Software update: EditPlus 2.20

On the home page EditPlus has released a new version of this text and HTML editor. This text editor can not only replace the Windows notepad, but also has a number of extra features such as syntax highlighting, integrated browser preview and FTP upload options. The number of improvements is too great to discuss here, but can be read in full in the changelog †

New features:

• Supports multiple languages ​​in single Unicode or UTF-8 file.
• Experimental ‘Use sftp’ option (File->FTP->FTP Settings).
• Embedded script uses its own auto-completion.
• #AUTOCASE=y section added in stx file for automatic case correction.
• Allows auto-completion upon Enter key.
• #REGEX_QUOTE=/ section in perl.stx and js.stx for regular expression literals.
• Supports #HEREDOC=<
• Syntax highlighting for Perl handles POD.
• Syntax highlighting for HTML handles
• ‘Create/Rename/Delete Directory’ command on the Directory Window.
• ‘Open Selection’ command (File->Others)
• Increases number of column marker to 10.
• Displays FTP server name.on the Recent Files also.
• Holding Shift key with ‘Replace All’ button disables Undo feature.
• ‘Backup file extension’ option (Preferences->Files)
• ‘Properties’ command on the Directory Window popup menu.
• ‘View in Browser’ command on the Directory Window popup menu.
• ‘Sort’ option on the Function List dialog box
• -pr project_name command line option for selecting project.
• Toolbar buttons for Reload, Lock Files, Close All command.
• $(Copy) argument macro to copy selection before running user tool.
• $(Prompt) argument macro for user tool.
• Shows a delete confirmation when it is turned off with Recycle Bin.
• ‘Text filter to Output Window’ option (Preferences->User tools).
• Max. number of project increased to 70.
• ‘Show Markers’ option on the Set Column Marker dialog box.
• Resizable Open Remote dialog box.
• Code page option for new files (Preferences->Files).

• Upload command could cause error message on program exit.
• ‘Copy Append’ could cause program crash.
• New version crashed if the old version had the maximum 30 syntax settings.
• ‘Always apply wrap’ option caused program crash when printing selection.
• ‘Leading Spaces to Tabs’ command over a selection could crash program.
• ‘Matching Brace’ option could cause program crash in some cases.
• Overwrite prompt on the Save as Remote dialog box did not work in some cases.
• ‘Duplicate Char’ command did not work with variable-width fonts.
• Shortcut key for Directory popup menu could not be set.
• Align commands did not work in word wrap mode.
• Improved warning message for large files.
• ‘Stop’ command on the output window did not work in some cases.
• FTP file date was not displayed correctly in same cases.
• Perl syntax highlighting was not correct with $’ and $” symbol.
• Regular expression ‘n’ did not work correctly in some cases.
• Regular expression [^] (not in range) did not work with case sensitive option.
• Firewall option did not work.
• Line Comment command sometimes did not work correctly in word wrap mode.
• Match Brace did not work with embedded script inside quotes.
• Toggling browser and editor with remote files did not work correctly.
• Keystroke recording did not support Find in Files command.
• Matching brace feature did not work correctly at the end of wrapped line.
• Syntax highlighting in some cases failed at the column 4097.
• FTP file list was not correct on some AIX FTP servers.
• Matching Brace feature did not work correctly in some cases.
• ‘Delete Marked Lines’ command did not work correctly in word wrap mode.
• Change Case commands on column selection could append trailing spaces.
• A screen update problem fixed with custom active line color.