Can't say about the previous version - when I updated, I lost all my settings, and I do not recall if I was using the multi then or not.
I can confirm, though, that turning off multi-hilighter for PHP and restarting the program causes the $ identifier to be selected too. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,58125,58131> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
