Список изменений

0.1.4 · 2026-10-12

Added

Color themes (Settings > Theme): the built-in Default and Dark, and theme files in the themes folder next to the settings. A dark theme darkens the whole window: tabs, panels, bars, menus and dialogs. Theme files are TOML and set only the colors they change; Notepad++ themes (.xml) work as they are, with their colors matched to Birchpad’s highlighting, and Settings > Import > Import Style Themes… copies them in. appearance.theme sets the theme Birchpad starts with.
Settings > Style Configurator…, as in Notepad++: choose a theme and change its colors (the editor’s global styles, the interface, and highlighting for all languages or one: foreground, background, bold, italic, underline), seen as they change. Save & Close keeps the theme in the themes folder; Cancel goes back.
Settings > Preferences…: tab size, auto-indent, the current line, margins and the edge, smart highlighting, recent files, the ANSI encoding, the large file limit, change detection, backups and updates. Each change applies at once and is written to settings.toml, keeping its comments; settings an administrator’s policy sets are shown but cannot be changed.
Settings > Shortcut Mapper…: every command with its shortcuts, with a filter. Add Shortcut takes the keys pressed (without running them), Remove takes one off, Reset gives the defaults back; it warns when the keys run another command. Changes are written to keymap.toml, keeping its comments, and apply at once.
The Tools menu: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 of the selection, copied to the clipboard, or of files, listed in a new document as sha256sum does; Base64 Encode and Decode, URL Encode and Decode, ASCII to HEX and HEX to ASCII on every selection, as one undo step.
The Run menu, as in Notepad++: Run… runs a command line with variables ($(FULL_CURRENT_PATH), $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY), $(FILE_NAME), $(NAME_PART), $(EXT_PART), $(CURRENT_WORD), $(CURRENT_LINE), $(CURRENT_COLUMN), $(CURRENT_LINESTR), $(NPP_DIRECTORY), $(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH), $(SYS.NAME)) through the system’s shell, or opens a web address in the browser; Save keeps it by name in run.toml, listed in the menu.
DOS (OEM) code pages in Encoding > Character Sets: OEM-US (437), 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 858, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865 and 869, and EBCDIC 037, 1140, 500 and 1026; cp437 and IBM437 name them in settings and on the command line.
Hebrew and Arabic show in their order, by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm, with carets and clicks where they belong; Edit > Text Direction RTL makes a view run right to left, its rows ending at the right edge, and Text Direction LTR goes back.
File > Print… (Ctrl+P) opens the document, in its colors with line numbers, in the browser’s print dialog; File > Export to HTML… saves the same page.
The interface in Russian: menus, dialogs, Preferences and the status bar follow the system’s language, or appearance.language (en, ru, auto) in Preferences > Appearance.
Notepad++’s User Defined Languages: UDL files in userDefineLangs next to the settings are listed in Language > User Defined Language (Import… copies them in), color their keywords, comments, operators, numbers and delimiters in the language’s own colors, and apply to files with their extensions.
Auto-completion, as in Notepad++: brackets and quotes get their closing partner as they are typed (typing it steps over it, Backspace deletes an empty pair); a list of the document’s words and the language’s keywords shows while typing (Ctrl+Space asks for it); a function’s parameters show after its opening bracket (Ctrl+Shift+Space). Keywords and functions come from Notepad++’s API files, put in autoCompletion next to the settings. Settings in Preferences > Auto-Completion.
The Macro menu, as in Notepad++: Start/Stop Recording (Ctrl+Shift+R) records the commands run and the text typed, Playback (Ctrl+Shift+P) plays them, Run a Macro Multiple Times… plays a number of times or until the end of the file, and saved macros (macros.toml) are listed in the menu.

Changed

Nightly builds come from the branch of the next version (v0.1.4 after 0.1.3) instead of main, so that the nightly channel gets what is being developed for the next release.

Fixed

A file of a Project Panel that is the workspace file’s own folder was saved with an empty name and gone the next time the workspace was opened.

0.1.3 · 2026-10-07

Added

Search modes as in Notepad++: Extended (\n, \t, \x41, …) and regular expressions with back-references and look-around; replacements with $1, \1, ${name} and case conversion (\U, \L, \u, \l).
The find panel has Find, Replace and Mark tabs: Count; Replace All in the selection or in all opened documents; Mark All with Bookmark line and Purge for each search, Clear All Marks and Copy Marked Text. Search > Mark… (Ctrl+M), Select and Find Next / Previous (Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+Shift+F3).
The search results panel, as in Notepad++: Find All in Current Document and in All Opened Documents list the lines with matches; double-click or F4 and Shift+F4 go to them, F7 shows or hides the panel.
Results can be removed from the search results panel one by one: Delete, or Remove in its right-click menu, takes out the selected line, document or search, and the heading counts what is left. The menu also copies the selected line or path, folds and unfolds everything, and clears the list.
Incremental search, as in Notepad++ (Search > Incremental Search, Ctrl+Alt+I): a bar that finds the text while it is typed, Enter and Shift+Enter for the next and previous match, Match case, Whole word, and Highlight all, which marks and counts every match.
Go Back and Go Forward (Search menu; Alt+Left and Alt+Right, Ctrl+- and Ctrl+Shift+- on macOS) return to the places the caret jumped from: other documents, search results, Go To. A closed file opens again.
Side panels docked beside the documents, as in Notepad++: several on one side share it as tabs, the View and Edit menus open and close them, and the open ones come back on the next start. The first is Document List (View > Document List): the open documents with their paths; click to show one, middle-click to close it, click a heading to sort.
Function List (View > Function List): the classes, functions, methods and sections of the document as a tree, from its syntax tree, for 28 languages including Markdown headings. It follows edits, highlights the definition the caret is in, goes to a definition on a click, and can be filtered, sorted by name and folded.
Folder as Workspace (File > Open Folder as Workspace…, or drop a folder on the window): folders as trees beside the documents, kept current as files come and go; double-click to open a file. Its menu copies paths and names, runs Find in Files in a folder, and opens the file manager or a terminal there. A folder on the command line opens there too.
Project Panels 1 to 3 (View > Project): projects of folders and files, kept in Notepad++’s .workspace files so that workspaces move between the two editors, built from each item’s right-click menu and saved as soon as they change.
Clipboard History (Edit > Clipboard History): the texts copied in Birchpad and other programs, newest first; double-click one to paste it.
Character Panel (Edit > Character Panel): the 256 values of the document’s code page with their characters and HTML entities; double-click to insert one.
Document Map (View > Document Map): the whole document in miniature in its syntax colors, with the part on screen framed; click or drag on it to scroll there.
Find in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F): Find All and Replace in Files in the files of a folder, with Notepad++’s filters (*.rs *.toml !*.bak !\target !+\node_modules), In all sub-folders, In hidden folders and Follow current doc. Open documents are searched with their unsaved changes and replaced in their tabs, where Undo works; other files keep their encoding, byte order mark and line endings. Binary files are skipped. Stop ends a long search with the results so far.
A middle click on a tab closes it, as in Notepad++ (#9).
Change history, as in Notepad++: a margin marks the lines changed since the document was opened, orange until they are saved, then green (#11). editor.change-history = "off" turns it off.
Split view by dragging a tab: dropped on the right or bottom third of the text, it opens in the other view beside or below (#12). With Ctrl, or for the only tab, the document is cloned there; with Ctrl, a tab dropped in the other view is cloned too.

Changed

Ctrl+Alt+I opens Incremental Search, as in Notepad++; iNVERT cASE no longer has a shortcut (Notepad++ has none for it) and stays in Edit > Convert Case to.

Fixed

The close button of a tab closed a document with unsaved changes without asking, losing them; it asks now, as File > Close does.
JSON keys are colored as keys, no longer like the strings (#10), and TOML keys no longer take the color of table names.
Dialogs that ask for a name or a path (the Project Panels’ Add New Project, Rename and Add Folder, and the dialog used when the system’s file dialog is not available) put the focus in their field with its suggestion selected; typing went nowhere until a click in the field.
File > Load Session… and -openSession read a Notepad++ session.xml that an editor saved with a byte order mark; it was taken for Birchpad’s format and refused as damaged.
SQL numbers are colored as numbers; they never were, as the grammar’s query looked for them with a pattern that matches no number.

0.1.2 · 2026-10-05

Fixed

Installed copies could not download any update: every package failed with “the response body is larger than request limit”, because a package exactly as large as its manifest says was refused. Copies of 0.1.0 have the bug, so they need the 0.1.2 installer run once by hand; it updates them in place, keeping settings and sessions.

Added

The application icon: a strip of birch bark. On Windows the executable, its windows, the installer and the shortcuts show it; the macOS app and the Linux desktop file too.
The MSI adds a Start menu shortcut, and Explorer shows Birchpad’s name and version in the executable’s details.

0.1.0 · 2026-10-05

The first release: a Notepad++-like editor for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Editing

Tabs with new, open, save, save as, save all and close commands; unsaved changes asked about on close; drag and drop; recent files; read-only files.
Split view: two views side by side or stacked, the same document in both, tabs dragged between them, synchronized scrolling.
Multiple carets and column (rectangular) selection with Alt+drag and Alt+Shift+arrows, into virtual space; Multi-select Next and All; the Column Editor with text or numbers.
Line operations as in Notepad++: duplicate, move, join, split, sort (including by the columns of a rectangle), remove duplicates and empty lines, trim, case conversion, comments.
Bookmarks, smart highlighting of the selected word, five token styles with Jump Up/Down.
Find and replace in a panel, go to line or offset, zoom, word wrap, View > Show Symbol, the vertical edge and the current line.
Long lines stay fast: typing into a 10 MB line takes under 2 ms per keystroke.

Languages

Syntax highlighting with tree-sitter for 50 languages, parsed incrementally in the background, with languages embedded in others (scripts and styles in HTML, code blocks and inline formatting in Markdown, HTML around PHP, regular expressions and JSDoc in JavaScript).
Folding from the syntax tree, brace matching, auto-indent, and the Large File Restriction.

Files and sessions

Encodings: detection, UTF-8 with or without BOM, UTF-16, legacy code pages; reinterpreting and converting; Edit Anyway for files that do not decode exactly, after listing every byte that saving would change. Saving keeps permissions, alternate data streams and links.
Sessions: quitting never asks about unsaved work, which is backed up and comes back on the next start; session files, and Notepad++’s session.xml.
Files changed by other programs reload, keeping carets, bookmarks and folds; View > Monitoring follows a growing log.

Windows, Linux and macOS

A menu bar usable from the keyboard on Windows and Linux (Alt, F10, Alt+letter); the native menu bar on macOS.
A Notepad++-compatible command line (-n, -c, -p, -l, -ro, -multiInst, -nosession, -openSession) and a single instance that takes the files of later launches.
Layered settings with administrator policies (the Windows registry), and a portable mode.

Installing and updating

A per-user installer for Windows (x64 and ARM64) that updates itself, an MSI for administrators, portable ZIPs for Windows and Linux, and a universal macOS app.
Updates are checked against an update manifest signed with ed25519, which protects against old or forged manifests whatever server or mirror serves them; checks can be turned off entirely (updates.mode = "off").
Nightly builds of main on the nightly channel.