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• Use WebView2 and Chromium for all Web Rendering including Editor
  Markdown Monster now uses a Chromium based browser for all Web rendering including the Editor, the Preview, the Table Editor, Code Windows, and Browser Dialogs. Previously only the Preview was optionally enabled by using the Chromium Preview addin. The Addin is no longer needed as all content always uses the Chromium engine. This improves rendering fidelity and also provides better responsiveness due to asynchronous rendering of content which allows for larger content to be displayed and synced while typing.

• Table Editor Improvements
  With Chromium rendering a number of odd IE browser bugs are fixed that affected navigation and selection in the old version. Table Editor can now Move Columns to the left or right.

• 64 bit Application
  With the removal of the IE based Web Browser control, Markdown Monster can now run as 64 bit application again. 32 bit mode is still possible on 32 bit systems as well.

• Allow Swapping Editor and Preview Location
  You can now swap the editor and preview location via a new View->Swap Editor and Preview Location menu option and a via Editor/Preview Splitter Context Menu.

• New Splitter Context Menu
  Added a new context menu that displays options for swapping editor and preview, entering presentation mode and toggling the preview display.

• Track Active Document in Folder Browser
  As a heavily requested feature, we've added support for optional document tracking in the folder browser. Using the FolderBrowser.TrackDocumentInFolderBrowser configuration switch (also via a toggle button in the Folder Browser) any time you change the document the Folder Browser navigates to that file.

• Improved Folder Browser Navigation
  Folder browser navigation now shows previews for most text type documents in 'inactive' mode that is temporary until the next document is accessed. Documents become 'active' once you edit the document or double click to explicitly open for editing. Single click now also previews any non-edit formats externally, like PDFs, Office docs, etc. Executables open selected in Explorer but are not executed. Drag and Drop start operations are now less twitchy.

• Move Support Binaries out of Root Folder
  Support binaries are now moved out of the root folder into a BinSupport subfolder to avoid ending up on the User's path and causing naming conflicts. Only applications that should be visible on the user path now are: MarkdownMonster, mm and mmcli.

• Make Settings HelpText Selectable
  You can now select the help text associated with a configuration setting in the Settings window. This allows picking up URLs and other fixed values more easily. (#817)

• Fix: Remove WebViewPreviewer Addin from 1.x Installs
  Added logic to remove the WebViewPreviewer Addin from v1 which throws an error. If found this addin is now explicitly removed at startup since the code has moved inline.

• Fix: PDF Generation Errors Fix issue where repeated output to PDF would report an error for PDF generation even when the PDF was generated.

• Fix: PDF Code Snippet Background
  Fix issue where the PDF output for code snippets was not properly applying the background color. Works in HTML but not for the PDF generator. Added custom print stylesheet overrides for pre > code style explicitly to match highlightjs color theme.

• Fix: Folder Browser Click and DoubleClick Behavior
  Fix issues where clicking would not allow keyboard navigation after click, folder opening wasn't opening folders on first click, and preview operations could hang.

• Allow Swapping Editor and Preview Location
  You can now swap the editor and preview location via a new View->Swap Editor and Preview Location menu option and a via Editor/Preview Splitter Context Menu.

• New Splitter Context Menu
  Added a new context menu that displays options for swapping editor and preview, entering presentation mode and toggling the preview display.

• Track Active Document in Folder Browser
  As a heavily requested feature, we've added support for optional document tracking in the folder browser. Using the FolderBrowser.TrackDocumentInFolderBrowser configuration switch (also via a toggle button in the Folder Browser) any time you change the document the Folder Browser navigates to that file.

• Create Link from Document Outline Anchor
  You can now create a link in selected text from a header link in the document outline. A new context item creates a markdown link from the current text selection with the header ID for the link navigation.

• Hierarchical Configuration Settings for Project, Marker Files
  You can now override global configuration settings via JSON file settings in Markdown Monster Project Files (in the Configuration node), or in the .markdownmonster marker file. In both cases you can use JSON to override default configuration settings like font-size, editor and preview themes, formatting, line numbers etc.

• Add Default Search Engine Configuration Option
  For Web lookups you can now select a Search Engine (DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing) for opening the browser on a search page. Set via the new WebBrowserSearchEngine configuration setting in settings.

• Set Table Type when using Edit Table
  When editing Markdown or HTML tables, the table type is now properly set when the table editor is opened. Previously the default Pipe Table was used.

• Updates to the Table Editor
  Fix some navigation issues. Update editing field height to provide more consistent display of new fields when they are injected. Smaller font size - previously the font-size was larger than the default template.

• Fix: Open From Url GitHub Repo Fixups for Main
  When extrapolating repository URLs MM now checks for main in addition to master branches for default documents and for repo URL fixups.

• Fix: Table Editor Autosizing for Table Cell Editing
  Table cells now auto-grow in height as you are editing them when adding linefeeds or overflowing at the end of the line.

• Fix: Table Editor Crash
  Fix Table Editor crash when reformatting mismatched table column counts. If a table had fewer columns for a row it would crash in some situations. Missing columns are now auto-created as empty columns.

• Fix: Drag and Drop Selection in the Folder Browser
  Fix issue where selecting an item would not always drag the correct item (due to invalid tree item selection). Items are now explicitly selected before dragging.

• Fix: Search Panel Result Selection Behavior
  Search panel result clicks now open search results in preview-only mode, only if the tab is not already open. Double click now opens the document as non-preview document. Fixes issue where a search result in an existing window might close an already open window.

• Rewritten Table Editor
  Completely revamped the Markdown Table Editor to better support larger tables and quicker editing support. Editing now uses the current theme in the editor, and there's an optional previewer which also uses the current Preview Theme. There's new support for sorting and alignment of columns, as well as improved output and parsing support, plus much more.

• Track Active Document in Folder Browser
  As a heavily requested feature, we've added support for optional document tracking in the folder browser. Using the FolderBrowser.TrackDocumentInFolderBrowser configuration switch (also via a toggle button in the Folder Browser) any time you change the document the Folder Browser navigates to that file.

• Search Web and Search Web and Link on Editor Context Selection Menu
  New option to allow searching for content on the Web by opening the browser from the selected text and another option that performs a search and displays a list of matches with URLs on a sub menu that can be auto-linked to the selected text.

• Web Search and Search Web Links on the URL Dialog
  The same two search options from above are also available in the ctrl-k URL Link dialog as links below the text input. Clicking the links searches the Web with the display link. For the Browser search any URLs on the clipboard automatically replace the URL text if it's empty. For the inline search, a list selection fills the field.

• Search Weblog Folder
  New Menu option on the Weblog folder that lets you search the WebLog folder for posts using the built-in Find in Files Search functionality.

• Preview Sync Improvements
  Refactored some of the logistics in Preview Sync which should improve responsiveness of preview refreshes. There should now be fewer odd instances where preview is not refreshing automatically. Also updated Left-ctrl which forces an immediate refresh, spellcheck and stats update.

• Drag and Drop Files into Editor as Links
  When you drag and drop a document file (Markdown, html, pdf, zip) from Explorer or the File Browser into the editor, the file is now linked rather than 'opened'. The link is created as file.ext with a document relative path.

• Document Outline Line Selection and Navigation
  Document Outline Navigation now moves the cursor position to the selected line in addition to scrolling to the appropriate Viewport position. When navigating by keyboard, ENTER and SPACE selects, and TAB moves the focus into the editor.

• Add Folder Opening to Recent File List
  There are now small folder icons next to files in the Recent Files dialog to allow opening of the associated folder in the Folder Browser to facilitate quicker access to files.

• Markup for Empty Selections puts Cursor into Selections
  When using shortcuts for Markdown markup like ctrl-b or ctrl-i for empty selections, MM now moves the cursor into the generated empty Markup. So Ctrl-b generates **~** where ~ denotes the cursor position (~ not generated).

• Improved Large Document Support
  Added improvements to make MM work better with very large documents, by reducing preview refresh overhead, dynamically expanding the refresh timeout and tweaking the update process. Also - Using the built-in Chromium addin as the previewer now refreshes off the UI thread so that refreshes no longer freeze the editor while updating the preview for large documents.

• Add mmCli Path Expansions for Environment Vars and ~ Home Path
  Fix mmcli.exe to respect current folder and relative files for input and output files as well as expand Environment Variables and ~ for the Home Directory folder.

• Add Editor Option for No AutoCompletions
  You can now optionally disable all editor completions via a new NoAutoComplete Editor configuration option. This option disables all key expansions like quote and bracket completions, list bullet expansion etc. for a raw editor experience.

• Fix: Browser Executable using Default Browser
  Fix View in External Browser when the default browser executable is left blank - defaults to the system browser but executes using command line to allow for URLs with #hash extensions.

• Accessibility Updates
  Some adjustments to the accessibility features in the file browser and search features.

• Fix Cut Behavior from Context Menu
  Fix broken Context Menu Cut behavior which was deleting the text but not putting it on the clipboard.

• Fix: Preview To Editor Sync in IE Mode
  Fix issue where preview to editor sync mode jumps the cursor to the top of the editor when typing.

• Fix: Open Folder Browser when no Document Active
  Fix issue where the various folder browser menu options weren't enabled when no document was active. Also fixed hotkeys.

• Fix: PreviewWebRootPath in .mdproj Files not respected

• Fix issue where the PreviewWebRootPath value in the .mdproj files wasn't respected in some situations. The file is now checked on every render operation so changes in the .mdproj are immediately reflected.

• Fix: Multi-Selection Issues in Folder Browser
  Fixed several issues with inconsistent behavior with multi-selected files in the Folder browser. Reduced selection jitter and better handle accidental starting drag and drop operations.

• Fix: Chromium Initial Preview Refresh Issue
  Fix issue where the Chromium Previewer would occasionally not display content when first loading Markdown Monster or when switching from IE view to Chromium Preview. Caused by async load of the Preview browser, we now explicitly check for completion and if not ready wait for the browser to be ready to preview.

1.26

• Chromium Previewer Browser Addin
  Added a built-in addin that can toggle between the native IE based preview browser and a new WebView2 based Edge Chromium Preview browser. This addin provides better compatibility with common browsers and allows support for some related technologies like Mermaid Charts to render natively.

• Folder Browser Find Files Search Box
  Changed the Find Files Search Box to be always visible in the Folder browser above the browser instead of an explicit dropdown panel. This search finds and filters by file name in the tree and shows a tree based match filter. The search box sits above the directory tree is now always visible and accessible via Ctrl-F from within the browser. You can optionally specify to search in sub folders.

• Update Find in Files to Incremental Search
  Change the Find in Files sidebar to use live searching instead of using an explicit Search button. Better handle results display and navigation in the result view.

• Updated Find in Files Operation Find in Files searches content inside of files to find matching content. The result displays a straight list with match counts for the files. Selected files are opened in the editor with the search term selected in the Find box (and Replace box if you specify Replace text).

• Update Open Document Change Detection
  Updated logic to handle change detection on open documents. When documents are open and unchanged, the document is immediately updated with changes from disk. If the open document has changes and the underlying document changes, nothing happens until you save. A new dialog allows you to choose between your version, their version or to run the configure Git Diff tool to compare versions and merge changes.

• Add PDF Page Sizes to Save To PDF
  Added all additional supported PDF print formats to the paper type dropdown on the PDF Export dialog. Adds all Ax and Bx types as well as various named types.

• Favorites Click Behavior Update
  Favorite clicks now open documents initially in preview mode until you type into the editor. Preview mode documents close as soon as another tab is opened or accessed. This behavior is now the same as the main folder browser. Double clicking forces the opened document to be a permanently open document. Unlike the folder browser, a single click forces the cursor into the Favorite document selected.

• Markdown Monster Web Server Enhancements
  Markdown Monster includes a local Web server that can now be used to open new or existing documents and retrieve document content from the active document. Added support for retrieving the active document's content. Added Web page examples that interact with Markdown Monster. There are also new -startwebserver and -stopwebserver flags to start and stop the Web server to ensure that the local server is running. Added Web Browser HTML samples in SampleDocuments\BrowserIntegration that demonstrate how to interact with MM from a Web page.

• Update Mermaid Rendering in the Preview
  Mermaid support in MM has always been minimal since it uses the Internet Explorer engine for the preview pane. Mermaid recently removed their already terrible support for IE completely, so MM now renders a placeholder rather than the Mermaid chart in the default (IE based) previewer. The placeholder includes a clickable link that opens your default browser and displays the document containing the diagram and navigates to the Id of the mermaid diagram. Note in the Chromium addin previewer, Mermaid charts are properly rendered inline.

• Fix: Preview Refresh for Ctrl-key operations
  Fix issue where some common ctrl-key operations (ctrl-z, ctrl-x etc.) would not immediately update the preview until manual key entry into the editor is performed. Changed operation that the ctrl key now triggers a preview refresh for all ctrl-key operations. This also means that the ctrl key becomes the effective 'immediate refresh' key that you can use to force a preview refresh even when no preview sync is in use.

• Fix: Weblog YAML Parsing for customFields
  Fix bug where an empty customFields value would cause the Weblog Entry to not pre-load values back into the Weblog Publish dialog for repeated publishing. Fixed issue and changed defaults to not render empty field in the first place.

• Fix: Links in Headers for Document Outline
  Fix bug where links in headers where showing incorrectly in the Document viewer. Fix parses links and retrieves the text properly for display in the Document Outline. Also fixed in the TOC embedding logic.

• Fix: Blog Post MetaData
  Fixed a regression in posting to a blog where server generated values on new posts - the PermaLink and FeaturedImageUrl - were not updated in the meta data. These values are now updated and written back into the FrontMatter meta data again. Fix bug where PostId was not updating in captured meta data after posting.

• Fix: Split View Editor Styling
  Fix bug where split view would not open with the same styling as the main view if the theme was not the default theme.

• Fix: Theme Switching Issues
  Fixed bug that would crash MM when switching themes in MM Multi-Window mode. Also fixed timeout delay for forcing a restart after theme switching which previously would launch the updated instance too quickly and so fail to load in Single Use mode.

• Fix: Various Open In Explorer Operations
  Fixed various Open In Explorer operations where folders would not open properly in Explorer when the path contained inconsistent path delimiters. This broken in the Git Explorer as well as manually entered mixed paths.

• Fix: Preview to Editor Sync
  Preview to Editor sync was not working correctly due to an omission check.

• Fix: Chromium Previewer Addin ScrollSync
  Fixed scroll issue in the WebView2 control interop that would cause scroll failures when scrolling the preview and trying to sync the editor. Fixed with non-cached interop object instances to avoid potential operational overlap (WebView2 bug).

• Fix: mmCli Html Package Exports
  Fix issue where HTML self-contained Package exports were failing due to an assembly binding error. Added .config file to ensure correct bindings are used.

• Fix: mmCli Relative File Paths
  Fix file path translation for relative paths.

• Fix: Jekyll Publish Flag
  When publishing to a Jekyll flag, fix the publish flag to correctly set the publish status as published or hidden.

• Multi-File Selection in Folder Browser
  You can now select multiple files in the folder browser and perform many of the common operations on multiple files. You can open multiple files, copy and paste and drag and drop multiple files among folders or to Explorer, delete multiple files and so on. Also updated FolderBrowser API for addins to allow GetSelectedItem() and GetSelectedItems(). Multi-select also works with keyboard using Ctrl-arrow or Shift-Arrow for multi-select and range selects respectively.

• Updates to Folder Browser Operations
  Cleaned up folder browser file management tasks: New file now focuses the editor with the new empty document. Folder browser navigation now stays focused on the active selected item in more situations so you can perform another task like edit and then jump back to the Folder Browser (alt-v-f) and continue navigating the tree. Improved keyboard navigation functionality. Ctrl-N is now used as the default key in the Folder browser for new files. New files are created with a name editor in the folder browser and are then opened in the editor. This differs from Ctrl-N/File -> New in the editor which creates an Untitled document which prompts for filename only when saving.

• File Stem Selection in Folder Browser
  When selecting files for renaming in the folder browser, the filename without extension is now highlighted when first entering the name editor. Makes it quicker and more reliable to rename a file. Also fix file renaming message when edited filename is not changed.

• Default Image Location for Untitled Doc Images
  When saving images into a new document that has no filename, the default image save folder now defaults to the open folder browser location (instead of Documents). Subsequent saves for the same document remember the last image save location.

• New command line option to open MM document at specific Line
  You can now use the new -line command line option to open a document loaded from the command line at the specified line number.

• FrontMatter in Blog Posts: Preserve Custom Properties
  Added support for preserving top level properties in FrontMatter when Weblog Meta data is created. Previously the FrontMatter was serialized directly into the Weblog Meta structure and written back out using just that schema which lost custom props. They are now maintained.

• Improve Jekyll Post MetaData Handling
  Related to the FrontMatter improvements for blog posts, the meta data for Jekyll blog content has been updated to better support the category and tags lists.

• Allow for .markdownmonster as Root Folder Indicator and External Configuration
  Set up addin handlers that can find .markdownmonster file and use it for custom project level addin configuration. For example this JSON file can contain custom, project level configuration that can be used to stored for an addin. For example, a Deployment addin might hold server/auth configuration.

• Add pagebreak Default Snippet to Snippet Manager
  Added a pagebreak default snippet to the Snippet Manager Addin, so it's there by default when MM first creates the Snippet Manager defaults. This is optional and can be removed but is one useful use-case of using a snippet.

• Markdown Monster Web Server Enhancements
  Markdown Monster includes a local Web server that can now be used to open new or existing documents and retrieve document content from the active document. Added support for retrieving the active document's content. Added Web page examples that interact with Markdown Monster. There are also new -startwebserver and -stopwebserver flags to start and stop the Web server to ensure that the local server is running. Added Web Browser HTML samples in SampleDocuments\BrowserIntegration that demonstrate how to interact with MM from a Web page.

• Addins: Updated Markdown Monster Add-in Project Visual Studio Extension
  The Markdown Monster Addin Project Extension now creates much simpler, SDK style .NET projects. Projects now run and debug out of the box after running the New Project Template without additional manual configuration, as was required by the older version. It's also considerably easier now to configure for custom MM install locations using the raw XML Project file.

• Addins: Add ContextMenuOpening Events to various Context Menu Renderers
  Added static ContextMenuOpening events to the various context menus that are dynamically generated such as the editor, tab, folder browser preview context menus. These events can be hooked and allow adding (or removing) of menu options at runtime, typically from Addin code. Handler is passed the ContextMenuWrapper class and the actual ContextMenu instance as Event parameters.

• Fix: Icon Placement on multi-monitor Setups
  Fix odd bug where the MM icon would not show on the correct screen in some multi-monitor scenarios. While at it also fixed the startup icon flash when loading MM onto a non-main screen.

• Fix: Set Editor Position offset to be properly 1 based
  The editor position now properly shows the Line and Row position in the status bar as 1 based. ie top of the document is Ln 1, Col 1 rather than Ln 0, Col 0.

• Fix: File Encoding bug in the Embed Url Dialog
  Fixed issue where files with spaces in the filename would not URL encode correctly. New behavior doesn't encode but replaces spaces with %20 in order to allow the Markdown Parser to properly parse Urls.

• Fix: Window Outline showing on multiple Windows desktops
  Provided a workaround for a problem whereby MM casts an 'outline frame' onto any other Windows desktops on which MM is not actually running. Fixed by removing the 'glow window' outline functionality and using a flat frame 1 pixel border instead.

• Fix: Window Focus when externally activating
  Fix issue where externally opened documents would not receive focus if MM was already running. Fixed so that focus now always goes into the editor when opening documents from Explorer or other shell executed applications.

This is a version rollup release. The focus on this release cycle has been on cleaning up a number of small bugs and issues as well as updating underlying components, so there aren't a ton of new features in this release, but rather it's more about stability and small UI improvements.

• Add additional Code Fencing inline Syntax Colorings
  Added additional inline syntax colorings for the following languages: csharp, typescript, json, typescript, powershell. You now get syntax colored text as you type or paste inside of triple backtick fenced code blocks.

• Additional File Browser Icons and Editing Syntax Support
  Added additional icons that can display in the Folder Browser including Dart and Dockerfile files. Both file types can now also be edited in MM. Also fix additional icons for various external document types.

• Add Menu Shortcuts for Document File and Shell Operations Added shortcuts to quickly navigate the Folder Browser to the active document's location, open the Terminal or Explorer on the Tools menu. Added shortcut mnemonics to make them easier to be discoverable.

• Better File Encoding Support
  You can now set the file encoding for documents. Additional non UTF/Unicode encodings have been added. You can use Load additional Encodings... to load up all encodings available. Choosing an encoding will try to reload the document with the new encoding .

• Improved Code Snippet Syntax for Html to Markdown Conversions
  Worked with ReverseMarkdown to add better support for capturing syntax for many common services including GitHub, highlightJs, Atlassian and Confluence. For most snippets the syntax should now be applied to code-fenced blocks.

• Refactor Preview Context Menu UI
  Change the order of context menu items to show the most context sensitive items on top. Options like Copy/Edit Image and Copy Id to Clipboard now show on top of the menu if relevant.

• Copy Image to Clipboard from Preview
  There is now a context menu options to copy an image to the clipboard from the Preview Browser.

• Updated Heading ID to Clipboard
  You can now use the context menu in the previewer or the editor to copy the generated document html id attribute value to the clipboard. This makes it easier to paste relative links. As a reminder you can also get this Id from the Document Outline sidebar's context menu.

• Open Image in Image Editor or in Image Link Form from Editor
  You can now right click on an image link in the editor and use the option to open then image in your preferred image editor, or open the image in the link dialog (from which you can copy the image to the clipboard or resize the image).

• Improved Application Title Bar Configuration Options
  The title bar now has a new TitlebarDisplayMode configuration property that has options for displaying, just the filename, the full path, or the filename plus the parent path on the title bar. Tabs continue to display the filename by default and the filename plus parent path if multiple files with the same name are open. The new option to display filename plus parent path makes it easier to differentiate documents in the task bar.

• Paste Improvements
  Updated the editor paste behavior to use native editor paste behavior for text while deferring images and file paste operations to the Editor shell. This improves paste performance and reliability of text copy and paste operations.

• Statusbar Text Tooltip
  The status bar now also shows a multi-line tooltip for extra long messages that might overflow the status bar area.

• Switch to MahApps 2.1
  Switched MM to use latest MahApps Metro UI framework. This provides a number of enhancements plus better stability and consistency for many UI operations.

• Light Theme Enhancements
  In light of the MahApps update the light theme has seen a number of updates for better consistency and color contrast in a few areas.

• Fix: Preview Window Disappearing when editing non-Markdown Files
  Fix bug that caused the active document syntax type to be turned to an invalid syntax when opening a non-Markdown document. Refactored EditorSyntax onto the document itself rather than on the Editor which would cause assignment issues.

• Fix: SnagIt Screen Capture and File Saving
  As of SnagIt 2020 the SnagIt Addin from TechSmith was broken due to a bug in the file saving mechanism. Modified the way file saving works by capturing to clipboard and saving the clipboard content. This works around the SnagIt bug and should hopefully future proof the SnagIt regression that keeps cropping up. As a bonus we now get better file location support using MM's document/project file location settings.

• Fix: Screen Capture Timer for Built-in Capture
  Fix the screen capture timer used with with built-in capture when delaying captures.

• Fix: Add hot key for Add-ins Menu on the Toolbar
  Added a keyboard mnemonic to the Tools -> Add-_ins menu item so it becomes possible to navigate to the add-in list via keyboard. Some addins have been updated with keyboard shortcuts so for example the Azure Blob Addin is accessible via alt-t-i-b

• Fix: Images from Clipboard not showing in Image Previews
  Fixed issue with WPF clipboard that failed to retrieve images from the clipboard properly. Used alternative image retrieval. This fixes missing preview images in the the Paste Image and Azure Blob Storage Addin (update required to see the fix).

• Fix Recent Documents Dropdrown Layout
  Cleaned up the layout of recent menu lists on the Recent Files menu, and on the startup page.

• Fix: File Encoding and Save Bug
  Fixed issue where file saving under certain circumstances with non-UTF8 encodings would cause the file not save. Fixed by assigning default encoding and fixing up encoding lookup failures as well as adding additional logging around encoding for notification or save problems.

• Fix Jekyll Image Publishing
  Fix bug with images published to a Jekyll Blog. All but the last image were deleted by the post handler previously. Related: Also updated the Preview URL generator used to navigate to the generated URL which should work much better than before for the post title as well as the categories to match the Jekyll snake case conversions.

• Fix: Light Theme Crashes
  Fix several bugs related to light theme and missing resources.

• Local Jekyll Weblog Publishing Support (Preview)
  Added support for 'publishing; blog posts to a local Jekyll installation. Works by letting you write your blog content as a MM Weblog post and publishing the content into the Jekyll _posts folder structure and creates images in the _assets folder by post name. Simplifies: Post creation, asset management, re-editing and re-publishing to other blog platforms, makes posts more portable.

• Support for Opening Empty/Untitled Documents with Preset Text
  You can now open a new untitled document with preset text by using a custom filename format on the command line. Use mm untitled.base64,base64text, mm "untitled.text,This is a new document", mm untitled.urlencoded,this+is+new to open a document with the specified encoding format. Base64 is recommended due to the need to encode line breaks and extended characters but for simple string text and urlencoded can also work.

• New mm -base64text Command Line Option
  This is an alternate syntax for the mm untitled.base64,base64Text option, and provided mainly to provide a clear and obvious documentation point that might be easier to remember and look up. Allows opening a new document with preset text. If launching from the command line or using CreateProcess from another application this is the recommended approach for passing new document data to MM.

• Open Markdown Monster from a browser with markdownmonster: Application Protocol
  Markdown Monster now installs a markdownmonster: Application Protocol Handler which allows opening MM from a within a browser. . You can use markdownmonster:untitled.text,New Document Text as well as the other new options using the mm untitled. syntax mentioned above.

• Built-in local Web Server to allow Browsers Open Text Markdown Monster
  Added WebSocket support to allow opening Markdown text in MM via a browser connection. Socket server listens to incoming document requests and if sent opens a specific document. This is similar to the markdownmonster:untitled functionality recently added, but unlike Application Protocols which are limited to 2046 bytes of data, this mechanism allows for large Markdown content to be opened in MM. The WebSocket Server is disabled by default and can be auto-started whenever MM starts via the WebSocket.AutoStart configuration switch.

• Improved Application Title Bar Configuration Options
  The title bar now has a new TitlebarDisplayMode configuration property that has options for displaying, just the filename, the full path, or the filename plus the parent path on the title bar. Tabs continue to display the filename by default and the filename plus parent path if multiple files with the same name are open. The new option to display filename plus parent path makes it easier to differentiate documents in the task bar.

• Document Syntax Improvements
  The Document object now internally tracks the editor sytnax associated with it. It is assigned based on the filename extension and mapped to editor associations - just as before. But the Syntax is now separately tracked from the doc type, so that you can change the syntax and affect editor and preview behavior. It's now possible to use the Preview with with .txt files for example, if the syntax is set to markdown.

• Improve Configuration Backups to Folder
  Updated folder backups to choose the Configuration folder .\backups sub-folder for folder backups. You can now pick a path and the backup is created as a subfolder below that folder in the format of yyyy-MM-dd-Markdown-Monster-Backup.

• Text Only Linking (Ctrl-Shift-K) Improvements
  When using the text only link shortcut Markdown Monster now automatically pastes and selects URLs from the clipboard. If there's a URL on the clipboard (any https link) it will be automatically injected.

• Paste Improvements
  Updated the paste behavior to use native editor paste behavior for text while deferring images and file paste operations to the Editor shell. This improves paste performance and fixes rare paste operation failures.

• Switch to embedded Debug Symbols
  Debug information is now embedded in the Exe. Removes the original pdb file and reduces distribution footprint by a 1.8mb.

• Fix: Several Table Parsing Issues
  Fixed several recurring issues with invalid table imports from unbalanced or mis-formatted tables. Unbalanced tables (with rows that have more columns than headers) are now adding additional headers as needed to balance the table. Added a number of additional out of bounds checks when parsing incoming column data.

• Fix: Jekyll Pathing issues
  Fixed a path issue Jekyll publishing if path was entered with trailing slash.

• Fix: Recursive Loading Issue with Shell Mapped Files
  Fix issue where a shell mapped file would cause infinite load loops when opened from the shell or the command line. Fixed.

• Fix: Link Dialog Spaces to %20
  Automatically fix up any spaces in a typed in url to %20. We're not URL encoding the entire URL because more than likely a URL pasted into the textbox (or auto-injected) is already URL encoded so we don't want to end up double encoding, but spaces are one of the most common 'encoded' values that will break Markdown rendering of a URL.

• Fix: Fonts in Preview Themes
  We had recently switched to Emojii versions of common fonts as the primary fonts (like Segoi Emojii) but it turns out these fonts are inferior in quality to the regular fonts (like Segoe UI). This should bring font rendering back to smoother text in the preview and also for rendered HTML output in external browsers and exports.

• New Markdown Monster CLI
  Added new mmCLI.exe executable that automates a number of Markdown tasks. You can convert Markdown to HTML in several ways, import HTML into Markdown (with some limitations), convert markdown to PDF as well as perform a number miscellaneous operations. This replaces some of the original Markdown Monster command line switches, but the old executable retains some of the original switches that pertain to administrative tasks like registration, launching etc.

• New MarkdownToHtml, MarkdownToPdf and HtmlToMarkdown Command Line Commands
  As part of the new separated command line tool the command line now supports converting documents between Markdown and HTML and PDF as well as converting documents from HTML to Markdown. Uses mmcli.exe.

• Additional Site Relative Root Path / Overrides
  Added additional site overrides for root / path resolution in the previewer. The new additions look up the folder hierarchy for a .markdownmonster, _toc.json or docfx.json file, or any <yourProject>.mdproj file. These overrides happen after the existing checks for YAML previewWebRootPath header, and the PreviewWebRootPath in an open project file.

• Close Tabs To Right
  Added option to the Tab Context and Window Menu to close tabs to the right of the currently active tab.

• Folder Browser Drag and Drop Improvements
  You can now drag and drop files from the folder browser into external applications using the standard Windows file dragging protocol. You can also drag open document tabs as files into other applications using the same mechanims. Files dragged from the folder browser into the editor surface either open the document, or embed an image as relative links or ask to save for external paths.

• Remember PDF Export Settings
  The PDF export window now remembers its settings so the next time the window is opened the existing settings are preserved.

• Additional Paper Size Options for PDF Output
  Added additional paper sizes for PDF output: Letter, Legal, A4, B3.

• Remember common settings in Link Dialog
  The link dialog now remembers the last folder used to select a file, for the 'Open in New Window' and 'Use Link References' and checkboxes. These values are stored in the configuration and saved across shutdowns.

• Download and Embed Web Image Link as Local File
  New context menu option for image links in the editor allows to convert a Web image URL into a local image by downloading and saving the file to the local disk and re-linking the new relative (if possible) path.

• Text only Link and Image Embedding
  Added additional hotkeys to add links (ctrl-shift-k) and images (alt-shift-i) using text only insertion. Select text and the link/image is wrapped around the text with the cursor inside of the link brackets (similar to the way Github does this).

• Change h1..h6 Header Insertion Behavior
  Header insertions for h1..h6 now prefix the current string with the header prefix instead of just prefixing the current selection. It also strips off existing headers so you can change a header value to a new header type.

• Don't allow usage of non-fixed Width Fonts
  Changed behavior of Editor Font assignment so that only fixed-width fonts are allowed. The editor used in MM doesn't support propportional fonts, so a fixed-width font has to be used in order for the editor to track correctly. Also updated the description for the Options setting window.

• Show Linefeed Mode in Statusbar
  The statusbar now shows the active Linefeed mode. You can click on the mode and jump to setting the global setting to edit in the visual Settings Editor.

• Statusbar re-arrangements
  Move around some of the toolbar status items by grouping like items together and making common things a more visible. Also added additional tooltips to those items that didn't have them.

• Fix up Copy to Clipboard with CR/LF
  Fix up Ctrl-C copy behavior for text to force CR/LF to the clipboard even if the editor is running LF only mode. This fixes issues for editors that don't support LF only and paste single lines of text.

• Color Emoji Fonts in Preview Themes
  Added specific emoji fonts for the preview themes so emojis now show in color instead of the default black and white.

• Initial Support for RTL Text (experimental)
  There is initial support for paragraph based RTL editing by setting the Enable Right To Left Editor Setting, and using Alt-Shift-R and Alt-Shift-L to toggle between RTL and LTR modes respectively. This is still rough and under consideration but if you want to play with this please check out this issue on Github.

• Update Registration File Storage for better Shared Drive Operation
  Modify storage location of Registered.key to be stored in the install folder if permissions allow with a backup in the common folder. Install folder storage gives each machine accessing a potentially shared configuration its own machine specific registration file which fixes an issue where shared configurations using DropBox, OneDrive etc. would override the machine specific registration files, resulting in installations as showing not registered.

• Improved DocFx Handling in Default Markdown Parser
  Enhanced support for [!include] and [!lang-javascript] syntax to support the recently added PreviewWebRootPath sniffing, so paths to / and ~/ can be resolved. Also improved display of Info/Warning/Note etc.

• Preview: Added dedicated DocFx Markdown Parser
  Added the official DocFx parser as a markdown parser you can use to render documents. You can now pick that parser (which also uses Markdig as MM) to render DocFx documents. Rendering features for DocFx features are still limited and there are also problems with this parser. Adding for preliminary experimentation with DocFx content. Feedback welcome.

• Markdown Rendering Error Display
  Markdown rendering errors will now display an error page, rather than displaying either a blank page or not clearing the previous page. The error page shows the active Markdown Parser and a detailed code trace for potential debugging.

• Improve Windows Placement on Application Startup
  MM now will check if MM is rendering off screen when starting up. It's possible to get MM to start in 'negative' space if you size down from a large 4k display to a 1080p display for example, and MM will move the window into the viewable ViewPort area if it's hidden or even partially offscreen.

• Snippets Addin Window Placement
  The Snippets addin now by default remembers its last window position and ensures that - like the main form - it's visible on the desktop. Initial startup will launch centered in the main app window.

• Addins: Support for Colors in the MM Console
  The new Markdown Monster Console that was recently added for addin developers, now implements coloring of console output. The parameters were there previously but didn't do anything.

• Fix: Save Dialog on Shutdown on wrong Screen
  Fix issue where the Save dialog with changed content will pop up on the wrong monitor during shutdown by forcing the owner before the main window gets released.

• Fix: Open from URL
  Fixed timing issue with Open From URL that caused open operation to not show a document. Fixed with new EditorDocument.TabLoadingCompleted event also available to addins to manipulate the document after startup.

• Fix: UseMathematics and AllowMarkdownScriptTags
  Add additional notes to the Configuration for UseMathematics and MermaidDiagrams that point out that script execution has to be enabled in order to work.

• Fix: Empty Context Menu on Various Window Controls
  Fixed bug related to an empty context menu popping up on right clicking in various areas of the main form.

• Major Overhaul of Editor/Preview Sync in Two-Way Sync Mode
  Remove a number of issues that caused editor jankiness due to recursive editor and preview syncing. The preview is now more conservative in scrolling the editor so that any two-way recursion issues have been minimized. This fixes jumpiness at the top and bottom of the document (especially in code snippets) as well as unexpected cursor movements during keyboard scrolling. Made a few additional tweaks to the document syncing and scroll functionality which improves editor performance for plain editing and provides more reliable preview sync updates for code blocks and other large block objects in the markdown text.

• Scroll, Click and Keyboard Navigation Performance Improvements
  All navigation operations no longer update the preview but only scroll the preview and highlight the relevant new location in the preview which improves navigation performance especially in very large documents. It's now to edit multi-megabyte documents with the preview enabled (although the actual refreshes will still be slow).

• Large Document Editing Performance Improvements
  Large documents (2500 lines or more) now throttle the amount of preview refreshes that occur since that can significantly affect the editor performance blocking the editor while the preview refreshes. Timeout is automatically bumped so you can continue to edit at full speed, until stopping for several seconds (instead of the 120ms default timeout on 'normal' sized documents).

• Navigation Only Preview
  Added a new preview NavigationOnly preview sync mode, which does not implicitly update the preview on changes, but still allows navigation of the preview as you move through the editor. In this mode, Refresh operations are explict using a new explicit Refresh Preview (Ctrl-Shift-R) option on the Edit menu. This allows you to edit your very large documents without preview refreshes slowing down editing, and only explicitly refreshing the document to see your changes, all while still being able to navigate the document and scroll the preview.

• New Console Output Window for Addins to display Output
  For addin developers there's now a new Window.ConsolePanel that is accessible through the Addin's Model.Console property. You can WriteLine() and Write() to the panel, and use Clear(), Hide() or Show() to display status messages from processing. Writing to the Console makes it visible. This can be useful for addins that want to do things like provide progress info or for provide messages for linting etc.

• Add Open Document in new Tab to Context Menu for Relative Markdown File Links
  There's a new context menu option that lets you navigate relative Markdown file links in the editor by opening them in a new (or existing) editor tab. Supported file types are opened in an editor tab, everything else is opened the Windows default viewer. HTTP links are opened in the browser.

• Clickable Links in Editor
  Links are now clickable in the text editor. Links are underlined and are control click-able, which displays the link in the appropriate editor. Hyperlinks are opened in the browser, supported documents are opened in the editor and any others are opened in the appropriate Windows associated shell editors.

• PreviewWebRootPath in Project
  Added a new project property which provides a WebRoot Path for translating site relative URLs that start with / when the preview HTML is rendered. This allows finding related resources from some site generators or simply when working on deeply nested projects where the rootpath may be buried many levels below the current document. This change is in addition to the previewWebRootPath YAML header that already existed, and now is complimented by a PreviewWebRootPath project setting that applies to any file rendered while a project is open.

• Switch to 64-bit version of wkhtmltopdf
  Switched our PDF generation helper to use the 64 bit version of wkhtmltopdf in order to support conversion of larger documents. Previously PDF conversions of very large documents would fail due to out of memory errors - this update should help with that.

• Updated Editor Key Binding Configuration
  Refactored the command binding logic to make it easier to create custom bindings to currently unmapped editor operations. Also allow for key mappings to custom created template expansions through simple key mappings. (note: this may break some existing key bindings. To reset: delete MarkdownMonster-KeyBindings.json in config folder)

• Add KeyBindings Button to Configuration Form
  Added a button that opens the MarkdownMonster-KeyBindings.json file in the editor for editing. Note: Changes to this file require a restart in order to be applied.

• Add Toolbar DropDown for Additional Editor Operations
  The main toolbar now has a new dropdown at the end of the editor operations, that provide additional editor insertion operations that are less common but were not discoverable before. Added operations: <small>, <mark> and <u> (underscore) as well as inserting a Page Break (for PDF generation or printing).

• Addins: Added Westwind.Scripting Component to the main Markdown Monster Project
  The scripting library used in the Snippets and Commander addins has been moved into the main Markdown Monster property, which now makes it available to the main project and all addin projects. This was done to consolidate the 'dynamic scripting' code used in both Snippets and Commander Addins, which now use the same shared scripting library for dynamic code execution using the same exact Roslyn C# compiler and runtimes.

• Fix: HTML Rendering and Preview Sync
  Fix preview HTML editor wonkiness (#609). Refactor HTML document sync separately from the Markdown document sync for greatly improved HTML preview sync to the editor position when editing or scrolling HTML content.

• Fix: Two-way Code Editor Preview Sync Jumpiness
  Resolved issue in two-way sync preview mode that was causing the editor to jump when editing or pasting into large blocks of text or code at the top or bottom of the editor. Finally found a solution to separating actual scroll events from explicitly navigated scroll events and refresh operations.

• Fix: Ctrl-+ Zooming Size Issues
  Fixed issue where Ctrl-+ zooming would use native browser zooming while Ctrl+- would use the application zooming resulting in missized zoom control and huge browser controls on repeated zooming. Fixed.

• Fix: Document Outline not closing when closing last document
  Fix Document Outline issue when closing the last document where the Outline stayed active after the document was closed.

• Fix: Code Badge Copy Code Linefeeds in Previewer
  Previously the Code Badge copying would not properly handle line feeds in code snippets. It worked fine for external preview, but for the IE preview the line breaks were lost. Also remove code badges in Print CSS display mode so when printing to PDF the badges don't render. Removed for PDF and Print output.

• Fix: Code Badge Horizontal Scolling
  Fix issue with the code badge positioning when the code block is scrolled. Previously the code badge failed to stay pinned to the right in the scrolled content. This fix keeps it always pinned to the right of the code block.

• Fix: Remove Depedendent ShimGen Exes from Chocolatey Distribution
  Removed extra EXE files from the distribution for the Roslyn compiler and set up Chocolatey to not generate ShimGen files for the remaining non-MM exe files (pingo, wkhtmltopdf, vbcscompiler).

• Fix: Edit->Allow Script Tags in Markdown Preview Updating
  Fix behavior of the Editor.MarkdownOptions.AllowScriptTags flag when switched to immediately turn off script rendering and refresh the preview immediately. Use this flag if your preview is jittery due to rendering of script elements in your page (ie. Gists, Math expressions, Embbedded media scripts). These scripts can cause the preview to jump around alot as elements are dynamically inserted. By temporarily disabling script tags, the editor and preview are smooth while not rendering the executing the embedded script. You can now toggle with Alt-E-T

• Fix: Don't render Math Script Expansion Math Expansion is turned off
  Fixed issue where math code was still expanded even if MarkdownOptions.UseMathematics was still enabled.

• Fix: Table Header Parsing
  Fixed issue with table editing when selecting an existing table and importing into the table editor for re-editing or re-formatting. Fixed various edge case scenarios that previously crashed the importer.

• Add Hotkeys to the Table Editor Context Menu
  The table editor context menu now has shortcuts for all operations like Insert Row Above, Below and Insert Column left and right, as well as delete row and column. This makes the options hotkey enabled via ContextMenu Key + B for example for Add Row Below within a cell.

• Format Table Editor Context Menu Option
  In the Markdown editor you can now use the context menu over a Markdown or HTML table and re-format that table using the new Format Table context menu option.

• Improved Preview Scrolling
  We've tweaked the preview scroll behavior which should now result in better consistency when scrolling the editor as well as less latency between editor and preview in two-way sync mode. The overall change involves trying to keep the 'in-focus' content near the top for the synced editor or preview so it's easier to track relevant content in one consistent place. Click sync and cursor movement sync scrolls the current cursor position content near the top of the preview. Also fixed several issues that could on rare occasion 'bounce the editor' when the preview and editor refresh out of sync. Preview scroll should now be much more responsive for both editor->preview and preview->editor scrolling.

• Improved Spellcheck latency
  Reduced latency in the spell checking algorithm by checking the document more frequently to avoid jarring highlight movement. Change marker update logic to remove old markers only after new ones have rendered which removes/reduces flicker.

• Add Copy Code and Syntax Display to Generated HTML Code Snippets
  Code snippets in the editor and exported to HTML (in the Preview or if exported) now show a transparent badge that allows copying the code to the clipboard with a simple button click. The badge also shows the syntax in use if any.

• Add Open With to the Editor Context Menu
  Add a new context menu option to Open With... that allows opening the current document in a different editor configured on the system.

• Open Settings Folder in Configuration Window
  The Configuration Settings window now has an additional button to quickly open the configuration folder where you find all related configuration files. Same as the Tools menu option.

• Add Reset Button to the Settings Form
  The Settings form now has an additional toolbar button to reset the Markdown Monster installation to installation defaults. Clicking the button backs up the configuration file and then resets all configuration settings to default, followed by a restart.

• Update Application Theme Changing and Toggling
  Fixed a few issues related to switching between light and dark themes. Application now properly restarts after switching or toggling themes. The application theme toggle now sits more noticeably on the top window bar to make it easier to find for new users.

• Fix: Preview Sync Problems with Two-way Synching at bottom of Document
  Fixed issue where in some cases the cursor would jump up from the bottom of the document when doing two-way preview syncing between the editor and the previewer.

• Partial Fix: Display Bold and Italic in editor
  Fix behavior of markdown text that uses both bold and italic in the editor: ***bold and italic***. Text now correctly displays in editor as both text and italic. However, mixed mode like _**bold and italic**_ still don't work in the editor. Note that all combinations do work for Markdown output generation.

• Fix: Table Editor Insert New Row with Tab at End of List
  Fixed tab behavior on the last column of the table: When pressing Tab on the last cell a new row is inserted and the cursor moved to the first column of the new row. This actually was supposed to work before and a new row was being inserted, but the UI wasn't properly refreshing. Fixed.

• Fix: Table Editor Column Width Formatting when Embedding
  Fixed regression that removed the column sizing logic that attempts to fix table widths to make the tables line up properly.

• Fix: Alternate Single Quotes and Spellchecking of Apostrophied Words
  Fixed issue where spell checking wasn't working correctly with 'special' single quotes (SmartyPants or imported from something like Word). Fixed by replacing special quotes with single quotes for handling apostrophied words.

• Fix: Document Outline Refresh The document outline refresh previously was to conservative in refreshing. Added logic to every editor preview refresh to check for outline updates. Tested with very large documents to ensure there's no major performance hit.

• Fix: Multi-Binding KeyBoardBindings
  Fixed issue where multiple keyboard bindings to the same command were not properly firing all the commands. Changed keybindings handler to use IDs as names with command names separate. Any duplicate CommandName entries, should use separate Id values.

• Fix: Save Fails Silently
  Fix bug where a failed Save Operation would fail to save files and not let you know that the save failed. Fixed - if file save fails there's now a status bar message and the Save As dialog pops up to provide a new filename or try again.

• Fix: Document Outline Editor Navigation
  Document outline navigation now locates the navigated editor at the top of the editor page. Previously it was closer to the middle and somewhat erratic. This is related to the previews point about more consistent scroll behavior that pushes the in focus content to the top of the preview or to the editor depending on which window you are scrolling.

• Fix: MathJax and MathML Rendering
  Fix bug that wouldn't properly auto-detect documents that contain math expressions. Fixed search logic and tweaked RenderExtension with some additional improvements.

• Fix: Version Check Last Check Date
  Fix version check shutdown logic to properly save the last check date.

• Dev: Update to ACE Editor 1.4.6
  Updated to the latest version of ACE Editor which fixes a few small bugs that have been plaguing the editor namely fenced HTML code block tag lock ups/slowdowns and end of document caret movement.