One of new sweetest capacities in Notepad++ v5.4 is google chrome tab drag and drop feature : it allows user to drag out a tab to move/open the current document in a new instance. It's useful if you have 2 or more displays.Any document can be draged in/out among different instances.
While new release is enhanced for the rich developpers who can afford several monitors, the poor ones who have only one display with the pre-historic video card are not forgotten : The structure of menu is compacted in order to access to every single menu item in any resolution (even under 640 x 480).
Theme selector (Menu "Settings->Style Configurator...") is another sweet feature in this release. It allows users to switch among different themes on the fly and get the visual effect immediately. 10 themes are included in both ANSI/Unicode releases so you can play around directly.
I did "Hello Kitty" theme and I'm quite satisfied with it - it's easy to fill with different pink colours to get this silly style. On the other hand, I tried to make a theme named "Bad Taste" but in vain. Obviously my taste is not so bad :) . So for those who have talent to make such theme, please send it to me (d o n . h @ f r e e . f r), I will include it in the future release if it is ugly enough. It'll be even better to have several ugly themes so that "Bad Taste" theme competition will take place.
"Mark all" extension is another handy feature. By making these commands accessible via the context menu, user is able to mark upto 5 different colours for any occurence. It's convinient when you work on a log file.
Too many goodies in this release, I let you discover them yourself.
Notepad++ v5.4 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.3.1) :
1. Add theme selector to switch styles.xml on the fly, change styles.xml on one click.
2. Add google chrome drag and derop tab feature : drag out tab to create a new instance, transfer documents among several instances by drag and drop.
3. Add Mark all extension : user can mark any occurrence with 5 different colours.
4. Add new feature : column selection allows to insertion a string by typing characters in sequence (w/o column mode editor).
5. Detect UTF16 encoding (BE and LE) w/o BOM.
6. Fix crash bug : Double click a file associated with an older version of Notepad++ while a newer version of Notepad++ instance is running.
7. lmprove main menu structure (more compact). Language Menu can be compacted as well (optional, in Preference dialog).
8. Fine numbers margin width is changed dynamically according to the needed space (but keeping at least 3 digits).
9. File history list (under the File menu) is limited to 100 characters per item. Longer file names are fitted to 100 characters by replacing path components with ellipses.
10. Update Scintilla from v1.75 to v1.77.
11. Indent guideline can be shown w/o whitespace or tab symbol.
12. Fixed two bugs when calculating the width of the TaskList (document list when pressing ctrl+tab or right-click + mouse wheel.
13. Add an (hidden) option to make the "Filters" and "Directory" fields follow the current opened document in "Find in files" dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: "fifFilterFollowsDoc" and "fifFolderFollowsDoc" (set to "yes"/"no")
14. Add new command parameters : -c (column) -x et -y (startup position).
15. Remove change line marker which does not work correctly. Include ChangeMarkers plugin instead.
16. Fix bug "Switch to found results window" command now switches back to the current edit view if the focus is already on the found results.
17. Fix the search result inaccurate colorization bug.
18. Fix the Mark all in selection bug (while Find Replace Dialog loosing the focus).
19. Add 2 plugins messages : NPPN_FILEBEFORELOAD and NPPN_FILELOADFAILED.
20. Fix New document not be switched while double clicking in Find in files result panel.
21. Fix conversion min to Maj and Maj to min (or vice et versa) in column selection bug.
22. Fix bug when the find dialog was closed the translucaent shadow remained in Windows 7.
23. Fix crash bug of find in files feature.
24. Add "follow current doc" checkbox in Find in file dialog.
25. Add the ability of tag match feature to not highlight comment zone in html/xml.
26. Fix TCL language highlighting bug.
Confirmed. It did not get installed using the installer.
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2009-05-25
I found the first bug in Russian and other langs
!
1 - open the program. (You must have a Recent File List)
2 - open files
3 - click "Clean Recent File List"
4 - closes an open file option
5 - option "Clean Recent File List" again becomes active, but not displayed correctly.
A similar problem for other languages, and possibly with other options using a system of activation and deactivation...
Perhaps the problem is connected with the shutdown and recovery options.
Restoration option does not occur properly.
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Can the "Mark All" (just like the previous version, Ctrl+M will mark the current selected text in red, using the search box mark all function) function be added back to the next release?
5 colors just useful sometimes, and it may be too much,
but the original "Mark All" function is quite useful for quick marking with keyboard, and it can be marked with bookmark if "Mark Line" option is checked in the search box.
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I think this is "brocken by design".
When one is selecting rectngular block (Alt-Mouse) and lines are different length, only a portion of the longer lines (up to the length of the last selected line( can be selected.
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I can no longer drag a file into Notepad. I assume this is because of the Chrome-esque "drag out to new". This is annoying as I often do this. Any chance of a fix or settings toggle?
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The installer misses a description for the new Themes category. But i found a bug in the find menu. Just open the find menu an select "Up" as direction than search any string. After closing Notepad++ and open it again the find menu shows both directions as selected. I have tested it on the unicode version.
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Anonymous
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2009-05-26
I know that is not priced labor. Sorry, that just wrote about a bug!
Also I would like say thanks for this release.
The main thing is that all the old problems fixed. )))
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One more feature I thought of would be implemented (and isn't as far as I can see/read):
When using the search in files function I want to be able to use the directory of the currently opened file (instead of the directory which was last used), would that be somehow possible to add as extra feature by clicking a checkbox or so!?
thanks!
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' 13. Add an (hidden) option to make the "Filters" and "Directory" fields follow the current opened document in "Find in files" dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: "fifFilterFollowsDoc" and "fifFolderFollowsDoc" (set to "yes"/"no") '
Is that what you where looking for?
Also,
' ...would that be somehow possible to add as extra feature by clicking a checkbox or so!? '
I think the reason it wasn't added as a UI item is to help keep the interface clean. If you feel it _should_ be an option then perhaps you could add an idea to the ideaTorrent ( link in the 'Hosted Apps' drop down menu on this Sourceforge page ) and if enough people in the community agree it might just get added. Or if you wanted, it would be great if you could code it up and submit it to the open/experimental branch in the git repo ( http://github.com/almostautomated/notepad-plus ); then anyone else also wanting it would have it easily available.
almostautomated
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One of new sweetest capacities in Notepad++ v5.4 is google chrome tab drag and drop feature : it allows user to drag out a tab to move/open the current document in a new instance. It's useful if you have 2 or more displays.Any document can be draged in/out among different instances.
While new release is enhanced for the rich developpers who can afford several monitors, the poor ones who have only one display with the pre-historic video card are not forgotten : The structure of menu is compacted in order to access to every single menu item in any resolution (even under 640 x 480).
Theme selector (Menu "Settings->Style Configurator...") is another sweet feature in this release. It allows users to switch among different themes on the fly and get the visual effect immediately. 10 themes are included in both ANSI/Unicode releases so you can play around directly.
I did "Hello Kitty" theme and I'm quite satisfied with it - it's easy to fill with different pink colours to get this silly style. On the other hand, I tried to make a theme named "Bad Taste" but in vain. Obviously my taste is not so bad :) . So for those who have talent to make such theme, please send it to me (d o n . h @ f r e e . f r), I will include it in the future release if it is ugly enough. It'll be even better to have several ugly themes so that "Bad Taste" theme competition will take place.
"Mark all" extension is another handy feature. By making these commands accessible via the context menu, user is able to mark upto 5 different colours for any occurence. It's convinient when you work on a log file.
Too many goodies in this release, I let you discover them yourself.
Notepad++ v5.4 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.3.1) :
1. Add theme selector to switch styles.xml on the fly, change styles.xml on one click.
2. Add google chrome drag and derop tab feature : drag out tab to create a new instance, transfer documents among several instances by drag and drop.
3. Add Mark all extension : user can mark any occurrence with 5 different colours.
4. Add new feature : column selection allows to insertion a string by typing characters in sequence (w/o column mode editor).
5. Detect UTF16 encoding (BE and LE) w/o BOM.
6. Fix crash bug : Double click a file associated with an older version of Notepad++ while a newer version of Notepad++ instance is running.
7. lmprove main menu structure (more compact). Language Menu can be compacted as well (optional, in Preference dialog).
8. Fine numbers margin width is changed dynamically according to the needed space (but keeping at least 3 digits).
9. File history list (under the File menu) is limited to 100 characters per item. Longer file names are fitted to 100 characters by replacing path components with ellipses.
10. Update Scintilla from v1.75 to v1.77.
11. Indent guideline can be shown w/o whitespace or tab symbol.
12. Fixed two bugs when calculating the width of the TaskList (document list when pressing ctrl+tab or right-click + mouse wheel.
13. Add an (hidden) option to make the "Filters" and "Directory" fields follow the current opened document in "Find in files" dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: "fifFilterFollowsDoc" and "fifFolderFollowsDoc" (set to "yes"/"no")
14. Add new command parameters : -c (column) -x et -y (startup position).
15. Remove change line marker which does not work correctly. Include ChangeMarkers plugin instead.
16. Fix bug "Switch to found results window" command now switches back to the current edit view if the focus is already on the found results.
17. Fix the search result inaccurate colorization bug.
18. Fix the Mark all in selection bug (while Find Replace Dialog loosing the focus).
19. Add 2 plugins messages : NPPN_FILEBEFORELOAD and NPPN_FILELOADFAILED.
20. Fix New document not be switched while double clicking in Find in files result panel.
21. Fix conversion min to Maj and Maj to min (or vice et versa) in column selection bug.
22. Fix bug when the find dialog was closed the translucaent shadow remained in Windows 7.
23. Fix crash bug of find in files feature.
24. Add "follow current doc" checkbox in Find in file dialog.
25. Add the ability of tag match feature to not highlight comment zone in html/xml.
26. Fix TCL language highlighting bug.
Included plugins (Unicode):
1. TextFX v0.26
2. NppExec v0.3 RC1
3. Spell Checker v1.3.2
4. MIME Tools v1.5
5. FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
6. NppExport v0.2.8
7. Doc Monitor v2.2
8. NppNetNote v0.1
9. ChangeMarkers 1.2.0
Included plugins (ANSI):
1. TextFX v0.25
2. NppExec v0.3 RC1
3. Spell Checker v1.3.1
4. MIME Tools v1.5
5. FTP_synchronize v0.9.6
6. NppExport v0.2.8
7. Light Explorer v1.5
8. Doc Monitor v2.2
9. NppNetNote v0.1
10. ChangeMarkers 1.2.0
Don
Whoa....
Please fix and add back the Line Change Marker! I was just getting really used to that, and liking it a lot. :)
Thanks for the new update. This is great software!
Use ChangeMarkers plugin which comes with this release.
Don
But ChangeMarker didn't get installed! It is not even in the list of plugins in the installer.
Confirmed. It did not get installed using the installer.
I found the first bug in Russian and other langs
!
1 - open the program. (You must have a Recent File List)
2 - open files
3 - click "Clean Recent File List"
4 - closes an open file option
5 - option "Clean Recent File List" again becomes active, but not displayed correctly.
A similar problem for other languages, and possibly with other options using a system of activation and deactivation...
Perhaps the problem is connected with the shutdown and recovery options.
Restoration option does not occur properly.
It doesn't look like it has any issue in English on the Unicode build.
Thanks for this release first.
I found a bug. The User ext can not save in Style Configurator. I need to modify the stylers.xml manually to save the User ext.
Can the "Mark All" (just like the previous version, Ctrl+M will mark the current selected text in red, using the search box mark all function) function be added back to the next release?
5 colors just useful sometimes, and it may be too much,
but the original "Mark All" function is quite useful for quick marking with keyboard, and it can be marked with bookmark if "Mark Line" option is checked in the search box.
This is a great editor. I am missing proper syntax highlighting for FORTRAN 90 code. How can I do that? Any idea?
Thanks
I think this is "brocken by design".
When one is selecting rectngular block (Alt-Mouse) and lines are different length, only a portion of the longer lines (up to the length of the last selected line( can be selected.
I can no longer drag a file into Notepad. I assume this is because of the Chrome-esque "drag out to new". This is annoying as I often do this. Any chance of a fix or settings toggle?
Works for me in 5.4.5. Did you upgrade? Try that first.
CChris
The installer misses a description for the new Themes category. But i found a bug in the find menu. Just open the find menu an select "Up" as direction than search any string. After closing Notepad++ and open it again the find menu shows both directions as selected. I have tested it on the unicode version.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2172/23276404.jpg
Don,
I'm not sure which you refer to when you say it will be fixed; but count this as a confirmation of both issues.
almostautomated
For 5.4.1 due out ASAP
It'll be fixed in the next release.
Don
It is a shot!
http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090526/1v3Wt07pyJ.jpg
3-bug
In menu Replace
already have the text to replace!
There is:
20H D;03 C
The feature works as expected here.
I know that is not priced labor. Sorry, that just wrote about a bug!
Also I would like say thanks for this release.
The main thing is that all the old problems fixed. )))
there is a bug here.
picture is http://g.imagehost.org/0336/bug.jpg
First: many many thanks...
One more feature I thought of would be implemented (and isn't as far as I can see/read):
When using the search in files function I want to be able to use the directory of the currently opened file (instead of the directory which was last used), would that be somehow possible to add as extra feature by clicking a checkbox or so!?
thanks!
Alex;
Did you notice from the OP:
' 13. Add an (hidden) option to make the "Filters" and "Directory" fields follow the current opened document in "Find in files" dialog. The new parameters are located in config.xml and are called: "fifFilterFollowsDoc" and "fifFolderFollowsDoc" (set to "yes"/"no") '
Is that what you where looking for?
Also,
' ...would that be somehow possible to add as extra feature by clicking a checkbox or so!? '
I think the reason it wasn't added as a UI item is to help keep the interface clean. If you feel it _should_ be an option then perhaps you could add an idea to the ideaTorrent ( link in the 'Hosted Apps' drop down menu on this Sourceforge page ) and if enough people in the community agree it might just get added. Or if you wanted, it would be great if you could code it up and submit it to the open/experimental branch in the git repo ( http://github.com/almostautomated/notepad-plus ); then anyone else also wanting it would have it easily available.
almostautomated
thanks a lot,
"fifFolderFollowsDoc"
was what I was looking for ... but... there's even an option in the GUI making it possible. didn't see that^^
thanks!