Version history

Version 1.7.7.4 (02/11/2003):

• Added a Turkish translation.
• Bug fix: the 'Ok' button in the About dialog now uses the localized text.
• Bug fix: the filter names for the File Open & Save dialogs are now localized when the language is changed (that is, as long as the filters have not been modified using the registry tweak; see Tips & Tricks page).
• Bug fix: the shortcuts window and its zoom window now use the localized text when the language is changed, even when NotepadEx is not restarted.

Version 1.7.7.3 (11/03/2002):

• Bug fix: sometimes the message "Cannot open file <file>" was shown although the file could be opened normally.
• Bug fix: in Windows XP the "Modified indicator" in the taskbar was sometimes shown incorrectly.

Version 1.7.7.2 (02/12/2002):

• Added a hidden option to change the number of files in the recent files list (see Tips & Tricks page).

Version 1.7.7.1 (11/11/2001):

• Bug fix: some language resources were removed from NotepadEx in version 1.7.7.0 (because of the upgrade to Delphi 6).

Version 1.7.7.0 (11/10/2001):

• Added Windows XP theme support.

Version 1.7.6.9 (07/17/2001):

• Bug fix: the column counter was not displaying the correct column number if tabs were used.

Version 1.7.6.8 (06/26/2001):

• Added a Chinese (PRC) translation.
• Bug fix: searching text did not work correctly when working with Unix and Mac files. Also, Shift+End did not work correctly with ExcludeEOLOnLineSelection="1" when working with Unix and Mac files.

Version 1.7.6.7 (06/08/2001):

• Added a hidden option to exit NotepadEx with the Escape key (see Tips & Tricks page).

Version 1.7.6.6 (05/14/2001):

• Added the Spain translation again.

Version 1.7.6.5 (05/05/2001):

• The column position indicator in the status bar now shows the real column position instead of the character position on the current line. That means, tabs are now counted as 6 spaces.

Version 1.7.6.4 (04/25/2001):

• The "OEM -> Ansi" function now works on the whole document instead of only on the selected text.

Version 1.7.6.3 (04/14/2001):

• Added a shortcut (F12) for the "Save as..." option
• Changed the setup procedure for Windows 2000
• Bug fix: Unix and Mac files were not saved correctly anymore in version 1.7.6.2

Version 1.7.6.2 (04/12/2001):

• Added the possibility to read and save Unicode text files
• Added the option to convert null characters to spaces (like the original MS Notepad does)
• Added the hidden option to save the file save-as type between two NotepadEx sessions (see Tips & Tricks page)
• Removed the Spanish translation because I am unable to contact the author for an update
• Bug fix: when the NotepadEx window was restored (after being maximized), the scrollbars sometimes disappeared
• Bug fix: UTF8 files are now opened and saved correctly. The beta version dated 22-03-2001 contained some bugs

Version 1.7.6.1 (03/17/2001):

• Added a hidden feature to choose whether of not to include the End-Of-Line characters when selecting a line with Shift+End (see Tips & Tricks page)

Version 1.7.6 (03/16/2001):

• It is now possible to select the language from within NotepadEx
• A Hungarian translation has been added

Version 1.7.5.1 (03/10/2001):

• A Chinese translation has been added
• Bug fix: an access violation error occurred when a shortcut key was pressed while NotepadEx was still loading

Version 1.7.5 (03/01/2001):

• An Estonian translation has been added

Version 1.7.4.2 (12/21/2000):

• Bug fix: the paths of files located on network computers were not stored correctly in the recent files list

Version 1.7.4.1 (11/30/2000):

• Bug fix: the "Modified Indicator" was not always shown at the correct place
• The Russian translation has been corrected

Version 1.7.4 (11/25/2000):

• Added the "Wrap Text" function, which makes it possible to wrap the text at a specified column width
• Added a hidden feature to change the default File Open & File Save dialog box folders (see Tips & Tricks page)
• A Russian translation has been added

Version 1.7.3.7 (11/17/2000):

• Bug fix: ever since version 1.7.3.3 the "Modified" indicator in the status bar was not hidden when the status bar itself was hidden

Version 1.7.3.6 (11/16/2000):

• The mouse cursor now changes into an hour glass whenever a long operation takes place (such as text replacing)

Version 1.7.3.5 (11/08/2000):

• Bug fix: in version 1.7.3.4 the Czech resource strings were not included

Version 1.7.3.4 (11/03/2000):

• An Italian translation has been added

Version 1.7.3.3 (10/29/2000):

• Bug fix: the "Modified" indicator in the status bar was not always shown correctly (mainly under Windows ME)

Version 1.7.3.2 (10/27/2000):

• Bug fix: sometimes the scrollbars were hidden

Version 1.7.3.1 (10/08/2000):

• A Spanish translation has been added
• The Czech translation has been corrected

Version 1.7.3 (10/04/2000):

• A Czech translation has been added

Version 1.7.2.9 (08/17/2000):

• The Swedish translation has been changed a little again

Version 1.7.2.8 (08/16/2000):

• The Swedish translation has been changed a little
• Bug fix: under rare circumstances an "access violation error" occurred when closing the Find/Replace Dialog window with the Escape key

Version 1.7.2.7 (08/13/2000):

• The "Trim Trailing Spaces" function can now also be undone

Version 1.7.2.6 (08/11/2000):

• Bug fix: the WM_LBUTTONUP message was not handled correctly when the tray icon was double clicked. This bug would cause the WM_LBUTTONUP message to be sent incorrectly to the window (or other system tray icon) under the mouse cursor

Version 1.7.2.5 (08/11/2000):

• Bug fix: when opening a document, the cursor position was not always correct

Version 1.7.2.4 (09/08/2000):

• Bug fix: the "Replace All" function did not always work correctly when the option "Match Case" was disabled
• Bug fix: Some of the "Change Case" functions could not be undone

Version 1.7.2.3 (07/27/2000):

• The Windows context menu key now also popups the context menu
• Bug fix: copying text to the clipboard didn't always work correctly: it the text ended on Cr+Lf (end-of-line), the Cr+Lf characters were not copied to the clipboard

Version 1.7.2.2 (07/13/2000):

• Bug fix: the text was sometimes truncated after undoing a "Replace All" action
• Bug fix: using the "Go To Line" function to jump to line 1 was not possible

Version 1.7.2.1 (07/11/2000):

• A "Replace All" action can now also be redone (undo-undo)

Version 1.7.2 (07/10/2000):

• A "Replace All" action can now be undone

Version 1.7.1 (07/10/2000):

• Added the "OEM -> Ansi" function, which converts the selected text from OEM to Ansi. With this function you can convert a DOS Text File to a Windows Text File by selecting all text and then applying this function

Version 1.7.0.7 (07/10/2000):

• The Swedish translation has been changed a little to match the translation of the original Notepad

Version 1.7.0.6 (07/08/2000):

• Bug fix: the message shown when "Replace" was chosen instead of "Replace All" has been corrected

Version 1.7.0.5 (07/08/2000):

• When replacing text NotepadEx now reports the number of replacements made

Version 1.7.0.4 (07/05/2000):

• Bug fix: when the "Auto Indent" function was turned off, it was impossible to go to a new line using the Enter key

Version 1.7.0.3 (07/04/2000):

• Added a Swedish translation

Version 1.7.0.2 (06/29/2000):

• Bug fix: in some cases the error "Failed to get data for 'HideFileExt'." was shown at startup

Version 1.7.0.1 (06/28/2000):

• The French translation has been completed
• Added a German translation

Version 1.7 (06/27/2000):

• Added the possibility to define custom shortcut keys to quickly insert text. No complete support yet for the French translation
• Mouse wheels are now also supported when no special (manufacturer) mouse driver is installed
• Added an extra mouse wheel feature: you can use the Control and the Shift keys to change the scroll speed. See for more information the Tips & Tricks page
• Bug fix: an access violation error might occur when NotepadEx was started and your default printer was a network printer that is offline. This bug has now been removed, thanks to Jordan Russell who explained me why it happened (Delphi VCL bug in the Printers unit)
• Bug fix: when installing NotepadEx on Windows NT and Windows 2000 the file NOTEPAD.EXE is no longer placed in the windows directory (in most cases "\WINNT") but in the system directory (in most cases "\WINNT\SYSTEM32")

Version 1.6.3.1 (06/22/2000):

• Bug fix: the "Title Case" function did not work correctly; the first character of the first word of each sentence was not capitalized
• Bug fix: another problem with the font was corrected

Version 1.6.3 (06/21/2000):

• Replaced the first homepage address from the About dialog, removed the second one and replaced the e-mail addres
• Bug fix: the "New Window" menu item was not hidden if NotepadEx was running in "Single Instance" mode

Version 1.6.2.3 (06/20/2000):

• A minor change was made to the Portuguese translation

Version 1.6.2.2 (06/19/2000):

• The "Save" menu item is now disabled when the document has not been modified
• The "Change Case" menu item has been added to the popup menu for faster access

Version 1.6.2.1 (06/17/2000):

• Bug fix: when a file with length 0 was opened first and then a file with length > 0 was opened, the wrong font was used again
• Bug fix: NotepadEx sometimes incorrectly came up with the error message "Cannot open file Notepad.exe."

Version 1.6.2 (06/16/2000):

• The cursor position is now restored after applying the "Trim Trailing Spaces" function
• The cursor position is now also restored when opening a recently used file by opening it in any other way than via the "File" menu (MRU list). The cursor position is saved for the 25 most recently used files
• The cursor position is now saved when a document is closed (in earlier versions the cursor position was only saved when the document was saved)
• Added a "Change Case" option to the "Edit" menu ("Sentence Case", "lower case", "UPPER CASE", "Title Case", "tOGGLE cASE")

Version 1.6.1.3 (06/15/2000):

• Bug fix: the text from the "Exit" menu item on the system tray icon popup menu was missing

Version 1.6.1.2 (06/14/2000):

• Bug fix: on machines that had the HTML Help runtime dll (hhctrl.ocx) installed but didn't have the HTML help file for Notepad (notepad.chm) installed, help didn't work

Version 1.6.1.1 (06/13/2000):

• Support for HTML Help has been added to show the correct help file under Windows 2000

Version 1.6.1 (06/13/2000):

• Source code has been optimized again (resulting in a smaller executable)
• Added a "Properties" item to the "File" menu
• Re-organized the "File" menu a little
• Some changes were made to the French translation
• The filter names in the File Open & File Save dialogs have been translated too now. It might be necessary to reset the current filters in order to get the translated filters. See for more information the Tips & Tricks page

Version 1.6.0.3 (06/12/2000):

• Minor changes were made to the Portuguese translation

Version 1.6.0.2 (06/12/2000):

• Added a Portuguese translation
• Added the name of the translator to the About dialog (when running in another language than English)

Version 1.6.0.1 (06/11/2000):

• Changed system language identification. In the previous versions the language identifier was read from the Windows registry ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ResourceLocale" on Win9x, "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Locale" on WinNT & Windows 2000). Under Windows 2000 however this language identifier was not always equal to the system language. The language identifier is now read from the file KERNEL32.DLL in the system directory
• Bug fix: text "Show Line & Column Counts" in Options dialog was not correct

Version 1.6 (06/11/2000):

• The Options menu item has been removed; the options can now be set from a new options dialog (Edit->Options...)
• The position of the cursor can now be restored when recently opened file is re-opened
• Source code has been optimized; some possible problems with shortcut keys have been removed
• Changed behaviour: now the associated icon is used with text files instead of the NotepadEx icon (only if the "Use File Icons" option has been enabled)
• Changed behaviour: now the "real" line count is shown (if the "Show Line/Column Count" option has been enable); to prevent any confusion with positions like "Line 11/10" the line position is now "EOF" (like "Line EOF/10") if the cursor is positioned at the end of the document
• Bug fix: it is no longer allowed to drop multiple files on NotepadEx when NotepadEx is run in "Single Instance" mode
• Bug fix: an error occurred when NotepadEx was run in "Single Instance" mode and another file was opened from explorer; this bug caused the "Critical Stop" system sound to be played

Version 1.5.7.2 (06/09/2000):

• Changed behaviour: now the first extension from the Open File & Save File dialogs is used to determine the icon that is shown when a new document is opened (if the "Use File Icon" option has been enabled)

Version 1.5.7.1 (06/09/2000):

• The "Use File Icon" option has been optimized (a large icon is now shown when using Alt+Tab)
• The default filters for the File Open & File Save dialogs are now only written to the registry when the "Filters" key doesn't exist (thus not overwriting the first three customized filters)
• Bug fix: when NotepadEx was started with a non-text file and the "Use File Icon" option was enabled, the icon in the About box was not correct
• Bug fix: a wrong icon was shown when the "Use File Icon" option was enabled and the extension of the file was .txt and contained one or more capitals

Version 1.5.7 (06/09/2000):

• The background color is now updated when it is changed via the display control panel
• Added a menu item for the former hidden "Show Full Path Name" feature
• Added the option to show the icon associated with the file being edited
• Added a hidden feature to change the default filters for the File Open & File Save dialogs (see Tips & Tricks page)
• Bug fix: When using non-standard font size some texts were truncated (about box, File Open & File Save dialogs)

Version 1.5.6 (06/06/2000):

• Added a "Trim Trailing Spaces" checkbox to the File Open & File Save dialogs
• Added a hidden feature to change the column count base (see Tips & Tricks page)
• The file extension is now hidden when the "hide file extensions for known file types" option has been enabled in Explorer (like the original Notepad does)
• The text color is now updated when it is changed via the display control panel
• Bug fix: when no printer was installed NotepadEx didn't startup correctly
• Bug fix: the column count was not updated after text was cut or deleted

Version 1.5.5.1 (06/04/2000):

• Bug fix: the printer settings were not loaded correctly when NotepadEx was started (settings from older versions will not be restored - you must re-setup your printer from within NotepadEx)
• Bug fix: in some special cases the extended cursor position still wasn't correct

Version 1.5.5 (06/04/2000):

• Added a hidden feature to show the full path name in the title bar
• Bug fix: when "Word Wrap" was toggled, the line count in the status bar was not updated

Version 1.5.4.1 (06/03/2000):

• Optimized text selection (removed extra flickering introduced in version 1.5.4)

Version 1.5.4 (06/03/2000):

• Added the "Trim Trailing Spaces" option (fast! - written in inline assembler as extension to the FastStrings unit)
• Bug fix: when the cursor was positioned at the end of the document and text was pasted, the wrong font was used again
• Bug fix: when using the search and replace function (replace all), no replacements were made when the cursor was positioned behind the last occurrence of the find text
• Bug fix: the "Auto Indent" funtion did not always work correct

Version 1.5.3.2 (06/02/2000):

• Bug fix: "control" key state was not correct after cutting text via the popup menu (resulting in strange behaviour)

Version 1.5.3.1 (06/02/2000):

• Bug fix: text was sometimes pasted as formatted text
• Bug fix: when replacing text by clicking the Replace button only every other occurence was found/replaced

Version 1.5.3 (06/02/2000):

• Added a tray icon tooltip
• Bug fix: text was continuously copied to the clipboard when the Shift+Del shortcut was pressed (until the shift key was released again)
• Bug fix: undo via the Ctrl+Z shortcut was not possible after cutting text via the Ctrl+X shortcut
• Bug fix: status bar was not shown correctly when "Large Fonts" was selected in the Display Properties control panel

Version 1.5.2 (06/01/2000):

• Bug fix: the "document modified" indicator field in the status bar was sometimes messed up (incorrectly containing the text "New")
• Bug fix: The about box was sometimes shown for no reason

Version 1.5.1.1 (05/31/2000):

• Bug fix: Font settings were not always applied correctly

Version 1.5.1 (05/30/2000):

• Added a popup menu to the tray icon
• Bug fix: the Shift+Del, Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins key combinations no longer cut, copy and paste formatted text (now they use the plain text format)
• Bug fix: extended cursor position (column count) is now shown correctly; the field in status bar has also been widened

Version 1.5 (05/25/2000):

• Added multi-language support. NotepadEx now adapts to the language of Windows, if that language is supported. Otherwise it displays in English. The currently supported languages are English, Dutch and French
• Added the option to show row & column counts in the status bar
• Added the option to minimize to the system tray
• Bug fix: when a Unix or Mac file was opened and after that a new document was created, the documents state was incorrectly set to "Modified"

Version 1.4.4 (05/24/2000):

• Bug fix: finally I was able to fix the error that occured when using the search function under Windows NT (thanks to Mike Nevinski for his help with this bug)

Version 1.4.3.1 (05/23/2000):

• Bug fix: reversed the changes made to the popup menu in the last version

Version 1.4.3 (05/22/2000):

• In "Single Instance" mode the main NotepadEx window of a new created instance does not appear on the desktop anymore
• Bug fix: the clipboard routines used rich text instead of plain text
• Bug fix: the cursor position information in the statusbar was not displayed correctly anymore because of a typo
• Bug fix: the popup menu doesn't popup twice anymore

Version 1.4.2.1 (05/22/2000):

• Re-added the ability to search and replace using the "Whole Word" option which was left out first in version 1.4.1

Version 1.4.2 (05/21/2000):

• Added "Auto Indent" function
• Holding the Control key while pressing the Up, Down, PageUp or PageDown key scrolls without moving the caret
• Changed Unix and Mac support: the format is recognised automatically when the file is loaded, and can be changed via the File menu (option "Format...")
• Added an extra field in the status bar which shows if you are working in insert (INS) or overwrite (OVR) mode

Version 1.4.1.2 (05/18/2000):

• Bug fix: the shortcuts Ctrl+X and Ctrl+Y did not always work properly

Version 1.4.1.1 (05/17/2000):

• Added URL of homepage mirror (http://home-1.wolmail.nl/~fm190752/) to the about box

Version 1.4.1 (05/16/2000):

• Speeded up the text replace function again (with unit FastStrings)
• "Page Setup" settings (paper orientation, paper size, paper source) are now saved

Version 1.4 (05/15/2000):

• Added "Page Setup" function
• Added an extra dropdown list to the File Open & File Save dialogs to choose the OS type (DOS, Unix, Mac)
• Added possibility to run Notepad in "Single Instance" mode
• Added possibility to run a new instance from inside NotepadEx
• Bug fix: the "Set Font..." menu option did not work when no printer was installed
• Bug fix: sometimes the shortcut key Ctrl+X didn't work correctly

Version 1.3.10.1 (05/13/2000):

• Bug fix: the field in the statusbar reflecting the documents state (modified or not) was incorrectly set to "Modified" when the "Word Wrap" setting was toggled

Version 1.3.10 (05/12/2000):

• Added possibility to save as Unix or Mac text file

Version 1.3.9 (05/10/2000):

• Removed the possibility to drop multiple files on a shortcut to Notepad because of compatibility problems with the Microsoft Internet Explorer (view source function)
• Bug fix: shortcuts to cut, copy and paste now work fine when either the Find or the Replace dialog box is shown

Version 1.3.8 (05/09/2000):

• Added support for the /p parameter, so files can be printed via the context menus
• When text is selected and either the Find or Replace dialog is shown, the selected text becomes the text to find
• Added possibility to drop multiple files on a shortcut to Notepad
• Bug fix: statusbar should now be high enough

Version 1.3.7 (05/08/2000):

• Now it's possible to drag more than one file onto NotepadEx

Version 1.3.6 (05/08/2000):

• Added "Go To Line" function to the Search menu to quickly jump to the beginning of a line
• Bug fix: documents specified in the command line were not loaded anymore

Version 1.3.5 (05/05/2000):

• Speeded up the text replace function

Version 1.3.4.1 (05/03/2000):

• Bug fix: the field in the statusbar reflecting the documents state (modified or not) was incorrectly set to "Modified" when NotepadEx was started

Version 1.3.4 (05/02/2000):

• Added an extra field in the statusbar to reflect the documents state (modified or not)

Version 1.3.3 (04/30/2000):

• Changed the way temporary files are created for the "Preview In Browser" function introduced in version 1.3.1. This was done to prevent problems with relative paths in HTML and XML files

Version 1.3.2 (04/29/2000):

• Added "Always On Top" function
• Added homepage and e-mail address to the About box
• Added shortcut to toggle word wrap (Ctrl+W)
• Added shortcut to delete the current line (Ctrl+Y)
• Changed shortcut for Cut operation from Ctrl+T to Ctrl+X
• Changed some clipboard routines
• Bug fix: the status bar was not updated when a new file was created

Version 1.3.1 (04/28/2000):

• Fixed a setup issue
• Now using a temporary file when using the "Preview In Browser" function
• Added support for drag & drop of files

Version 1.3 (04/26/2000):

• Added an item to the "Options" menu to preview .HTM, .HTML and .XML files in the default browser
• Removed the item "Convert null characters to spaces" from the "Options" menu. Null characters are now always converted to spaces (like the original MS Notepad does)
• Cosmetic changes to the MRU list in the "File" menu (max. length = 30)

Version 1.2.1 (04/25/2000):

• Fixed a problem where files > 64Kb could not be edited

Version 1.2 (04/21/2000):

• Added print setup

Version 1.1 (03/11/2000):

• Clipboard functions corrected: doesn't copy and paste text as formatted text anymore

Version 1.0 (03/07/2000):

• First release version