Programmer’s Notepad is a powerful text editor featuring syntax highlighting, project management, a great user interface and much more.
The latest testing release of Programmer’s Notepad 2 is finally out. There are plenty of fixes in this release, and a few minor new features too. Of particular note are the following:
1. Updates to the extensions interface allowing extensions to create menu items
2. International input fixed (I know this will please a whole bunch of users)
3. Read only edit protection cleaned up
4. More text transforms, also available from context menu
5. Tab to space and vice versa conversions fixed
6. Notepad’s .LOG feature natively supported
7. Fix a problem using PN on the Windows 7 beta causing PN to hang on exit
Features
These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.
Please Note: Programmer’s Notepad 2 currently does not have a hex editor built in.
- Bookmarks (both numbered and plain)
- Code Folding/Outlining
- Docking tool windows – much better than those in version 1
- Excellent external tool support with user-configurable
output matching – click on errors and warnings to jump right to
the place in the file where they were generated - Export to HTML (using CSS) and RTF
- File association manager
- In-file method/definition navigation (using Ctags)
- No limit on file size (although large files may take a while
to load) - Non fixed-width font support
- Projects and Project Groups with multi-level folders and
file system mirroring - Quick Search toolbar with links to Google and Google Groups
- Regular expression search and replace
- Support for unicode files
- Support for windows, unix and macintosh file formats
- Syntax highlighting for many languages through “schemesâ€.
- Tabbed MDI interface
- Text Clips
- Unlimited number of schemes supported, powerful syntax
highlighting supporting both user-defined and built-in schemes - User-defined schemes (XML)
- Word-wrapping
Downloads
There is a new PyPN release supporting the updated plugin interface:
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