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[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 4.0.23 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 4.0.23 has been released. There is now support for PowerShell Script syntax highlighting. Besides that, some of the syntax schemes have been simplified, and the default settings have been revised. Also, some bugs and annoyances have been corrected, and internal changes allow complete internationalization of the Notepad2 executable file from resource strings (a future project). ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 4.0.22 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The final version of Notepad2 4.0.22 has been published. As advertised in the release notes for the 4.0-beta versions, the major addition is enhanced support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO, Mac and IBM EBCDIC encodings, as well as for additional Unicode Transformation Formats like UTF-7 and GB18030. With auto-detection of encoding tags, including HTML/XML meta tags to specify the character encoding, the new features are convenient to use. ...

[flos-freeware] Notepad2 4.0.22-beta5 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Despite my recent announcement of features being complete for 4.0.22, I have decided to merge some more useful patches contributed by Kai Liu into my own source code branch. The most visible addition is a consolidation of styles that are equivalent in practical use, but differentiated internally. This simplifies configuration of line and block comments, single and double quoted strings, and some other styles. Another patch ensures the ...

[flos-freeware] Notepad2 4.0.22-beta4 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Another beta version of Notepad2 4.0.22 has been published. When reloading files (either manually or automatically through the file change notification feature), Notepad2 tries to be smarter at keeping the current encoding. If new byte order marks, encoding tags or invalid byte sequences (for the current encoding) have been added to the file, usual encoding detection is performed, otherwise, the encoding is preserved. ...

[flos-freeware] Notepad2 4.0.22-beta3 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The 3rd beta version of Notepad2 4.0.22 has been released. The effective range of the --e command line switch has been expanded to newly created files and untitled documents. The following command will now bring up a Notepad2 window in KOI8-R mode: notepad2.exe --e koi8-r ...

[flos-freeware] Notepad2 4.0.22-beta2 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The 2nd beta version of Notepad2 4.0.22 has been released. File change notification settings have been regrouped inside a dialog box that can be reached with a hotkey (Alt+F5). There's an option to reset file change notification each time a new file is opened. The word wrap settings have been revised, and new options available through the Scintilla editing component have been enabled. ...

[flos-freeware] Notepad2 4.0.22-beta1 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, I have been working on a new version of Notepad2 with enhanced encoding support, for some time. I have now decided to merge the 3.x branch (a maintenance update was ready) with the next big development step, so here's the first beta version of Notepad2 4.0. Notepad2 now provides seamless support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO and Mac encodings. The new encoding features are summarized here: ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 3.0.21 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Many things were keeping me away from the computer, in the last weeks, and I've never really taken care of packaging and releasing the final version of Notepad2 3.1.21. There's no more new features as compared to the recent Release Candidate versions. I've incorporated some patches by Kai Liu to create non-existent ini-file directories, and some fixes to the Apache Config Files syntax scheme. ...

[flos-freeware] Release Candidate 4: Notepad2 Version 3.1.21 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The presumably last Release Candidate (rc4) before the final release of Notepad2 version 3.1.21 is ready. Recent files are now stored with pathnames relative to the Notepad2 program directory, so they can still be opened if Notepad2 is used from portable drives with changing drive letters. This feature is disabled for the system drive (where multiple copies of Notepad2.exe might be around), and can be turned off completely in the ini-file. ...

[flos-freeware] Release Candidate 3: Notepad2 Version 3.1.21 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The next Release Candidate (rc3) of Notepad2 version 3.1.21 has been published. This update restores compatibility of the command line format with previous versions of Notepad2. By default, Notepad2 now again accepts only a single filename on the command line. Like this, it's not necessary to quote filenames containing spaces: ...

[flos-freeware] Release Candidate 2: Notepad2 Version 3.1.21 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Another Release Candidate (rc2) of Notepad2 version 3.1.21 has been released. Some new features have slipped in: Notepad2 now accepts multiple files from the command line. The primary instance will act as a shell and simply launch new instances of Notepad2 with the --n command line switch (always open a new window; there may be support for other switches like --rs in the future). This requires filenames containing spaces to be quoted. To open just a ...

[flos-freeware] Release Candidate: Notepad2 Version 3.1.21 (Florian Balmer)

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 3.1.21 is now available as a Release Candidate. The final version is planned for the next few days to weeks. My favorite changes are the move up and down commands now working with selected text blocks (and not just single lines), and the new hotkeys to have the cursor jump to either side of the text selection, so it can be easily expanded. There's also a new command to sort lines, support for URL encoding and decoding, and a hotkey for Replace Next ...

[flos-freeware] Update: Converting Notepad2 to Unicode ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, What has started as a project to convert Notepad2 to a native Win32 Unicode application, has evolved to a new version with additional features. The first release candidate (rc1) of Notepad2 version 3.0 has been released and can be downloaded from the Notepad2 website. The included readme file details the changes. ...

[flos-freeware] Update: The Spirit of Open Source ()

--Florian ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 2.0.18 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Having a few days off, I'm spending some more time on my hobby, so here's Notepad2 version 2.0.18 with the following new features: * Ability to expand the selection to the specified text * Swap command to exchange the selection with the clipboard text Download: ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 2.0.17 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 2.0.17 is out. This is mainly a maintenance release to fix bugs. The most important new feature is an option allow only one instance of each file to be opened in Notepad2, at the same time (i.e. prevent opening the same file in multiple Notepad2 windows). And, there's a new setting to display the filename followed by the directory in the window title. ...

[flos-freeware] The Spirit of Open Source ()

--Florian ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 2.0.16 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 2.0.16 has just been released. This is only a minor update to fix some bugs and remove the dependency on the msvcr70.dll runtime library. The new version is available from the Notepad2 website: ...

[flos-freeware] Converting Notepad2 to Unicode ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, There's some work in progress on converting Notepad2 to a native Win32 Unicode application. Links to current downloads and more information can be found on the Notepad2 website: Best wishes, --flo ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 2.1.19 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 2.1.19 has just been released. There's some new features and many detail improvements and bug fixes, however it's still simple and light-weight. There's new commands to comment and uncomment source code, change letter case, and the original Notepad .LOG feature is now supported. The long line marker can easily be moved with the keyboard. The ini-file provides a new option to specify filters for the open and ...

[flos-freeware] Minor updates for Project Archive ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, I have just released several minor updates for some of the tools in my Project Archive. The most important is a new version of metapath (3.2.09) with support for ini-file storage of the program settings, so it works the same as Notepad2. For the other tools, there's just a few fixes of visual glitches (list view columns) and additions (manifest resources) for Vista. ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 2.0.15 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, After almost three years, a new version of Notepad2 has just been released. Version 2.0.15 is a major update with a lot of new and improved features. The most important are support for ini-file storage of the program settings, modeless find and replace dialogs, multiline find and replace operations, optional file change notification, and many more. Nevertheless, Notepad2 is still a fast and light-weight text editor. ...

[flos-freeware] Mailing List ()

This mailing list will provide you with announcements of updates on , including new releases of Notepad2. Minor changes like updates to the web-site or the FAQs etc. are not posted, so traffic will be very low. --Florian Balmer ...

[flos-freeware] New Release: Notepad2 Version 3.0.20 ()

Dear subscribers of this newsletter, Notepad2 version 3.0.20 is ready. It's a major update to turn Notepad2 into a native Win32 Unicode application. There's also some new editing commands, as well as many detail improvements and bug fixes. Best wishes, --flo ...