PN, Meet Find Bar

Introducing the Incremental Find Bar, new to the next PN2 release:

PN2 Find Bar

Some other highlights:

  • Customisable scheme mappings
  • SmartStart applied to opened files
  • Ruby and Docbook schemes included as standard
  • Ctrl+[ jumps to matching or nearest brace
  • 50+ Changes not mentioned here!

Something to look forward to then?

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14 comments

  1. zerhart
    August 11, 2005 at 9:53 pm

    Any ETA on the next release? Thanks!

  2. ant
    August 12, 2005 at 5:58 am

    Looks great!

  3. Sam
    August 12, 2005 at 10:46 am

    Good work on that, just like Firefox’s incremental search.

    Three methods of search now – find box on top, find/replace dialog box and find bar on bottom.

    However, if you keep pressing Ctrl+/ you get duplicate find bars (and you can only close/use the top most one). It would probably be better if it toggled it on and off instead.

    Just need a bit more work on projects (project properties, project tools), text clips (editing/adding via interface, grouping) and plugins (extend via scripting and add own toolbars – e.g. HTML/CSS etc). Then I expect it would be more or less finished.

    Wish I knew C++, then could help out more (have done some text clips though).

  4. Lee
    August 12, 2005 at 4:25 pm

    Woohoo! An update! Very nice feature BTW

  5. Tadas Vizbaras
    August 15, 2005 at 6:04 pm

    I am looking forward to this new release. Looks great.
    One suggestion: can you make Output and Projects windows auto-hide? Like in VS.NET IDE.

  6. gokuson
    August 17, 2005 at 6:54 am

    great, i hope there will be a “highlight” feature like what firefox has.
    Looking forward for this build.

  7. maurice
    August 18, 2005 at 8:25 pm

    Thanks for PN. I use it very often, it’s simply the best :-)

  8. Steve
    August 22, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    I look forward to a new version. I haven’t been using PN2 for very long, but I like it so far. I hope you have user-definable key map in a future version. I also ran into a bug… whenever I type a left parenthesis into the Custom Output Parsing Pattern the program aborts.

    Thanks for a nice editor.

  9. Chris
    August 24, 2005 at 9:46 pm

    I have been having trouble building the source using VS.net 2002. Has anyone been able to do this? It looks like the .sln .dsw and .dsp files are all for .net 2003 (version 7.1)? What am I missing?

  10. Simon
    August 25, 2005 at 10:05 am

    The code is indeed all targetted at VS.Net 2003 – you’ll need to convert the project files back to use 2002. What problems are you having specifically?

  11. Jump
    August 29, 2005 at 7:28 pm

    So………. can we download it yet?

  12. Steve
    September 14, 2005 at 5:07 am

    I have no way of building from the source, so I would love it if someone would post a newer release.

    Thanks!

  13. Chris
    September 24, 2005 at 4:48 am

    First off, sorry for the LONG delay…

    Anyway, I can get the project to build now, except that in pn.rc it can’t find atlres.h. I have included wtl71/include in the include path. If I hardcode the path (eewwyuck) it compiles, but then the app fails to start with “The application failed to init prop (0xc00000022). Any ideas?

    THANKS!

  14. Simon
    September 24, 2005 at 11:04 am

    Hmm, having it in the include path should be enough, I can’t understand why that wouldn’t work (it certainly did for me in VS2002). Also, it would be worth updating to WTL 7.5 which is what is being used to build PN now.

    I’m not sure what that error message is or where it comes from. Which source file is it in (you should be able to find out where it’s going astray by running it in the debugger from startup)?