Version 8¶
September 5, 2008
New General Features¶
A Large File Controller is now displayed when a very large file is opened, and you can open the file partially with the specified range.¶
Vertical selection editing is now possible (allows you to insert text at each line within the vertical selection).¶
Binary (ASCII View) and Binary (Hexadecimal View) were added to available encodings.¶
Replace All can now be accelerated by discarding the Undo information.¶
The Function Bar can now be displayed (View > Function Bar).¶
Speed is optimized when each line is very long.¶
Marks (CR, LF, Tab, Space, EOF) can be customized (Tools > Customize > Marks).¶
Extended Katakana support is available.¶
Auto-panning by clicking the mouse wheel.¶
The Indent Guides can be displayed (Configuration Properties > Marks > Show Indent Guides).¶
Right-click in the line numbers or the left side of the window to move the cursor to start of that line.¶
Tag Format can be specified with regular expressions (Customize > Edit > Tag Format).¶
Drag and drop editing can be disabled (Customize > Edit > Enable Text Drag and Drop).¶
Temporary folders can be specified (Customize > Advanced > Use System Temporary Folder).¶
The Keyboard Map window can be sorted by clicking each column.¶
INI files can be imported to the Registry (Import and Export Wizard > Import Personal INI files to the Registry).¶
The Copy command now copies the entire current line when no text is selected. The old behavior can be also selected by using the Copy Selection command.¶
The Cut command now cuts the entire current line when no text is selected. The old behavior can be also selected by using the Cut Selection command.¶
A new dialog appears when invalid characters are contained in the opening file.¶
A new dialog appears when the document contains characters which will be lost if saved as selected encoding for saving.¶
Find in Files results can be redirected in the Output Bar (Find in Files > Use Output Bar).¶
The new Jump Next and Jump Previous commands can be used to jump between results in the Output bar.¶
Mouse wheel with CTRL increases or decreases the font size.¶
Mouse wheel with Right-click moves to next or previous document.
New plug-in features¶
The Projects plug-in was improved with solution templates, the toolbar, the parameter information tooltip, etc. It also allows you to open Visual Studio solution files as read-only.
The Word Complete plug-in can now complete recently searched strings.
New options¶
Search All Open Documents check box in the Replace dialog box.
Dotted Lines check box in the Scroll page of Configuration Properties.
Show Indent Guides check box in the Marks page of Configuration Properties.
Newline Character check box in the Status page of the Customize dialog box.
Edit page in the Customize dialog box.
Use System Temporary Folder check box and Temporary Folder text box in the Advanced page of the Customize dialog box.
Marks page in the Customize dialog box.
Set Cursor Position when Activated with Mouse check box in the Window page of the Customize dialog box.
Display Macro Titles in Basic Toolbar check box in the Toolbars dialog box.
File Dropped event was added to the Select Events list box of the Select Events dialog box.
Use Output Bar check box in the Find in Files dialog Box.
New commands¶
Macros new features¶
GetProfileInt method, GetProfileString method, WriteProfileInt method, WriteProfileString method, and FileDialog method were added to the Editor Object.
DroppedFiles Collection was added.
DroppedFiles property, ExStyle property, and Style property were added to the Window Object.
DottedLine property added to the ScrollProp Object.
ShowIndentGuides property added to the MarkProp Object.
Plug-in API new features¶
EP_USE_DROPPED_FILES was added to the Messages to Plug-ins.
EE_GET_DROPPED_FILE message was added.
Editor_GetDroppedFile inline function was added.
EI_USE_INI and EI_GET_LANGUAGE parameters were added to the EE_INFO message, Editor_Info inline function, and Editor_DocInfo inline function.
EVENT_DROPPED, EVENT_LANGUAGE, and EVENT_SAVING were added to the Events.