Download PSPad 4.5.1

Jan Fiala has provided the free multifunctional text editor PSPad with an update to version 4.5.1 yesterday. This program is especially suitable for developers and has features such as syntax highlighting, a macro editor, built-in ftp client, a hex editor and a spell checker. The more extensive list of possibilities can be found on this page are being found. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Added:

• New context menu handler (based on Stefan Reiff example)
• Favorite panel – new function Copy link.
• Changes in the memory management and some internals optimizations.
• Program settings / System – new option allows switch off PSPad scripting.
• New localizations: Norsk (Stein-Aksel Basma), Galician (Xabier Cancela).
• New Office2003 button style (Hendrik).
• New code explorer for Cobol.
• Added program icon 48×48.
• Program settings/ Registered file types – added buttons for register/unregister all files from the list.
• Program settings / Files / new option – Ignored file masks list (CVS, backups, …). It works near in whole PSPad – Project from direcotry, Scripts, ….
• Missing options (Move, Resize) added into the TaskBar context menu.
• New variable F1InEditor in the [Special Settings] section – you can switch off help on F1 in the editor Window and use F1 for your purposes.
• Added LIST -aL command for keep FTP connection alive.
• Fortran Highlighter – added new keywords.
• Char tab – added symbols (defined in Ascii.ini).
• New option OldSpecialChars in the Program settings / Direct edit. Set value to 1 if you use non unicode fonts, eg FixedSys.
• In Program settings > Program – Look in the file tab format you can limit length of the File name on the File tab. Use %d:nn (nn = number of chars).
• HTML reformat function uses new reformat function for XML. Decision depends on whether highlighter is used.
• New function in the Edit menu > Line manipulations > Swap with line Above.
• Program settings > Dialogs – option allows you switch off FTP replace file confirmation.
• Methods support in the Tcl/Tk highlighter.
• Dictionary handling was changed, important is extension .DIC only (go to the SpellSettings (Ctrl+F7) and choose dictionary).
• Added new keywords into PERL highlighter.
• User highlighter – added ability switch off label highlight.
• User highlighter – new comment style $…$.
• Spell check settings – new button will navigate you to the dictionary download web page.
• Added new keywords (PHP5) into PHP highlighter.
• Changed default shortcut for the Delete word command from Ctrl+T to Ctrl+Del.
• Speed ​​up compiler run with [x]Catch external output.

Corrected:

• Drag/Drop file tab to favorite panel.
• Switch from the Hex mode into Text mode with active ASCII table.
• Text to HTML conversion switches off source editor highlight.
• You don’t need restart PSPad if you modify code clips.
• Search in files results highlight and Ignore case setting.
• Search in files adds BOM into UTF-8 files.
• Code explorer for PHP – accented chars support in the variables.
• Extended copy doesn’t work with the last line.
• Find/Replace dialog – replace confirmation.
• PSPad doesn’t respect individual TabWidth for highlighters.
• Function CloseAll closes project files too without confirmation.
• Editor line height with and without highlighter.
• File tab – file name limit works for first 9 tabs only.
• Photon comment (Shift+Ctrl+A) changed from ‘*’ to ‘!’.
• Registration was moved from HKCR into HKCU for WindowsXP and above. You can register file types, set PSPad into context menu with user rights without influence of other computer users.
• Drag/Drop file into TextDiff doesn’t open a file.
• User highlighter – keywords can start with chars contained in the Alloved Keyword chars field.
• SpellCheck and exception after Add word to dictionary.
• C++ highlighter doesn’t highlight Assembler block.
• F1 in the editor window doesn’t show help.
• Multihighlighter was limited up to 250 000 chars, now depends of the HlUpToSize variable in the Special settings section.
• Clip list for plain text files (TXT.DEF).
• Align block function removes EOL from the last selected line.
• LeftToPreviousLine in Special settings section doesn’t work.
• FileSearch/Replace and unicode chars in modified lines.
• Program hang-up if some tools was active (eg Numeric base translator) and you open new file from “outside”.
• Save as behavior.
• Log window behavior.
• HTML TiDy and UTF-8 documents.
• JScript Code explorer for JScript – variables outside function, comments.
• Fortran Code explorer – Sort code explorer result option has no meaning.
• User highlighter – chars ?, | wasn’t highlighted as the symbol.
• Missing keyword in the Perl highlighter.
• Empty splash screen.
• Reform CSS.
• New Clip list was stored with the unicode encoding.
• Wrong fingerprint calculation for files over 250 MB. Temporary limited..
• Bookmarks when it’s not visible after PSPad starts.
• Insert from file(s) – file doesn’t start on the new line.
• Cancel Search in Files during building matching file list.
• Export to Clipboard in HTML format (supported standard HTML fragment format).
• Close All Files confirmation closed by the cross button.
• List of filters in the File Explorer and allowed highlighters.
• Smart file switching behavior.
• Internal name stored by the PDB plugin contains full path.
• It was possible to edit splitted read only file.
• Remove redundant spaces function doesn’t support unicode.
• File format (Dos, Mac, Unix) was always DOS if file was empty. Now is set with a same rule as the New file.
• Replaced ‘_’ character in image name after insert into HTML.
• Command line function doesn’t work correctly.
• File explorer – sort order for dirs contain underscore char.
• File explorer – Show hidden files option doesn’t work.
• Compress HTML code – unicode support.
• HTML to TXT – unicode support.
• Text to JScript, Text to PHP variable – unicode support.
• Stored history (Search, Search in files, Google, …) doesn’t support unicode. Now stored in UTF-8 encoding.
• Function Check HTML code switches off wordwrap.

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