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Just Great Software Newsletter -- March 2008
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1. Updated: EditPad Lite and Pro 6.4.1
2. New: Regex Guru
3. Tips & Tricks: Three Great Fonts for Programmers
Updated: EditPad Lite and Pro 6.4.1
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Highlight of this release is full support for drag-and-drop. Previously, drag-and-drop was limited to opening files by dragging them from another application like Windows Explorer onto EditPad. Now, you can drag files from EditPad by clicking on their tabs and moving the mouse with the button held down. In EditPad Pro, you can select multiple files in the File Panel to drag them all at once. You can drop them within the same EditPad instance to rearrange the tabs, or to move a file from one project to another. If you drop files onto the blank space to the right of the last project tab, the files will be opened or moved into a new project.
If you start a second EditPad instance with View|New Editor, you can drag files from one instance to the other to open the file in the second instance. If you hold down the Shift key, the file will be closed in the source instance after you've dropped it onto the target instance. You can even drag unsaved files between different EditPad instances. EditPad will use temporary files to transfer unsaved files.
You can copy files by dragging them from EditPad onto Windows Explorer or another file manager. You can create links to files by holding down the Alt button while dragging. This works with files dragged from EditPad and from other applications.
Dragging text is now more flexible too. If you hover the mouse pointer over a tab while dragging text, the tab will become active. This makes it possible to switch tabs while dragging. Drag the text to the edge of the row of tabs to scroll them, if not all tabs are visible. If you hold down the Shift key while dragging, the text will now be moved instead of copied, even when dragging to other applications.
EditPad Pro how ships with new syntax coloring schemes for R and VB6 form files, and new file navigation schemes for C, C++, R, VB6 form files and batch file output. If you're installing EditPad Pro 6 for the first time, the default file types will use these schemes. If you're upgrading from a previous EditPad Pro 6.x.x, you can download the new file type definitions at http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/FileTypes640.zip and import these via Options, Configure File Types.
EditPad's installer can now install EditPad directly onto a removable drive. Simply click the Create Portable Installation button and follow the steps. The Install on Removable Drive item in the Help was renamed to Create Portable Installation for consistency. So if you only use EditPad in a portable manner, you can now install it directly that way. If you run it both off your hard disk and off a removable device, you can still use the item in the Help menu to copy your installation. Portable installations are not supported by the free evaluation version. This is unchanged.
In Options, Preferences, Editor, you can now choose to always visualize spaces, tabs and line breaks on the search panel. This avoids confusion when EditPad doesn't find your search text due to extraneous spaces. When this option is off, spaces and line breaks are only visualized when you're visualizing them in the file you're editing. This is how EditPad worked in the past.
Working copies are now handled better. Undoing all changes or reloading a file from disk will remove the working copy right away, as there are no more changes that could be lost in a crash. Deleting a file will now delete the working copy too.
A rather serious bug was fixed. EditPad Pro would use excessive amounts of memory when making very large numbers of changes in files that are larger than the huge files threshold in Options, Preferences, Files. E.g. a search-and-replace that made hundreds of thousands of replacements would bring EditPad Pro to its knees. Now this will take up just a few megabytes of memory for the undo history. This problem did not occur in EditPad Lite, because it does not have the ability to swap out files to disk (and therefore has no huge files threshold setting).
Thanks to some detailed feedback from a few of our blind customers, EditPad 6.4.1 (Lite and Pro) now works much better with screen readers and other accessibility software. Screen readers will now properly "see" and thus read spaces in EditPad's editor control. This was broken since version 6.1.0 due to the fix to force consistent spacing when Windows XP does font substitution. This fix is still in place, but now improved to be compatible with screen readers. The menu bar will now automatically display itself without images when a screen reader is running, so the menu bar can be a standard menu rather than an owner-drawn menu. Owner-drawn menus don't work well with screen readers.
The U3 version of EditPad Lite 6.3.x (but not Pro) had a bug that prevented it from saving its preferences, showing an access violation error. This has been fixed.
A few other minor improvements and fixes were made as well. You can find a complete list in the version history on EditPad's web site at http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadprohist.html
If you already purchased or upgraded to EditPad Pro 6, you can download this free minor update at http://www.editpadpro.com/download.html
Other language editions are available at http://www.editpadpro.com/languages.html
Version 6 is a major upgrade from versions 5 and earlier. It offers an extensive list of major new features and improvements. I've listed the most noteworthy ones below. If you already own a previous version of EditPad Pro, go to http://www.editpadpro.com/upgradenow.html to purchase this new version at a significant discount (US$24.95 for a single user license). If you did not yet buy EditPad Pro, you can buy your copy now at http://www.editpadpro.com/buynow.html for US$49.95.
EditPad Pro 4, 5 and 6 can coexist on a single computer. So you can install the free trial version of EditPad Pro 6 next to your licensed copy of EditPad Pro 4 or 5. EditPad Pro 6 will not take over or modify any of your preferences and other settings from EditPad Pro 4 or 5. You can download the trial at http://www.editpadpro.com/download.html
You can download EditPad Lite at http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
New: Regex Guru
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I've started a new blog at http://www.regex-guru.info
I have been blogging for some time, but never about regular expressions. This blog fixes that.
I will continue to expand the http://www.regular-expressions.info site. Tutorial and reference articles will get a temporary place on that site. News articles and information with an expiration date will go on the blog. The blog will also act as a "what's new" feed for the regexp.info site. Talk about my own endeavors with regular expressions and updates on RegexBuddy and PowerGREP will also be confined to the blog (and their respective product web sites).
So who should subscribe to this blog? Anyone who wants to learn more about regular expressions! If you're new to regexes, you should start at http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html with my regular expression tutorial. Articles in this blog will assume you're familiar with all the concepts explained in the tutorial. After that, this blog will keep you up-to-date.
If you're an expert on regexes, this blog will help you stay on top of your game. Regular expressions are everywhere these days. Though they have been around longer than I have been alive, they continue to evolve. In various inconsistent and confusing ways, I'm sad to say.
Tips & Tricks: Three Great Fonts for Programmers
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At http://www.editpadpro.com/fonts.html on EditPad Pro's web site, you can now find a selection of three great fonts for programmers. You can use them with EditPad or any application where you'd like to use a monospaced font to make columns line up nicely. The page also explains what makes these fonts great, so you know what to look for if you want to compare other fonts.
That's it for this month. Thank you for using our software, and see you next month!
Kind regards,
Jan Goyvaerts.
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