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.
v4.3 [May 12, 2017]
Features:
- Updates Emmet integration.
- FTPS now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
- HTTP proxy option now allows username and password.
- Allows different default encoding for each file type.
- 'Browser'->'Zoom' menu command added.
- 'Edit'->'Others'->'Extend Number Selection' menu option added.
- 'Record Keystroke' now records 'Window'->'Next'/'Previous'/'Last Visited' commands.
- Allows Find Next/Previous shortcut keys from Find dialog box.
Bug fixes:
- Saving remote file could fail without error message in some cases.
- 'Upload to a temp file then rename' ftp option could break symbolic link.
- Opening remote file from command line could cause program crash.
- Fixes a possible error when using FTP proxy server.
- -t command line option didn't work with remote files.
- 'Auto save as *.tmp file' could overwrite untitled files.
- Fixes a Perl auto completion issue.
- Fixes incorrect left margin when printing.
- Fixes inaccurate word wrap in print and print preview mode.
- Fixes an issue where 'Log File Watch' sometimes couldn't detect changes.
- Fixes an issue where restoring split window state sometimes wouldn't work correctly.
- Fixes an issue where $(CurSel) argument macro couldn't handle multi-line text.
- Fixes possible program crash with files in right-to-left languages.
