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=   Notepad2 - light-weight Scintilla-based text editor for Windows   =
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=                                                   Notepad2 2.1.19   =
=                                      (c) Florian Balmer 2004-2008   =
=                                       http://www.flos-freeware.ch   =
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Description

  Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text
  editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.
  It's based on the Scintilla source code editing component
  (http://www.scintilla.org) and works on NT-based versions of Windows.


Features

  - Syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, PHP, ASP (JS, VBS), CSS,
    JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, C#, Resource Script, Makefiles, Java,
    Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Perl, Python, Configuration
    Files, Apache Config Files, Batch Files, Diff Files
  - Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
  - Basic regular expression search and replace
  - Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
  - Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
  - Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
  - Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
  - Open shell links
  - Mostly adjustable


New in Version 2.1.19 (released April 10, 2008)

  - "Line Comment" (Ctrl+Q) and "Stream Comment" (Ctrl+Shift+Q)
  - "Title Case" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Sentence Case" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
  - "Compress Whitespace" (Alt+P) command reduces spaces and tabs
  - Original Notepad .LOG feature
  - /f command line switch to set ini-file (/f0 to omit ini-file)
  - /p command line switch trumps sticky window position
  - /p0 uses system default settings for new window position
  - Move new off-screen windows prior to resizing
  - Option to skip Unicode text detection (File, Encoding, Default)
  - Reload file with different default encoding (Ctrl+F8, Shift+F8)
  - Unsaved documents with just whitespace considered empty
  - Improved handling of relative path names
  - File dialog filters can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
  - Type of indent guides can be specified in the Notepad2 ini-file
  - Track width of displayed text to adjust horizontal scroll range
  - Selected find results are better scrolled into view
  - Restore scrolling positions on revert
  - Ctrl+Back and Ctrl+Del stop at newlines, as usual on Windows
  - Ctrl+Space doesn't select initial line indentation whitespace
  - Ctrl+Tab hotkey modified to always insert a tabulator
  - Increase (Alt++) and decrease (Alt+-) long lines limit
  - Display long lines limit in statusbar if visual marker enabled
  - Import and export settings from customization dialog (Alt+I, Alt+X)
  - Added "Regular Expression" style to JavaScript and Java schemes
  - Updated filename extension lists with more default types
  - Updated Python keywords to version 3.0
  - Simplified SQL keywords (merged from MySQL and SQLite)
  - Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
  - Improved visual appearance of toolbar button images
  - Print margins can be set to "0"
  - Fixed several bugs with regular expression find and replace
  - Fixed bug with hanging of recent files dialog
  - Fixed bug with charset not being saved properly
  - Fixed bug with display of text selection at the beginning of lines
  - Fixed bug with cursor movement at the start and end wrapped lines
  - Updated Scintilla library to 1.76


New in Version 2.0.18 (released July 26, 2007)

  - "Select To" command in find dialog allows expanding the selection
  - "Select To Next" (F2) and "Select To Previous" (Shift+F2)
  - "Save Find Text" (Alt+F3) for later use with F2, F3, etc.
  - "Swap" (Ctrl+K) to exchange selected text with clipboard contents
  - Notepad2.exe program file is compressed with UPX by default


New in Version 2.0.17 (released July 24, 2007)

  - Option to allow only one Notepad2 window for each file
  - Option to display filename in window title in various forms
  - Hotkey Shift+Esc to save file and exit Notepad2
  - Indent size can be specified separately from tab width
  - Indent guides are highlighted along with matching braces
  - Caret can be displayed as a block (specify "block" for caret width)
  - Find and replace dialogs can be toggled from the toolbar
  - Tray icon is restored when Explorer is restarted
  - Fixed bug with brace matching
  - Fixed bug with replacement of ^c cutting the last character
  - Fixed bug with regular expression search causing infinite loop
  - Updated Scintilla library to 1.74


New in Version 2.0.16 (released May 14, 2007)

  - The msvcr70.dll runtime library is no longer required
  - "Enclose Selection" helper tool (Alt+Q)
  - Single line files are opened with default line ending mode
  - Remapped hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Z from "Undo" to "Redo"
  - Remapped hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Y from "Redo" to "Undo"
  - Fixed bug: problem with MRU lists causing random crashes
  - Fixed bug: moving lines up/down not working properly
  - Fixed bug: window settings overwritten on new screen resolution


New in Version 2.0.15 (released April 07, 2007)

  - BSD License for Notepad2 and source code (see License.txt)
  - "Insert HTML/XML Tag" helper tool (Alt+X)
  - Regex support for \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, \W, \xHH
  - Text selection can have "eolfilled" style (on by default)
  - Caret blink rate is set to system default on startup
  - Support for opening makefiles without filename extension
  - Dropped Windows 9x support
  - Requires msvcr70.dll runtime library
  - Updated Scintilla library to 1.73


New in Version 2.0.14 (not released to the public)

  - Find and replace dialogs: Don't wrap around on find option
  - Use the clipboard contents as the replacement text (enter ^c)
  - Date and time formats can be changed using template strings
  - "FileCheckInterval" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)


New in Version 2.0.13 (not released to the public)

  - Settings are stored in ini-file
  - File change notification (optional)
  - Find and replace dialogs are now modeless
  - Multiline find and replace through transform backslashes function
  - Find next / previous word / selected text (Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+Shift+F3)
  - Find and replace dialogs: exclusive options deactivate each other
  - Find wrap notification message can be deactivated
  - Preview function in scheme customization dialog
  - Quickly change the default font (F2)
  - Script information is saved along with font settings
  - Selection and current line background support transparency
  - Open ASCII files as UTF-8 if the default setting is UTF-8
  - Open empty files with default encoding and line ending settings
  - Don't prompt to save modified empty untitled documents
  - Line endings are always converted to current setting on paste
  - Ensure consistent line endings option (File, Line Endings, Default)
  - NTFS streams are preserved when saving files
  - Switching encoding performs proper text conversion to new encoding
  - Encoding conversion notification message can be deactivated
  - Encoding selection dialog displays info about system ANSI code page
  - Downgraded ANSI code page support to system default only
  - Big file wanring message can be deactivated
  - "Wrap Text To Column" command (Ctrl+Shift+W)
  - "Modify Lines" command to prefix and append text to lines (Alt+M)
  - "Duplicate Selection" command (Alt+D)
  - "Invert Case" command (Ctrl+Shift+E)
  - "Clear clipboard" command (in the "Edit" menu)
  - Force indent and unindent (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab)
  - Highlight current line (Ctrl+Shift+I)
  - Additional hotkey for "New File": Ctrl+F4
  - Mapped Ctrl+Shift+Y/Z to Ctrl+Y/Z
  - New hotkey for "Tab Settings" (Ctrl+T)
  - Changed hotkey for "Join Lines" (Ctrl+J)
  - Rearranged some items in the "View" and "Settings" menus
  - "Copy" tool button works as "Copy All" when no text selected
  - "Clear" tool button works as "Clear All" when no text selected
  - Ctrl+Space: select line if word is already selected
  - <br>, <hr> and other tags are no longer closed automatically
  - File, revert now asks if you really want to revert the file
  - "Open with..." and "Favorites" directories can be relative
  - Directories can be used as favorites (triggers open dialog)
  - Filter for open and save dialogs is always set to *.*
  - Location of metapath.exe can be specified in ini-file
  - "DefaultDirectory" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)
  - "DefaultExtension" ini-setting (see FAQ on my website)
  - Select print color mode (defaults to color on white)
  - Don't print separator line if header or footer omitted
  - Added proper support for multiple monitor systems
  - Allow multiple window position settings for different screen sizes
  - Option to use a sticky window position
  - New command line switches to select syntax schemes: /s, /t, /h, /x
  - Added Apache Config Files syntax highlighting
  - Added Perl POD verbatim style
  - Updated PHP keywords to PHP5
  - Updated SQL keywords
  - Updated CSS syntax highlighting to CSS2
  - Removed NSIS syntax highlighting
  - Removed ActionScript syntax highlighting
  - Removed "Bookmarks" feature
  - Removed "Delete Line Left/Right" and "Transpose Line" commands
  - Removed code page trace message
  - Fixed several bugs that caused Notepad2 to crash when saving files
  - Fixed crash when printing to offline printer
  - Fixed bug with transparency level setting


New in Version 1.0.12 (released June 25, 2004)

  - Notepad2 source code now released under the GNU GPL
  - "Read Only" option handles file attributes
  - Enhanced find and replace dialogs with new options
  - Optionally auto close HTML/XML tags (Ctrl+Shift+H)
  - Improved tabify/untabify selection functions
  - New hotkey to select XML scheme (Shift+F11)


New in Version 1.0.11 (released May 30, 2004)

  - Simple favorites management based on file shortcuts (Alt+I)
  - Optional toolbar buttons for favorites management
  - Improved undo / redo handling of auto indent text
  - Better cursor behaviour for line editing commands
  - Clipboard text is converted according to font character set
  - Auto-select ANSI code page option (File, Encoding, Default...)
  - Windows system text and background colors used by default
  - Enabled some new comment styles for C/C++ related languages


New in Version 1.0.10 (released May 21, 2004)

  - Option to select a default syntax scheme (F12)
  - Find, replace, upper- and lowercase handle umlauts and accents
  - Paste board feature (cmd switch /b) to collect clipboard entries
  - Text is copied to clipboard in Unicode format (Windows NT/2k/XP)
  - Reload current file without encoding detection (F8)
  - Updated CSS properties to version 2.1
  - "Reuse Window" disabled by default to allow multiple windows


New in Version 1.0.09 (released May 13, 2004)

  - Convert tabs to spaces and vice versa (Ctrl+Shift+S/T)
  - Insert time/date (short form/long form) (Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+F5)
  - Insert filename/path and filename (Ctrl+F9, Ctrl+Shift+F9)
  - Added missing copy line command (Ctrl+Shift+C)
  - Enabled script selection in font dialogs


New in Version 1.0.08 (released May 08, 2004)

  - Find and replace dialogs accept Unicode input (Windows NT/2k/XP)
  - Warning message for large files (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
  - Default file extension is "txt" (customizable using Notepad2.reg)
  - New command line parameters: /c, /g, /?
  - Fixed writing of hidden and system files (Windows XP/2k)
  - Fixed some handling problems with relative pathnames
  - Notepad2.txt outlines how to import and export Notepad2 settings


New in Version 1.0.07 (released May 03, 2004)

  - Select default encoding for new files
  - Select default line endings for new files
  - Right clicking moves cursor if no selection
  - Zooming with Ctrl+Mousewheel recalculates line number width


New in Version 1.0.06 (released April 30, 2004)

  - Word wrap settings, show word wrap symbols (Ctrl+Shift+0)
  - Move line up/down (Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down)
  - Remove blank lines (Alt+R)
  - Bookmarks for file navigation (Ctrl+F2)
  - Minimal print header and footer customization
  - Remapped some keyboard shortcuts (see Notepad2.txt)
  - Added a few comments to Notepad2.txt


New in Version 1.0.05 (released April 26, 2004)

  - Support for XML, ActionScript 2.0, Python, NSIS Script
  - Fully customizable second default style (Shift+F12)
  - Find matching brace (Ctrl+B)
  - Select to matching brace (Ctrl+Shift+B)
  - Goto column (Ctrl+J)
  - Optionally change background color of long lines
  - Transparent mode on Windows 2k and above (Alt+U)
  - Fixed line endings detection for Unicode files


New in Version 1.0.04 (released April 20, 2004)

  - Fixed loading of UTF-8 files with signature


New in Version 1.0.03 (released April 19,2004)

  - Toggle word wrap toolbar button
  - New block command: strip first character (Alt+Z)
  - Strip trailing blanks uses selection, if any


New in Version 1.0.02 (released April 17, 2004)

  - Reload current file (F5)
  - Revised printing functionality
  - Zooming recalculates line number width


New in Version 1.0.01 (released April 15, 2004)

  - Initial public release


Installation and Uninstallation

  Just put a copy of Notepad2.exe and Notepad2.ini to any directory on
  your computer. To uninstall Notepad2, simply delete these two files.
  Notepad2 does not create any registry entries on your computer.


Keyboard Shortcuts for Notepad2

  File

    Ctrl+N                New file.
    Ctrl+F4               Close file, identical with Ctrl+N.
    Ctrl+O                Open file.
    F5                    Reload file.
    F8                    Reload file without encoding detection.
    Ctrl+F8               Reload file with Unicode detection toggled.
    Shift+F8              Reload file with ANSI/UTF-8 defaults toggled.
    Ctrl+S                Save file.
    F6                    Save file as.
    Ctrl+F6               Save file copy.
    Ctrl+P                Print file.
    Alt+H                 Open recent file.

  Tools

    Alt+N                 Open document in new window.
    Alt+0                 Open new empty window.
    Ctrl+M                Run metapath file browser plugin.
    Ctrl+L                Launch document.
    Alt+L                 Open with.
    Ctrl+R                Run command.

  Favorites

    Alt+I                 Open favorites.
    Alt+K                 Add to favorites.
    F9                    Manage favorites.

  Edit

    Ctrl+Z                Undo.
    Ctrl+Shift+Z          Redo.
    Alt+Backspace         Undo.
    Ctrl+Y                Redo.
    Ctrl+Shift+Y          Undo.
    Ctrl+X                Cut.
    Shift+Del             Cut.
    Ctrl+C                Copy.
    Alt+C                 Copy all.
    Ctrl+V                Paste.
    Shift+Ins             Paste.
    Ctrl+K                Swap.
    Del                   Clear.
    Ctrl+A                Select all.
    Alt+Shift+Arrows      Rectangular selection.
    Ctrl+Enter            New line with toggled auto indent option.
    Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn        Goto previous/next block.
    Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn  Select to previous/next block.

  Char, Word

    Ctrl+Space            Select word (or line).
    Ctrl+Backspace        Delete word before/left.
    Ctrl+Del              Delete word after/right.
    Ctrl+Tab              Insert tabulator.

  Line

    Ctrl+Shift+Up         Move line up.
    Ctrl+Shift+Down       Move line down.
    Ctrl+D                Duplicate line.
    Ctrl+Shift+X          Cut line.
    Ctrl+Shift+C          Copy line.
    Ctrl+E                Delete line.
    Ctrl+Shift+Backspace  Delete line left.
    Ctrl+Shift+Del        Delete line right.

  Block

    Tab                   Indent selected block.
    Shift+Tab             Unindent selected block.
    Alt+Q                 Enclose selection.
    Alt+D                 Duplicate selection.
    Alt+Z                 Strip first character.
    Alt+W                 Strip trailing blanks.
    Alt+P                 Compress whitespace.
    Alt+R                 Remove blank lines.
    Alt+M                 Modify lines.
    Ctrl+Shift+W          Column wrap.
    Ctrl+I                Split lines.
    Ctrl+J                Join lines.

  Convert

    Ctrl+Shift+U          Make uppercase.
    Ctrl+U                Make lowercase.
    Ctrl+Alt+I            Invert case.
    Ctrl+Alt+T            Title case.
    Ctrl+Alt+S            Sentence case.
    Ctrl+Shift+S          Convert tabs to spaces.
    Ctrl+Shift+T          Convert spaces to tabs.
    Ctrl+Shift+A          Convert to ANSI.
    Ctrl+Shift+O          Convert to OEM.

  Insert

    Alt+X                 HTML/XML tag.
    Ctrl+F5               Time/date (short form).
    Ctrl+Shift+F5         Time/date (long form).
    Ctrl+F9               Filename.
    Ctrl+Shift+F9         Path and filename.

  Special

    Ctrl+Q                Block comment (toggle).
    Ctrl+Shift+Q          Stream comment.
    Ctrl+B                Find matching brace.
    Ctrl+Shift+B          Select to matching brace.

  Find, Replace

    Ctrl+F                Find.
    Alt+F3                Save find text.
    F3                    Find next.
    Shift+F3              Find previous.
    Ctrl+F3               Find next word or selection.
    Ctrl+Shift+F3         Find previous word or selection.
    F2                    Expand selection to next match.
    Shift+F2              Expand selection to previous match.
    Ctrl+H                Replace.
    Ctrl+G                Jump to line.

  Syntax scheme, Font

    F12                   Select syntax scheme.
    Shift+F12             Select 2nd default syntax scheme.
    Ctrl+F12              Customize syntax schemes.
    Alt+F12               Select default font.
    F11                   Select default text syntax scheme.
    Ctrl+F11              Select web source code syntax scheme.
    Shift+F11             Select XML document syntax scheme.

  View

    Ctrl+W                Toggle word wrap.
    Ctrl+Shift+L          Show long line marker.
    Ctrl+Shift+G          Show indentation guides.
    Ctrl+Shift+N          Show line numbers.
    Ctrl+Shift+M          Show selection margin.
    Ctrl+Shift+8          Show whitespace.
    Ctrl+Shift+9          Show line endings.
    Ctrl+Shift+0          Show wrap symbols.
    Ctrl+Shift+V          Toggle visual brace matching.
    Ctrl+Shift+I          Highlight current line.

  Zoom

    Ctrl++                Zoom in.
    Ctrl+-                Zoom out.
    Ctrl+/                Reset zoom.

  Settings

    Ctrl+T                Tab settings.
    Alt++                 Increase limit for long lines.
    Alt+-                 Decrease limit for long lines.
    Ctrl+Shift+H          Toggle auto close HTML/XML.
    Alt+T                 Always on top.
    Alt+U                 Transparent mode.
    F7                    Save settings now.

  Misc.

    Esc                   Optionally minimize or exit Notepad2.
    Shift+Esc             Save file and exit Notepad2.
    F1                    Display version info.


Regular Expression Syntax

  .      Matches any character

  \(     This marks the start of a region for tagging a match.

  \)     This marks the end of a tagged region.

  \n     Where n is 1 through 9 refers to the first through ninth
         tagged region when replacing. For example, if the search
         string was Fred\([1-9]\)XXX and the replace string was
         Sam\1YYY, when applied to Fred2XXX this would generate
         Sam2YYY.

  \<     This matches the start of a word.

  \>     This matches the end of a word.

  \x     This allows you to use a character x that would otherwise
         have a special meaning. For example, \[ would be interpreted
         as [ and not as the start of a character set.

  [...]  This indicates a set of characters, for example, [abc] means
         any of the characters a, b or c. You can also use ranges, for
         example [a-z] for any lower case character.

  [^...] The complement of the characters in the set. For example,
         [^A-Za-z] means any character except an alphabetic character.

  ^      This matches the start of a line (unless used inside a set,
         see above).

  $      This matches the end of a line.

  *      This matches 0 or more times. For example, Sa*m matches Sm,
         Sam, Saam, Saaam and so on.

  +      This matches 1 or more times. For example, Sa+m matches Sam,
         Saam, Saaam and so on.

  \d     Any decimal digit.
  \D     Any character that is not a decimal digit.

  \s     Any whitespace character.
  \S     Any character that is not a whitespace character.

  \w     Any "word" character.
  \W     Any "non-word" character.

  \xHH   Character with hex code HH.

  -----> Examples (don't use quotes)
         - Quote lines: find "^" replace with "> "
         - Unquote lines: find "^> " replace with ""
         - Remove line numbers: find "^[0-9]+" replace with ""
         - Convert tabs to double spaces: find "\t" replace with "  "


Command Line Switches

  Notepad2.exe [/g ln[,col]] [/s id] [/t] [/h] [/x] [/c] [/b] [/n]
               [/p x,y,cx,cy[,max]|/p0] [/i] [/f ini|/f0] [/?] [file]

    file: File to open, can be a relative pathname, or a shell link.
          This must be the last argument, quotes are not necessary.
    /g:   Jump to specified position, a line of -1 means end of file.
    /s:   Select specified syntax scheme ("id" is the zero-based index,
          0 = Default, 1 = Web, 2 = XML, 3 = CSS, 4 = JavaScript, ...).
    /t:   Select default text scheme.
    /h:   Select Web Source Code scheme.
    /x:   Select XML Document scheme.
    /c:   Open a new Notepad2 window and paste the clipboard contents.
    /b:   Open a new Notepad2 paste board to collect clipboard entries.
    /n:   Always open a new Notepad2 window.
    /p:   Set window position to x,y with size cx,cy, optional max set
          to nonzero to maximize window; /p0 means use system default.
    /f:   Specify ini-file; /f0 use no ini-file (don't save settings).
    /i:   Start as tray icon.
    /?:   Display a brief summary about command line parameters.


Source Code

  Notepad2 is based on the Scintilla source code editing component:
  http://www.scintilla.org

  The full Notepad2 source code can be found at:
  http://www.flos-freeware.ch


More Information and Resources

  For more information on Notepad2 features, and answers to the most
  frequently asked questions (FAQ), please visit the Notepad2 website:
  http://www.flos-freeware.ch


Feature Requests

  Thank you very much for the overwhelming feedback about Notepad2!
  Feature requests are always welcome, but please keep in mind that
  Notepad2 has been designed as a compact Notepad replacement.

  Hyperlink support is currently not provided by the Scintilla source
  code editing component (and not planned), it's unlikely I will
  implement this.

  Notepad replacement is easier said than done, I'm sorry! Instructions
  on how to replace Notepad on various versions of Windows can be found
  around in the net.


Credits and Special Thanks

  Here I would like to say "THANK YOU" to the developers of the great
  Scintilla source code editing component (http://www.scintilla.org),
  which is the core of Notepad2. Without Scintilla, the rich features
  found in Notepad2 wouldn't have been possible!

  Many thanks to everybody for sending me bug reports and useful hints.
  A special thank goes to Roland Weigelt (http://www.roland-weigelt.de)
  for his helpful thoughts and comments about Notepad2 features and
  usability in early development stages. I'd also like to express my
  thanks to Timo Kunze (http://www.TimoSoft-Software.de), to Kai Liu
  (http://www.kailiu.com) and Moritz Kroll for sending detailed bug
  reports and ready-to-use patches.


Copyright

  Notepad2 is FREE SOFTWARE and may be used and distributed freely.
  Please do not charge any distribution or download fees for this
  program, except for the cost of the distribution medium. The use of
  this software is AT YOUR OWN RISK. See License.txt for full details.

  If you have comments or questions, please drop me a note:
  florian.balmer@gmail.com

  (c) Florian Balmer 2004-2008

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