zufuliu / notepad2

The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4 or newer) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2 and POPCNT.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.12.r2604

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.3.0, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Bring back Ctrl+L for executing current document (issue #153). 9ee904c
• Add new file extension for C#. 3185ad0
• Fix regression for sorting lines by logical number comparison (issue #152). 19b1246
• Fix file filters on Open/Save file dialog displayed as garbled characters. f6ea79f
• Fix phantom color on right border of fold ellipsis rectangle when selecting folded lines. d5b75ad
• Fix unexpected selecting and auto-scrolling in metapath's path list. 5a8c8d3
• Fix ANSI Art not opened in DOS-437 mode (issue #147). e7ae5a3
• Fix block comment bug in Julia lexer. 7806ef1

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This is a bug fix release for v4.19.12.r2598.

Changes Since v4.19.12.r2598

• Fix backtracking and escape character highlighting in YAML lexer. e9f7d4c and 20d1cf9

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2 and POPCNT.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.11r2524

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.2.3, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Support YAML (issue #12). 15da6e4
• Support WebAssembly (issue #139). cf8388f
• Support TOML (issue #138). 27468d7
• Make API list for standalone JavaScript, VBScript, Python and PHP available for HTML embedded script block for corresponding language. ebb35a5
• Improve Find & Replace with multiline text (issue #144). 6997588 and 2a2efa6
• Increase maximum toggle-able fold level to 127. f534023
• Improve file type auto-detection for JSON, YAML and C/C++. 3b51124
• Add new file extension for Lisp, C/C++, JSON, INI and M4 Macro. 467cc9e, befa451, 37096d2, 46ff005, 8a7b674 and 3ed99f3.
• Highlight comment after value in INI file. 9d97d6b
• Update CMake API list to CMake 3.16.0 formal release. 5bec0e7
• Update Julia keyword list to Julia 1.3. 74d7ef1
• Fix corrupted INI file cause application crash (issue #144). febf552
• Fix bug in toggling code folding for current level for indentation based file (Text File, Python and YAML). 72d5ce0
• Fix block caret with "Draw Block Caret In Selection" enabled is not shown when selecting lines from margin. 3302aba
• Fix float exponent highlighting bug for LexHTML, allow extended characters in identifier. d54124d
• Fix heredoc broken for Ruby, support Ruby squiggly heredoc. 1d557df
• Fix bug in setting metapath's default file open menu. 6045350
• Correct Java style name "Triple Quoted String" to "Text Block". db6c032
• Bring back wrapping find warnings (issue #142). 27d7849
• Other bug fix and improvements.

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2 and POPCNT.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.10r2454

• Add standalone lexer for Julia, update Julia API list to Julia 1.2. 58d91b8
• Support Kotlin (issue #28). 40e692a, 62ba92c, c6469bf, etc.
• Rewrite LLVM IR lexer, update it's syntax to LLVM 10. 01a0979
• INI lexer is rewritten to fix style broken after 1024 bytes and bugs for DBCS characters. Code folding for comment lines and color for key/property is supported now. e0d121b and 10b156f.
• Diff lexer is improved for large file. ce2fad6 and c980366
• HTML lexer now only colors unknown tag name with SCE_H_TAGUNKNOWN style. d19fef5
• Highlight Julia/Rust function definition name and function call with different color. f8f42be
• Add script to expand in CMake variables and properties. 9a0f5c9. These long variable and property names (about 35KiB) are still not included in default build.
• New file extension .arclint and .jscop for JSON. a4476a4
• Refactoring file extension match, add auto-detection for JSON file. b67e00f and 847cf09
• Sort lines case insensitively when "Case insensitive" is checked. 4c46c86
• Fix regression for non-number text in line and column fields on Goto dialog. 0959ca1 and dce39af
• Other bug fix and improvements.

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2 and POPCNT.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.09r2380

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.2.1, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Add ARM32 build for Windows RT and Windows 10 on ARM (issue #134). 44b5982 and ddc8e1d
• Support Rust and API list for Rust standard library 1.38 (issue #23). c37abf4, 63e4f82 and 969a218.
• Various improvements for CMake lexer. 58207a0, 698e72d, dc5cd59 and 1f161cb.
• Update CMake API list to CMake 3.16. 5f20cd4 and 7c6a3de. Note: long variables and properties are NOT included by default, you can change parse_cmake_api_file() (in KeywordCore.py) to include them, which will make Notepad2.exe about 30 KiB bigger.
• Rewrite and improve Vim script lexer. 17f8830 and 92b53d1
• Improve GraphViz Dot lexer, add partial support for blockdiag, seqdiag, actdiag and nwdiag (issue #130). 1959aa7 and 34a5825
• Update HTML5 tag and attributes to WHATWG 2019-08-19. d868ec2
• Update keywords for Go language. d7bc67d
• Update Unicode data to 12.1.0. 0589511
• New file extension: Crystal *.cr for Ruby and CUDA *.cu for C/C++.
• Remove use of LZCNT, make AVX2 build only required on AVX2 and POPCNT. dbd8028
• Add fold.xml.at.tag.open property for XML. 9ec5e04
• Add Shift + Tab for multiline edit box as a workaround to Tab to switch to other controls.
• Fix Press Esc no longer close dialogs that has multiline edit box (issue #131). 9ac982d
• Fix infinite message loop on "Insert HTML/XML Tag" dialog. d9b2224
• Fix XML folding bug on script tag. aecd846
• Fix highlight for HTML5 custom elements breaking after set HTML tag match to case sensitive (html.tags.case.sensitive). fa7b852
• Fix JSON lexer broken for DBCS encoded file. eead253 and 0e84806
• Fix TCL lexer unconditional enabled compact code folding. f0449b5
• Some other bug fix and improvements.

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2, AMB and BMI1.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.08.r2356

• Encoding and code page for resource files are changed to UTF-8, see more info on wiki Localization. bb97bc6 and b7f42d7
• New polling mode for file watching, which is useful for watching continuously updated file, such as log files (issue #120). 0618a11
• New option to keep caret at document end after reloading, useful for watching log files (issue #120). By default caret position is unchanged after reloading unless it's on last line, which will stay on last line after reloading. 0618a11 and ddb540a
• Update C++20 STL to n4830. 3d3074d and 1e7d472
• New file extensions for Python (.pyi and .pth) and INI configuration file (.toml). 500b429 and 3fa8b43
• Fix line number width reduced after converting document encoding. dbc7e72
• Fix crash caused by directly call NP2ExitWind() when opening file canceled. fd5f341
• Other bug fix and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• When using StyleContext, multiByteAccess for UTF-8 encoding is disabled by default, as each byte can be safely treated as individual character. lexer need enable useUnicode if it wants to detect Unicode identifier or operator (e.g. using functions from lexlib\CharacterCategory, beware these functions are only valid when internal encoding is UTF-8). 428bef9 and 49d79cc

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2, AMB and BMI1.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.19.06r2148

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.2.0, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Support file larger than 2 GiB (smaller than 4 GiB or 1/3 physical memory) in 64-bit Notepad2, issue #125. dd2c10e, 538a8ca, 795fb95, 9eae2dc, 89cd596, etc.
• Line endings detection and encoding validations are optimized for SSE2 and AVX2. 3b910af, 3d376a6, 2f3dffd, e442607, etc.
• Optimizations for loading big file: 1815a8e, 64bd086, 277ed43, 587f2eb, 09de3a2, 3b046c3, etc.
• Optimizations for lexlib: dd1e154, f0f5fca, c1949af
• Add AVX2 build configurations, see wiki Build Notepad2. To reduce binary size, 64-bit releases are build with __vectorcall calling convention, please note that __regcall not works when build with Intel C++. 3b498e0 and fd541d8
• Enable multiple selections and editing, issue #51 and #56. 7ef3ea4
• Add option to set block caret position on selecting, issue #118. 10a8734
• Add parameter info for command line switches on Command Line Help dialog. 98093cf
• Enable more Unicode control/format characters when view Unicode control characters is checked. c04ec60
• Merge encoding selection dialogs to single one, group encodings on encoding selection dialog by language and region, issue #121. 636ad44, 557f8a5, 87180d2.
• Support HTML custom elements, microdata attributes and RDFa attributes. 314634e, 169ff3e, 56f095a
• Support JDK 13 Text Blocks (Triple Quoted String). d01e702
• Update C++ STL list to C++17 and C++20, b6681ae, c00e7a3 and d8c47e6
• Update SQL keyword and function list to SQLite 3.28.0 and MySQL 8.0.18. eaa9c58 and 1cde50c
• Improve highlighting for Perl. e22df68, 31f9bf8 and 0104d34
• Improve file type detection for XML and HTML, especially XML with .conf suffix will be detected as XML file instead of configuration file. 72710db
• Fix some IME bugs, issue #111. 0d87d6c, 5bf3df1, 24e0d95, 5a3beaf, e178219, 869307f, etc.
• Fix binary file detection crash for empty file, issue #124 and #128. 9799ed9
• Fix argument parser bug for quoted string with space like -appid="string with space", issue #126. 8f68270
• Fix bug in parsing style string (cause bold style has not affect). 00ef0d3
• Fix document folding contraction lost after changing styles. d840f9a
• Fix insufficient buffer cause gibberish on Find & Replace dialog when selected text (or text copied from Clipboard) longer than 1 KiB. 20a04f2
• Fix highlighting bug for FORTRAN comment. 76d6591
• Fix highlighting bug for Julia triple quoted raw string, improve highlighting for Julia type info. f4addb0 and 951fff3
• Fix highlighting bug for Lisp (escape) characters. f00e985 and 438179d
• Fix highlighting bug for CMake bracket comment. 8ec8d0c
• Many other bug fix and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Localization requires great care when syncing to this release. 700dda2, 015e797, aee9dab, af04ef5, e573008, 6b42ad1, etc.

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

The new screenshot illustrates some changes in this version.

Changes Since v4.19.04r2016

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.1.7, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Add OEM, DOS, Mac, EDBIC, EUC and ISO 2022 encodings. ccb898a and 698347e
• Improve word wrapping around ASCII punctuation and their fullwidth forms in UTF-8 mode. d8504d3
• Enable locking current file for editing, by default locking binary file for editing. 956e34d, 710df06 and 67a3fb3
• Add toggle folds for current level. 51fd657
• Support case insensitive auto completion. 917284d
• Support camel case style. fdbf053
• Optimize UTF-8 and UTF-7 detection. 942c322 and 3594a62
• Support VB 2017 binary literals and digit separators. 6191a97
• Update keywords for C++. 98362a5
• New file extensions for Python. 5561d0b
  Fix potential crash when WM_GETTEXT is used by third party applications (like a screen reader). e9f33d1
• Fix rapidly hiding and showing auto-completion box on typing cause "flickering". 56226f3
• Fix wrong caret position in selection in INS mode when block caret in OVR mode is set. 1d56f7c
• Fix "INS/OVR" and zoom level not shown in statusbar when warning occurred after loading file. 3f952b3
• Fix a bug on enclose selection dialog that cause text intended to insert before selection been inserted after selection and vice versa (issue #114). 71a7e0b
• Fix style not restored when clicking "Cancel" on customize scheme dialog (issue #112). 15bb58f
• Fix HTML highlighting bug. f95f12e and 56bfeee
• Some other bug fix and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• In order to fix the 6-px white area on auto-completion box, window frame for auto-completion box is removed, resizing auto-completion box is harder than before. You can bring back the old thin frame by set LISTBOXX_USE_THICKFRAME (in scintilla\win32\PlatWin.cxx) to 1. See https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/feature-requests/1284/. d4da3d9
• Notepad++ Binary content Clipboard format ("Notepad++ Binary Text Length") is removed. 15c38ca
• Long line marker is hidden by default now. cced121
• GCC link time optimization flags (-flto and -fuse-linker-plugin) is removed. To reduce binary size, you can use Clang from MYSY2 to build the project, see Wiki. c02cedb

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP and above. CPU support for SSE2 (Pentium 4) is required for Win32 build, for old CPU and system see wiki Build Notepad2.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind the breaking changes in v4.19.01r1786 and below when upgrading to this version from versions before v4.19.01r1786.

The new screenshot illustrates some changes in this version.

Changes Since v4.19.02r1827

• Scintilla is upgraded to 4.1.5, see https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html for details.
• Dark style theme (issue #105). 50f03d2
• New automatic word wrap mode (issue #61). ac1269c and 718d4cd
• Show ellipsis after folded text. 7855c3e and 351f34c
• Add option to hide horizontal folding lines. 970d3d8
• Support color font (Windows 8.1 and above) in Direct2D mode. b852257 and 50b8189
• Support all font weights and styles in Direct2D mode (issue #101). bca0cdb and 62fe1c0
• Add "locale" style property to support language dependent glyphs in Direct2D Mode. e3d0e55
• Each scheme can be configured to view as code or text. 7f24b8b
• New global font name $(Text) and $(Code) for default proportional and monospaced font. e21fde5 and 8e0d5e7
• Improve character classification for Unicode BMP characters and DBCS encoding. c8ac6f0
• New vertical bookmark symbol (8746d47), color for bookmark symbol and background color for bookmark line are customizable (3c9210a).
• IME indicator color is customizable. 7a8cccb
• Mark occurrences color is customizable (issue #66). 0b11378
• Auto detect style base font size based on screen resolution. 568495c
• Allow forward slash in open file dialog (issue #100). 5314329
• New toolbar image for metapath. 4df789d
• New option for metapath to enable open file in same target application window. cabc627
• "Clear" menu and button is renamed to "Delete" (issue #103). ad45f16
• "Save" menu and button is disabled for unmodified file, "Save" button is used to indicate whether current file is modified or not (issue #102). a2c367d
• x64 and ARM64 can build with Visual Studio 2019 v142 toolset. 9140799
• Highlight escape sequence in SQL string. 2e8434f
• Highlight escape sequence in JSON string. b1cda5e
• Support JSON5 single quoted string and multi-line string. 6bddea5
• Support CMake block comment and bracket argument. 093fe1f
• Update keywords for Bash (f6db77b), C++ (6555510 and 9fa8ca1), CMake (149f680), Python (10e4cf8) and .NET IL (9d59525).
• New file extensions for Python (299345b) and JavaScript (9d79c81).
• Support eolfilled style for Batch label (issue #104). d7fa61b and 98ef365
• Fix IME broken for DBCS code pages. 26783ce
• Fix dialog layout messed up on Windows XP. 047c6ed
• Fix regression for using ANSI code pages. 0dbd3b4
• Fix toolbar customization for metapath not loaded on next startup. 4421e53
• Fix missing and duplicate menu access keys (issue #103). 4aba4db
• Many other bug fix and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Scheme "Default Text" is split as "Global Styles", "2nd Global Styles", "Text File" and "2nd Text File". By default, "Text File" is viewed with proportional font (using "Default Text Style") and "2nd Text File" is viewed with monospaced font (using "Default Code Style"). c107921
• Red, blue and green mark occurrences colors are removed, in favor of custom color. 6f06553
• "Sticky Window Position" option is removed. f510eaf

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