TextPad 9.3.0 + x64 + Portable

Enhancements:

The options to display full paths on the document selector and document tabs are now independent.
A context menu command to save the documents selected on the Document Selector.
A context menu command to move documents to a new instance.
Added a button to the Spelling Preferences dialog box for adding new languages.
Prompt to save a new shortcut that has not been assigned to a command, when closing Keyboard Preferences.
Cache .editorconfig files, to speed up processing on network filesystems.
Optimise the number of times a file is checked for external updates, to reduce delays on network filesystems.
Issues resolved:

Context menu commands did not work for the Search Results window when it is docked.

Both the search and replacement text were selected when the Replace dialog box opened.
Relative file name paths typed in the file open dialog box did not work.
The Delete key can now be used in the open file dialog box to delete a file.
The document selector, clip library and file explorer windows can now be lined up vertically.
The positions of the find and replace dialog boxes were not saved.
See also version 8.16.2.

Enhancements:

SVG icons can be used for custom toolbar buttons. This option is selectable on Configure » Preferences » View.
A bold font is used to emphasise the active document tab.
The History List dialog box is now resizable.
Issues resolved:

Custom toolbars can now be created.
The last active document is now activated when closing a tabbed document.
Fixed the non-docked Search Results window closing when Find in Files is closed.
When document tabs were at the bottom of the frame but turned off, they were turned on again after a restart.
The New vertical tab group command was disabled.
Sort didn't report the number of lines deleted on the status bar, when invoked from the toolbar.
Could not change the spell checker language without also changing another setting.
See also version 8.16.1.

Enhancements:

An optional regular expression builder for the Find and Replace commands. Select this on Configure » Preferences » Editor.
A user interface to manage history lists. See the Configure menu.
An option to display a Windows navigator when switching between documents with Ctrl+tab. Select this on Configure » Preferences » View.
An option to use the Windows standard file open dialogs for users who require more functionality than is available from the themed ones. Select this on Configure » Preferences » File.
Issues resolved:

When TextPad was not running and several files were opened at the same time from Windows Explorer, the first failed to open.
The option to display tabs at the bottom of the window did not persist.
The option to create new document tabs to the right of existing ones was not available.
The docked Search Results window could obscure documents.
Characters could not be input by typing their codes on the numeric keypad while the Alt key was pressed.
The limit of 256 characters for file names in the open file dialog has been increased.
Menus could temporarily disappear when using the Alt and down-arrow keys.
The window background color in the dark theme could not be changed.
The selected clip library was not reselected after a restart.
See also version 8.16.0.

Document windows were not created in the correct size when files were opened from Windows Explorer's context menu.
New icons for toolbar buttons could not be created.
Document tabs should have been created to the left of existing ones.
Preferences for file associations can now be configured
The New Document Class wizard did not list any syntax definition files.
EditorConfig is now documented in the help file.
Also see version 8.15.1.

Issues resolved:

Prevented a memory exception from causing a crash when adding text to the clipboard history on memory constrained systems.
The IME window was misplaced after character conversion.
Implemented the following keyboard shortcut to toggle the case of the incremental finder: "IncrementalMatchCase".
After splitting a view, the size of the scrollbar thumb was incorrect in the new view.
Macros could not be edited with the 32-bit edition.

Enhancements:

The Find Next in All Documents command now steps through all open documents.
The syntax highlighter now recognises C++ binary literals, and Unicode and raw string literals.
Issues resolved:

The Block Fill command didn't insert right aligned text correctly.
Lines could be wrapped at seemingly random places.
Repeat typing didn't allow for any white space that is automatically inserted after return is pressed.
Repeat typing only worked with Unicode characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
The EditUnicodeChar command only worked with Unicode characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
Character code popup tips showed incorrect codes for surrogate pairs and they only worked on the left side of wide characters.
The cursor position indicator now takes account of wide characters.

Issues resolved:

Fixed a crash in Replace All commands that did hundreds of line insertions and deletions.
The shortcuts for characters ?, ? and ? on Qwerty keyboards did not work.
Selecting a whole line and then typing characters over it could not be undone.

Enhancements:

Clicking the middle mouse button on a document tab or the document selector now closes the corresponding document.
Macro names which are too long to fit in the Macro Properties dialog box are displayed in popup tip windows.
Now detects the C/C++ include path for Visual Studio 2022.
Issues resolved:

The indent more/less buttons were swapped on the toolbar.
Fixed the requirement to specify the encoding on the Save As dialog box to make insert file and save selection work.
The option to replace Notepad does not work on Windows 11 so it is not available.
Breaking change: in macros, the display name, author, description, search and replace strings were not saved as Unicode characters. Macros saved with this release are not backwards compatible with previous releases.

Issues resolved:

Crash while replacing all text in a selected range at the end of a document.
The replacement expression "\i{...}" output its results in reverse order.

Enhancements:

Implemented a new command to repeat the last characters typed. Its default shortcut is Ctrl+. (dot).
Speeded up the Replace All command to split very long lines of text.
Updated the keywords in the C++ syntax definition file for conformance with version 20.
Issues resolved:

The Unicode code point U+FFFE is no longer treated as the end of a file.
Changes to Preferences were not written to disk until the program terminated.

Using the regular expression "^\n" to match empty lines and replace them with nothing did not delete all consecutive empty lines.
When opening files, 3-byte UTF-8 characters that straddled multiples of 4KB may have been replaced with "?".
Fixed rare crash with the EndOfWord keyboard command at the end of a line.
Detection of the location of the WIN32 SDK and MFC folders only worked on English versions of Windows.
You can now use the tab key to navigate to the URL on the About dialog box.

Enhancements:

Zooming is implemented with default shortcuts Ctrl + and Ctrl -. This can also be done using the new zoom toolbar. The default font size can be reinstated with Ctrl 0.
In the File Preferences, there is a new option to save the list of recently used files in workspaces.
The Save As dialog is now redisplayed when save is cancelled due to a character encoding conversion error.
The setting for visual file comparisons is persisted between sessions.
Issues resolved:

CSS syntax highlighting was lost after closing all open .css files, then opening one.
The installation directory of JDK 14 was not detected.
Tool output buffering prevented display of text a line at a time.
The option to choose which instance of TextPad to open a file with was not added to Explorer's context menu.

The Ordering Information button on the Help dialog box did not work.
Fixed crash when the clipboard history was active, but TextPad was in the background.
The Open File dialog box could create files without a confirmation prompt.
The accessibility setting for the width of the text cursor was ignored.
The background color of text for the Compare Files document class was ignored.
Made some corrections to the Polish user interface.

Enhancements:

Operates internally in Unicode UTF-16 encoding, so files containing character sets from different, left-to-right code pages can now be edited and searched.
To determine the Unicode code point of any non-ASCII character, you can hold the cursor over a character to get its code point in a pop-up tip.
There is a new command to input Unicode code points in hexadecimal. Its default shortcut is Alt+X, but if you have customised any shortcuts, you will need to assign a shortcut to EditUnicodeChar. It overlays an edit control in which you can type a hex value at the current insert position. Enter inserts the character and Esc cancels input.
There is an option to select from an additional list of code pages when opening and saving files. To use it, select "More ..." from the Encoding drop-down and click OK.
The heuristics for detecting the encoding of files now includes a search for the declaration in HTML/XML markup and resource compiler files.
Visual file comparison.
When timed backups are enabled, modified files can be automatically recovered after unexpected terminations.
Issues Resolved:

See version 7.6 below.
Important Notes:

Please see upgrades for information about upgrading to TextPad 8.
Installing TextPad 8 does not uninstall TextPad 7.
Dropped support for Windows XP.

Enhancements:

The heuristics for detecting UTF-8 encoding now includes a search for the declaration in HTML/XML markup.
Issues Resolved:

When started as notepad, could not open files with spaces in their names and did not honour the multiple instances setting. Cancel the option to "Replace Notepad", and then reapply it, to effect this fix.
Using Replace All to delete lines matched by a regular expression did not delete consecutive lines.
When initialising the search string from selected text, word matching is now turned off if the first or last characters are not alphanumeric, or if the characters before or after the selection are alphanumeric.
When the files associated with document classes were changed, any open documents were not notified of the changes.
The View in Web Browser command did not work for URLs in Search/Tool results.
"Invalid keyboard bindings file" message when starting up.
When word wrap was on and there were fewer lines in the document than in the view, LineScrollUp moved the cursor up.
When word wrap was on and the cursor was at the beginning of a single unterminated line, LineDownExtend did nothing.
Find in Files crashed when lines were longer than 64KB.
Settings on the Sort dialog box were not persistent.
Right clicking in search results and choosing clear all sometimes cleared the active document instead.
A relative path passed using parameter -f did not work.
The context menu commands in Explorer did not have shortcut keys.