Download EditPad Lite 7.1.0

JGsoft has released version 7.1.0 of its free text editor EditPad Lite. This program is not intended for programmers – they should use EditPad Pro or Notepad++ – but is more a replacement for the Notepad supplied with Windows. Unlike Notepad, EditPad Lite can have an unlimited number of files open in the same screen, it has no limit on the size of files to open, and the number of undos and redos is unlimited. EditPad Lite 7 is still free, but businesses can now purchase a license too, if there is no need for all extras that the Pro version offers. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• 64-bit: EditPad’s installer now automatically installs a 64-bit version of EditPad on 64-bit Windows.

Improvements:

• Dockable panels: New mechanism for docking panels makes it easier to position panels exactly where you want. Instead of moving the mouse pointer to an invisible area next to the edge of another panel, you now move the mouse pointer to icons that appear in the center of the panel that you’re dragging over.
• Extra|Delete Duplicate Lines now shows a progress meter.
• File|Open: Show a warning when opening a file causes a working copy of that file to be opened along with it.
• Forum: The button to delete messages is now labeled Cancel for messages that are being edited, to make it more obvious that this button deletes the edited message, but leaves the original message in place.
• Search: Selection as Search Text now escapes regex metacharacters if the Regular Expressions search option is active.

Bug fixes:

• Clip Collection: When not using AceText, the drop-down menu of the Open button on the Clip Collection panel did not always remember the collections that you opened previously.
• Editor: Home and End when Scroll Lock is active now scroll to the first and last column in the file instead of the first and last line; Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End still scroll to the first and last line when Scroll Lock is active.
• Search: Pressing Ctrl+Z (Undo) while the large search box has keyboard focus after Ctrl+F (Prepare to Search) now correctly reverts the search term to what it was before Ctrl+F replaced it with the word selected in the main editor .
• Tabs: Double-clicking the tab background to add a blank tab immediately closes that tab when double-clicking at the spot where the new tab’s X button appears.
• Tabs: Dropping a file onto the file tabs background should make it the last file in the project.
• Windows 7: Progress meter was sometimes shown on the taskbar button when there was no progress to indicate, and was sometimes not shown on the taskbar button when a progress meter was being shown.

EditPad Lite 7.0.0 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.