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While there are numerous alternatives available, Microsoft has decided to revisit and improve its stock text editor for Windows users who prefer the default, barebones app. One significant change is the ability to search for a string in the entire document with the “wrap around” setting; the current Notepad only searches in one direction from the location of the cursor. Text zooming has also been added to improve legibility.
Other improvements include line and column numbers being displayed correctly when word-wrap is enabled, line and column numbers are no longer reset to one when saving a file, lines that don't fit on the screen are now displayed correctly, pressing CTRL + Backspace deletes the previous word, arrow keys functionality has been tweaked to unselect text before moving the cursor, and work has been carried out to improve the performance of Notepad when opening large files.
Other improvements include line and column numbers being displayed correctly when word-wrap is enabled, line and column numbers are no longer reset to one when saving a file, lines that don't fit on the screen are now displayed correctly, pressing CTRL + Backspace deletes the previous word, arrow keys functionality has been tweaked to unselect text before moving the cursor, and work has been carried out to improve the performance of Notepad when opening large files.