may happen automatically when daylight saving time begins or ends).
Block|Indent/Outdent: If there is no selection, indent or outdent the active line without making a selection.
Character Map: Double-clicking a character in the character map now enters characters in the same was as typing characters using the keyboard so that Overwrite mode is respected and column editing is supported.
Context menu key on the keyboard now shows the context menu for side panels when they have keyboard focus.
Context menu key on the keyboard now shows the same context menu as when right-clicking when the small Search and Replace boxes have keyboard focus.
Convert|Line Break Style: Replaces the Windows/UNIX/Mac options to allow conversion between all line break styles rather than just these three; also allows the line break style for the Enter and Ctrl+Enter keys to be chosen.
Edit|Cut Append, Copy Append, and Swap with Clipboard now work with the small Search and Replace boxes when they have keyboard focus.
Extra|Sort Alphanumerically in addition to Extra|Sort Alphabetically.
File Types: Fast syntax coloring schemes now use a background thread if the visible part of the file is very large, such as an XML file or database dump that does not have line breaks.
File Types|Colors: Color picker shows all the colors used in the selected palette in the order that they are first used so you can easily use exactly the same color for multiple elements.
File Types|Colors: Margin color is now customizable in EditPad Lite too.
File Types|Colors: Selecting “default” as the background, text, or underline color for selected text now leaves that color unchanged when text is selected instead of using the highlighting colors of the Windows theme.
File Types|Colors: Show previews of all the colors in the list.
File Types|Definition: Always Open/Edit files of this type with EditPad are now enabled for the “unspecified file type”; they add an “Open” or “Edit” item to the context menu of all files in Windows Explorer that don’t already have one; the context menu items open the file in EditPad; double-clicking the file will not open it in EditPad.
File Types|Editor: Specifying a maximum line length for word wrapping and setting word wrap off by default now makes that maximum line length the default when turning on word wrap via the Options menu.
File Types|Encoding: Default line break style can now be set to any line break style supported by EditPad.
File|Save As now makes backup copies of files it overwrites (if backups are enabled).
File|Save now preserves the file creation time when quick backups are enabled.
Files larger than 2 GB can now be opened by the licensed version of EditPad Lite.
Files with paths longer than 260 characters are now opened and saved correctly; previously EditPad acted as if such files did not exist.
Forum: Edited dates are now shown relative to the posted date if the time gap between now and the edited date is larger than the time gap between the posted date and the edited date.
Forum: Editing the summary of a message now also updates the subject of the conversation if it is the same as the old summary of the message.
Forum: Long lists of conversations are now loaded faster.
Forum: Reply dates are now shown relative to the starting date if the time gap between now and the reply is larger than the time gap between the reply and the start of the conversation.
Forum: Sort attachments by clicking column headers in the list.
Go|Back/Forward in Editing Position renamed from Previous/Next Editing Position to make it more obvious that these commands use chronological order like the Back/Forward in Edited Files commands and unlike the other Next/Previous commands.
Go|Go To Position: Ignore thousands separators.
HTTPS is now used to download syntax coloring schemes, file navigation schemes, and spell check dictionaries (on Windows Vista and later).
Line break scanning now uses two background threads making it twice as fast and allowing the end of the file to be accessed instantly after opening the file as the second thread starts at the end of the file.
Line break style detection is now done whenever you insert or delete lines, possibly changing the status bar indicator and the line break style used by the Enter key.
Line break styles other than CRLF, LF, or CR can be inserted by pressing Enter; the dominant one of NL, LS, or PS is inserted if the file exclusively uses Unicode line breaks; FF or VT is inserted if the file exclusively uses these line breaks.
Mouse: Holding down Alt on the keyboard while double-clicking in the margin area (where line numbers are shown) now selects the line without the line break.
Mouse pointer shown when scrolling the editor by clicking the mouse wheel now supports all resolutions between 100% and 400% display scaling.
Options|Font: Show a checkmark next to the font that is being used by the active file if that font is present in the menu.
Options|Text Layout: Complex script text layouts now allow fonts like Fira Code to form ligatures with parentheses and angle brackets; always spaces text correctly; ligatures are not broken to allow different colors; ligatures can have only one text color; they can have multiple background colors if the ligatures use one glyph per character.
Options|Text Layout: Complex script text layouts now always use the main font for visualized spaces and generic line breaks.
Options|Text Layout: Independent options for treating underscores, hyphens, other punctuation, currency symbols, math symbols, and/or symbols as word characters.
Options|Text Layout: Monospaced left-to-right text layout no longer clips italic overhang at the end of words or at color changes.
Options|Text Layout: Monospaced left-to-right text layout now allows fonts like Fira Code to form ligatures; only spaces text correctly if the ligatures use one glyph per character; ligatures are broken when some of their characters need to be displayed in different colors. Works with Fira Code and Hasklig. Does not work with DejaVu Sans Code because it does not use one glyph per character.
Options|Text Layout: Monospaced left-to-right text layout now assumes that characters in right-to-left scripts are stored in visual order in the file. This allows files from old (DOS) systems that did not support modern bidirectional editing to be displayed correctly. As a consequence, the monospaced left-to-right text layout also disables automatic font substitution. Only characters supported by the font will be displayed.
Pinned side panels now pop out immediately instead of sliding out slowly when you hover the mouse pointer over their buttons.
Preferences|Cursors: Custom mouse pointers now support sizes larger than 32x32 when DPI scaling is set to 200% or more, supporting DPI scaling up to 400%.
Preferences|Cursors: If you select a custom mouse pointer with inside and outside colors then those colors are also used for the mouse pointer that indicates scrolling when you click the editor with the mouse wheel.
Preferences|Save Files: Separate options for closing files with unsaved changes and closing files that were never saved, allowing untitled files to be saved automatically without prompting; the choice for files with unsaved changes now affects files that were made empty.
Preferences|Shortcuts: Open with EditPad context menu item for folders is now also added to the “directory background” context menu in Windows Explorer.
Preferences|Shortcuts: Open with EditPad context menu items in Windows Explorer now show EditPad’s icon.
Regex: Attempting to search for a regular expression that is too long for EditPad Pro to handle now triggers a clear error message, instead of a crash. Syntax highlighting highlights the tail end of the regex in red to indicate just how much too long the regex is.
Regex: Invalid backreferences in the replacement string are now treated as errors.
RegexBuddy: When sending part of a file or the contents of a modified file to RegexBuddy, make sure that RegexBuddy uses the same encoding as EditPad. Regex tokens such as \xFF are affected by this. Requires RegexBuddy 4.0.0 or later.
Search: Start EditPad with blank Search and Replace boxes; the last used search term and replacement can still be accessed via the Search History.
Search: Allow backwards searching in regular expression mode if the regular expression consists entirely of literal text.
Search: Better performance when replacing all matches inside a selection.
Search: Multi-line Search and Replace boxes are now resized based on how many lines of text they contain when they are stacked vertically.
Search: Progress meter now appears after one second for searches that take more than one second to find the first match.
Search: Replacing all matches of a regex in a file now shows a second progress meter while making the replacements after all matches were found instead of keeping the progress meter stuck at 99% while the replacements are made.
Search: Small Search and Replace boxes now have syntax coloring for regular expressions and placeholders.
Search: Tab key now switches between the small Search and Replace boxes when either of them has keyboard focus instead of giving keyboard focus to a toolbar button.
Search: Whole words only is disabled if the search term is not a regular expression and begins or ends with a character that is not a word character.
Search: Whole words only option now takes the “character sequences to treat as words” setting in the text layout configuration into account when the search term is literal text; regular expressions continue to follow their own rules.
Search|Highlight All: Highlighted matches are no longer obscured by the search range.
Search|Highlight All: Zero-length regular expression matches are now highlighted too.
Search|Incremental Search can now find shorter words before longer words when “whole words only” is on.
Spell check: Live spelling now correctly checks words that have multiple colors applied to them by syntax coloring.
Spell check: Live spelling now lays the color for misspelled words on top of syntax coloring so that the syntax color rather than the plain text color is used when any part (background, text, underline) of the color for misspelled words is set to “default”.
Spell check: Words in ALL CAPS are no longer ignored by the spell checker; they are accepted as correctly spelled if the dictionary contains the word in ALL CAPS, in lowercase, or with the first letter capitalized.
Spell check: Words with MiXeD capitalization are no longer accepted as correctly spelled unless the dictionary contains the word with the same MiXeD capitalization.
Toolbar icons can now be switched between small, medium, and large sizes by right-clicking the toolbar.
Toolbar icons now support up to 400% display scaling at all increments available in the basic display settings in Windows, allowing EditPad to properly scale its toolbars on all PC and laptop displays on the market today.
Window and taskbar icon are now red when EditPad is running with Administrator privileges.
Windows 10: Scroll the tabs with the mouse wheel while the mouse pointer is hovering over the tabs.
Word wrapping is now done using two threads separate from line break scanning, making it more than twice as fast and allowing the end of the file to be accessed instantly after opening the file or turning on word wrap as the second thread starts at the end of the file.
Word wrapping no longer breaks after leading whitespace if the first word on the line is too long to fit, preferring to wrap in the middle of that word instead.

EditPad Lite 7.6.7 – 10 December 2019

Bug fix:

Selecting Help|Forum in the menu or clicking the Forum button on the toolbar triggered an access violation, making it impossible to access the forum (7.6.6 only).

EditPad Lite 7.6.6 – 9 December 2019

Bug fixes:

Block|Insert File: Inserting an empty file now simply does nothing instead of triggering an access violation error.
Block|Rectangular Selections: Copying a rectangular selection to the clipboard, exiting EditPad, and then pasting into another EditPad instance pasted the copied text but not as a rectangular selection.
Help window no longer becomes unresponsive if EditPad shows a modal dialog box while the help window is already visible.
Search: Toolbar buttons and context menu items were not highlighted when you hover the mouse over them if the Search or Replace drop-down list had keyboard focus.
As a consequence of this fix, the Search and Replace drop-down lists lose keyboard focus if you hover the mouse over a button on the Search toolbar.
Using a color picker no longer automatically moves pointer to the default button in the dialog box that uses the color picker button when the option to automatically move the mouse pointer to the default button is enabled in the Windows Control Panel.

EditPad Lite 7.6.5 – 8 February 2019

Bug fixes:

Clip Collection: Double-clicking a clip that contains a parameter to be substituted by AceText causes its Substitute Parameters dialog to appear behind EditPad.
Cut and Copy commands were disabled when nothing was selected in the main editor and “copy active line when nothing is selected” was turned off even when the Search or Replace box had keyboard focus and a selection.
Search: Free-spacing comments immediately after an exact spacing group were not highlighted as comments; e.g. #test was not highlighted as a comment in (?x)(?-x:a)#test.

EditPad Lite 7.6.4 – 11 May 2018

Improvements:

Character map: Minimum cell size now scales on high DPI systems, keeping large character sets like Unicode legible.
File tabs are now better proportioned on high DPI systems.
Windows 10: Installer now deals with Controlled Folder Access more efficiently when Windows Defender is operational and ignores it when Windows Defender is not operational, ensuring a smoother installation on Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and 1803 (April 2018 Update).

Bug fixes:

File Types|Encoding: Default line break style is now used when opening an existing file that does not have any line breaks.
Saving an existing file failed if the file was in use by another application even when that application did not keep a write lock on the file.
Search: Highlighting regex matches with the Inverted Line By Line search option turned on did not work correctly (7.6.x only).

EditPad Lite 7.6.3 – 15 January 2018

Improvements:

Windows 10: Installer adds EditPad as an allowed application to Controlled Folder Access in Windows Defender in the Fall Creators Update.
Windows 10: Installer no longer complains that it can’t create the desktop shortcut if that was blocked by Controlled Folder Access.

Bug fixes:

Preferences|Open Files: Option to automatically reload all files was turned off each time you opened the Preferences dialog.
Windows 10: EditPad now shows an error message instead of pretending the file was saved successfully when overwriting an existing file is blocked by Controlled Folder Access.

EditPad Lite 7.6.2 – 10 October 2017

Improvements:

Spell checker: Learned words that are not entirely lowercase are now case sensitive just like words in the main dictionary.
Text Layout Configuration: Disable character width option when the text layout is not monospaced to indicate that it won’t be used.

Bug fixes:

Spell checker: Automatic suggestions for a misspelled word that is all lowercase now preserve the case the suggested word has in the dictionary instead of making it lowercase.
Spell checker: Learned replacements that only change the case of a word no longer highlight occurrences of the word with the corrected case as misspelled.
The ellipsis character U+2026 was changed into a line break when copied to the clipboard by EditPad from a file that does not exclusively use CRLF line breaks and pasted into an application that’s not from Just Great Software.
View|Browser in some situations used the browser that was previously associated with .html files instead of the browser currently associated with .html files, depending on how the file association was changed.

EditPad Lite 7.6.1 – 30 May 2017

Improvement:

Tip of the day is no longer shown at startup when automatic news is shown at startup.

Bug fixes:

Go|Next/Previous Editing Position now clears the selection when selections are not persistent.
Proxy server settings were not saved (7.6.0 only).

EditPad Lite 7.6.0 – 3 April 2017

New feature:

Help|News & Updates: New version announcements and other news about EditPad and optionally other Just Great Software products can now be shown automatically or upon request.

Improvements:

Proxy password is now encrypted when stored in the .ini file.
Search: Highlighting regex matches of \r or \n now highlights all CRLF pairs to indicate that replacing half a line break always replaces the entire line break in EditPad.
Windows 10: Mouse wheel scrolls the control pointed to by the mouse pointer instead of the control that has keyboard focus.

EditPad Lite 7.5.0 – 27 October 2016

Improvements:

About box and demo messages now scale on systems using 200% or more display scaling.
Toolbar icons are now doubled up in size on systems using 200% or more display scaling making the small icons suitable for 200% display scaling and the large ones for 300% scaling.

Bug fixes:

Convert|Rot-13: When nothing is selected and thus the whole file is converted, the whole file also became needlessly selected.
Search: Combo boxes for the search term and replacement (when using the Search toolbar without the full Search panel) did not scale their width on high DPI systems.
Toolbars: Switching between small and large toolbar icons made the toolbars and menus unresponsive until you closed and restarted EditPad (7.4.0 and 7.4.1 only).

EditPad Lite 7.4.1 – 27 April 2016

Bug fixes:

Clip Collection: If AceText crashes or becomes unresponsive, EditPad now silently abandons its connection with AceText instead of spewing an infinite stream of “the RPC server is unavailable” errors.
Forum: Splitter positions in forum are not preserved when restarting EditPad.
Preferences|System: Turning on the option to erase history lists stopped the search panel from saving its search term but did not erase the previously saved search term, if any.
Regex: Quantifiers on literal line breaks counted CRLF as two iterations instead of one iteration.
Regex: Quantifiers on literal line breaks were highlighted as errors.
Search: Whole words only searches are now consistent between forwards searches, backwards searches, and match highlighting.
Spell check panel scaled itself twice to high DPI monitors, causing the buttons to be enormous and the list of suggestions to be obscured by them on very high DPI monitors.
Windows 10: Closing EditPad when it is not maximized and with the left or top edge of the window touching the left or top edge of the desktop caused it to start up slightly wider or taller next time (7.4.0 only).

EditPad Lite 7.4.0 – 18 December 2015

Improvements:

Installer no longer asks to accept the license agreement if you already have EditPad Lite 7.x.x installed.
Installer now puts a single shortcut directly in the Start menu which better fits the Start menu on Windows 10.
Preferences|Side Panels: Selecting a dark background color for the side panels now makes EditPad select a different theme for tree views that provides more contrast when you restart EditPad.
Windows 10: New look for the menus and toolbars on Windows 10 to add a bit more contrast to EditPad’s user interface.
Windows 10: Preserved window position now allows the visible portion of the window border to sit directly against the edge of the screen.

Bug fixes:

Do not prompt again checkbox on the question whether a file that was modified on disk and has unsaved changes did not stop the prompt if the choice was to reload the file.
Search: Replacing all matches of a regular expression in a large file would in rare circumstances only partially insert one or more replacements if the replacement was longer than the match (introduced in 7.3.2 and partially fixed in 7.3.5).

EditPad Lite 7.3.8 – 5 May 2015

Improvement:

Preferences|Cursors: Custom mouse pointers now scale on high DPI systems just like the standard mouse pointers.

Bug fixes:

Double-clicking the same file twice in Windows Explorer while EditPad is not running may start a new EditPad instance wtih two tabs for the file when the two double clicks are timed just so.
Occasional random crashes when a single 64-bit EditPad instance was using more than 4 GB of memory (or an immediate crash on startup when the AllocationPreference registry key forces memory to be allocated from the top down).
Regex: Syntax highlighting indicated numbered backreferences that use the syntax for named backreferences as errors even though EditPad allows such backreferences (as long as there is a group with the specified number).
Search: Changing the search term or replacement string via the right-click menus of the drop-down list does not show the selected term until keyboard focus is moved away from the drop-down list.
Windows 7, 8, and 8.1: Minimizing EditPad when the option to hide the taskbar button is turned on in Options|Preferences|System left a non-functional taskbar button instead of hiding it (7.3.7 only).
Windows 8 and 8.1: The edges of the panels on the main window are now gray like they are on previous versions of Windows, instead of blue.

EditPad Lite 7.3.7 – 23 February 2015

Improvement:

File Types|Colors and Syntax: Palette editor color picker previews RGB values when the mouse hovers over a color.

Bug fixes:

Spell check: Romanian dictionaries did not show suggestions.
Windows 7: Maximizing EditPad, then minimizing all windows with Win+M, and then double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer brought up EditPad’s window in its restored size (not maximized) if you had not previously minimized it from its maximized state by clicking the Minimize button on its caption bar.
Windows 7: Maximizing EditPad, then minimizing it, then restoring it unmaximized, and then double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer caused EditPad to maximize itself; this would continue until EditPad was minimized from its non-maximized state.
Windows 7: Maximizing EditPad, then minimizing it, then restoring it unmaximized, and then using a menu item like File|New that is available through EditPad’s icon next to the system clock (even if that icon is disabled) caused EditPad to maximize itself; this would continue until EditPad was minimized from its non-maximized state.
Word wrap: Word wrapping broke lines at certain characters where it should not, such as the non-breaking hyphen.

EditPad Lite 7.3.6 – 5 December 2014

Bug fix:

Search: Turning on incremental search, entering a search term, and then backspacing the search term caused other commands to either not show a progress meter or to permanently show a stuck progress meter.

EditPad Lite 7.3.5 – 1 October 2014

Improvement:

Search: Drop-down lists on the Search toolbar (when not using the full Search panel) no longer show multi-line search terms that the Search history remembers from the full Search panel.

Bug fix:

Clip Collections: Uploading a clip collection failed if the description contained line breaks.
Search: Replacing all matches of a regular expression in a large file sometimes did not make the replacements correctly if the replacement was longer than the match in versions 7.3.2, 7.3.3, and 7.3.4.

EditPad Lite 7.3.4 – 21 August 2014

Bug fix:

File Types, Encoding: EditPad 7.3.3 ignored the option to preserve the presence or absence of the byte order marker in existing files, using only the option “write a byte order marker at the start of Unicode files” to determine whether files would be saved with or without a BOM.

EditPad Lite 7.3.3 – 12 August 2014

Bug fixes:

High DPI: EditPad enforced a minimum size that was larger than the screen on small screens with very high resolution and thus very high font scaling (e.g. 200% font scaling on a 10” full HD screen).
High DPI: Side panel captions and tabs used excessively large fonts on high DPI systems; they now use the font size specified one the Panels tab in the Preferences.
Search: Replacing with a blank replacement used the last non-blank replacement in regular expression mode.

EditPad Lite 7.3.2 – 16 July 2014

Improvement:

Search|Replace All: A search-and-replace that makes a large number of replacements throughout the entire file (such as making a change on every line in the file) is now faster and uses less memory.

Bug fixes:

Editor: Deleting a rectangular selection left an empty rectangular selection that disabled certain commands like Extra|Trim Whitespace that have special behavior on rectangular selections until the selection was reset by clicking somewhere in the file or making a new selection.
Editor: Deleting a rectangular selection with the cursor on the bottom line and then using a command like Edit|Cut that operates on the active line when there is no selection operated on the deleted selection’s bottom line instead of the top line where the cursor is at after deleting the selection.
Maintain History List: Open, Remove, Up, and Down buttons were not disabled when the dialog was initially shown (with nothing selected) if the dialog had previously been used with something selected.
Search: Attempting to use a regex with a syntax error caused other commands to either not show a progress meter or to permanently show a stuck progress meter.
Text Layout: Deleting a text layout and then switching to a tab that was using the bottommost text layout caused an index out of bounds error.

EditPad Lite 7.3.1 – 14 March 2014

Improvement:

Help: Better workaround for the bug in IE 9 that causes 64-bit applications to crash when using HTML Help, allowing EditPad to show the correct help topics instead of the first page of the help file.

Bug fixes:

Convert|Text Encoding: Dialog box did not adjust its size to fit on small screens.
File|Open submenu forgets files that were still open in EditPad when Windows was shutting down.
Keyboard: Latvian keyboard layouts are now recognized as using the AltGr key making EditPad disable conflicting Ctrl+Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts by default.
Options|Text Layout: Selecting one of the complex script text layouts for a file that contains very long sequences of characters (10,000 or more) from a single Unicode block without any whitespace caused EditPad to eat up all available memory.
Regular expressions in the form of (?<=lookbehind).* performed very poorly when the “dot matches line breaks” option was off.
Search|Replace All and Search|Cut Matches were extremely slow when the Line by Line search option was turned on.
Spell: Straight apostrophes in spell checker replacements were always changed into smart apostrophes instead of only changing them when the misspelled word used smart apostrophes.
Undo: Closing a read-only file while no other files are open resulted in a tab for a blank untitled file that allowed editing but did not allow undo or redo.

EditPad Lite 7.3.0 – 26 July 2013

Improvements:

Fallback fonts for complex script text layouts are now used in a more granular fashion, allowing smaller bits of text to be displayed with different fonts, ultimately allowing more characters to be displayed with the correct fallback font. This improves the rendering of text mixed with special symbols such as mathematical equations.
Forum: HTTP proxy server support extended with more authentication methods.
Forum: SOCKS proxy server support.
Working copies: Do not automatically load working copies of unsaved files when there is already a running EditPad instance that cannot be reused because it is running with different permissions (admin vs non-admin).

Bug fixes:

Forum continued to use the old proxy settings until you closed the forum window if you changed the proxy settings after having successfully connected to the forum.
Pasting a small amount of text at the very start of a file fails if the text was copied from another file with a different line break style.
Print: Adding a new color palette via the print preview failed with a “list index out of bounds” error.
Search: Line by line search failed or hung when searching through all files and a file that wasn’t the active file hadn’t been fully scanned for line breaks yet.
Search: Regular expressions starting with \Z or starting with a lookbehind followed by \Z that could not find a match before the final line break in the file (because of the lookbehind or whatever follows \Z) caused EditPad Pro to hang if the file ended with a line break.
Toolbars: Toolbar visibility was not preserved when restarting EditPad if you did not customize the toolbars at all other than changing which toolbars are visible.
View|Custom Layouts: Loading a previously saved layout broke the Options|Word Wrap and Options|Text Layouts submenus.
View|Custom Layouts: Saving a layout caused the bottom half of the Options|Word Wrap submenu to be doubled up.
View|Custom Layouts|Delete removed the selected layout(s) from the menu but deleted the .ini files for the most recently added layout.
Windows XP: Enabling the tray icon and the option to hide the taskbar button, opening and closing the text layout configuration dialog, and then minimizing EditPad did not hide the taskbar button; restoring EditPad via the taskbar button made EditPad’s window edge and caption unresponsive.
Windows XP: Enabling the tray icon and the option to hide the taskbar button, opening the forum, minimizing EditPad, and then restoring EditPad via the taskbar button made EditPad’s window edge and caption unresponsive; hiding EditPad’s taskbar button is not possible while the forum window is still open.

EditPad Lite 7.2.3 – 22 February 2013

Improvements:

Ignore command line parameters pointing to notepad or notepad.exe.
Preferences, Search: Turning off “double-clicking a word instantly highlights all occurrences of that word” and clicking OK in the Preferences window now removes any instant highlighting so users who are unaware of the Search|Instant Highlight menu item don’t get stuck with a highlight they’re trying to disable.

Bug fixes:

File|Rename/Move: Renaming files now works even when the only change is a difference in case.
Keyboard: Ctrl+punctuation key combinations to type letters with diacritics did not work if the punctuation key is typed by a Shift+number key combination, even after removing the same Ctrl+Shift+number key combination from the shortcuts for the Mark menu.
Preferences, Search: “Double-clicking a word instantly highlights all occurrences of that word” now only invokes Search|Instant Highlight when you actually double-click a word, and not when you double-click something else that has a double-click action of its own, such as URLs that open web pages. Selecting Search|Instant Highlight in the menu will still highlight whatever is selected or under the cursor, even if it has a double-click action.
Search commands that process all matches like Replace All showed an access violation error after showing a proper error message when attempting to use an invalid regular expression (7.2.1 and 7.2.2 only).
Search: Replacements that include placeholders like %MATCHN% were made as if the “Adapt Case” option was always on when the “Regular Expression” and “Case Sensitive” options were off.
Search: Replacements with double-digit backreferences starting with a zero like \06 were interpreted as \0 only instead of \0 followed by a literal digit (e.g. 6) if there are fewer than the specified number (e.g. 6) capturing groups in the regex.
Search: Searching for a regex with a syntactically invalid character class containing a hyphen such as [\u1234-\u567] and then searching for a syntactically valid regex containing a character class caused the regex to be parsed incorrectly, adding a literal hyphen to the character class. Any subsequent searches using another regex with only valid character classes had the regex parsed correctly again.

EditPad Lite 7.2.2 – 10 December 2012

Bug fix:

Division by zero errors when opening files, closing EditPad, and/or changing the font size.

EditPad Lite 7.2.1 – 26 November 2012

Bug fixes:

Search: Attempting to search with an invalid regular expression enables the Replace Current and Replace Current and Find Next commands. Using either of those causes an access violation because there is no current match to replace. The buttons should be disabled when the search fails.
Search: Using a keyboard shortcut such as F3 to search with an invalid regular expression shows the error message about the invalid regular expression twice.
Selecting text from right to left and deleting the selection caused an access violation (7.2.0 only; Lite only).

EditPad Lite 7.2.0 – 2 November 2012

New feature:

Preferences|Editor: Copy active line when nothing is selected.

Improvements:

Deleting (large) rectangular selections is now much faster.
Edit|Copy should not do anything when the cursor is on a blank line and nothing is selected.
File|Save As should close the file that is being overwritten to prevent the same file being open in two tabs.
Forum: Double-clicking an editpad: link within EditPad should open the link directly in EditPad’s forum rather than using the system for web URLs, which may be configured to launch a specific browser.
Windows 8: Uninstall shortcut is no longer pinned to the start screen by the installer (but it won’t unpin any shortcuts that were previously pinned).

Bug fixes:

Edit|Cut Append and Edit|Copy Append failed with an access violation if the clipboard contained an empty string (as opposed to the clipboard being genuinely empty). EditPad itself will never put an empty string onto the clipboard.
Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines fails to delete the 3rd duplicate in blocks of 3 or more duplicate lines when using the “adjacent lines only” option.
Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines fails when using the “selection only” option and the first line in the file is not selected (7.1.2 only).
Print: Print preview was not rendered correctly on high DPI systems.
Print: Selecting a different color palette in the print preview changes the color palette in the editor too, instead of only applying the palette to the print preview.
Search|Copy Matches: Copying the matches of a regex that only finds zero-length matches causes an access violation when trying to paste the blank data that was copied to the clipboard; now Copy Matches will not alter the clipboard if all matches are zero-length.
Tabs: Clicking above or below the scroll, list, and close buttons on the tab control should not activate the tab that would appear at that position if the buttons were not present.
View|Browser does not work correctly when Firefox is the default browser and the path to the file you’re editing contains spaces (7.1.2 only).
Windows 8: Toolbar combo boxes did not properly display their drop-down arrows.

EditPad Lite 7.1.2 – 31 May 2012

Improvements:

64-bit: Indicate x86, x64, or WOW64 in the About box to indicate whether you’re running the 32-bit version on 32-bit Windows, the 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows, or the 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines now uses all CPU cores while comparing lines.
Search|Toggle Search Panel has been renamed as Multi-Line Search Panel to make it clearer what this menu item does.
Toolbars: If you have never customized the toolbars and haven’t used an earlier version of EditPad 7.x.x then EditPad no longer saves the toolbar configuration, resulting in a noticeably faster shutdown of EditPad on slower computers. If you did customize the toolbars or use an earlier version, then you can use View|Restore Default Layout to tell EditPad to stop saving the toolbar configuration.

Bug fixes:

64-bit: Handling of “multimedia” keyboard keys and user-configured mouse buttons was broken in the 64-bit version of EditPad.
Clip Collection: Automatic save should not trigger errors when modifying clip collections stored in the Program Files folder.
Context menu customizations did not stick in versions 7.1.x.
Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines incorrectly treated lines with rare combinations of different text as duplicates.
Installer: License key was not installed when installing EditPad 7.0.9, 7.1.0, or 7.1.1 silently.
Mouse pointer did not snap to the default button when this option is turned on in the Control Panel.
Preferences, Keyboard: Alt+letter combinations used as accelerators on the Preferences form could not be assigned as shortcuts to menu items. The same problem also existed in the Tools configuration and Macro properties.
Preferences|Cursors: “Backspace unindents” does not correctly unindent when the preceding line it has to unindent to has only one non-whitespace character at the very end of the line.
Preferences|Keyboard: Button to restore default keyboard shortcuts did not restore those of the side panels other than the Search panel.
Preferences|Keyboard: Clip Collection commands were not listed.
Preferences|Keyboard: Side panel shortcuts were not shown in the list of conflicting shortcuts.
Preferences|Tabs: The option to show the close button only on the active tab allowed non-active tabs to be closed when clicking on the space reserved for the close button.
Search: Blank files are no longer skipped when searching for a regular expression, so that regular expressions such as \A can find zero-length matches in blank files.
Search: Line by Line mode found/highlighted lines in which a zero-length regex match could be found after the line break.
Search: Regular expressions no longer fail to find zero-length matches at the start of the file when using a command to find the next match or all matches.
Search|Cut Matches sometimes used the replacement text from a previous search-and-replace.
Search|Replace All triggered an access violation if it found a match at the very end of the file and the replacement text was shorter than the search match.
Search|Replace All with the “Line by Line” option no longer deletes the line break at the end of the line if the replacement text is not blank. This prevents the next line from being appended to the replaced line and prevents all lines after the first match from being deleted if the search term is part of the replacement text.
Spell check panel did not scale properly on high DPI systems.
Spell check: Double-clicking a misspelled word highlighted by live spelling while the spell check panel was still busy finding suggestions for a previously double-clicked word closed the spell checker instead of checking the new word.
Spell check: Words that are the result of automatic replacements by the spell checker should not be marked as misspelled, even if the original dictionary does not contain them.
UTF-8 auto-detection ignored an invalid UTF-8 sequence at the very end of the file.
View|Browser started Firefox minimized if Firefox was not running and Firefox was the default browser and EditPad Pro was configured to use the default browser.
View|Custom Layouts: If restoring a layout triggered any kind of error, the menu with the saved layouts became blank.
View|Office 2003: Switching to or from the Office 2003 display style worked only once during each EditPad session (7.1.x only).
View|Restore Default Layout now also restores the size and position of the main editor, in case it has become dislodged from its normally fixed location.
View|Restore Default Layout squished toolbar icons together on PCs configured for 144 DPI (150%) or more.
Windows 7: Options|Stay on Top causes the Options|Font window to appear behind EditPad, making it impossible to further interact with EditPad using the mouse; EditPad now works around this Windows 7 issue by temporarily disabling “stay on top” mode while showing the Font dialog.

EditPad Lite 7.1.1 – 24 January 2012

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.

EditPad Lite 7.1.0 – 16 January 2012

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:

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.9 – 9 December 2011

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.8 – 20 October 2011

Bug fixes:

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.7 – 4 October 2011

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.6 – 19 August 2011

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.5 – 15 August 2011

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).

EditPad Lite 7.0.4 – 28 June 2011

Bug fix:

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

EditPad Lite 7.0.3 – 27 June 2011

Improvement:

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.
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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.2 – 8 June 2011

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.1 – 30 May 2011

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.

EditPad Lite 7.0.0 – 16 May 2011

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.

New features:

Automatic ASCII->Unicode interpretation for encodings that use sequences of ASCII characters to encode Unicode characters. This works with files encoded in VIQR, ASCII+\uFFFF, ASCII+&#xFFFF, ASCII+ and ASCII+&html;. E.g. for ASCII+&html; typing é inserts those 8 ASCII characters into the file. When you type the ; the whole sequence will appear as é in EditPad. For VIQR, typing e’ inserts those two ASCII characters, and EditPad will show é. If you want the ASCII codes to appear literally, you have to escape them yourself. EditPad does not automatically encode & as & for ASCII+&html; or ‘ as \’ for VIQR. If you type in é with one of these encodings, EditPad will display the é and insert é or e’ into the file.
Character Map: Buttons to insert the character, its code page index in dec/hex, its Unicode code point in dec/hex or its XML entity.
Character Map: Filter map on Unicode blocks and scripts in addition to or instead of Unicode properties.
Character Map: Look up characters by typing in their code points.
Context menu item on file tabs to copy the file’s path to the clipboard.
Convert|Text Encoding: ArmSCII (Armenian).
Convert|Text Encoding: ASCII+\uFFFF ASCII+&#xFFFF ASCII+ ASCII+&html;
Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-CN (Simplified Chinese).
Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-JP (Japanese).
Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-KR (Korean).
Convert|Text Encoding: EUC-TW (Traditional Chinese).
Convert|Text Encoding: GEOSTD8 (Georgian).
Convert|Text Encoding: HZ (Simplified Chinese) (conversion only; no direct editing).
Convert|Text Encoding: ISCII (Indic).
Convert|Text Encoding: ISIRI-3342 (Persian).
Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-CN (RFC 1922) (conversion only; no direct editing).
Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-JP (RFC 1468), ISO-2022-JP-1 (RFC 2237), ISO-2022-JP-2 (RFC1554) (conversion only; no direct editing). Also known as “JIS”.
Convert|Text Encoding: ISO-2022-KR (RFC 1557) (conversion only; no direct editing).
Convert|Text Encoding: Kamenický (Czech and Slovak).
Convert|Text Encoding: KZ-1048 (Kazach).
Convert|Text Encoding: Macintosh character sets.
Convert|Text Encoding: Mazovia (Polish).
Convert|Text Encoding: MIK (Bulgarian).
Convert|Text Encoding: PTCP154 (Cyrillic Asian).
Convert|Text Encoding: TSCII (Tamil; conversion only; no direct editing).
Convert|Text Encoding: US-ASCII (7-bit).
Convert|Text Encoding: UTF-7 (conversion only; no direct editing).
Convert|Text Encoding: Vietnamese code pages: VISCII, VIQR/Vietnet, VNI, VPS, TCVN
Convert|Text Encoding: YUSCII.
Edit, Insert Date and Time, Other Date and Time: Screen that list all available date and time placeholders to easily build up a date and time format.
Edit, Insert Date and Time: History menu with recently used date/time formats instead of a single fixed date/time format configured in the preferences.
EditPad Lite can now be licensed (purchased) for business and government use. It is still free for personal use.
Extra, Consolidate blank lines: multiple blank lines are replaced by a single blank line.
Extra, Remove blank lines.
File Types, Colors: Ability to create multiple user-defined presets.
File Types, Colors: Ability to select a color preset for each file type, to allow different file types to use different color combinations.
File Types, Colors: Color buttons show a color wheel to select any color instead of boxes for entering R,G,B numbers.
File Types, Editor: Font and text layout can now be configured per file type.
File Types, Encoding: Option to auto-detect ASCII+UCN and ASCII+XML entities.
File Types: Choose the default file type for new files.
File Types: Multiple file types can now be selected at the same time in the file type configuration screen and any changes made in the file type configuration screen are applied to all selected file types.
File, Save Copy As: Checkbox on the Save dialog to open the copy of the file in EditPad right after saving the copy (Windows Vista and 7 only).
Go|Next Editing Position: Move in the opposite way from Go|Previous Editing Position. EditPad now remembers 16 editing positions per file instead of just 4.
Keyboard: Ctrl+punctuation key combinations for typing of accented characters on a keyboard that does not support them.
Keyboard: Key 5 on the numeric keypad scrolls the view to center the cursor in the screen when Num Lock is off.
Options, Right-to-Left: Toggle between left-to-right and right-to-left writing.
Options, Text Layout: Increase or reduce the line height and character width by one or more pixels, for a tighter or roomier display. Add one or more pixels of extra line spacing to make lines easier to distinguish. Set everything to zero to emulate EditPad 5 and 6. Set font size adjustment to zero, and extra line spacing to 1 pixel to emulate EditPad 4.
Options, Text Layout: Option to display ASCII characters using full-width characters when a file is detected to contain ideographs, so columns made with spaces and tabs line up nicely when ASCII and ideographs are mixed.
Options, Text Layout: Option to force the editor to be monospaced, even when a proportionally spaced font is used.
Options, Text Layout: Option to toggle Ctrl+Left/Right between always going to the start of the next word (like programming editors) instead select the next word (EditPad style).
Options, Text Layout: Option to treat all non-whitespace non-word characters as word characters, as whitespace characters (as in EPP 6), or to ignore them when double-clicking on a word to select it, or when using Ctrl+Del etc.
Options, Text Layout: Presets and custom selections with combination of font, reading order, cursor movement, cursor appearance, and character spacing.
Preferences, Cursors: Backspace unindents when Auto Indent is turned on in the Options menu. In EditPad 6 pressing backspace when there is only whitespace to the left of the cursor unindents the line when auto indent is on. Turning off this option restores the EditPad Pro 5 behavior, where backspace always deletes one character to the left of the text cursor.
Preferences, Cursors: Option to make arrow left and right move the cursor at the left/right edge of the selection and clear the selection (like Notepad does) instead of moving the cursor left/right one character and clearing the selection (like Wordpad does).
Preferences, Cursors: Smart End key.
Preferences, Editor: Automatically turning on “selection only” when pressing Ctrl+F with a selection that spans multiple lines is now an option.
Preferences, Editor: Double-clicking a word instantly highlights all occurrences of that word.
Preferences, Editor: Option to always highlight the active line, even when the editor does not have keyboard focus.
Preferences, Editor: Option to disable drag-and-drop editing as some people find it a little to easy to made inadvertant changes while clicking about with the mouse.
Preferences, Editor: Option to make Ctrl+Wheel change the font size (zoom) instead of scroll one page. Zooms individual edit boxes without changing the font in the text layout configuration.
Preferences, Open Files: Option to automatically reload all modified files when switching from another application to EditPad, instead of just the active file.
Preferences, Open Files: Option to automatically reload local files, but not network files.
Preferences, Panels: Change the font and colors used by the side panels.
Preferences, Save Files: Backup option to add the date and time as an extension.
Preferences, Save Files: Option to specify a specific folder to create all backup files in.
Preferences, Save Files: Quick backup option that moves files and saves a new file (like EditPad Pro 6), vs. an overwrite option that makes a backup copy and overwrites the original file (like EditPad Pro 4 and 5). The key difference is that while the former option is faster, only the latter will guarantee that the file saved keeps all of its file attributes. Particularly if the file is on a non-Windows system this will make a difference, as EditPad cannot control the file attributes like UNIX file ownership that Windows does not control.
Preferences, Save Files: Single backup appending ~.
Preferences, Tabs: Font.
Preferences, Tabs: Option to add new tabs at the end instead of to the right of the active tab.
Preferences, Tabs: Option to have an X button directly on each tab.
Preferences, Tabs: Use most recent order when switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab.
Print preview: Select any of the color schemes defined in the Color Preferences, and remember the selected scheme in relation to the one used for the editor.
Read Only: Toggle read only status via an item in the context menu of a file’s tab.
Search, Instant Highlight: Automatically highlight all occurrences of the selected text.
Search, Inverted Line by Line: Match lines that do not contain the search term.
Search, Line by Line: Search each line separately, and select the entire line if it contains the search term.
Search, Toggle Search Panel: Toggles the visibility of the search panel, without changing the search text.
Search: A progress bar now appears for long searches, allowing the search to be aborted.
Search: Cut or copy all search matches to the clipboard.
Search: Placeholders %MATCH%, %MATCHN%, %LINE%, %LINEN%, and %FILE% with padding and arithmetic options.
Search: Search toolbar can now be used shown with or without the full search panel with multi-line search and replace edit controls. Small search and replace boxes appear on the toolbar when the search panel is hidden.
Side panels can now be docked anywhere and made to float.
Tabs: Holding down the Control button on the keyboard while clicking the X button on the tabs or pressing down the mouse wheel closes the tab without saving the file.
Tip of the day: Previous Tip button.
Toolbar and Menus: Side panel commands can now be added to context menus and the main toolbar.
Toolbar and Menus: The main menu, all the toolbars and most of the context menus can now be configured by right-clicking and selecting Configure, allowing all items to be rearranged and unused items to be removed.
Toolbar and Menus: Toolbars can now be docked anywhere or made to float.
Unicode file name support.
Unicode signature (BOM) status bar indicator, and an easy way to toggle writing the BOM for individual files.

Improvements:

Block|Write and Block|Append have been renamed to Block|Write to File and Block|Append to File for clarity.
Convert|Text Encoding: Converting from Unicode or any of the other legacy Vietnamese encodings to Windows 1258 now decomposes characters so that Vietnamese characters that are represented with combining marks in Windows 1258 are properly converted.
Create Portable Installation: If a PortableApps folder exists, install into a subfolder of that folder instead of into a subfolder in the root of the drive.
Drag and drop: Bring EditPad to front when dropping a file or text onto it.
Drag and drop: Drag URLs as URLs rather than as text, so they can be dropped on a web browser to open them.
Drag and drop: Dragging a tab now shows an image of the tab while dragging.
Drag and drop: Dragging and dropping text onto the selected text (e.g. from the main editor onto the selected search term after opening the search panel) now replaces the selected text rather than inserting the dropped text in the middle of it when not using persistent selections.
Edit|Delete Line: Do not move the cursor to the start of the line.
Edit|Redo: The keyboard shortcut for Redo was changed to Ctrl+Y to be more in line with other Windows applications. You can change it back to Ctrl+R via Options, Preferences, Keyboard.
Editor: Moving the cursor up and down when using a proportionally spaced font now maintains the horizontal pixel position instead of the column position of the cursor.
Editor: Tabs now line up correctly when using a proportionally spaced font.
Editor: The mouse pointer is now updated when the text scrolls underneath it (e.g. to change to a hand pointing at a link).
EditPad 7 runs side by side with EditPad 4, 5, and 6 instead of reactivating a running instance of EditPad 4, 5, or 6 like those versions do. EditPad 7 only reactivates EditPad 7 instances.
Eliminated 3d sunken border as to put the scroll bar against the edge of the screen if EditPad is maximized, making it very easy to hit with the mouse.
Exit item is now at the bottom of the right-click menu of EditPad’s icon next to the system clock for consistency with other Windows applications.
Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines: Options what to delete: 1st occurrence of duplicate lines, 2nd and following occurrences of duplicate lines, and/or non-duplicated lines.
File Types, Colors: Make the color for links configurable.
File Types, Colors: The bold, italic, and underline checkboxes are now hidden for items on which they have no effect.
File Types: Eliminated the distinction between core file types and other file types, so all file types can be reordered or deleted.
File Types: Exporting file types saves all selected file types into a single .ini file.
File Types: Importing file types now asks if file types that are already in the list should be replaced or not if some are determined to be duplicates (only works with file types exported from EditPad 7).
File, New: Automatically number untitled files.
File|Reload from disk: Auto-detect the file type based on the contents of the reloaded file if the file is using the “any file” file type.
File|Reopen: Add files when closing them, and remove them when opening them, to make the Reopen menu an easy way to retrieve accidentally closed files instead of a list of recently opened files that mostly shows files you have already open at the top.
Go, Back and Go, Forward move back and forward between files in the order they were last edited. These replace View, Previously Edited File which rotated through the last 5 files.
HTML meta tag check for determining the file’s encoding now supports the new HTML5 charset meta tag. <meta charset="iso-8859-15"> must be in the first 512 bytes of the document.
Keyboard: Do not use default keyboard shortcuts with Ctrl+Alt+letter if a keyboard layout is installed that uses AltGr, to prevent conflicts between Ctrl+Alt+letter and AltGr+letter.
Keyboard: Tab key respects overwrite mode and replaces the next character(s) with the tab or its equivalent in spaces.
Keyboard: When expanding a selection with Shift+Up/Down, select everything to the start/end of the file when up/down is pressed with the cursor already on the first/last line. Moving the cursor away again from the first or last line restores the cursor’s previous column position.
Mouse: Double-click on spaces to select a run of spaces, just like double-clicking on a letter selects words.
Opening a file via Windows Explorer (or any other application) should place the tab for the new file after the tab for the current file, instead of at the end. The File|Open menu item in EditPad does the same. Closing the new file then reactivates the previously edited file.
Paste: In Overwrite mode, pasting text should overwrite just like typing text does.
Preferences, Import: Preferences exported by previous versions of EditPad can be imported.
Preferences, Save Files: Turning on the option to automatically save working copies every few minutes now causes EditPad Pro to save working copies and leave them behind instead of prompting to save when you shut down Windows while EditPad has unsaved files open.
Preferences, System: The option to save settings into an .ini file instead of the registry has been removed. EditPad now always uses an .ini file. On some systems, EditPad took a long time to close, possibly due to anti-spyware software checking registry writes, making them very slow.
Read Only: Files forced to be read-only via the status bar indicator or the Open File dialog checkbox do not lose their read-only status when reloading from disk.
Reload from disk prompt now has a button for closing the file.
Search, Highlight: Highlighting multi-line search matches (which require the whole file to be scanned from the top rather than just the visible part) is now done in a background thread. If match highlighting hasn’t reached the visible part of the file yet, it is displayed immediately without search matches until highlighting catches up, rather than waiting for all the matches to be found.
Search, Highlight: Highlighting of search matches is now updated instantly as you type in the search match instead of after a fixed 2-second delay.
Search: Alt+Letter mnemonics for search options that take priority over main menu items when the search panel has keyboard focus.
Search: Ctrl+F starts the search if the search box already has keyboard focus.
Search: Option checkboxes have been replaced with toolbar buttons.
Search: Remember the visibility of the search panel and its size between EditPad sessions.
Search: Selecting Remove All in one of the history menus now clears all 3.
Spell check: The replacements added to the user word list now take precedence over the main dictionary. This allows you to delete words from the dictionary by adding an automatic replacement for that word.
Undo: Changes made before and after saving a file now always result in separate items in the undo history, so there is always a way to undo to the point of each save. E.g. type “foo”, save, type “bar”, undo removes “bar” instead of “foobar”.
View, New Editor: How the new editor is opened can now be configured in a submenu of the View, New Editor command rather than via the Preferences screen.
View, New Editor: Starting a new editor that splits the current editor now resets the size of the original editor when the new editor is closed and the original editor was not resized after the new editor was started.
Vista & 7: EditPad now scales itself instead of letting Windows handle the scaling when the font size in Windows has been increased by more than 125% (i.e. the display resolution is more than 120 DPI) resulting in a much crisper appearance of EditPad.
When EditPad is closed while maximized on a multi-monitor system, it now remembers which monitor it was maximized on in addition to being maximized.
Windows 7: Long operations that show a popup window with a progress meter now also indicate the progress on the taskbar button.

EditPad Lite 6.7.1 – 19 May 2011

Bug fixes:

Changing the Windows theme, waking the computer from sleep or unlocking it sometimes resulted in a “A call to OS function failed” error.
Editor: The “next line” control character U+0085 was not handled correctly in UTF-8 files.
Keyboard: Shift+Ctrl+Page Up/Down did not expand the selection.
Windows 7: Commands that show a progress meter caused EditPad Pro to lose keyboard focus.

EditPad Lite 6.7.0 – 17 February 2011

Bug fixes:

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 searched 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.

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 //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 features:

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 – 5 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

EditPad Lite 5.3.0 – 4 March 2004

Bug fixes:

Tip of the day window would be stuck behind EditPad’s main window when launching multiple copies of EditPad in quick succession.
Search and replace did not follow the active file's line break style when searching through all open documents, and EditPad needs to switch documents during the search
EditPad "forgot" the line break style of a file when all the characters in the file are deleted
Print preview no longer allows you to make the printable area smaller than one inch wide or tall.

EditPad Lite 5.2.0 – 25 November 2003

New features:

Linux: editpad.xpm is a pixmap file with EditPad’s icon that you can use to place EditPad on your Linux desktop or panel
View|Close Panes: Close all visible panes (search and replace, etc.)
View|Focus Editor: Move the keyboard focus to the main editor.

Improvements:

Convert|Windows/UNIX/Mac can now be undone, and no longer clear the undo history
File|Print: Show a warning when the combination of the page range and odd/even option cause no pages to be printed
Preferences, File Types: You can no longer change the description of the core file types, to make it clear that these file types have a special meaning to EditPad
When pressing Ctrl+Up, Ctrl+Down, Ctrl+Page Up or Ctrl+Page Down, the text is now scrolled while text cursor now keeps its position relative to the text.

Bug fix:

Control+Backspace inserted a non-printable character into the text (in addition to properly deleting the beginning of the word)

EditPad Lite 5.1.0 – 21 August 2003

Bug fixes:

Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut now maximizes/restores EditPad as it did before
Desktop shortcut created by the installer was not recognized by Options|Preferences|Shortcuts
Files with names such as source.c++ could not be opened because of the + characters or other special characters in the file name.
Opening several read only files from Windows Explorer causes trouble because of the information window informing about read only files
Windows XP alpha blended file type icons were not properly displayed when using the Windows Classic theme
Word wrapping at the width of the screen causes multi-byte characters to be broken up

EditPad Lite 5.0.0 – 24 July 2003

EditPad Lite 5.0.0 represents a major upgrade from previous EditPad Lite 4.x.y versions. So there are a lot of changes and improvements. Enjoy!

New features:

Under Windows XP, EditPad will now use the XP style interface.
When dragging and dropping text, a ghost caret is now shown at the drop point while dragging. This makes it a lot easier to drop the text at the exact position you want.
View|Sort Tabs Alphabetically will sort the tabs alphabetically. Note that this option will NOT force the tabs to remain sorted alphabetically at all times. They will be sorted just once.
Search and Replace: Added a small button showing a downward pointing arrow to access the history lists for the search and replace boxes.
The print preview now has buttons to jump to the first and the last page. You can also press the Home and End keys on the keyboard to go to the first or last page.
You can now disable printing of the headers by marking a checkbox, without having to delete the actual headers and footers. This allows the headers to be easily turned off for particular prints, and on for other prints. To do so, click on the Headers & Footers button in the print preview.
Preferences: Block Indent and Tab Size are now configurable per file type on the File Types page, rather than for all files on the Editors page.
On the Editor page in Options|Preferences, you can now specify whether the View|New Editor command, which starts a second copy of EditPad, will split the window horizontally, vertically, or not at all. Previously, View|New editor would always split horizontally.
On the Appearance page in Options|Preferences, you can now select if each tab should use an image to indicate the type of file. While the images make it easy to distinguish files, you may want to turn them off to make the tab smaller, so more tabs can be visible.

Speed improvements:

The routines that paint EditPad editor control (i.e. the area where you do the actual text editing) have been redesigned to make them significantly faster.
EditPad will feel quite a bit snappier if you use it on a slow computer and/or maximized at a very high screen resolution.
Significantly improved word wrapping performance. Large files with long lines will be opened a lot faster.
Significantly improved performance of Block|Indent and Block|Outdent on large blocks.
Fixed a bug that significantly slowed down searching when "whole words only" was turned on. This bug did not affect the final search results, it only slowed down achieving those results.

Functionality improvements:

While previous versions could already properly handle UNIX and Mac files, EditPad can now also perfectly handle files that use mixed line break styles. Line breaks will not be converted automatically. New line breaks will use the style most frequently used in that file. You can get files with mixed line break styles by editing them on different operating systems with tools or editors that do not detect and respect the line break style used by a particular file. E.g.: A file created with Delphi on Windows and edited with Kylix on Linux will contain both CRLF and LF line breaks. (Delphi and Kylix can handle this, but many other text editors and utilities cannot.)
The Insert/Overwrite mode is now synchronized between the main editor and the search and replace boxes. Pressing the Insert key on the keyboard or clicking the insert/overwrite indicator in the status bar will now toggle the insert/overwrite mode of the search and replace boxes as well as the main editor, no matter which of these three edit controls you are using at that time.
File|Open: The selected filter is now remembered after exiting EditPad.
File|Close: When warning that the file has not been saved, you can now use the standard Y and N keyboard shortcuts.
Block|Insert: You can now insert more than one file at the same time. The files will be inserted in the alphabetical order of their file names. After inserting one or more files, the Undo menu will now say "undo insert file" instead of "undo typing".
Print: The print preview will close automatically if clicking the Print button causes all pages to be printed. This saves you having to click the Close button or pressing Escape on the keyboard to close the print preview.
Option|Number Lines: Improved computation of the space needed for the line numbering when using proportionally spaced fonts to make sure all the digits fit.
Tip of the Day: If the tip of the day dialog is closed in less than a couple of seconds, the same tip is shown again next time. This means that if you don't want to read the tip just now, you can close the tip of the day dialog instantly by pressing the Escape key on the keyboard. You won't miss out on any valuable tips, since EditPad will show the same tip again next time if you did not read it this time. Of course, disabling the tip of the day alltogether is still possible by marking the checkbox below the tip of the day.
Rearranged the context menus that appear when right-clicking on the editor, a tab, or the empty space to the right of the tabs.
Closing an empty, modified file no longer causes EditPad to ask if the file should be saved.
F3 and Shift+F3 no longer change the state of the "start from beginning/end" and "search backwards" checkboxes.

Bug fixes:

No progress meter was shown when word wrapping a file consisting of a single, extremely long line, causing EditPad to look like it stopped responding.
After double-clicking on a file to edit it in EditPad Pro, the folder containing the file could not be deleted or renamed until EditPad was closed. This also meant that removable disks could not be ejected.
When determining the file type of a file, EditPad used a case sensitive comparison to find the extension in the list of extensions from Options|Preferences|Files Types. On the Windows platform, this should be case insensitive.
Changing the order of the tabs by dragging them with the mouse did not update the order of the tabs in the View menu and in the menu that appears when clicking the downward arrow on the tabs that appears when there are too many tabs to be displayed at once.
Fixed a bug that significantly slowed down searching when "whole words only" was turned on. This bug did not affect the final search results, it only slowed down achieving those results.
Dragging and dropping a file from WinZip into EditPad’s editing area will now cause the file to be properly opened in EditPad. Previously, EditPad would start with a blank tab because WinZip reported a different file name than it actually created, causing EditPad to try to open a file that did not exist. EditPad now requests the file name in a different way, causing WinZip to properly report the file name.

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