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Preview version 25.3_Preview1 (2025-07-03) changelog:

  • New feature: you can now search for words in all files contained in a folder and its sub-folders using MobaTextEditor or the "MobaFind" command
  • Improvement: huge ergonomics improvements in the search feature of MobaTextEditor and MobaTextDiff (instant results highlight, contextual lines, number of results, ...)
  • Improvement: added a new feature to move or copy blocks of lines up/down/left/right in MobaTextEditor (Alt+arrows by default)
  • Improvement: added a new option in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff to automatically highlight the same words as the one under the cursor
  • Improvement: added a new option in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff to display indent guides
  • Improvement: added a new "Toggle comments" feature in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: the colors in HTML format are now identified by MobaTextEditor and highlighted using the corresponding color
  • Improvement: improved syntax highlighting color schemes in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: improved UTF-8 character recognition in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff especially for 4-bytes UTF-8 characters
  • Improvement: added an extended character mapping table to MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: you can now export your code to HTML with syntax highlighting from MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: improved the parent bracket highlighting feature in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: added an indicator and some information in the MobaTextEditor status bar when the file is edited on a remote server
  • Improvement: you can now zoom in/out the text in MobaTextEditor using Ctrl-MouseWheel or Ctrl-+
  • Improvement: added a new feature to autocomplete code in MobaTextEditor (Ctrl+Space by default)
  • Improvement: changed the text engine and the memory manager used in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: added a new status bar in MobaTextEditor to display useful details about the edited file
  • Improvement: added a new option in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff to toggle dark/bright theme that is independent of MobaXterm
  • Improvement: added a new graphical hexadecimal color picker in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: organized the MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff settings window and added several new options
  • Improvement: improved the Unix Shell Script syntax highlighting in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: improved the PHP syntax highlighting in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: added a new Html/Javascript/Css/Php syntax that autodetects multi-format HTML pages in MobaTextEditor and MobaTextDiff
  • Improvement: improved detection and opening speed of binary files in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: improved MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff speed when opening files with very long lines
  • Improvement: improved rendering of font ligatures in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: the syntax highlighting is preserved in text selections in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: improved selection color with a dark theme in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Improvement: improved the visibility of the MobaTextEditor caret, especially in dark mode
  • Improvement: added a new keyboard shortcut to cycle through tabs in MobaTextEditor (Ctrl-Tab by default)
  • Improvement: added a new keyboard shortcut to select a whole line in MobaTextEditor (Ctrl+L by default)
  • Improvement: added the "Select to Match Bracket" keyboard shortcut in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: added right-click menus on the MobaTextEditor status bar to quickly modify some of the text file settings
  • Improvement: added quick access to recently opened files in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: when switching MobaTextEditor or MobaTextDiff from a first monitor to a second monitor in High DPI mode, the application switches to High DPI mode
  • Improvement: if MobaTextEditor fonts are blocked by a Windows policy, use "Consolas" by default instead
  • Improvement: if the embedded MobaXterm terminal font is blocked by a Windows policy, try to use the "MobaFont" if it is installed or use "Consolas" if there is no other choice
  • Improvement: in the Customizer program, if you choose a shared sessions file, its path will use common variables like "_MyDocuments_" to adapt to other computers
  • Bugfix: the password request and save password prompt windows were overlapping each other when connecting to FreeBSD with SSH
  • Bugfix: in browser sessions, the "script URL" field was too large for the container
  • Bugfix: paste using Ctrl+V was disabled in the user syntax highlighting edition
  • Bugfix: on some Windows versions, MobaXterm log identified Windows 11 as Windows 10
  • Bugfix: fixed some windows title bars that were white when the MobaXterm theme was set to dark
  • Bugfix: fixed a typo in an SSH connection warning prompt
  • Bugfix: modified the "smart tabs" feature in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff to automatically adapt to mixed tabs and spaces indentations
  • Bugfix: the highlighted search results were not reset when switching from one tab to another in MobaTextEditor
  • Bugfix: the "indent/unindent block" feature was not properly taken into account in the "Undo" action of MobaTextEditor
  • Bugfix: the extended characters are no longer treated as separators in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
  • Bugfix: the highlighted searched patterns were still highlighted after switching to another tab in MobaTextEditor
  • Bugfix: fixed the MobaTextEditor tabs placements
  • Bugfix: only the first line was copied in MobaDiff when multiple lines were selected
  • Bugfix: removed the "snap to monitor" feature in MobaTextEditor