EditPad Pro 6.5

EditPad Pro 6.5 is described as a great and powerful a text editor and word processor.

Work comfortably with the tabbed layout, spell checking, column editing, extensive clipboard and block editing abilities, project files, word count and other statistics, text wrapping and unwrapping, alphabetic sort, bookmarks, and character map. Edit source code with syntax coloring, file navigation, code folding, FTP, search and replace with regular expressions, DOS/Windows/UNIX and ANSI/Unicode conversions, hexadecimal mode, integrated file comparison, auto and block indent, and line and column numbers. Store and instantly reuse standard phrases, formatting tags, and source code snippets. Temporarily store and move and duplicate blocks of text.

Major Features:

1. Integrated spell checker. You can easily check the spelling of a single file or even all files currently open. The spell checker works together with the syntax coloring. If, for example, you are spell checking a Java source code file, it will only check words in strings and comments as these are likely to contain natural language. Anything else is very unlikely to be natural language and therefore skipped. The dictionaries are separate downloads so they do not waste disk space if you do not intend to use them.
2. Syntax coloring for many popular file types. HTML, XML, CSS, Delphi, Java, C#, C++, VB, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Eiffel, SQL and many more are supported out of the box. User-contributed syntax coloring schemes support a variety of file formats. You create and edit syntax coloring schemes with the JGsoft Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor.
3. File navigation for many popular file types. HTML, XML, CSS, Delphi, Java, C#, VB, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and many more are supported out of the box. User-contributed file navigation schemes support a variety of file formats. You create and edit file navigation schemes with the JGsoft File Navigation Scheme Editor.
4. Clip Collections: Store common blocks of text and templates for quick repeated reuse. Temporarily hold multiple chunks of text while editing complex documents. Jot down notes and ideas. Keep important information at your fingertips.
5. Hexadecimal editor and byte value editor. EditPad Pro is perfectly suited for editing binary files. You can quickly switch between text and hexadecimal mode.
6. Controlling external tools. You can add any external application to EditPad Pro's Tools menu. You can make the tools listed in the menu depend on the type of file currently active (it makes no sense to run a Java compiler on a C++ file). You can have EditPad Pro send the active file as a command line parameter or through standard input. EditPad Pro can catch the standard output and error into their own tabs so you can see what your tool is doing and save the output for later use or edit it. You can also continue to work with EditPad Pro normally while the tool is running in the background, perhaps peeking at the output every now and then.
7. More extensive search commands such as highlighting search matches, incremental search and folding lines without search matches.
8. Regular expressions: If you are familiar with regular expressions, you will appreciate you can now use their full power from within EditPad Pro. You can apply them to the current selection, the current file or all open files, just like doing a search/replace with ordinary text. You can (of course) use back-references in the replacement text. The regex syntax is compatible with Perl, Java and .NET. If you are not familiar with regular expressions, read the regular expression tutorial.
9. You can configure EditPad Pro's toolbar and statusbar to your own taste and habits.
10. Change the keyboard shortcuts of all menu items if you are used to different key combinations.
11. Edit huge files without breaking a sweat. EditPad Pro will instantly open files up to 2 GB in size, even if your PC has less than 2 GB of RAM. Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited, which is a problem with many editors claiming to support "unlimited" file sizes.
12. File Panel to make it easy to work with hundreds or even thousands of files at the same time.
13. Explorer Panel to easily open files and for basic file management directly in EditPad Pro.
14. Built-in FTP client for conveniently editing your web site via FTP, and for uploading and downloading files from any FTP server. EditPad Pro can connect to as many FTP servers as you want simultaneously, which makes it very easy to manage multiple web sites.
15. Extensive backup options and convenient File History for managing backup files. Automatic working copies can be saved at a set interval.
16. Built-in difference tool for comparing two files. Very useful for making you see the differences between two revisions of the same document. Since the difference function creates a new file showing the differences and similarities, you can merge two versions of a document easily by deleting what you do not want.
17. Project functionality allows you to quickly open and save sets of related files, such as all the HTML files that are part of your web site, all the chapters of your next book, or the source code file of the application you're developing.
18. Flexible and powerful editing with persistent selections and rectangular selections.
19. Record and play back keystroke macros to easily automate otherwise tedious and time-consuming editing tasks.
20. Bookmarks: you can use them to mark a spot and then quickly jump from one spot to another in a file. When you save a project, bookmarks are saved into it.
21. Built-in character map that you can use to quickly enter special characters into your texts. You can resize it to make the characters it shows as large as necessary for your eyes.
22. Built-in email functionality so you can quickly send out texts to others.
23. Sort function for putting the selected lines or the entire file in alphabetic order. The sort takes notice of the current Windows locale setting and lines containing special characters will be sorted appropriately.
24. Comment block function. You can use it to prepend one or more characters you specify to each paragraph in the selected block (which can be rectangular), which is most useful for commenting out pieces of code in a language that does not support multi-line comments.
25. See statistics of the file or even all files you are editing, including file size, word count, paragraph count and character count.
26. Keep logs easily. If the first 4 characters of a file are .LOG, the current time and date will be appended to the end of the file when it is opened or refreshed, just like Notepad's .LOG function.
27. Limit the length of each line in a file if the file will be used by software such as older email clients or newsreaders that cannot handle files with long lines.
28. Automatically unwrap or rewrap the lines in files from software like older email clients or newsreaders that limit line lengths.

Enhancements:

• New features:
• • File Types: Delphi Prism syntax and file navigation schemes that you can select instead of the Delphi (Win32) schemes for .pas files in Options, Configure File Types, Syntax & Navigation.
  • File Types: Groovy, with syntax coloring and file navigation.
  • Preferences, Status bar: Unicode code point of the character at the cursor.
  • Search: RegexMagic integration to invoke RegexMagic to generate a regular expression for use with EditPad Pro.
• Improvements:
• • Explorer: Ignore files being dragged and dropped into their own folder.
  • Extra, Compare Files: When highlighting changes in the original files, scroll the files to make the first change visible.
  • File|Close All: If more than one file is unsaved, the prompt for the last unsaved file should continue to show the "save all" and "don't save any" buttons so there's no surprise button movement for the last file.
  • File Types, Syntax & Navigation: When editing .jgcscs and .jgfns files stored in the Program Files folder, the scheme editor should save the modified scheme into the user profile folder rather than Program Files, which can't be written to on Windows Vista and 7. To make this work, you need to have versions 3.1.4 and 1.1.4 (25 August 2009) of the syntax coloring and file navigation schemes editors, and launch them via the edit buttons in Options, Configure File Types, Syntax & Navigation in EditPad Pro.
  • File Types: C# syntax coloring scheme was updated to allow the spell checker to check verbatim strings.
• Bug fixes:
• • EditPad cannot keep up with the scroll wheel of Logitech mice when put into free scrolling mode.
  • EditPad fails to restore itself after begin minimized if the active file is modified in EditPad and has been modified on disk by another application.
  • Edit|Go to Previous Editing Position did not clear the selection as cursor movement commands should do when selections are not persistent, causing the selection to be erased inadvertently when typing or pasting in text at the new cursor position.
  • Extra|Sort: EditPad no longer selects the whole file if the file is already sorted.
  • File Types, Encoding: The "preserve presence or absence of the Unicode byte order marker" setting was ignored for XML files with an XML declaration and HTML files with a content-type meta tag.
  • File Types: HTML with Scripting and PHP with JavaScript syntax coloring schemes incorrectly highlighted single-line JavaScript comments containing opening angle brackets.
  • Files Panel: Dragging a file within a project closed the file when it should simply do nothing.

Requirements: Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista.