PSPad is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a HEX editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, and Code Explorer. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, and Python) and you can further customize the syntax settings.
PSPad features:
- work with projects
- work with several documents at the same time (MDI)
- save desktop sessions to later reopen all session files
- FTP client - edit files directly from the web
- macro recorder to record, save and load macros
- search and replace in files
- text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
- templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...)
- installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...
- syntax highlighting according to file type
- user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
- auto correction
- intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
- full HEX editor
- call different external programs for different environments
- external compiler with output catcher, log window and log parser for an "IDE" effect in every environment
- color syntax highlight printing and print preview
- integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
- integrated free version of the top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
- export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format to file or clipboard
- column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
- reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
- line sorting with ability to sort on defined columns and drop duplicates
- ASCII chart with HTML entities
- Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
- spell checker
- internal web browser with APACHE support
- matching bracket highlighting
- ...(many more features, too numerous to list)
Changelog:
- PSPad Code updated to Delphi 10.2 - fully Unicode IDE independent of regional settings. It allows 64b version too.
- New file plugin format, much more easier for developers - (see the readme file in plugin subfolder)
- New code page handling - PSPad now supports 147 code pages and allows you to open and convert
- New CP customization menu dialog (menu Encoding) which allows you select code page set you use
- New Batch CP convert tool in the Encoding menu
- Code page in status bar shows code page menu
- Fast selection of default encoding by Ctrl+Click on menu item in Encoding menu
- Language files are stored in UTF-8 with BOM
- New ASCII chart with encoding selector, Unicode char value and HTML entities
- Script Input Dialog with automatic history
- Batch CP conversion (menu Encoding) was changed to non modal and allows you with Enter and DblClick open selected file from list
- User convertors are stored in .\Convertor subfolder with UTF-8 encoding. Conversion extended of regular expressions. See the file template.in_ for definition changes
- Added anonymous program usage program tracking. You can switch it off in the program settings / Program 1. For now in developer builds only.
- Code pages - added ISO 8859-2 autodetection
- PSPad remembers height of File explorer file list box
- PHP code explorer - added labels
- HTML highlighter - added highlight matching MAIN
- Hex Editor - Search/replace has been rewritten, fixed problem with 00 in search/replace
- PSPad checks new version on start. Parameters are available in the Program settings / Check update
- PSPad will activate Multiuser environment switch if detect user unpack it manually into Program files folder
- Translators can use \n for line break for resource strings (starting on rs_)
- System dialogs was changed into PSPad 4 style [full release notes]
Download: PSPad 5.0.0.277 | 6.3 MB (Freeware)
Download: PSPad 5.0.0.277 Portable | 7.6 MB
Links: PSPad Homepage | PSPad Extensions