Among the wide variety of code editors available in the market, EditPlus stands out from most of its competitors thanks to its FTP support, its impressive set of features, its built-in browser, and the long list of languages it supports. Each of them has its own syntax highlighting, and you are free to extend the list by submitting your own syntax files for new languages.
EditPlus is not a free text editor, and that’s probably the only reason why EditPlus is not always on top of the list of the most popular and widely used text editors. Many programmers and web editors find inferior but free code editors sufficient to accomplish their tasks, pushing more comprehensive tools like EditPlus down on the list. Their loss – this excellent text editor offers a wealth of features that make the entire coding experience less tedious, while saving you precious time. Besides, it allows for a much higher level of customization than many (if not all) of its competitors, as you can submit to the developers not only your own syntax files, but also custom auto-completion and cliptext files to make EditPlus work and look exactly as you need.
You can work on multiple files at a time thanks to its tabbed interface and overlapplabe windows, each with its own syntax highlighting. By default, the program includes syntax files for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C and C++, Java, JavaScript, and VBScript. EditPlus is also well known for its FTP support (including SFTP and FTPS), which will allow you to send your code files to a remote server right away. Its built-in browser is also a great asset – you can use not only to preview local web pages but also to surf the Web as you’d do with your regular browser without having to leave the program.
Add to these the usual time-saving features (such as the HTML toolbar for common HTML tags, the auto-completion and auto-indentation features, or the cliptext window for quicker access to common text fragments) and you’ll see with EditPlus is one of the best-valued code editors out there.
v5.3 [Jan 11, 2020]
=== Features ===
- Adds 'Modifying a tag automatically updates the matching tag' option ('Preferences'->'General').
- Improves speed for large column selection.
- Adds 'Notify end of file' option in the Find dialog box.
- Adds 'Edit'->'Others'->'Reverse Lines' menu command.
=== Bug fixes ===
- Fixes an issue where some FTPS servers could cause program crash.
- Fixes an issue where FTPS could fail to download file and show empty content.
- Fixes an issue where 'View in Browser' command on remote file could cause program crash.
- Fixes an issue where 'Shell Open' a folder could unintentionally run exe of the same name.
- Fixes an issue where creating a new remote file from directory window could produce error message.
- Fixes an issue where Open Remote dialog box loses focus after transferring a file.
- Fixes an issue where Save As Remote dialog box could have wrong initial value for Encoding option.
- Fixes an issue where 'Hex Viewer' command on remote files could cause program crash.
- Fixes an issue where 'Capture Output' option didn't work with 64-bit console apps.
- Fixes an issue where function list could have wrong selection if document view was split.
- Fixes an issue where User Toolbar position could be restored incorrectly between sessions.
- Fixes an issue where Find box in the function list couldn't handle ctrl backspace and ctrl delete.
- Fixes an issue where Directory Window couldn't handle FTP Group 11 and above.
- Fixes an issue where undoing forward delete could result in wrong cursor position.
- Fixes an issue where 'Use regex' option in the 'Advanced' file extensions dialog box didn't work.
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