HippoEDIT 1.42

HippoEDIT 1.42  is a text editor designed for MS Windows aiming at power users and developers, which has a modern and lightweight user interface supporting different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File and Project Explorer, External Tools integration and much more.  HippoEDIT is implemented with a great attention to usability guidelines, so it is equally suitable to both novice and experienced users. User interface is highly customizable and adoptable to current programming language.

The editor comes with pre-defined syntax highlighting for C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Pascal HTML, XML, XSLT etc. Syntax definitions are inheritable (C->C++, C# or XML->HTML, XSLT) and embeddable (JavaScript, PHP and CSS in HTML). To facilitate the source code editing HippoEDIT provides more than 160 integrated commands with customizable keyboard shortcuts, code auto-completion using syntax dictionary and statistical information, real-time code hints with best guesses from editor and sophisticated code templates engine with big set of built-in tags. Source code outlining, current scope and change lines indication, mismatching brace highlighting, indent guides etc. greatly help in code analysis and navigation.

Clipboard ring, full support of text and files drag & drop, transparent usage of different clipboard formats to paste syntax-highlighted code into other applications, or paste highlighted code as HTML back into editor smoothly integrates HippoEDIT in your work environment. Other features include powerful search and replace, support of different text encodings, WYSIWYG printing and previewing, syntax specific code formatting rules, and more.

Major Features:

1. Interface
   • Multiple Document Interface
   • Document Tabs Info
   • Different interface themes Info
   • Workspace layout management
   • Dynamic adoption for current programming language
   • Customizable keyboard schemas
2. Text Editor - General
   • Support of different encoding types
   • Multiple level Undo/Redo with grouping
   • Document Auto Save
   • Trim trailing spaces in lines on save;
   • Leave undo after save provides ability to undo changes even after saving.
   • Complete Wheel Mouse support
3. Text Editor - Visualization
   • Line numbering Info
   • Change lines indicator Info
   • Page width indicator
   • Different types of Word Wrap
   • Current line highlighting Info
   • Structure separators
   • White Space display
4. Text Editor - Syntax highlighting
   • Configurable via syntax files
   • Define colors for text blocks
   • Define styles for text blocks
   • User defined text blocks
   • Use of any font and size
   • Only mono spaced option
   • Preconfigured for HTML, PHP, Java, C/C++ and more Info
   • Syntax schemas inheritance
   • Syntax schemas embedding
5. Text Editor - Outlining
   • Display Start/End/Middle of language block Info
   • Collapse/Expand Block
   • Collapse same type blocks
   • Collapse Comments
   • User defined “Outlining Regions”
   • See current scope
   • See collapsed text
6. Text Editor - Code Templates
   • User and language dependent
   • Expandable by keystroke
   • Built in runtime tags (Date Time, Clipboard Content, Document Name) Info
   • Interactive tags
   • Suggested by Code Hints
   • Extract template from selected text
   • Surround by template
7. Text Editor - Code Hints
   • Best guess for already typed  words with statistical analyze Info
   • Code Hints for Keywords
   • Code Hints for templates shortcuts
   • Code Hints for misspelling from auto correction dictionary
   • Customizing of suggestions
   • Text Editor - Auto Completion
   • Completion from language keywords Info
   • Completion from statistics data (words from text)
   • Dynamic filtering by type
8. Text Editor - Clipboard Management
   • Clipboard Ring
   • Extended Paste Menu Info
   • Normal and column mode format Info
   • Multiple Clipboard Formats:
   • • Paste in MS Outlook with syntax highlighting
     • Paste in MS Word with syntax highlighting
   • Copy/Cut Append to clipboard
   • Paste as HTML
   • Insert Date/Time
   • Unicode or ASCII format support
9. Text Editor - Current Scope
   • Highlight of current scope tags in source
   • Highlight current scope on outline margin
   • See current code hierarchy in status panel
   • See current brackets highlighted in source
   • See mismatching brackets highlighted in error color
10. Text Editor - Extended Find/Replace
    • Incremental search
    • History of search/replace items
    • Highlight all occurrence with mark color Info
    • Search in collapsed text
    • Saving of search parameters between sessions
    • Use of regular expression
    • Find Results window
11. Text Editor - Edit Functions
    • Column Selection mode
    • Expand/Shrink Selection functions
    • Mistyping Correction
    • Drag & Drop Editing
    • Auto Brackets
    • Keyword Case correction
    • Auto Indenting
    • Caps Lock correction
    • Smart Tab
    • Surround Selection
    • Format After Paste
    • Line operations
    • Text Sorting
    • Change Case
    • Indent/Unindent of selection or lines
12. Text Editor - Print and Print Preview
    • Print source in color
    • Use outlining to hide comments or not interested parts
    • Print with Line numbers
    • Customize page header and footer
    • Wrap lines on printing
    • Preview document before printing in-place Info
    • Text Editor - Text Export
    • To Rich Text Format (RTF)
    • To HTML
    • To Adobe PDF
13. Text Editor - Extended Navigation
    • Go to last change
    • Navigate backward/forward on code
    • Navigate to previous/next occurrence of the word
    • Support of named and unnamed bookmarks (as in MSVS)
    • Shared Bookmarks Window for all open files Info
    • Scroll Info
14. Text Editor - Keyboard Shortcuts
    • User defined shortcuts
    • Different keyboard schemas
    • Several shortcuts for one command
    • Actual shortcuts are displayed as in menus as in toolbar tool tips
15. Text Editor - Files handling
    • Automatic syntax determination
    • Automatic DOS/UNIX/MAC format determination
    • Tracing external changes of opened document, and reloading if necessary
    • Saving/restoring document info (breakpoints and bookmark)
    • Unlimited file size
16. User Tools
    • Execute external programs with proper arguments
    • Compile, execute and test your code.
    • Capture tool output with Output Window Info
17. Project explorer
    • Manage group of related files into one project More info
    • Create/Delete Project Folders.
    • Include user tools.
    • Include URLs
    • Define Main File
18. File Explorer
    • Browse file system Info
    • Filter to display only selected file class.
    • Use patterns user defined for filtering of files
    • Open by Double click
    • Add to current project
19. Code Previewing
    • Preview in Internal Browser (Internet Explorer)
    • Preview in External Browser
20. General
    1. Single/Multiple instances
    2. Built in or external help browser
    3. Built-in language dependent online help Info
    4. External files Drag & Drop Support
    5. Unlimited open files
    6. Minimize to system tray

Enhancements:

1. New in functionality:
   • SmartTab now works also if tab pressed in middle or end of the line. In this case passing indent searched through previous lines
   • Added OpenFiles and OpenFilesInteractive template tags. OpenFiles inserts list of open file paths, OpenFilesInteractive does the same but brings dialog with list of open files where you can adjust list by selecting/deselecting items.
   • Auto Code Templates added. See Options->Code Completion->Auto Code Templates. To simplify usage of the templates for standard language construction, HE can from this version automatically create templates from style definitions and scope tags (when this makes sense). Auto Templates are shown in the list of the templates for syntax, but not saved until changed. As far user has changed description or text for auto template, it would be converted to user template and saved. User template has priority over auto templates, and so, auto template would not be created, if user template with same key already exists.
   • Auto-Hide menu function. When enabled main menu behaves like in IE7. Normally it is hidden, but shown after pressing left Alt Key and closed after executing action in menu or exit form tracking mode
   • Automatic Crash Dump generation when exception happens in HippoEDIT. In case of crash, editor dumps current call stack, information about modules, zip this all, and opens dialog, where you can enter comments and send collected data to HippoEDIT support. Some problems still could not be catched, but this functionality should simplify finding bugs in all other situations.
   • Auto-Recovery for open and modified files added. Now if editor or system crashes and you have not saved your changes, they should be restored on next editor start. Enabled by flag in Options->Editor. Time interval to save can be adjusted in settings.xml.
   • Auto Word wrap is disabled for files bigger then N Megs for improving performance on loading big files. Controlled by XML parameter General->WordWrapLimit value in settings.xml. Default is 2048 Kb. 0 - disable.
   • Changed areas navigation. New commands added for navigation between changed areas: Edit.NextChangedArea, Edit.PreviousChangedArea, Edit.ListChangedArea. Appropriate menu entries added to Navigation menu. .
   • Code templates now can be shown in Completion List box. Controlled by flag Options->Code Completion->Show in completion list->Code Templates.
   • Command to show menu with available code templates - Edit.ShowTemplates.
   • Contrast ratio control. Checks that ration between text and background color in text editor is enough for comfortable reading. If it is not like this, editor would try to adjust text color to keep contrast ratio as desired. This can lead then to text color change. Useful in scenarios, then display of Nesting Levels used. Controlled by property in Options->Color schemes.
   • Jumping to first occurrence of the word in current top level scope on Smart Navigate.
   • Nesting Levels. New visual property for view to see nesting level of scopes in code. Can be enabled in View->Editor->Nesting Levels. Color is defined in desource_spec.xml, so by default, you can use it in PHP or JavaScript, but not in HTML.
   • New functions for toolbars (None But Main, All, None, Reset Preferences). Reset Preferences - resets user preferences to allow automatic toolbar behavior (show/hide on frame switch etc). 
   • Now it is possible to draw separators for header and footer on printing (optional). Enabled in Options->Print->Page Layout.
   • Portable mode - Enabled as by command line parameter (--portable) as by xml setting in hippoedit.config (true). In this mode HippoEDIT would not create any temp files on exit (they are used to speed up loading of editor next time and for user file preferences).
   • Preview of the expanded template tag in completion list description added.
   • Shortcut to show/hide main menu (by default Alt+F10) for cases when user hides all toolbars and menus.
   • Uninstall Feedback option added to uninstaller. Propose to visit Uninstall Center and leave feedback. This is enabled by default.
2. New in XML Schema:
   • New definition for style - Word, in addition to Keyword and Block. It catches any word (continues group of symbols from Words node in Specification) which meet defined conditions. Conditions can be lead_with or trail_with. lead_with - word leaded by character sequence (case sensitive). trail_with - word trailed by character sequence (case sensitive). You can have more than one Word definition, in Words aggregation inside style. Word definitions are inheritable and working as OR condition. To have AND condition you can use lead_with and trail_with in same Word definition. In addition to usage of lead_with or trail_with in Word definition, you can also use it in Keyword definitions. Or placing them on aggregation level (Keywords node) or for every Keyword node. The logic for lead_with and trail_with is same as for Words. As example can be checked xml_spec.xml. BTW this extension helps to define normal syntax highlighting rules for XML.
   • Style property first_pos as alternative for start_pos used in definition of the Block, when you want to specify first non white space position in the line. start_pos is absolute, and count all symbols. Can be used, for example for specifying comment style starting if found on before any non-white space character (inno_spec.xml).
   • Keyword property descr. Allows you specify details for keyword, displayed on hovering or by request, when QuickInfo (Ctrl+Shift+Space) called on some keyword. Don’t forget also about pattern property: with it you can specify, how keyword should be inserted by code completion. You can also use template tags inside. %CurerntWord% tag in this context means keyword text.
3. New syntax schemas:
   • Schemas for FORTRAN and Bash.
   • Syntax schema for Clipper with code and file templates added to installation.
   • Schemas for Basic and PHP updated.
   • Schema for iTCL added.
4. Fixed:
   • Added support of default titles for syntax Context Help items and fixed changing of the already existing title on command change.
   • Code template word boundary issue. Details.
   • Colors definitions for XML.
   • Corrected problem of the screen redraw on page up/down, when show white space is on.
   • Crash on double click on incomplete scope tag.
   • Crash on editing text before collapsed scopes (not on same line).
   • Ctrl-N off a file yields a new Untitled file with the same extension but once.
   • Displaying of speed results for search beautified to work also with msec.
   • Document could not be saved with Keep file locked while editing flag.
   • Document is saved partially if Cancel selected in encoding check popup during save.
   • Document no correctly scrolled to visible area after switching on Word Wrap and cursor position is at the end of long line.
   • Drawing bug on Full Screen mode. Not repainted area at the bottom of the screen when only one file is open and Auto-Hide tabs used.
   • Easy Line Copy flag not saved.
   • Enhancements for outlining parsing, to check strict property of scope and levels. This solves problems when outer scope by mistake closed in nested scope.
   • Error in Replace All in files.
   • Escaping of the scope tags now works. Problem was found in TCL schema.
   • Exception on search with incorrect regular expression.
   • File encoding is not stored between sessions.
   • Find dialog is moved out of the screen boundaries. .
   • Fixed bug when sometimes fonts are very small on printing
   • HippoEDIT hangs randomly during editing.
   • Hotspot link is not navigatable.
   • Inconsistence in image enumerations used for labels and text styles.
   • InteractiveFile template tag, does not allow selecting multiple files.
   • Invisible characters removed from the template names in completion list.
   • Limitation of 33 chars in Quick Find search filed removed
   • Logic for auto selecting case for Case Correction when Keep as Typed selected adjusted. Now if Case of typed characters same as in suggested word, case is not corrected. For example, if suggested HippoEDIT, when if you type Hi previously was inserted HippoEDIT (capitalize), no inserted HippoEDIT
   • Manage Tool: items lost by dragging them outside of list. .
   • Multi editing now can back space and delete with empty multi line selection. Delete now reduce selection to 0-width, instead of complete remove.
   • Not possible to enter tab in beginning of the line.
   • Now Alt Grey key can be used for typing symbols.
   • Now Quick Find also remembers last search queries done in the same session.
   • Now Scroll Info shows name of the scope from center of the current screen but not top.
   • Now state of the Full Screen toolbar also saved between session and toolbar would not auto shown if was closed by user. This preference would be reset after "Reset preferences" command form toolbar menu.
   • Now workspace is saved also after open/close of some document, in addition to save by timer.
   • Now, if multiline text is pasted into Find What field in Search dialog, not only line breaks are replaced by appropriate escaped symbols, but also all regular expression reserved symbols, found in text.
   • Positions display fixed. .
   • Problem with corrupted fonts on printing when line spacing with type Exactly, and At Least used
   • Problem with indent/unindent.
   • Problem with indenting/unindenting of wrapped lines.
   • Problem with last line scrolled to top of the editor window, after reopening of the file saved with cursor position in End-Of-File.
   • Problem with printing with word wrap on, when last char was cut.
   • Problems in Go to Position Dialog (entering of alpha characters and % problems).
   • Problems with incorrect position of the cursor in Find What field, when inserting regexp tags from helper menu in Find dialog.
   • Problems with regular expression and search for \\n.
   • Several bugs with print previewing fixed. Now wrap settings of document used, if wrapping on printing enabled (in print settings).
   • Several problems during opening/saving files with non automatic encoding. Encoding was not always applied correctly.
   • Speed of replacing of wrapped document optimized. Now should be the same as for non-wrapped document. Optimization done for Replace in Document, Replace in Selection and Replace in Open Document.
   • Status bar now shows complete expanded command line (with replaced tags and environment variables) when hovering over tool item in toolbar (not in tooltip).
   • Status bar tooltips problems.
   • Stop button now should work as for Replace in current document as in Replace in files with Keep modified files open set.
   • Template tag InteractiveFile now supports multi selection of files.
   • The main menu and window title bar correctly shown after returning from Full Screen in maximized mode.
   • The menu is open (not only activated) on release of Alt key.
   • User preferences for toolbar visibility not stored between sessions.
   • Workspace is not created in the root folder any more, if not found, but in the location of old file.
   • Wrong value of current line number and current column number (one less).
5. Removed:
   • AutoUndo on Backspace this functions brings more problems than benefits.

Requirements:

• Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista