What’s New

The tab bar is gone: your drafts and files now live in a sidebar.

Sidebar

• A sidebar replaces the tab bar, in the style of macOS 26. Show or hide it with ⌃⌘S or the sidebar button in the toolbar.
• Drafts: your untitled notes, each showing its first line as a preview.
• Files: your open files, with the folder shown below the name, an icon for each file type, a dot for unsaved changes and a close button on hover.
• Recent: up to 5 recently closed files, one click to reopen.
• A filter field at the top searches by name and folder.
• Drag to reorder files within a section.
• Right-click a file for Close File, Close Other Files, Show in Finder and Copy Path.

Window & Toolbar

• The window title now shows the file name, with its folder (or “Draft”) and “Edited” underneath.
• A + button in the toolbar creates a new file; its menu has Open, Save and Save As.

Menus & Shortcuts

• Menus now talk about files instead of tabs: Close Other Files, and in the Window menu Show Next File (⌃Tab), Show Previous File (⌃⇧Tab) and File 1…9.
• ⌘1–⌘8 jump to a file and ⌘9 to the last one.
• Keyboard shortcuts are unchanged and follow the sidebar order, drafts first.

Fixes & Improvements

• Better syntax highlighting for JSON (the last item of a list, numbers in lists, true/false/null) and C# (async, await, try/catch and more).
• Fixed the start of each line being hidden under the line numbers when reopening a file that was scrolled down.
• Fixed the status bar showing the wrong line after reopening a file.

Everything else from 26.10.1 works as before, from encoding detection and Find & Replace to syntax highlighting and fast large-file editing.

Everything that’s new in this release of NPad.

Tabs & Drafts

• Tabs with persistent drafts: everything you type is restored after quitting NPad.
• Open Recent menu to get back to the files you worked on.
• Tab context menu with Close Other Tabs, Reveal in Finder and Copy Path.
• The Dock menu lists your open tabs.

Files & Encodings

• Automatic text-encoding detection for UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1 and Mac Roman.
• Files are saved back in their original encoding.
• Line endings are kept as they are: LF, CRLF or CR.
• Detects when another app changes an open file: NPad reloads it, or asks you first if you have unsaved edits, and warns you before overwriting.
• Drag a file onto the left half of the editor to insert its contents, or onto the right half to open it.

Editing

• Find & Replace (⌘F).
• Go to Line (⌘L), which also accepts line:column.
• Edit → Transformations to change text to upper, lower or capitalized case.
• Word wrap toggle and tab width setting.
• Pasted text never carries formatting.

Code & Data

• Syntax highlighting for JSON, XML and C#.
• JSON and XML formatting from the Tools menu, with an error message when the input isn’t valid.
• Auto-closing brackets and quotes in code files (can be turned off in Settings).

Keyboard Shortcuts

• ⌘1–⌘9 to switch tabs, ⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab for the next / previous tab.
• ⌘⇧D to duplicate the current line.
• ⌘] / ⌘[ to indent / outdent.

Large Files

• A 150,000-line, 7.7 MB log opens with about 30 ms of editor setup, and typing stays around 1 ms per keystroke, because NPad only lays out the part of the file you can see.