Among the wide variety of code editors available in the market, EditPlus stands out from most of its competitors thanks to its FTP support, its impressive set of features, its built-in browser, and the long list of languages it supports. Each of them has its own syntax highlighting, and you are free to extend the list by submitting your own syntax files for new languages.
EditPlus is not a free text editor, and that’s probably the only reason why EditPlus is not always on top of the list of the most popular and widely used text editors. Many programmers and web editors find inferior but free code editors sufficient to accomplish their tasks, pushing more comprehensive tools like EditPlus down on the list. Their loss – this excellent text editor offers a wealth of features that make the entire coding experience less tedious, while saving you precious time. Besides, it allows for a much higher level of customization than many (if not all) of its competitors, as you can submit to the developers not only your own syntax files, but also custom auto-completion and cliptext files to make EditPlus work and look exactly as you need.
You can work on multiple files at a time thanks to its tabbed interface and overlapplabe windows, each with its own syntax highlighting. By default, the program includes syntax files for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C and C++, Java, JavaScript, and VBScript. EditPlus is also well known for its FTP support (including SFTP and FTPS), which will allow you to send your code files to a remote server right away. Its built-in browser is also a great asset – you can use not only to preview local web pages but also to surf the Web as you’d do with your regular browser without having to leave the program.
Add to these the usual time-saving features (such as the HTML toolbar for common HTML tags, the auto-completion and auto-indentation features, or the cliptext window for quicker access to common text fragments) and you’ll see with EditPlus is one of the best-valued code editors out there.
v4.1 [Aug 5, 2016]
- sftp supports aes128-ctr encryption.
- FTP supports HTTP proxy option.
- FTP supports SOCKS5 proxy with username/password.
- Supports 'JSON Beautifier' command ('Edit'->'Utilities').
- Supports 'HTML Tidy' command ('Edit'->'Utilities').
- Supports 'URL Encode/Decode' command ('Edit'->'Convert').
- Supports 'Delete Unmarked Lines' menu command ('Edit'->'Delete').
- Improved 'Invalid CR/LF, NULL' option ('Preferences'->'File').
- Auto save option now saves list of working files too.
- Increases max number of FTP group to 20.
- sftp could fail to connect with Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange.
- FTPS could produce 'Socket is not ready for use' error message.
- Fixes SOCKS5 proxy option for the FTP feature.
- 'Use Pageant' option showed unnecessary password prompt.
- 'Use Pageant' option didn't work correctly with some servers.
- Fixes touch screen scroll on Surface Pro 4.
- UTF-8 file with 4 byte Unicode couldn't be detected correctly.
- Internal browser didn't show correctly in HiDPI displays.
- 'Special Character' on HTML toolbar didn't work correctly on HiDPI display.
- Fixes wrong mouse selection when column select by keyboard.
- 'Cache directory content' FTP option could cause memory leak.
- Very long line in the Output Window could cause program crash.
- Print preview cause program crash when switching documents.
- Fixes Perl quotation syntax coloring issue.
- Fixes 'Modify cliptext Item' dialog box redraw issue when resizing.
- Fixes a Hangul input method issue.
- 'Window'->'Arrange' command could switch currently active MDI child window.
- Cursor could disappear when switching keyboard.
- Cursor could show incorrectly when moving lines up/down.
- Fixes help file index in Korean version.
- Find dialog box couldn't update multiline input box with selected text.
- 'Strip HTML Tags' command couldn't convert HTML entity numbers.
- Undoing line comment could cause wrong cursor position.
- 'Sync Directory' option could show hidden directory window unexpectedly.
- Tab key on selected text didn't work correctly.
- 'Ignore All' in the spell checker didn't work correctly in some cases.
- Function List didn't update when file is reloaded.
- 'Whole word only' option in the Find dialog box didn't preserve between sessions.
- 'More' button on the Find dialog box now preserves current search string.
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