Though loaded with a wide range of editing features that will make programmers burst with joy, EditPad Pro is a plain text editor that is suitable for all types of users. With support for most (if not all) text encodings, this professional editor and word processor offers excellent search and highlight capabilities, together with a long list of visualization options, multi-language spell checking, and keystroke macros.
This versatile tool will allow you to edit full web pages, batch and binary files, source code, scripts, XML files, and text documents (among many other file formats) in a simple and intuitive way. Its fully-customizable, color-coded syntax highlight capabilities make code editing a gratifying experience. Its macro support will save you time in repetitive tasks, and its extensive search features will let you locate, highlight, and replace multiple instances of a text snippet in a breeze. Its flexible clip collection will allow you to build your own snippets library, so that you can transfer set expressions to your text with just one click. Besides, these clips can include prefixes and suffixes, which will be applied around the marked text in a snap.
The editor’s visualization features are also worth noting. You can split the editing window either horizontally or vertically (ideal to compare two files, just another of the many EditPad Pro’s great features), use your favorite font, number lines and columns, visualize spaces and line breaks, indent wrapped lines, and change the text encoding if needed. This tool supports Unicode, any Windows code page, as well as various ISO-8859, DOS, KOI8, and EBCDIC code pages.
You can merge similar files and extract the differences between them to a new file, convert text-based files between encodings, sort lines alphabetically, delete duplicate lines, shift and insert columns, move, fill, and indent blocks of text... you name it. EditPad Pro is an excellent and comprehensive plain text editor with all the functionality that you would find in the most sophisticated word processors. Programmers and web designers will love it, and general users will be amazed by its potential.
v7.4 [Jan 5, 2016]
New features:
- FTP: SFTP authentication via private key instead of a password.
- Install: Change installation folder via the /appfolder command line parameter for silent installations.
Improvements:
- FTP: SSH and SFTP connections can now use diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 for key exchange.
- FTP: SSH and SFTP connections can now use the CTR encryption mode.
- FTP: SSH and SFTP connections now prompt whether you want to accept the server key.
- FTP: SSL and TLS connections now prompt whether you want to accept the server certificate, with an option to automatically accept certificates that match the server address and aren't expired.
- Installer no longer asks to accept the license agreement if you already have EditPad Lite 7.x.x installed.
- Installer now puts a single shortcut directly in the Start menu which better fits the Start menu on Windows 10.
- Preferences|Side Panels: Selecting a dark background color for the side panels now makes EditPad select a different theme for tree views that provides more contrast when you restart EditPad.
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2e.
- Windows 10: New look for the menus and toolbars on Windows 10 to add a bit more contrast to EditPad's user interface.
- Windows 10: Preserved window position now allows the visible portion of the window border to sit directly against the edge of the screen.
Bug fixes:
- Convert|Wrapping->Line Breaks no longer disables word wrap when only a selection is being converted.
- Do not prompt again checkbox on the question whether a file that was modified on disk and has unsaved changes did not stop the prompt if the choice was to reload the file.
- File Navigator did not update immediately (going blank instead) after a command like Extra|Trim Whitespace that operates on the entire file.
- FTP: SFTP and SSH connections did not work in some of the translated versions of EditPad Pro.
- Hexadecimal mode: Blocks consisting entirely of bytes <= 0x20 could not be pasted in the left hand section of the hex editor.
- Macros: Closing EditPad with the icon next to the system clock active did not stop macro recording.
- Search: Replacing all matches of a regular expression in a large file would in rare circumstances only partially insert one or more replacements if the replacement was longer than the match (introduced in 7.3.2 and partially fixed in 7.3.5).
- Search Matches: Some elements such as the folding icons did not use the colors specified in the palette used by the active file.
- Tools|Files: Each of the options to open files after running the tool caused EditPad Pro to leak some memory each time the tool was run.
- Tools|Files: Each of the options to open files after running the tool caused File|Reload from Disk to be disabled for the current file until you closed and reopened it.
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