Reviews of Notepad2

1. 
   Nighted

   Reviewing 4.0.22-beta1 (Jun 26, 2009)

   New in Version 4.0.22-beta1 (released June 25, 2009)
   
   - Enhanced support for numerous Windows, DOS, ISO and Mac encodings
   - Enhanced encoding selection dialog (F9)
   - "Recode" (F8) to reload file with different source encoding
   - "Recode file as system default ANSI" (Ctrl+Shift+A)
   - "Recode file as system default OEM" (Ctrl+Shift+O)
   - "Recode 7-bit ASCII file as UTF-8" (Shift+F8)
   - Option to load 7-bit ASCII files as UTF-8 (File, Encoding, Default)
   - Option to disable encoding tag parsing (File, Encoding, Default)
   - Issue warning if data can't be converted to selected file encoding
   - Fix loading of (invalid) Unicode files with embedded null bytes
   - /e command line switch to specify file source encoding
   - "Insert Encoding Identifier" (Ctrl+F8)
   - "Tabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+T) and "Untabify Indent" (Ctrl+Alt+S)
   - "Increase Number" (Ctrl+Alt++) and "Decrease Number" (Ctrl+Alt+-)
   - Option to auto-reload unmodified files changed by external programs
   - Scroll find matches and jump positions away from bottom border
   - Allow bigger tab-/indent-widths (256) and long line limit (4096)
   - Dropping directories displays file open dialog
   - Enabled improved Scintilla Pascal lexeing module (patch by Kai Liu)
   - Remapped "Manage Favorites" hotkey to Alt+F9
   - Remapped "Invert Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+U
   - Remapped "Title Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+I
   - Remapped "Sentence Case" hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+O
   - Fixed various minor bugs
   - Updated Scintilla library to 1.78
2. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 4.0.22-beta1 (Jun 25, 2009)

   Awesome stuff. Standing by for the code-folding build.
3. 
   j02hn

   Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Mar 2, 2009)

   It looks great!
   I use Tiny Pad however, it's really light and saves me the need to "save" everytime I write soemthing new; plus it looks awesome
   You guys might wanna check it out here http://tinypad.info
4. 
   Nighted

   Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Feb 25, 2009)

   YES YES YES!!!! Line sorting! Woot!!!! :)
   
   New in Version 3.1.21-rc3 (released February 25, 2009)
   
   - No ini-file is created by default (save settings with F7, once)
   - "Move Up" and "Move Down" keep selection and work with blocks
   - Set cursor to start (Ctrl+,) or end of text selection (Ctrl+.)
   - "URL Encode" (Ctrl+Shift+E) and "URL Decode" (Ctrl+Shift+R)
   - "Escape" (Ctrl+Alt+E) and "Unescape C Special Chars" (Ctrl+Alt+U)
   - "Sort Lines" with several options (Alt+O)
   - "Replace Next" assigned to hotkey (F4)
   - Auto strip trailing blanks option (File, Line Endings, Default)
   - Remapped "Transparent Mode" hotkey to Ctrl+0
   - Simple XML detection for files without extensions
   - Simple language detection for cgi and fcgi files
   - Reload file without file variable parsing (Alt+F8)
   - Enabled better styling of C/C++ preprocessor elements
   - Recent files and search strings merged with existing items on save
   - Paste board mode ignores immediately repeated copy actions
   - Command line switch + to accept multiple files (quoted spaces)
   - Command line switch - to accept single file argument (no quotes)
   - Option to set default command line mode (single or multiple files)
   - Command line switches to set file encoding and line ending mode
   - More /p command line switches (see "Command Line Switches" below)
   - /r command line switch to reuse existing window
   - /ns and /rs command line switches to enable single file instance
   - Renamed /t command line switch to /d (select default text scheme)
   - /t command line switch to set window title
   - Set window title to excerpt of current text selection (Ctrl+9)
   - External commands use current file directory as working directory
   - Remember "Save Copy" location until exit
   - Require only single click to restore window from tray icon
   - "Reuse Window" option timeout improves opening multiple files
   - Replaced "Find Up" option with "Find Previous" button in dialogs
   - Find and replace dialogs provide new system menu commands
   - Dialog boxes use correct theme fonts on Vista
   - Incorporated base x64 source code compatibility patch
   - Fixed some problems with relative ini-file locations
   - Fixed some minor file variable problems
   - Fixed some encoding detection issues
   - Fixed some find and replace problems
   - Fixed several memory leaks when saving files
   - Fixed several memory leaks for editing operations
   - Reduced size of Notepad2.exe program file
5. 
   dkratter

   Reviewing 3.1.21 RC2 (Feb 24, 2009)

   An excellent free Notepad replacement. It is one of the first things I install on a new box. I do, however, wish it was an MDI (tabs) application instead of an SDI (separate windows) application, but the author has stated he does not intend to support that.

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