Software Update: RJ TextEd 8.90

RJ TextEd is a free Swedish-made text editor. It has various options that are particularly interesting for software and web developers, such as syntax highlighting, auto completion, extensive selection and sorting options and an embedded (s)ftp client. The program is being developed for Windows, but can also be used under Linux via Wine. Version 8.90 was released on Saturday and the changelog for this release looks like this:

regular expressions
Replaced the regular expression engine. The new one use UTF16 buffers and strings, which is the same as the editor use internally. This results in faster executions and less memory fragmentation. The new implementation is also newer and support new PERL expressions.
Selecting “Case sensitive” in search options now works when using regular expressions. The help file has been updated and include a regular expression chapter.

regular expression creator
The regular expression creator can be used to create and test new regular expressions. You can also save regular expressions which show up in the regular help menu on the search bar or in the search dialog window.

Search and regular expressions
Saved regular expressions (save in the regular expression creator) show up in the regular help menu. I’ve also added a regular expression replace help menu to the search bar or the search dialog window. The search bar and search dialog window also has a button to open the regular expression creator.

Markdown preview
Markdown is a plain text syntax that can be converted into HTML. The HTML preview tabs, internal browser view and the bottom-preview now support Markdown and can display it as HTML. The Markdown parser used to convert from Markdown to HTML is found here. An option is available to set file extensions to identify Markdown files. The defaults are: .markdown;.mdown;.md;.mkdn;

repeat
Added a “Repeat” menu item in the “Edit” menu. “Repeat” will re-run the last executed menu command. When active it will display the current menu command inside [ ] bracket.
Eg “Repeat – [Join Lines]”. The shortcut “Ctrl+Y” has been assigned to it, but can be changed. This may come in handy if you want to repeat the last menu command several times.

color themes
Code and text color themes can now handle up to 20 keyword colors.

Linux (wine)
Fixed a few issues when installing and running the program in Linux. The installer will not add menu shortcuts anymore. They didn’t work anyway, so you’ll have to add menu shortcuts yourself.

misc

• Made some changes to the project settings dialog window.
• Redesigned the splash screen.
• Message view (at the bottom) will now auto scroll when new data is displayed.

Fixed

• Encoding issue in scripts. Strings were not always handled as UTF8.
• Context help in project settings.
• Context help in print dialog window.
• Context help in FTP profiles.
• A small issue when displaying italic text using the “Courier New” font.
• Message view always opened when running a tool in the background and the option to only display the message view on data output was set.