It's always a good thing that Microsoft decides to remember some of its proven applications and give them an upgrade. Such is the case with the registry editor when they added an address bar and now with the Windows Notepad that has attracted Microsoft's attention lately
In May, Microsoft has updated the Notepad in the Insider versions to add a "feature and also finally added support for Unix & Mac line breaks.
In this version of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17713, Microsoft has added major improvements to Notepad that makes its features more consistent with what we expect from a modern text editor Let's take a look at the new features we can hope to see in the next update of the features of Redstone 5 for Windows 10.
Wrap around find and replace and search autofill
The current notebook only allows you to search for channels in Notepad in one direction from the # 39; location This means that you are looking for a string from the cursor to the end of the file or cursor at the beginning of the file. This can be very frustrating because sometimes you just want to search for an entire file for the presence of a string.
This is where the new "Wrap Around" setting comes into play as it will look in the direction, up or down, that you specify, then wrap up and keep looking for the rest of the document. By enabling this setting, you allow Notepad to search for a string in the entire document, which is the default behavior of most modern text editors.
Wrap Around Setting
the ability to highlight a word and when you open the search dialog box this field will be automatically filled with the selected word.
Text zoom
Another new feature is the ability to zoom the displayed text to make it easier to read. To zoom in or out, you can use Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus, and Ctrl + MouseWheel. To reset the zoom to the default state, you can use the key combination Ctrl + 0.
Zoom Notepad (Source: Microsoft)
Displaying Line Numbers when using Word Wrap 19659005] Notepad now allows you to view line and column numbers while wrapping. This means that even if a long line is rolled up, it will still be considered as a single line rather than as multiple lines
Line numbers in Word-Wrap ( Source: Microsoft
Other Enhancements
The other improvements included in this Notepad update are as follows:
Notepad has always had horrible performance when opening very large files. This has been improved so that it quickly opens large files and uses them with better performance.
You can now use Ctrl + Backspace to delete the previous word.
The arrow keys now deselect correctly. text then move the cursor 19659023] When saving a file in Notepad, the row and column number are no longer reset to 1 [19659024] Is Notepad needed for many years? It offered many features that I often use such as autofilling of search fields with highlighted text, better support for line breaking, better search, greater ability to manage large files. Now with these changes in Notepad of Windows 10, it is no longer necessary to use a Notepad replacement.
One thing I would like to see added to Windows Notepad is the ability to easily enable and disable a combination of keyboards.
Overall, with these improvements to Notepad, many users are not even looking for a replacement anymore and are instead using the built-in Windows text editor.
