Latest versions:

Stable: Version 2.0.8 (build 718)

Development: Version 2.0.9 (build 872)

News:

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.853 Released

I’m happy to announce a new testing release, 0.9.853.

  1. Create file backups when saving (option)
  2. Various look and feel improvements
  3. Extension configuration now stored in user settings directory, meaning this works on Vista without an admin prompt
  4. You can now choose to poll for updates of testing releases
  5. Uncomment now works for multiple line-comment lines at once
  6. New keyboard shortcuts for line comments
  7. Added a new Turbo preset to help indulge your Turbo Pascal nostalgia
  8. Improved the ZenBurn preset
  9. Default scheme font on Vista is now Consolas, still Lucida Console on XP and below
  10. Allow opening workspace files
  11. Restore editor windows when jumping to a line or tag
  12. Improved regular expressions support
  13. Works on Win2k again
  14. Don’t hold directories open after selecting files
  15. Support explorer context menus in Browser, Open Files and Projects items
  16. Added Mark All (again!)
  17. Find in all Project Files
  18. Find across all open files

Downloads

There is also a new PyPN release supporting Python 2.6 as well as 2.5 and 2.4:

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!

Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.8 Stable Released

Finally a new stable build! Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.8 has been just over a year in the making. Some of the highlights of this release:

  • Extensions interface, allows extension of PN using C++ add-ins
  • Python extension (PyPN), allows scripting of PN using Python
  • Tag browsing
  • Keyboard customisation
  • Comment insertion/removal
  • Autocomplete (based on keywords and tags)
  • Code templates

Downloads

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

Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.7.706 Released

This new release fixes a bunch of important bugs as we work up to a new stable release.

Text clips bugs have been fixed, memory leaks in the text clips feature and calltips are now working again. Several patches were accepted from contributors. Thanks to all those who tested or contributed to this release.

Download the build here:

PyPN has been updated as well, with Python 2.4 and 2.5 builds now available.

Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.7.668 Released

Version 2.0.7.688 has been released to SourceForge.

Changes are:

  1. Added Rename shortcut to project context menus (you can already rename using the two clicks convention)
  2. Added $(ProjectProp:*) and $(FileProp:*) tools shortcuts, these retrieve values from project item configurations
  3. Added alpha settings for line highlight, new default colour to make use of alpha
  4. Added option to disable folding
  5. New code templates feature (try typing “if” and then Edit->Insert Template in c/c++)
  6. Now supports custom ctags tagger definitions (see in taggers\ctags directory)
  7. Added Open Containing Folder, Open in Default Folder and Copy File Path to various context menus
  8. Text clips now cached in user settings directory to avoid user needing to change files in install path
  9. New extensions method pn_get_extension_info, new options page showing loaded extensions
  10. New extensions types for passing strings safely with stored allocators

Bugs Fixed:

  1. Line numbers toggle not updated when default (SF Bug #1729577)
  2. File corruption with utf-16 files > 65536 characters (SF Bug #1741342)
  3. Some php keywords only being matched in uppercase
  4. Tabs/Spaces override changes don’t save (SF Bug #1632540)

Download Programmer’s Notepad 2.0.7.688:

Installer

Zip

Portable Zip

There’s a new PyPN release to go alongside this latest build:

Download PyPN 0.6