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:
- List of open files is stored when any file is opened/closed not only with PSPad end
- TextDiff - Both window into one file function marks difference with delimiters between files
- TextDiff - added functionality to generate difference file from the Right and from the Left
- HEX editor - all copy are made as string. It allows you paste content as text into editor
- HEX editor - in hex area you copy as HEX string, in text area you copy as text
- Program settings / Direct edit - AutodetectBinary has 3 states: 0 off, 1 on, 2 on with confirmation dialog
- scripting function Sleep() calls ProcessMessages
- Find/Replace dialog shows counters for characters count before cursor for search and replace field
- CSS highlighter - added large amount of missing keywords
- SAS code parser - added macro support
- Code explorer for XML will expand first 2 levels only automatically. Speed up for big XML files
- Code explorer for PHP - classes are expanded automatically
- Code explorer - if left docked, page is automatically activated
- New Code explorer for KiBasic (ftKiBasic file type for user highlighter)
- Project tree - nodes indentation
- Editor window flickering when switching
- Fixed problem with protocol highlighting (mail, URL, ...) when file with with long lines
- ESC key closes Code explorer window
- Import from RTF to HTML (HTML menu)
- Insert file - fixed problem with BOM included code pages
- fixed Greek ANSI CP (1253) autodetection
- PSpad freezes with active Code explorer in some cases
- Multihighlighter color (start-end of the script)
- Log lines display problem with active URL highlightter
- Taskbar program icon will appear on screen where prgoram window is (Jochen Heinelt)
- Windows Shell script - ^ char breaks meaning of special chars
- Windows Shell script - cmd as file extension was highlighted as keyword
- Windows shell script - matching bracket highlight with echo command
- Cobol highlighter - keywords with underscore
- PSPad 64 - SpellCheck exceptions
- HEX editor - problem with replace longer expression with shorter without confimration
- When project is open, PSpad shows project name on status bar as first
- Unix Shell script code explorer includes if and for as functions
- Fullscreen mode (F11)
- Show PSPad window when with open new file in PSPad after Windows + D (minimize all windows)
- Switch tab with 2 windows splitted horizontally or vertically destroys splitting
- Cobol code explorer
- Command line tool causes freezing when run under MS Dos environment
- Search in files result - whole path is shown, char & was removed
- Search and search in files results - after dblclick focus is set to editor window
- Cobol highlighter - if keyword was part of another word starting with nnnn-
- Project - default CP wasn"t load, even was stored in project configuration
- Project - new file wasn"t created with code page set in project
- Project - after loading project statusbar information wasn"t updated
Download: PSPad 5.0.1.312 | 6.6 MB (Freeware)
Download: PSPad 5.0.1.312 Portable | 7.9 MB
Links: PSPad Homepage | PSPad Extensions