PSPad 5.0.6.589

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)

PSPad 5.0.6.582 changelog:

Tab color is applied to the tab you call context menu
Set bookmarks by selection (menu Search) - sets unnumbered bookmarks to the begin and end of selected text
Interactive code clips - window respects high DPI settings
Color selector - height of color cell is higher for high DPI settings
Select text inside bookmarks (menu Edit) - select text according to nearest bookmarks above and bellow the cursor
Ruby - multiline strings
Project settings, Highlighter settings / Compiler, Tools settings - added possibility to set log encoding (OEM, ANSI / UTF-8)
First time run localization isn't taken from system, but from user OS localization
Autocomplete includes first bracket - new option in Program settings / Editor 2
New program actions aDOSFormat, aMACFormat, aUNIXFormat. It allows change line ends format in scripting, allows to assign shortcut
Sessions (File menu, Toolbar button) - PSPad remembers last session. Last session is selected in Session manager, last session is marked in menu items with star icon
New version check was moved into separate thread - it doesn't delay program start
Left panel - you need to keep CTRL when you want to undock Window as protection for unwanted undocking
Add Accent marks function works on selected text. Till now always on whole text
Search/Replace dialog - optimization - when you start with confirmation and answer Replace all, following replace process skips all drawing and will be lightning fast
Undo and Redo optimized for big change number
Exception - added support to send report for mail clients without Simple MAPI support
TextDifference - fixed in 64 bit version
Hex Editor - fix for 64b version
If dark skin was used, the content of help was unreadable (black font on dark background)
Search/Replace - in some cases cursor appear out of editor area
Open big file without running PSPad - wasn't possible to confirm dialog with keyboard
Runtime error after PSPad is closed
Code explorer - if docked in left panel, left panel always appear after start
Program start toolbar flickering
About program dialog with dark skin closes PSPad
Search broke highlight same occurences
Undo/Redo doesn't refresh editor state
Exception when a large number of files are open when starting the PSPad
Catch tool output from Link panel
User Highlighter - fix for case sensitive languages
Lot of fixes joined with skins and drawing
When first file tab was active when program was closed, it wasn't activated with next start
Autocomplete text color problem when Windows skin is set with dark color scheme
Ruby - section #{ ... } in string and string end
FTP - file list icons was too smal for high DPI
64b ends with "program stopped working" message in some cases
Ruby highlighter - class method was highlighted as label