The latest testing release of Programmer’s Notepad 2 is out, fixing a couple of annoying bugs in the previous release amongst other things. This release is also the first in-the-wild use of the “check for updates” feature. If you are running build 853 or newer and have enabled looking for testing updates, then in the next day or so PN will notify you that there is a new version available.
Changes in this build:
- Wombat preset included
- Ignore ctags warnings when parsing tags
- Fixed bug causing tools capture not to work properly
- Allow changing display name of root magic folder
- Add support for displaying the caret as a block
- Switch back to a DLL for Scintilla for those that use a custom build
Note that if you intend to use a custom build of Scintilla (SciLexer.dll) to support other schemes or prototype changes then you will need to build using the project in the PN source or you will lose the new Regular Expression support. To get the source and build the project you might like to look at How To Compile PN on the docs site.
What, no download links?
Let me take care of that:
http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/files/pn209872.exe
http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/files/pn209872.zip
http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/files/portable-pn209872.zip
Thumbs up for multi-line regex support, very nice!
Keep up the good work, Sebastian
It’s a very good text editor. Can I translate it into Chinese ?
Request A Feature…not able to submit on SF’s website. This occurs on both Tracker1 and Tracker2 sections on SF.
I really like PN2. I’m using it for developing PHP / HTML / CSS / JS. I also make it my default text editor (don’t like Notepad).
I have a big dissapointment when it comes to color presets. I want to use a dark theme when writing PHP also. Currently, all dark presets make php code (inside ) white.
Do you have any suggestions on what should I do, or where can I find the color preset that works for PHP also. I know that I can make my own preset, but I’m in the middle of a bunch of projects and I don’t have time for the moment.
I also want to mention about a bug, I guess. When I load a color preset, the cursor doesn’t show anymore. I can write code, but I can’t see the cursor (I’m using XP SP2 and PN 2 0.9.872).
@Flily: Yes, of course. At the moment you’ll need to translate the resources. After I get the unicode build working I’m hoping to provide an official translation mechanism.
@robert: Please use google code instead (http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/)
@Luxian: Colour presets will work better with PHP in the next release. In the mean time you can change the background colour for all of PHP by clicking on the PHP item in the advanced schemes customisation – this should make it usable.
Also, please file a bug on google code (see link above) for the cursor issue, make sure to mention which preset it is.
First of all thanks for the answer.
Now:
1. The color background is not the only one that needs to be changed for PHP. I’ve tried, but some code has black color and also needs to be changed
2. The bug is not actually a bug. In Dark / Wombat themes, the cursor is set to white. In PHP code the background is white, and that’s why the cursor is invisible. So is actually a color preset issue.