Version 3.x Series Version 2.x Series Version 1.x Series

Version 2.6

• When a file cannot be saved due to insufficient permissions, it can now be retried as administrator
• Save All command will ignore files that cannot be saved due to insufficient permissions (Information displayed on the output window)
• New dock file browser mode: Tree view instead of file list
• New command: "Auto Scroll" to automatically scroll the current document
• New command: "Reload Automatically" to automatically reload the current document every X seconds
• Added a new status panel : Folder (of the active document)
• New option to only capture clipboard operations within Twistpad
• The Paste command now displays a sub menu with the collected clipboard items
• Multiple paste menu now pre-selects the second item in the clipboard list on popup
• Internal Clipboard no longer needs the Clipboard dock window visible to collect items
• New Option to wrap Quick search commands
• Added Incremental Search command to the Compare Window views
• Added a "Open File Location" command to the search results list to open the file in Explorer
• Added a new option to use the current folder (and type) in the Find/Replace in files dialog
• Quote commands now anchor to text instead of starting at the beginning of the line
• Quote commands now support column selection
• Editor ruler can now be hidden via right click
• Improved the algorithm of automatic detection of UTF-8 files without signature
• File history sub-menus will only be shown if there are items
• Favorites sub-menu will always be shown and not only when there are favorite files
• SDF Files (Twistpad Syntax definition files) can now be automatically installed if opened in Twistpad
• Editor gutter can now be used to select lines
• New warning when replacing all without the "Wrap text" option
• Improvements to the Close dialog
• Improvements to the Reload modified files dialog
• Improvements to the detection of files changed outside Twistpad
• Improvements to the Customize dialog
• Improvements to the Compare window
• Redesigned some toolbar images
• General usability improvements
• Fixed: Faster replace on a Replace All command
• Fixed: Go to line in Compare window
• Fixed: Unicode characters in Compare window
• Fixed: Detection of current document deleted or moved when Twistpad was activated
• Fixed: Improved performance on files with long lines
• Fixed: Invalid folder on multiple folders search
• Fixed: Internal clipboard items were not restored in certain scenarios
• Fixed: Improved Quote commands
• Fixed: Escape key now cancels folder look up in the Find/Replace in files dialog instead of closing the dialog
• Fixed: Resizable dialogs did not have a close button
• Fixed: No printers installed unhandled exception on Windows 10
• Updated Help file
• New editor theme: Zen
• Minor bug fixes

Version 2.52 SR1

• Due to popular demand, the Find/Replace in files dialog is now resizable again
• Fixed: Warning when searching in an invalid folder
• Fixed: Refreshing in the Compare Window would raise an error
• Minor Bug Fixes

Version 2.52

• Clipboard history now retains IdentPaste, line copy and block select mode when reusing a stored clipboard item
• Improved display of the Paste Multiple menu
• Multiple Items paste menu now shows hint with the history contents
• New Commands: Next and Previous modified line to quickly jump between edited sections in the current document
• Copying from the compare window now supports IdentPaste and line copy mode when pasting in the main editor
• Added First and Last Difference commands in the Compare Window
• Added a new command in the Compare window to switch between vertical and horizontal views
• Shortcuts in Compare window can now be customized in the customize dialog
• New option to display the compare overview bar on the left of the window
• Feedback on line jumped via double click in the Output window is now displayed on the status bar
• Numbers are now highlighted in the Output window
• Toggle Bookmark command now shows the current bookmark list in sub-menu (same view as the Dock Bookmark window)
• New Option in Find/Replace in Files: "Search in hidden items"
• Replace in files now makes a backup for replaced files (only when the option "Create Backup Copy" is selected)
• Reorganized the Find/Replace in Files dialog
• Updated some command button icons
• New command line switch to jump to line of the file opened, after the file path specify the line number. Eg: c:\twistpad.exe "c:\file.txt" xxxx
• Fixed: Warning of failure to make the replace in read only files (No indication that the replacement was not done)
• Fixed: In the compare window, if there was only one difference and on the first line, Twistpad would crash
• Fixed: Editing a line in the editor, right after a jump from the search results would delete that line
• Fixed: When searching in opened files, current document changes would be lost
• Fixed: Same select mode in main editor and compare displays
• Fixed: Same Gutter colors in main editor and compare displays
• Fixed: Join Lines command now discards any indent spaces when joining the lines
• Fixed: double click a number in the output window sometimes would not jump to the respective line number
• Updated Help file
• Other minor bug fixes and tweaks

Version 2.51

• Added a interface to edit snippet sets
• Improved snippet editing directly from the dock window, allowing to create new set of snippet and delete sets of snippets without having to manually edit the snippet files
• Added a Copy Snippet command on the Snippet dock window
• Twistpad can now act as a standalone compare tool, the included "TwistCompare.Exe" when invoked with two files in the command line will launch the Twistpad compare window or using the command line switch "/C" (and 2 files) directly into Twistpad command line
• When comparing a file with older revisions, other revisions can now be selected directly in the Compare window
• New shortcuts to find next and previous differences in the Compare window (F2\Shift F2)
• Added a quick find forward\backward in the Compare window (like in the editor: select text press F3\Shift F3)
• New option to make searches of text and differences wrappable in the Compare window
• Added a menu entry to display file properties in the File History dialog
• Favorites are now displayed in the File Menu (Note: This menu entry is only visible if there are favorite files defined)
• Pressing the key now reverts the auto-correction (if pressed immediately after)
• New Option: Wait X minutes: Interval between saved backups (Only available in "Full History" backup type)
• Updated display of "non loaded" file contents
• Inserting a clip item will now send the item to the clipboard and to the top of the clipboard list
• Added a warning the when running a macro more then once
• Fixed: Sometimes inserting a snippet would add repeated lines
• Fixed: Copying from then Compare window would not ignore deleted lines
• Fixed: Viewer 1 from the Compare window background color
• Fixed: Sometimes the clipboard window would stop collecting items
• Fixed: Next\Previous function commands (and goto dialog) would not work correctly when function list was sorted alphabetically
• Fixed: Refreshing a comparison between a file and a revision would make the history file loose the syntax highlight
• Fixed: Document statistics command would hang Twistpad if the document had long lines
• Fixed: Lag editing remote stored files
• Fixed: Zoom in the Compare window was not synchronized
• Fixed: Switch Window would sometimes display a horizontal scrollbar
• Fixed: Bookmarks were always set on document 1 in the Compare window
• Updated Help file
• Other Minor bug fixes and tweaks

Version 2.5 SR2

• Pressing the "Esc" key now cancels formatting commands
• Fixed: Gutter line numbers where switched in compare window
• Fixed: Keywords containing na "equal" sign could not be used as a keyword in syntax definition (Syntax would return na error)
• Fixed: Some issues with the plug-in interface
• Other Minor bug fixes

Version 2.5 SR1

• Print Preview windows size and options panel visibility are now preserved across sessions
• Fixed: Compare commands only affected the top editor
• Fixed: Comparing current document in wordwrap mode with saved version
• Fixed: Search highlight word would not highlight the word if it was underlined in a URL
• Fixed: Equal sign could not be used as a keyword in syntax definition (Syntax would return na error)
• Fixed: Option "Non Syntax Text Color Always Black" was not persistent across sessions
• Other Minor bug fixes

Version 2.5

• Dock Function Window contents can now be sorted by line (default) or by line content (alphabetically)
• Dock Function Window can now be filter function names
• Added a command to browse the current file history (requires Backup type set to "Full History")
• Added a new command to Align text in a tabular style with given separator
• Added a new command to compare the current file with the clipboard contents
• Added a new command to compare the current file selection with the clipboard contents
• Added an option to lock opened files in Twistpad
• Added an option to show progress operations in the application Taskbar button (Windows 7\8.x only)
• Added an option to show folder history on Open\Save file dialogs or, if not set, show favorite folders from the Dock File Browser window (Windows Vista\7\8.x only)
• Ruler now displays the current cursor position and selection (if selection is in the same line)
• "Automatic URL color" will "adapt" to the current syntax scope color (and be underlined)
• Control+Click is now used to launch the URL, instead of double click
• Added a new command, in the Preferences dialog, to clear the search\replace history
• Added a new command: "Remove consecutive blank lines" to the Format menu
• Added two new options to the Find in Files dialog; "Expand Search Results" and "Clear Previous Results"
• Added a new option for searched terms (in Search results and Find functions\List bookmarks) to be highlighted with the same background color as the editor search highlight)
• Close Window allows to compare contents of the modified files with the saved version (Via context menu)
• New option to output sort operations to a new window
• Compare With command now uses current editing buffer instead of saved version
• Compare now displays number of changes (added, deleted and modified lines)
• Compare now supports temporary word highlight (Ctrl+Click)
• Commands hint show the command description
• Added shortcuts to paste multiple menu items
• Added the possibility to edit name and description of macros
• Organize Macros command is now available in the Playback Macro Dialog
• Improvement: Usability in Playback Macro Dialog for better keyboard support
• Improvement: Usability in the compare window
• Improvement: Usability in the Window Manager
• Improvement: Usability in the Switch Window
• Improvement: Usability in the Close\"Close All But This" Dialog
• Improvement: Usability in the Document bar
• Added a context menu to the Document bar to add or remove items
• Check for new version now warns about available beta versions (Note: Beta versions are only available to registered users)
• Recovered files are now displayed with the document warning panel
• Clean obsolete history files at startup now also clean obsolete favorite folders as well
• improvement: Copy append command will now append items in the internal clipboard as well
• Active Spelling new default shortcut: Shift+F7
• Context in the Bookmark window has been moved to the second column
• "Format Text" command is now called "Wrap Text"
• Fixed: Some issues in the compare window
• Fixed: Document bar is now in sync with the scrollbar Thumb
• Fixed: Show Current selection in document bar (option) was not working
• Fixed: Update of track changes display on horizontal scroll
• Fixed: Faster shutdown of application
• Fixed: Highlighted internet links are now ignored by the active spell checker
• Fixed: Search highlight match's would always consider the whole document even if the Document bar was not active
• Fixed: At startup, when loading the last workspace, the function list would not show the document functions
• Fixed: Undo behavior upon deleting a block selection
• Fixed: "Save As" would not remove the warning bar
• Fixed: Find all on current document or on all documents would raise an error if there was an empty document
• Fixed: Statistics command would not be disabled if there was no active document
• Fixed: Documents not loaded would not be fully loaded for comparison
• Fixed: Temporary search color was not restored from a previously saved theme
• Fixed: Clipboard window mouse hint would go beyond end of screen
• Fixed: Full Screen would make the taskbar button disappear on Windows 8.x
• Fixed: On Windows 8.x having more than 30+ document windows open would raise an application error and Twistpad would be closed
• Dialogs now use the correct font for Windows Vista\7 and 8.x
• Removed classic and high Color icons
• Updated Help file
• Other Minor bug fixes and tweaks

Version 2.4

• Undo and Redo now also update track changes markers. Additionally if the Undo goes all the way to unsaved state, the document modified flag is cleared
• Files loaded in bulk will be only fully loaded when needed resulting in faster loading of files and memory optimization (optional):
  • Multiple files opened via open dialog
    
  • At startup when restoring from last known session
  • Multiple files opened via Drag drop opening of files
  • Multiple files opened via command line
  • Note: Until fully loaded some information is not present, like number of lines in the Window Manager or showing Taskbar previews
• New button style (please note all previous interface styles are optionally available)
• New command: "Search online" allowing searching online of the current word or selection. Can Configured per syntax and globally.
• External Tools can now be configured to be shown on specific document syntax
• Added command descriptions, when hovering menus or toolbars in the status bar (optional)
• All message boxes have been reviewed and optimized
• Added a "current character" value cell to the status bar displayed in hex or decimal
• Improved Smart Comments behavior
• Added a "Show all" link to the warning bar to see all modified files
• Added a new option to restore captured clipboard items on startup
• Improved editor ruler display
• Reorganized preferences dialog
• "Open With" command now uses the default Windows "Open With" dialog
• Added a "Copy Files to" to copy selected files to a folder in the Windows List dialog
• Added a select Menu to the Window List dialog for easier selection of files
• Documents deleted now show as grayed in the Window List dialog
• Trim Trailing spaces will now also trim tabs characters
• Compare commands moved to a sub menu under "Tools" for cleaner organization
• Added new color themes
• Fixed: Creating new documents with templates, no longer the document shows it's been modified
• Fixed: Sometimes the "Check New Version" command would not notify of new version available
• Fixed: Improved Windows Taskbar thumbnails previews display (Windows 7 and 8 only)
• Fixed: Taskbar tab previews would sometimes be blank
• Fixed: Printer margin values would not be rounded
• Fixed: Delete key would not work in the Output window
• Fixed: Export settings now suggests a default filename
• Fixed: Sometimes closing documents the active document would not be reflected on the active tab
• Fixed: When using virtual spaces the column position on status-bar was incorrect
• Fixed: When the cursor was on position 1, the character position on status bar was incorrect
• Fixed: Extended selection jumps would not be reflected in the document bar
• Fixed: Hints for long stored clipboard items is now optimized for smaller display
• Fixed: Middle tab click would make current document loose focus
• Fixed: Shortcuts in the close dialog (with the modified document list) no longer require pressing the Alt key
• Fixed: Improved Undo Behavior on some commands
• Fixed: Temporary highlight issues with Unicode
• Support for Windows 8
• Updated Help file
• Minor bug fixes

Version 2.3

• New default interface for toolbars and menus
• Added new Interface options in the customize dialog
• Reorganized the settings dialog
• Added a new option to silently display that a file has been changed or deleted using a warning bar at the top of the editor section
• "SmartTab" now has two modes: Classic and Enhanced
• Added a new option: "Smart Comments"
• Document statistics is now available from the Tools menu
• Added a copy command to the Document statistics dialog to copy the list contents
• File - properties now shows the default properties dialog from the system
• Improved enhanced document switch display (When running Windows Aero only)
• Added a new command: "Compare current file with saved version"
• Jumping from search results, will now highlight all words in the document instead of the result line
• Added an docked panel in the print preview window with additional options
• Printing can optionally be done in columns (only available in the print preview dialog)
• Clipboard items can now be multi-selected
• Added a new command for tools: "Selection as temporary file" which creates a temporary filename with the selection contents and opens the tool with the file
• Auto Recover improvement: modified files will be opened with the unsaved contents at the time of the unexpected shutdown
• Auto Recover improvement: All files, (modified or not) are now optionally restored
• F5 Shortcut added to the refresh command in the compare dialog
• "Revert" command has been renamed to "Reload"
• Fixed: Menu toolbar would dock itself to dock windows
• Fixed: Changing the "Show white space" option would not be updated if a split view was active
• Fixed: Under some circumstances non current lines would stay highlighted
• Fixed: Auto correct list did not support Unicode characters
• Fixed: Auto Correct list editing feedback
• Fixed: Auto Correct list is now alphabetically sorted
• Fixed: Jumping from a search result would not go to the matching column
• Fixed: Removed seconds from the variable "Time" in the printing properties for header and footer
• Fixed: Closing selected documents in window manager no longer prompts individually to save each document
• Fixed: When compared files have no differences, the compare dialog no longer shows
• Fixed: Hiding a panel from the status bar would not be preserved across sessions
• Fixed: Escape key can now be used in all dialogs to cancel or deny the action
• Fixed: Finding or replacing text using regular expressions would never find a match on line 1 when the search was wrapped
• Fixed: Replace All using regular expressions tagged expressions used the sub expressions from the first match instead of the relevant match
• Updated Help file
• Minor bug fixes

Version 2.2

• Added a document bar that shows relevant parts of the text in a condensed pane
• On Windows Vista and 7, the native 'Open File' interface is now used
• Added a new Backup type "Full History" that will preserve all file modification history under a sub-folder of the file, hidden, called '__history'
• Added a 'Compare current file with...' command to quickly compare the current file with another
• Added a new color constant, 'Temporary highlight color'
• Added a "Add current file" item the project root menu
• Files can now be reordered (via drag-drop) in the project tree
• Workspaces now include the project loaded
• Added Page count as a variable to Header\Footer configuration
• Added a "Save as Copy" command
• Highlight Line will now "blend" with the syntax background
• Go to Next\Previous Search Highlight in the 'Go to' Dialog now matches current word highlighting
• Match Bracket command can be used to match Start\Stop syntax sections
• Added an option to show full main menu bar in the Customize dialog
• On 'Goto dialogs', the 'Relative' check box has been removed, the same functionality can be archived using '+' or '-' in the edit box, this applies to the search bar as well when pressing "Enter" and "Shift"
• Show Current line in the gutter is now possible with 'Number all lines'
• On the Status-bar the read only icon has been removed and merged with the shell icon panel
• Added the property 'EndOfPar' to 'StartStop' definitions in the syntax highlighter to always stop at the end of the paragraph regardless the stop section is found
• Compare files dialog is now resizable
• Fixed: When 'Indent paste' was enabled, the original indent was not preserved when pasting on other applications
• Fixed: Canceling the 'Goto Line' dialog in preview mode, will revert the editor to the original line
• Fixed: Adding a file to the current project could be duplicated if the file was already in the project
• Fixed: When using enhanced document switch, closing a window would not activate the next window in the Z-Order
• Fixed: Workspace now focus the file that was active when the workspace was saved
• Fixed: Added visual feedback to external tools configuration list (Tool icon and tool not found warning)
• Fixed: Settings in sort dialog are now preserved across sessions
• Fixed: Twistpad is no longer a virtual store aware application (eg: saving in \Program files\ folder no longer saves the file in Windows virtual store)
• Fixed: Sometimes the 'playback macro until the end of the file' command would not reach the last line
• Fixed: Taskbar tab previews would sometimes be blank
• Fixed: When opening a large number of files, sometimes a "eOleSysError" would be raised (Windows 7 only)
• Fixed: The theme color list would not be sorted
• Updated help file
• Minor bug fixes

Version 2.1 SR1

• Added an option to sort the editor snippets list
• Fixed: Access Violation when saving a file under some circumstances
• Fixed: Pressing Shift+Tab in position 1 would raise a error
• Fixed: Options set in the preview dialog (margins and line numbers) will be persistent
• Minor bug fixes

Version 2.1

• File browser now features a "Breadcrumb" for easier navigation (The toolbar has been removed)
• Support for Windows Taskbar tabs (Only available when running on Windows 7)
• Added a Go to Line dialog, for quick line jumping. Go to dialog retains all previous functionality
• Search results can now be transferred to a new editor window or exported in XML format
• Added an option to automatically detect indent
• Added a new preference page " Tabs and Indent"
• Added an option to show only the extension instead of full description to the file type column on the File Browser
• Option "Indent using spaces" has been removed
• Added Indent level and related functions to a new panel on the Status-bar
• Most recent file types (invoked by the new command) are show on top of the new file sub-menu
• When saving a file without document (eg: untitled) the name suggested is now based on the first non blank line of the document
• Estimated selected bytes are now displayed in the status bar (alongside number of lines and characters)
• Added a "Remove All" function to the configuration of Auto Correct Items
• Invoking Copy Full Path command, with shift pressed, will copy the filename (without path) only
• Output window buffer can now be used as a scratch pad to hold temporary text
• Scrollbars (either vertical or horizontal) will not be shown disable if there is no need.
• Opening a file from command line, no longer cancels loading last workspace
• recovering files, no longer cancels loading last workspace
• Improved smooth scrolling support
• Double click in active tab auto hides all dock windows
• Fixed: List bookmarks command was listing functions
• Fixed: Saving As under a new file name would not be refreshed on the workspace tree when grouped by type
• Fixed: Sometimes the progress dialog would raise an error (Windows Vista\7 only)
• Fixed: Drag and drop document icon was active when the respective file did not exist on disk
• Updated Vb.net syntax file
• Two new color theme files available with the setup
• New Icon \ Splash
• Updated Help files
• Internal code tweaking
• Other minor bug fixes

Version 2.0 SR1

• Temporary highlight is now activated with a double click
• Temporary highlight is now activated with a "Quick Find" command
• "Vb.net" syntax is now included in the default installation
• Fixed : PhP Syntax was not aware of the new color constants
• Fixed : Transparent selection state (when off) would not be saved across sessions
• Install setup has been updated
• Minor bug fixes and improved stability

Version 2.0

• Added initial support for new Taskbar features of Windows 7 (Only available when running on Windows 7)
• Added a horizontal or vertical split View in the same document (edit different parts of the same document in a dual view)
• Added navigation capabilities (Go back and Go forward in current document)
• Added a save\load of editor color themes to Editor\Colors options
• Added new color constants for syntax keywords that can be used globally in syntax definition files.
• Added ability to highlight numbers (defined per syntax)
• Commands to view Dock windows now set the focus instead of hiding\showing the window
• Added syntax formatting of underline and Strikeout to keywords
• Ctrl+Select Word with the mouse, now temporarily highlights occurrences of the selected word (Active highlight)
• Added a "Dropdown Box" to the toolbar to show the current function and allow to select from the list of available functions (not shown in default mode)
• Dock Function list now follows the current function
• Snippets dock are now displayed in a tree structure, making it more ergonomic and accessible from the keyboard
• Reorganized the main menu structure
• Reorganized the Find\Replace dialog
• Added shortcuts to common Regular Expressions commands in Find\Replace dialog
• Added support for favorite files (in "New File" dialog)
• Added the ability in "New File" dialog, to open a recent file or a favorite file to be opened as copy
• When invoking Find functions, if only a function is found (if the current word is selected) it automatically will jump to the function found.
• Added a "Format Text" command to format text wrap text at a certain column (configurable)
• Enhanced Switch now shows modified files in red and read only in blue
• Enhanced Switch now allows to switch to any tool window
• Added a new sort mode on Workspace dock window which groups the documents by file type
• Added a editor transparent selection option (to preserve syntax highlight under selections)
• Added a color option to select background\foreground color of output window
• Added an option to not use syntax highlighting when printing
• Added an option to print non syntax text always in black
• Added an option to use the current file path and extension when invoking Find\Replace in files
• Added a new option for External Tools, "Confirm" which prompts for confirmation before executing a tool
• Replacing with regular expressions now supports template substitution. (see help file on how to use) please note that replace in files do not support this option at this time
• Added a Popup menu to the filter in the Dock File Browser to quickly revert to a a file filter
• Improved Dock File Browser keyboard handling when it has the focus (F5 (Refresh) and BackSpace (Go up)
• File results opened from dock search window are now marked as visited (the text will be grayed out)
• Improved Status bar with feedback on "clickable" panels
• Added an "Auto Hide All Windows" command to automatically set the dock windows to the "auto-hidden" state
• Added shortcuts to Tool items in the Tools Menu
• Added support for Windows Vista \ 7 hint style (optionally can be forced to use in Windows XP and 2000)
• "Ask For parameters" when executing a tool, now preserves additional parameter variables you may have, and, when adding more variables, the actual value will be inserted
• "Ask For Parameters" dialog is now resizeable
• Double clicking in switch bar creates a new document
• Added two new Switch Bar Styles
• Fixed: If a temporary macro is in memory sometimes the "OK" button was disabled in the playback macro dialog
• Fixed: Windows list now remembers sort column and direction between sessions
• Fixed: Document path in Bookmark window was not optimized for the space available
• Fixed: Setting a temporary syntax for a document was lost if the background color for the editor was changed
• Fixed: issues dragging dock windows in Windows Vista \ 7 (When the Aero interface is running)
• Fixed: some issues with dock windows
• Fixed: Sometimes opening a file, the focus would revert to the previous document
• Fixed: Using Insert->File would the focus would be lost on the active document
• Fixed: Find all in current document would report that the number of files searched would be the same of loaded document count instead of one
• Fixed: "Preserve Indent on Paste" would not work if "Shift+Ins" was used
• Fixed: Decimal point, when calculating an expression, is now the same as defined in the control panel
• Fixed: Replacing parameters, on execute a tool, would not verify if the variable was empty, resulting sometimes in empty values ("")
• Fixed: Context menu for toolbars would only be shown when the toolbar was on top dock
• Fixed: Some issues in Windows Vista \ 7
• Fixed: Sometimes Nex/Previous functions were not enabled when switching documents
• Fixed: "Copy File Path's" in the Window manager would copy the asterisk if a document was modified
• Fixed: Some issues in the sort dialog
• Fixed: Sometimes an annoying "There is no disk in the drive..." message would pop up on start up
• Other small bug fixes
• Internal code tweaks optimizations for improved performance