Programmer's Notepad

Programmer’s Notepad 2.1.3 Released

simon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:38:50 +0000

A new testing release, version 2.1.3, has been released to Google Code. This release fixes a bunch of bugs, but more importantly contains a complete rewrite of the Text Clips UI and Management/Editing features.

Changes in 2.1.3:

Complete re-write of text clips view and clips management system
End clip entry on final empty field (experimental)
Smart highlight range now limited to field of view +/- 200 lines, improves speed and usability with large files.
Translations now fed directly from user translation project at pnotepad-twrans.googlecode.com
Switch to boost 1.42

Downloads

Download 2.1.3 Installer
Download 2.1.3 Portable
Download 2.1.3 Multi-Language

Thanks to all those who test these builds and provide feedback via the forums or bugs, I hope you’re enjoying the 2.1 releases!

Programmer’s Notepad 2.1.2 Released

simon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:52:20 +0000

A new testing release, version 2.1.2, has been released to Google Code. The major new feature in this release is Code Template Fields, but there have been a lot of other changes too:

Code Template Fields
Cleaner visual style for the document tabs
Added line padding options, allows more whitespace between lines
Switch to Scintilla’s built-in line length measurement
Removed some 3D styling bits to clean up the look of the editor, more to do.
New tab text changed from to Untitled
-z parameter now assumes a single file after the -z, designed for notepad replacement.
Updated to latest Scintilla bits for some multi-caret fixes
Fixed a couple of regular expression issues.
Fix tools options tab titles.
Made SmartHighlight more visible, less alpha blending

In case you haven’t used a 2.1 build yet, here are the other headline features in the testing builds:

Full Unicode Support
Support for Translations – PN in your language
Prototype Command Bar feature (with PyPN)
Multiple simultaneous selections, including typing into block selections
Virtual space

Downloads:

Download 2.1.2 Installer
Download 2.1.2 Multi-language Installer
Download 2.1.2 Portable

New Stable Release

simon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:30:37 +0000

There have been no show-stopping issues found in 2.0.10.1010 so I’m very happy to finally declare a new stable release. There will probably be an update for this build at some point in the near future to fix a couple of minor issues and also to test the auto-update system for stable release users.

If you’ve been holding off from testing releases, now is a great time to download the new stable release!

Thanks to all the testers, forum users, bug reporters and patch submitters for making 2.0.10 a great release. If you’re still using 2.0.8 here are some of the highlights:

Vastly improved regular expressions support
Explorer view
Open files view
Vista-behaviour improvements
Win7 Support
API file autocomplete
SDK for building extensions
Style presets
Macro/Script recording with PyPN
Smart Highlight to show all instances of selected word
Loads of bug fixes, and a bunch more new features

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.10.1010 Released

simon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:23:33 +0000

This is the release candidate for Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.10 – a new stable build!

Almost all changes since build 970 are minor fixes, with the exception of the additional support for XML API files (supporting Notepad++ format). Providing no major issues are found, this will become the stable release, and I plan to test the update mechanism for stable builds soon by signalling this as the new stable build.

Downloads:

2.0.10 RC Installer
2.0.10 RC Portable Zip

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches. For a detailed list of changes, see my blog.

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.970 Released

simon — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:29:42 +0000

The latest testing release of Programmer’s Notepad is out. This is a minor release with a few important bug fixes, including Unicode file handling, Windows 7 RC quirks, and a couple of toolbar appearance issues. All testing release users should upgrade to this new build.

Downloads

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches.

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.962 Released

simon — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:01:47 +0000

The latest testing release of Programmer’s Notepad is out. This release brings a whole bunch of great changes: Script (macro) recording when using PyPN, a customizable toolbar, firefox-style tab ordering and smart highlight. There are also a load of bug fixes too.

Downloads

There is also a new PyPN release fixing a couple of issues with the included scripts from the last build:

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches.

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.926 Released

simon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:01:10 +0000

This is a minor bugfix testing release for Programmer’s Notepad, fixing a few niggles with the last release.

Downloads

There is also a new PyPN release fixing a couple of issues with the included scripts from the last build:

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches.

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.921 Released

simon — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:54:23 +0000

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:

Updates to the extensions interface allowing extensions to create menu items
International input fixed (I know this will please a whole bunch of users)
Read only edit protection cleaned up
More text transforms, also available from context menu
Tab to space and vice versa conversions fixed
Notepad’s .LOG feature natively supported
Fix a problem using PN on the Windows 7 beta causing PN to hang on exit

Downloads

There is a new PyPN release supporting the updated plugin interface:

Thanks to all the users who have put time and effort into reporting and following up on bugs, testing, and contributing patches.

Feature Polls

simon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:20:13 +0000

We’re looking for your help to shape future development of Programmer’s Notepad by running some usage polls. These will be announced both here and on Simon’s blog. Please follow the link below and answer the two questions – it will only take a few moments and will be very helpful!

Usage Polls

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.872 Released

simon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:45:35 +0000

The latest testing release of Programmer’s Notepad 2 is out, fixing a couple of annoying bugs in the previous release amongst other things. This release is also the first in-the-wild use of the “check for updates” feature. If you are running build 853 or newer and have enabled looking for testing updates, then in the next day or so PN will notify you that there is a new version available.

Changes in this build:

Wombat preset included
Ignore ctags warnings when parsing tags
Fixed bug causing tools capture not to work properly
Allow changing display name of root magic folder
Add support for displaying the caret as a block
Switch back to a DLL for Scintilla for those that use a custom build

Note that if you intend to use a custom build of Scintilla (SciLexer.dll) to support other schemes or prototype changes then you will need to build using the project in the PN source or you will lose the new Regular Expression support. To get the source and build the project you might like to look at How To Compile PN on the docs site.

Downloads

This release wouldn’t have been possible without the excellent contributions (patches and documentation), testing, bug reports and feature suggestions made by users – thank you!