TextPad versions

v8.9 [Oct 14, 2021]
Enhancements:
- Optimized memory reuse when editing existing files.
- Macro commands to open, save and insert files can now accept codepage numbers.
- Enhanced syntax coloring of JSON files. Keys are now displayed in the color set for Keywords 2, and ',' and ':' in the color set for operators. true, false and null are recognized as values, and comments are highlighted.
- Implemented touchscreen zooming.
Issues resolved:
- Line numbers in the file comparison window were truncated when displayed in certain fonts.
- TextPad prevented Windows from restarting without manual intervention.
- Fixed a crash when turning on word wrap after zooming in or out.

v8.8 [Jun 3, 2021]
Issues resolved:
- Corrected a regression error in the Windows recovery manager interface.
- Fixed file system error with //network/.editorconfig when opening files.
- Fixed a crash while opening files on Windows 7 when .editorconfig was enabled.

v8.4 [Apr 26, 2020]
Enhancements:
- Clip libraries can now be created with UTF-8 encoding.
- Added an option for the bare minimum of keystroke shortcuts, so that users can more easily define their own preferences.
- When opening C/C include files, now searches for them in the Visual C 2019 and Windows 10 SDK installation paths.
Issues Resolved:
- Fixed infinite loop when replacing ".*" with anything at the end of a line.
- Fixed small font in the clip library.
- UTF-8 files containing invalid characters were truncated on input.

v8.2.0 [May 28, 2019]
Enhancements:
- Increased the 64KB line length limit in Find in Files to 1MB.
Issues Resolved:
- Dropped files did not use the default encoding defined in their document classes.
- The tool output buffer is now flushed at end of line.
- Preserve existing file's attributes when overwriting.
- Bitmaps on config tree on hi-res displays.
- When the cursor is out of the window, Ctrl Up/Down should move it into the window, before scrolling.

v8.1.2 [Nov 17, 2016]
Double and triple click using MS conventions should not have been actioned until button up.
Under MS mouse conventions, triple click now only selects the current paragraph in word wrap mode, otherwise the current display line is selected.
Default DOS encoding didn't work in v8 for quick opened, double clicked or dropped files.
If the default codepage for a document class was UTF-8, but a member file did not contain UTF-8 characters, non-ASCII characters were replaced with "?" when it was opened.
Fixed crash when opening syntax highlighted files where the final character is a digit.

v8.0.2 [Dec 3, 2015]
Enhancements:
A command to Refresh the view on the Compare Files context menu.
Issues Resolved:
Crash when clicking the dividing line between the file name and its contents in the Compare Files window.
When saving files with the UTF16BE encoding, only the first half of each buffer written had its bytes swapped.
The UNICODE BOM setting for the document class overrode the one on the Save As dialog box.
Line breaking did not follow the rules for Japanese text.
The spell checker did not ignore Japanese text.
Crash due to non-ASCII characters in syntax definition keywords. (These are invalid.)
Find in Files did not use the corresponding document class encoding for files with indeterminate encodings.
Compare Files reported differences between no space and spaces, when Ignore Spaces is set.
Sort was disabled in block mode.
Checkboxes in scrollable lists overlapped, and toolbars did not scale correctly, on high pixel density displays.
Changes to the state of scrollable check boxes were not updated for screen readers.
HTML Validator output was written to the Search Results window.
When started with "-f path" and "path" did not exist or did not contain ConfigState.xml, per user files were stored in the samples subfolder.
Text was not displayed correctly in the Incremental Finder when the display is scaled at 200%.

v7.5.1 [May 15, 2015]
Replacement format "\i{n,i,w,f}" didn't work as documented.
Help/About didn't show new license until after restart.

v7.4.0 [Jul 11, 2014]
TextPad 7.4.0 (10-July-2014)
Issues Resolved:
- Crash in spell check properties when invoked from the spelling dialog box.
- Infinite loop when reformatting Japanese characters.
- Control characters SOH, ESC, FS, GR, RS and US are not rendered by Windows so are now discarded if input from the keyboard.
- Improved context-sensitive help on Find/Replace dialog boxes.

v6.2.2 [Dec 3, 2012]
Enhancement: Spanish user interface.
Issues resolved: Occasional infinite loop on first startup, when transferring file associations from an earlier release.
Search and replace strings on dialog boxes were not persistent. The tool parameters to pass selected text, such as $Sel, did not work correctly. The selected word was not correctly passed to online help tools. When a new license was input using the Update License command, the old one was still displayed on the About box, until TextPad was restarted.

v6.1.3 [Jun 9, 2012]
TextPad 6.1 have a new menu commands to check for updates and to choose the user interface appearance.

v5.4.2 [Oct 18, 2010]
- Numeric sorts now use 64-bit integers.
- Windows 7/Vista Open and Save As dialog boxes, when running on
those operating systems.
- Increased size of visible spaces for monitor widths greater than
1024 pixels.
- Scale the user interface fonts when the display DPI is set
greater than the default 96.
- Improved the appearance of checkboxes and radio buttons in
preference property lists.
- Toolbar for macros.
- Breaking change: user tools now appear on the toolbar in the
same order as on the Tools menu.
- The Send command now detects the default MAPI email server.
- Italian user interface.
- Checkboxes and radio buttons in Preferences lists were not
displayed correctly on XP with the Windows Classic Theme.
- Read Only and Selection Only checkboxes on the Open and Save As
dialog boxes were not displayed correctly on XP with the Windows
Classic Theme.
- The context menu for Search Results and Tool Output sometimes
acted on the active document.
- Crash when Search Results not dockable, Find in Files active,
and Close All command executed.
- Crash when right clicking a line of 10 or more characters, ending in "<".
- Line numbers missing in split views on Windows 7.
- Missed leading "http:" for URLs starting with "www".
- The Synchronize Scrolling command was disabled when document
tabs were in use.
- Clicking at the beginning of an indented, wrapped line did not
place the cursor there.
- When activated by a right click in a docked window, the context
menu commands were applied to the active MDI window.
- Print Previewing Search Results or Tool Output windows cleared
their contents.
- Intermittent file sharing error when opening files.
- In the Japanese user interface, user tools appeared on both the
Tools main and submenus.
- The Startup folder was incorrectly set to \windows\system if
specified one does not exist.
- Screen flashing when opening multiple files.