PSPad editor is freeware programmer editor, usable for people who:
- Work with various programming environments
- Like highlighted syntax in code
- Need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
- Looking for a tool to work with plain text
- Want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products
Why PSPad ?
- Do you work with various programming environments ?
- Do you like highlighted syntax in code ?
- Do you need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor ?
- Are you looking for a tool to work with plain text ?
- Do you want to save money and still have the functionality of professional products ?
- Then PSPad is for you.
Features
- Work with projects
- Work on several documents at the same time (MDI)
- Save desktop session to later reopen all open files
- FTP client - you can 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 auto set by file type
- User-defined highlighters for exotic environments
- Auto correction
- Intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
- Full HEX editor
- Call external programs, different for each environment
- External compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect
- 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 top CSS editor TopStyle Lite
- Export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard
- Column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ...
- Reformat and compress HTML code, tags char case change
- Line sorting with ability to sort on defined column, with option to drop duplicates
- ASCII chart with HTML entities
- Code explorer for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP, and more in future
- Spell checker
- Internal web browser with APACHE support
- Matching bracket highlighting
What's New
- 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