The history of SuperEdi

4.3.3 (January 24, 2012)

• bugfix: improved output of command line tools to the output window

4.3.1 (April 18, 2010)

• bugfix: error registering shell extension during setup

4.3 (March 22, 2010)

• open large documents even faster (about 10 MBytes/s)
• support Windows 7 Libraries in Exporer tree
• bugfix: Spanish translation is corrupt superedi-es.dll
• bugfix: no icon in Shell Extension
• bugfix: decreased number of recent files to 16
• bugfix: the advanded settings in the file dialogs did not work on Windows Vista and Windows 7

4.2.2 (Aug 01, 2008)

• increased number of recent files to 20
• keyboard shortcut Shift+F3 for search backwards

4.2.1 (Jul 07, 2008)

• improved look of the menu bar and the MDI menu buttons
• bugfix: the cursor was sometimes hidden at the end of a line
• bugfix: during drag and drop the selected text was deleted when you drop it inside the selected area

4.2 (Apr 02, 2008)

• Improvements for Windows Vista:
  • support for new File dialogs with integrated search
  • automatically scrolling Explorer view
  • uses Vista native themes for menus and Explorer tree
• Syntax coloring for for MSBuild project files
• removed support for Windows 95/98/ME/NT
• only Unicode version

4.1.3 (Jan 12, 2008)

• new automation property Document.UseBOM, which allows to add or remove the byte order mark when saving Unicode documents
• new automation property Document.LineBreaks: Gets or sets the line break style
• new automation function Application.RunScriptFile: Runs a script file in the context of the application

4.1.2 (Oct 13, 2007)

• new automation property Document.FileTypeName, which allows to set the syntax coloring independent of the file extension
• bugfix: visible newline characters appeared within the margin
• bugfix: when entering a newline in word wrap mode and the first visible line does not start a phyiscal line the cursor is positioned in the wrong line
• bugfix: when truncating trailing spaces, the last non-space character of the line was removed too

4.1.1 (Oct 03, 2007)

• bugfix: cursor position used to jump while changing the window size in word wrap mode
• bugfix: line feed characters were displayed multiple times when scrolling horizontally from left to right
• the caret (cursor marker) is now displayed using system default width

4.1 (Sep 13, 2007)

• added the option to remove trailing spaces on save
• document tabs can be closed by clicking the middle mouse button
• updated spanish translation

4.0.1 (May 28, 2007)

• bugfix: VBscript function InputBox() caused a crash
• bugfix: the context menu was not shown at the current cursor position when it was invoked by keyboard
• bugfix: crash when trying to insert the content of a file into a read-only document
• bugfix: macro were unloaded before SuperEdi asked to save any unsaved documents
• bugfix: the automation property Console.Visible was not documented
• bugfix: the property Selection.CurrentColumn could not be set to the last column of a line

4.0 (March 30, 2007)

• block selection and editing (delete, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo)
• pairs of search/replace combinations can be re-used in the Replace dialog
• smaller Find and Replace dialogs
• support for meta characters in Search and Replace expressions (\t, \r\n)
• the default file types are accessible for all users, not only for the user who installed SuperEdi initially.
• bugfix: when there was no document, clicking the emtpy tab did not create a new document
• bugfix: pre-selected text did not apear in Find dialog if selection was made from right to left
• bugfix: toolbar customization problem on Windows ME/2000
• bugfix: the shell extension "Open with SuperEdi" did not work properly on Windows ME/2000
• bugfix: error message on startup on Windows ME/2000
• bugfix: auto-completion data in Find/Replace dialogs was reset when Replace was invoked with an empty string

3.9.3 (March 12, 2007)

• bugfix: scripts and add-ins did not work for non-administrator users
• experimental support for block selection (Menu: Edit|Block Mode)

3.9.2 (February 17, 2007)

• new tab menu item: Close all but this
• empty tab creates a new document (like IE 7)
• special icons for hidden items in Explorer Tree
• faster startup (Web Browser is only created when visible, Exporer icons are loaded by a backgound thread)
• bugfix: Explorer Tree did not expand Desktop if there are no shortcuts at all
• bugfix: Problems with whole line selection and whole word selection using the mouse

3.9.1 (January 25, 2007)

• detect if text is unmodified since last save after repeated undo
• new Italian translation contributed by Paolo Paniga
• adjusted some dialog boxes to fit text in all languages
• updated syntax definition for InnoSetup
• bugfix: some undo operations spawned multiple lines

3.9 (December 14, 2006)

• updated Spanish UI language
• show the Desktop as root folder in Explorer tree
• bugfix: crash on startup when CD drive is not ready

3.8.7 beta (October 20, 2006)

• bugfix: only the first icon resource of a file could be used in the quickstart bar

3.8.6 beta (October 4, 2006)

• support for special keys on Microsoft keyboard (WM_APPCOMMAND)
• Syntax definition parameter: MaxLineLength
• bugfix: CreateObject("SuperEdi.Application") when SuperEdi is not running
• bugfix: mouse pointer remains hidden in dialogs

3.8.5 beta (August 25, 2006)

• new shortcuts: Ctrl+Del/Ctrl+Back (delete word right/left of the cursor)
• support for X-Buttons
• faster scrolling while selecting text with the mouse
• encoding of XML files is determined from XML declaration
• new automation property: Document.Encoding
• respect user preference: hide cursor while typing
• respect user preference: number of lines to scroll per mouse weel notch

3.8.4 beta (July 08, 2006)

• deferred loading of icons in Explorer tree (to speed up startup time)
• show hidden files in Explorer tree
• added to Open With menu for common file types
• bugfix: search for some characters ^$| did not work
• bugfix: registration as HTML editor did not work

3.8.3 beta (June 26, 2006)

• resizable browse for folder dialogs
• works as Active Document Server
• bookmark all search results
• bugfix: word wrap did not work in x64 version
• bugfix: don't allow to scroll outside the text

Version 3.8.2 beta (March 29, 2006)

• hotkeys can be assigned to tools on the quickstart bar
• regular expressions can be used in search
• count search results
• non-standard port numbers can be used for FTP Upload/Download
• bugfix: the syntax definition of the default file type was not used

Version 3.8.1 (March 04, 2006)

• set cursor position in the address bar (format: filename(col[,row]))
• redesigned Find and Replace dialogs (for easier translation)
• highlight function on cursor position in the function list
• 64-bit version available
• bugfix: crash if file name is longer than 63 charcters
• bugfix: window list and function list did grab the input focus on mouse over
• bugfix: wrong display of icons in document tabs
• bugfix: selected text was replaced only with "Replace All"

Version 3.8 (February 02, 2006)

• Scripts for GUID generation
• Scripts to Save/Load the current workspace
• Script to reformat SQL code using Pl/Sql Tidy
• Add-in to re-load the previously open files on startup
• "Find" scrolls the text to make 3 lines before and after the selection visible
• Syntax definition for PHP included
• Syntax definition for C/C++ included
• added Save button to Run Script dialog
• bugfix: long FTP server names cannot be used
• bugfix: drag and drop does not work with Unicode characters
• removed incomplete Turkish and Chinese translation. Looking for translators...

Version 3.7.3 (August 13, 2005)

• minimize to tray
• always on top
• expand environment variables in address bar
• bugfix: FTP file upload failes if a line has more than 4000 characters

Version 3.7.2 (July 1, 2005)

• Syntax definition for WiX Toolkit (*.wxs) files
• updated Greek translation
• improved German translation
• new automation property Application.HWND
• bugfix: enlarged default encoding combo box

Version 3.7.1 (May 17, 2005)

• Option to disable automatic codepage detection (Tool|Options|Unicode)
• Auto-Completion using CTAGS (file "tags" must exist in program directory)
• Scripts to open a URL in the internal web browser
• bugfix: display error in German file type dialog

Version 3.7 (April 1, 2005)

• Dutch translation by H.C. van der Burg
• pre-configured function list for Java and C#
• web based keyword lookup (keyword can be passed as URL parameter)
• keyword lookup in current MSDN library (aka Help2)
• support for additional codepages including Big Endian and UTF-7
• codepage auto-detection
• syntax definition for SyntaxStartAlt/SyntaxEndAlt is now case insensitive
• toolbar buttons for word wrap, line numbers and "view whitespace"
• visualize end of line and end of text
• scripts for reading text aloud using Microsoft Agent
• open HTML files in Scripts menu as HTML dialogs
• HTML dialogs for search and replace using regular expressions
• HTML dialog for selection of a web color
• allow to set Unicode byte order mark (BOM) in Save As dialog
• the setup program now has a digital signature
• Windows NT supported again
• bugfix: attempt to save a file to a HTTP location caused a crash
• bugfix: scrolling was not possible after activation of word wrap
• bugfix: text was not updated after drag & drop from zipped folder
• bugfix: search for whole words did sometimes not work correctly

Version 3.6.1 (March 1, 2005)

• bracket matching (Ctrl+M)
• display number of selected characters/lines
• keywords in syntax files are used for auto completion (Ctrl+Space)
• additional icons for function list
• bugfix: search in help file did not work

Version 3.6 (February 19, 2005)

• Function list toolbar
• Jump to document/line by double-click in output window
• Script to replace text in all open documents
• Syntax highlighting for C# enabled by default
• Add SuperEdi to "Open With" list for text and script files
• Changed whitespace character to a small dot

Version 3.5.3 (February 2, 2005)

• Portuguese translation by Filipe Teixeira
• Script to display a list of Perl functions
• Additional text to speech scripts (for Windos 2000/XP)
• Line deletion by shortcut (Shift+Del)
• bugfix: properties Selection.CurrentLine and Selection.CurrentColumn did not work correctly
• bugfix: syntax definition parameter SingleCommentCol did not have any effect

Version 3.5.2 (December 12, 2004)

• don't activate main window after open/save files by Automation

Version 3.5.1 (December 7, 2004)

• fixed problem when files have changed during reload
• don't display messages for unresolved shortcuts in explorer tree
• added method Application.Sleep()

Version 3.5 (November 21, 2004)

• Sort and shuffle a range of lines (Edit|Advanced)
• Faster scrolling in large files
• Added scripts for SCP upload/download
• Added HTML Tidy scripts
• Replaced all .pls scripts with .js scripts
• bugfix: bring window to foreground on single-click
• bugfix: missing texts in Spanish progress dialog
• bugfix: FTP upload failed with files larger than 4 KByte

Version 3.4.3 (November 07, 2004)

• Added Greek user interface
• Open files in new window of running application
• Show progress dialog during long file operations
• Remember previous search and replace texts
• Option to create start menu icon during setup
• Added JScript for quoting HTML tags
• bugfix: FTP download crashed for files larger than 8 KByte

New in version 3.4.2

• Added drop-down menu for Print toobar button
• Added item "Save All" to Save drop-down menu (Ctrl+Shift+S)
• Added toolbar buttons for Undo and Redo and Save All
• Display a notification when a file has changed on disk
• Auto-complete text based on other text in the same document (Ctrl+Space)
• bugfix: default main menu was always English

New in version 3.4.1

• Added menu item File | Save Copy As...
• Improved synchronization of Explorer tree
• Removed check for removable media
• Display tooltips for items in Explorer tree
• Added Explorer context menu to address bar (double-right-click on icon)
• bugfix: overlay icons did not work in Explorer Tree
• bugfix: property Macro.Dispatch did not work
• bugfix: method Document.Close did not work

New in version 3.4

• New menu item Format|Line Numbers
• New file type options: Line numbers, Show whitespace
• New menu item Edit|Advanced|Make uppercase/lowercase
• Rewised options of the installation program
• Fully localized installation for English and German
• Expand folders to shortcuts in Explorer view
• Selection of default encoding
• New automation properties Document.CodePage and Application.DefaultCodePage
• Syntax elements can have different background colors
• Extended maximum number of items in Explorer context menu
• Added page Options/Add-Ins
• Open files by drag and drop from zipped folder

New in version 3.3

• Open all shell items, e.g. files inside zip folders (read only)
• Open FTP files from the explorer tree (My Network Places)
• Open files from clipboard (including URLs and shell items)
• New SendTo drop handler allows to open multiple files
• Increased timeout for shell extension from 1.5 to 3 seconds
• Auto-complete file names in address bar
• SyntaxStartAlt / SyntaxEndAlt directives in syntax files
• "Run Script" dialog to execute add-hoc scripts
• Overlay icons in file Explorer (enable in Tools/Options/Display)
• Overlay icons in menus and address bar
• Web Browser bar (for integrated HTML preview)
• Explorer sub menu in editor context menu
• Support for Add-Ins (scripts that run permanently)
• File types are used as filters for File|Open and File|Save-As
• Copy/paste path names from all shell items (e.g. URLs)
• The selected path in Explorer tree is used as initial directory for File|Open
• Option to synchronize Explorer tree automatically with the current document
• Manual synchrononization of explorer tree (menu View|Synchronize Tree)
• The document icon is now updated on Save, Open and Refresh
• The line lenght limit of 65536 character was removed

New in version 3.2

• icon in Windows Explorer context menu
• Syntax (File Type) selection menu (in Format)
• Windows Exporer-style menu and toolbar with chevrons
• icons in Recent Files menu
• icons in Windows menu
• auto-synchronize explorer tree
• Windows 2000-style file dialogs
• Read and write UTF16 files
• Console output checkbox in tool configuration
• Tab size per file type
• Convert tabs to spaces
• Copy/Paste File names from Windows Explorer
• fixed partly hidden "next" button in MDI tab bar
• fixed tooltips in QuickStart bar on Windows 9x/ME

New in version 3.1

• Supports Windows XP visual themes
• Separate docking views for Explorer tree and list of open documents
• Drop-down menus for the "Open" and "Save" toobar buttons

New in version 3.0

• Configurable syntax coloring (HTML, CSS and JavaScript included)
• Console output window for command line tools and scripts
• User defined file types
• Extendend object model for automation scripts
• Automation scripts in a sub menu
• Textpipe filters in a sub menu
• Multiple codepage support and codepage conversion
• Unicode UTF-8 support (requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP)
• Newline conversion for Unix, DOS and Macintosh files
• Document tabs
• Bookmarks
• Goto Line dialog

New in version 2.0

• Paste file names copied from the Explorer
• Chinese and Danish language support

New in version 1.98

• Multiple FTP servers
• Supports TextPipe processing
• Customizable clip library
• Run script files
• Auto indention

New in version 1.97

• File Upload capability

New in version 1.96

• German, Russian and Spanish language support
• Help file included
• Underlined links, jump to any URL
• Full-Screen mode

New in version 1.95

• View/Properties menu item to change file attributes etc.

New in version 1.94

• Transparent FTP download/upload
• Dockable window list
• Customizable toolbar
• Enhanced quickstart bar
• New toolbar layout
• New "Close All" command
• New "Reload" button
• Full support for scripting/automation

New in version 1.82

• Spanish language support
• Open files by double-click in the Explorer tree
• Copy and move files within the Explorer tree

New in version 1.81

• Open multiple files at once
• Remembers the previously selected directory in the Explorer tree

New in version 1.7

• HTML document generator
• HTML preview function
• New Accelators: Ctrl+H = Replace, F12 = Save As...
• Allows very large files
• Open files as Read Only
• Multi-line indent using tab or shift-tab
• Up to 10 recent file in a sub menu
• Import a file into the current document
• Drop Files into document opens the a new editor
• Page settings dialog to set margins for printing
• Display printer fonts in combo box
• Print from command line (/p switch)
• Keyword lookup in an external help file (.hlp as well as .chm)

New in version 1.6

• Flat toolbars
• Small icons in the launch bar
• Multilingual program (English and German)

New in version 1.5

• Control bar for fonts and colors
• First english edition

New in version 1.4

• Color Selection
• Converter (Windows - UNIX - Macintosh)