Wow, gratz and kudos on a sweet, sweet program! I LOVE it!
- It's starts in a flash! Look Ma, I'm still young and it's up! Woohoo! I
still have my hair, even. That is soo nice!
- Ctrl-N or the file open icon opens a New File Right Now. Opens a new tab, if
you already have a file open. No stupid dialog.. "Where? How? With what? What
kind? Are you sure? Are sure you're sure?" Gah! And it's just.. immediately
There. Snap your finger, it's there that fast.
- You can double click on a file in file explorer and instantly open that file
in PSPad or a new tab of PSPad.
- You can switch between open tabs with ALT+1,2,etc.
- You can do rectangular ("column") selection! Or Line selection, so you're not
messing with beginning or ending space. And it's pretty smart about it how it
handles that normally anyway. Ah, it's so nice.
- You can indent or unindent an entire selection just by hitting tab or
shift-tab.
- You can easily tell it to put in spaces instead of tabs, and set the tab width
to whatever you want.
- You can easily Switch Off "smart" tabbing. (Thank goodness.)
- It doesn't break any numberpad editing features.
- Alt-v-h and you're in hex edit mode, so you can see exactly where tabs and
line feeds are and stuff (or examine a binary file if you want). Alt-v-h again
and you're back to normal. And selections are easy to grow and shrink, and show
up nicely in both columns of the hex editor view.
- It has a little icon for a command line right on the toolbar.
- It never crowds you in between a bunch of frames/windows/toolbars/etc that you
don't need or want and can't figure out how to get rid of.
- It has syntax highlighting for virtually every computer language under the
sun.
- It's free! Forever! There is no registration or activation of anything ever!
YES! You don't even have to register to use this web forum! Haha yeah u ROCK!
:-D
And it would appear that that doesn't even scratch the surface of how awesome
this program is. I can't tell you how many times I've yearned to write an
editor like this, but just haven't had the time. I like it so much I'm really
tempted to donate a tiny bit to support your effort, if I can find a way.
But there are two, kinda seriously snaggy problems with it, for me.
One problem is.. I'm finding myself missing dandling brackets / parens. Let's
say I have something like this:
d={key:[val1,val2,val3}
(Oops! I'm missing a ], there.) ..and I highlight the ending curly brace. (Or
the first one, for that matter.) Right now, it just goes right ahead and
highlights both the starting and ending curly braces, just like everything is
honky dory. So I may not find out until I compile that I'm missing an end
bracket in there. And finding that can sometimes be a real freaking pain, even
with the helpful highlighting.
What would be really sweet is for it to highlight the matching ending parens in
blue (or whatever), just like it does, but also highlight enclosed parens which
have no matches within the enclosed text, in red (or some other distinct color).
I'm I missing something? Is there some way to get it do this, or something like
this?
The other snaggy problem for me with it is it only works on Wimblows. There's
no version for Linux or Mac. :-( Can I have a copy of the source code? Maybe I
can eventually do a Linux port for you.
Thanks again for this amazing program! You're a legend! Keep up the awesome
work!
Shavais
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