Software Update: EditPad Pro 7.3.1

JGsoft has not only updated its free text editor EditPad Lite, a new version of EditPad Pro has also been released. While EditPad Lite is intended as a replacement for Notepad, EditPad Pro is more intended for programmers. For example, there is a spell checker that takes syntax coloring into account, and a hex editor, a file-compare option, a bookmark option and an embedded ftp client. A complete overview of the extra options compared to the Lite version can be found on this page are being found. In version 7.3.1 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Improvements:

• Help: Better workaround for the bug in IE 9 that causes 64-bit applications to crash when using HTML Help, allowing EditPad to show the correct help topics instead of the first page of the help file.
• Tools: Custom placeholders prompt now focuses the first placeholder.

Bug fixes:

• Block|Toggle Comment leaves an invalid (invisible) selection when used without a selection, causing commands like Edit|Cut to work on the wrong line if used immediately after Toggle Comment.
• Convert|Text Encoding: Dialog box did not adjust its size to fit on small screens.
• File Types: Perl file navigation scheme did not correctly handle double-slashed strings that use a delimiter other than the slash and that span multiple lines.
• File|Open submenu forgets files that were still open in EditPad when Windows was shutting down.
• Files Panel: If the only open file in a project was blank and untitled, moving that file to another project caused subsequence file operations to fail with access violation errors.
• Files Panel: Modified files in projects other than the active project continued to be indicated as modified after using File|Save All even though all files were saved correctly.
• FTP: Saving a file expands its folder on the FTP panel even if it was previously collapsed.
• Go|Go to Line did not record relative line numbers into macros, turning them into absolute line numbers.
• Keyboard: Latvian keyboard layouts are now recognized as using the AltGr key making EditPad disable conflicting Ctrl+Alt+letter keyboard shortcuts by default.
• Macros: Pressing the Home or End key (with or without modifier keys) in an empty file while recording a macro breaks the macro recorder.
• Options|Text Layout: Selecting one of the complex script text layouts for a file that contains very long sequences of characters (10,000 or more) from a single Unicode block without any whitespace caused EditPad to eat up all available memory.
• Regular expressions in the form of (?<=lookbehind).* performed very poorly when the "dot matches line breaks" option was off.
• Search|Replace All and Search|Cut Matches were extremely slow when the Line by Line search option was turned on.
• Spell: Straight apostrophes in spell checker replacements were always changed into smart apostrophes instead of only changing them when the misspelled word used smart apostrophes.
• Undo: Closing a read-only file while no other files are open resulted in a tab for a blank untitled file that allowed editing but did not allow undo or redo.