zufuliu/notepad2 v4.20.04r2858

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The builds (unsigned) works for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and above. The AVX2 build works for Windows 7 SP1 (or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) and above (64-bit only), requires CPU support for AVX2 and POPCNT, e.g. CPU sold since 2013, such as Intel Core i3, i5, i7, i9 or AMD Excavator, Zen, and more.

Since v4.19.01r1786, latest development build (artifacts in Release configuration for each compiler and platform) can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zufuliu/notepad2

💡Tips: To keep your current settings, do NOT replace Notepad2.ini or metapath.ini or any theme files with the bundled one, but please mind breaking changes since v4.19.01r1786.

Changes Since v4.20.03r2680

• Schemes are now sorted alphabetical and grouped by first letter on Select Scheme and Customize Schemes dialogs, see https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/wiki/Customize-Schemes for UI changes, issue #169. efdc4f5, 94b7b94, etc.
• Favorite schemes are now customizable, see https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/wiki/Customize-Schemes#favorite-schemes for details on how to use checkbox or drag & drop to manager your favorite schemes, issue #169. 5954a3a, 675e065, a11bcf2, etc.
• Support negative extra line spacing, issue #171. 8d56a73
• Change brace matching to indicators to avoid increasing line height, issue #171. 4bad717
• Support outline for Mark Occurrences indicators. e323852
• Make color for current block highlighting customizable. added an option to disable highlighting current code block. 4daf95f and d7ad4cd
• Rename Selection Margin to Bookmark Margin and enable clicking bookmark margin to toggle bookmark. c0c9393 and eb0f82c
• Add option to disable toolbar image auto scaling, useful for using external toolbar image on HiDPI display. 4c05d36
• Make color for additional caret customizable. c5918ad
• Make color and transparency alpha for additional selection customizable. f7ee5bc
• Transparency alpha for current line outline frame now can be set separately. a512f2d
• Fix sorting lines sometimes adds extra new lines, issue #168. 7192b40
• Fix folder icon on Select Encoding is too small on HiDPI display, issue #45 and #173. 2f3baf2
• Fix external toolbar image auto scaling bug on HiDPI dispaly. 1b483f5
• Fix a small white (or black) window fades out on startup when using Direct2D. 827c385
• Fix ANSI Art broken when rendering technology is Direct2D, issue #179. 💡Tips: negative extra line spacing is used, you may still need manually adjust it based on your font size, or change it to zero when using legacy GDI. ddbbd82
• Other bug fix and improvements.

Breaking Changes

• Value for DefaultScheme preference (in Styles section in Notepad2.ini) is changed from scheme index to scheme ID, any value other than 0 (for Text File) or 1 (for C/C++ Source) no longer represents originally scheme, you may need to re-select default scheme if it's not Text File (the default) or C/C++ Source. a76f431
• Scheme name ".NET IL" is changed to "CIL Assembly" to simplify scheme grouping, you may need to change corresponding name in Notepad2.ini or Notepad2 DarkTheme.ini to use existing style configurations. 1003b8b
• "Show Folding Line" and "Show Fold Ellipsis" menus are removed. Notepad2 now always shows ellipsis after folded text, no longer shows horizontal folding lines. issue #174. 4687961
• Global styles Matching Brace, Matching Brace Error, Selected Text and Current Line are changed as said in above changes log, existing style configuration may have bad visual appearance, you may need to configure them again, see https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad2/wiki/Customize-Schemes#global-styles for details.
• [localization] Resource ids IDM_LANG_* were renamed to IDM_LEXER_*, IDM_LANG_* are reserved for selecting UI languages, issue #172. 3601f88 and 662f89f

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