Microsoft is giving its Notepad app for Windows a surprising degree of new features. Whilst the software giant hasn't updated Notepad regarding, the next Windows 10 update will include some highly requested additions. Microsoft is clearly hearing and seeing Windows 10 users who use notepad for development, logs, or simple text manipulation.

You'll soon find it easy to do wrap around find and replace alongside being able to zoom into text by holding across the ctrl key as well as using the mouse wheel to zoom inside and out. Microsoft is also adding in extended line ending support making sure that Unix/Linux line endings (LF) and Macintosh line endings (CR) are supported in Notepad. The status bar will now be enabled by default in Notepad, yet it includes the wherewithall to display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled.

Microsoft is typically finally adding in ctrl+backspace support to delete a previous word in Notepad, and performance improvements for large files. Now you may even discover words on Bing through Notepad by means of right exploring them to buy your new option. Microsoft's Notepad additions click through on the company updating its Windows Console to begin with in Over twenty years, and the surprise addition about the Linux command line to Windows 10.

These new Notepad features may in the update currently codenamed Redstone 5, that's expected to debut later this halloween season. Microsoft is now putting the finishing touches to the next major Windows 10 update, on the other hand won't include the popular tabs (Sets) feature for File Explorer among other apps.