Headline Changes in 2.3:

1. Jump dialog now filters results as you type.
2. Custom scheme is now implemented as a PN extension, and adds extra identifier block comment types
3. Double-click on tab bar (not on tab) starts a new doc.
4. Miscellaneous updates to schemes to improve highlighting (including HTML5 elements and attributes).
5. RTF export reworked, background colours now working better.
6. Properties scheme folding.
7. Select a URL and right-click to go to it.
8. New German and Russian translations.
9. Scheme Presets: Solarized (Light), improved Obsidian, thanks to contributors.

Downloads:
Download 2.3 Installer
Download 2.3 Portable

You may also like to add the PyPN extension to your 2.3 install to get support for scripting/macros with Python: PyPN 1.1

Thanks to all contributors, bug filers/triagers, translators and testers for their help with this release.

Currently 2.3 will ship with the following languages in the installer/portable package:

• Simplified-Chinese
• British English
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• German
• Russian
• Spanish

All translation files are stored in the Programmer’s Notepad Translations project, using a Mercurial repository.

Help Wanted
Want to help with updating any of these, or perhaps adding a new language? Follow the steps in the Translating Programmer’s Notepad guide on the docs wiki.

I’m also looking for someone who’d like to contribute to PN by looking after the translations, doing something like the following:

• Keep a mailing list going for translators to ask questions/be notified of updates
• Publish the status of translations (i.e. identify those that need work)
• Update the translation kit and instructions as required
• Help with the translation issues on the tracker
• Help to keep the translations project up to date (not everyone can use Mercurial)

If you’re interested, send me a mail (s.steele at this domain) or get in touch via the forums/issue tracker.

Headline Changes in 2.2:

There have been too many improvements since 2.0.10 to recount them all here, but these are the headline changes in 2.2 over 2.0.10:

1. Complete Unicode conversion, files, searching, projects, UI, clips…
2. Complete redesign of text clips, with editing built in to new UI view and code templates and text clips consolidated
3. Multiple concurrent selections (ctrl+select)
4. Type into multiple selections and block selections
5. Virtual space
6. Translations – PN in your language
7. Flexible split views
8. Converting between ANSI/Unicode properly converts current file contents
9. Vastly improved file encoding options and defaults

Downloads:
Download 2.2 Installer
Download 2.2 Multi-Language
Download 2.2 Portable

You may also like to add the PyPN extension to your 2.2 install to get support for scripting/macros with Python: PyPN 0.12

Thanks to all contributors, bug filers/triagers, translators and testers for their help with this release.

Changes in 2.1.5:

1. Text clips can now contain python script, anything written to stdout is included in the clip.
2. Improvements to ANSI/Unicode encoding support and conversion
3. Now available in English, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian, Chinese, better translation support.
4. Make sure smart highlight works throughout the whole document
5. Added files exclusion filter to magic folder.
6. Allow setting current scheme from Pyextensions. Allow inserting clip from extensions.
7. When saving the workspace sort the documents by tab order
8. Allow forcing readonly from the command line
9. Switch desktop icon to common desktop
10. Add date and time for clips, fix tab size, and remove line endings from current line
11. Text clip field indexes work properly

Downloads:
Download 2.1.5 Installer
Download 2.1.5 Portable
Download 2.1.5 Multi-Language

Thanks to all contributors, translators and testers for their help with this release.

Changes in 2.1.4:

1. Replaced the text clip parser with a brand new one, supporting placeholders and variables
2. Documentation for the updated text clips syntax on the documentation site: Text Clips (note your clips may need updating).
3. Allow text clip insertion using tab.
4. Update tagging to use CTags 5.8, add support for new ctags languages, including batch, matlab, ocaml, …
5. Custom scheme (schemedef improvements) including case sensitive option and various fixes and optimisations – thanks to Lennard Fonteijn
6. Autocomplete fixes, better support for mixed tag and keyword autocomplete, again thanks to Lennard
7. Updated Scintilla to version 2.11
8. Distributed clips updated for new syntax

Downloads:
Download 2.1.4 Installer
Download 2.1.4 Portable
Download 2.1.4 Multi-Language

Thanks to all contributors, translators and testers for their help with this release.

Changes in 2.1.3:

1. Complete re-write of text clips view and clips management system
2. End clip entry on final empty field (experimental)
3. Smart highlight range now limited to field of view +/- 200 lines, improves speed and usability with large files.
4. Translations now fed directly from user translation project at pnotepad-twrans.googlecode.com
5. Switch to boost 1.42

Downloads

Download 2.1.3 Installer
Download 2.1.3 Portable
Download 2.1.3 Multi-Language

Thanks to all those who test these builds and provide feedback via the forums or bugs, I hope you’re enjoying the 2.1 releases!

• Code Template Fields
• Cleaner visual style for the document tabs
• Added line padding options, allows more whitespace between lines
• Switch to Scintilla’s built-in line length measurement
• Removed some 3D styling bits to clean up the look of the editor, more to do.
• New tab text changed from to Untitled
• -z parameter now assumes a single file after the -z, designed for notepad replacement.
• Updated to latest Scintilla bits for some multi-caret fixes
• Fixed a couple of regular expression issues.
• Fix tools options tab titles.
• Made SmartHighlight more visible, less alpha blending

In case you haven’t used a 2.1 build yet, here are the other headline features in the testing builds:

1. Full Unicode Support
2. Support for Translations – PN in your language
3. Prototype Command Bar feature (with PyPN)
4. Multiple simultaneous selections, including typing into block selections
5. Virtual space

Downloads:

Download 2.1.2 Installer
Download 2.1.2 Multi-language Installer
Download 2.1.2 Portable

If you’ve been holding off from testing releases, now is a great time to download the new stable release!

Thanks to all the testers, forum users, bug reporters and patch submitters for making 2.0.10 a great release. If you’re still using 2.0.8 here are some of the highlights:

1. Vastly improved regular expressions support
2. Explorer view
3. Open files view
4. Vista-behaviour improvements
5. Win7 Support
6. API file autocomplete
7. SDK for building extensions
8. Style presets
9. Macro/Script recording with PyPN
10. Smart Highlight to show all instances of selected word
11. Loads of bug fixes, and a bunch more new features

Almost all changes since build 970 are minor fixes, with the exception of the additional support for XML API files (supporting Notepad++ format). Providing no major issues are found, this will become the stable release, and I plan to test the update mechanism for stable builds soon by signalling this as the new stable build.

Downloads:

2.0.10 RC Installer
2.0.10 RC Portable Zip

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches. For a detailed list of changes, see my blog.

Downloads

• 0.9.970 Installer
• 0.9.970 Portable

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches.