PSPad 5.0.0.277

PSPad

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]