Alex Bolton
Glenn Castleman
Stuart Denyer
Matthew Farey
Steve Klett
Steven McGahey
Oliver Schneider
Vladimir Udilov

Unfortunately Amazon do not usually provide contact details for gifts any more, so my apologies to all of you for not thanking you sooner. To all those who I’ve been able to contact, my thanks once again!

Headline Changes in 2.3:

1. Jump dialog now filters results as you type.
2. Custom scheme is now implemented as a PN extension, and adds extra identifier block comment types
3. Double-click on tab bar (not on tab) starts a new doc.
4. Miscellaneous updates to schemes to improve highlighting (including HTML5 elements and attributes).
5. RTF export reworked, background colours now working better.
6. Properties scheme folding.
7. Select a URL and right-click to go to it.
8. New German and Russian translations.
9. Scheme Presets: Solarized (Light), improved Obsidian, thanks to contributors.

More than 25 bugs both small and large were fixed in this release, and it has had a good series of test builds to try and shake big problems loose.

Downloads:
Download 2.3 Installer
Download 2.3 Portable

You may also like to add the PyPN extension to your 2.3 install to get support for scripting/macros with Python: PyPN 1.1

Finally I wanted to say thank you to all those who make these releases what they are. Firstly to everyone who has contributed code, designs or ideas, and to all those who download every test build and provide feedback or bug reports. Next to the translators who have updated existing translations and added new languages for this release, thanks for your patience as we make more and more of the UI translatable. Last but not least thanks to those who have sent donations or gifts, I try to thank you personally where I can, but Amazon often doesn’t send me contact details – please know they’re all appreciated!

Currently 2.3 will ship with the following languages in the installer/portable package:

• Simplified-Chinese
• British English
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• German
• Russian
• Spanish

All translation files are stored in the Programmer’s Notepad Translations project, using a Mercurial repository.

My thanks to those who have already contributed to the translations in the 2.3 release!

Help Wanted
Want to help with updating any of these, or perhaps adding a new language? Follow the steps in the Translating Programmer’s Notepad guide on the docs wiki.

I’m also looking for someone who’d like to contribute to PN by looking after the translations, doing something like the following:

• Keep a mailing list going for translators to ask questions/be notified of updates
• Publish the status of translations (i.e. identify those that need work)
• Update the translation kit and instructions as required
• Help with the translation issues on the tracker
• Help to keep the translations project up to date (not everyone can use Mercurial)

If you’re interested, send me a mail (s.steele at this domain) or get in touch via the forums/issue tracker.

^((?!not here).)*$

Sometimes I find myself repeating the same set of Search/Replace operations in order to format text. If I’m going to do this more than a couple of times, I record a script using PyPN to make things easier for myself. Today I was turning text like this:

    LogStep("Do something");
    MyClass.DoReallyCleverStuff();
    MyClass.VerifySomethingAwesome();

    LogStep("Do another thing");
    MyClass.DoSomethingLessClever();
    MyClass.VerifySomethingBad();

Into text like this:


Do something
Do another thing


There are many ways to do something like this, and I could have written a PyPN script by hand to do it. However, combining Regular Expressions and Script Recording means I can do this without a lot of manual code effort. Here’s what I did:

1. Tools > Record Script
2. Replace All: ^((?!LogStep).)*$ with (nothing)
3. Replace All: (\r\n){2,} with \r\n
4. Replace All: \s*LogStep\("([^"]+)"\); with \1
5. Tools > Stop Recording

At the end of this Programmer’s Notepad added a script to the Scripts window (Recorded\New Script) and placed the code for that script in a new editor window. Because I wanted to keep the script for future use, I changed it’s name and saved it to C:\Program Files\Programmer’s Notepad\Scripts. Here’s the script (which I reduced slightly for posting here):

import pn, scintilla

@script("Clean Up Log Steps", "Testing")
def CleanUpLogSteps():
	doc = pn.CurrentDoc()
	sci = scintilla.Scintilla(doc)
	opt = pn.GetUserSearchOptions()
	opt.FindText = u'^((?!LogStep).)*$'
	opt.MatchWholeWord = False
	opt.MatchCase = False
	opt.UseRegExp = True
	opt.SearchBackwards = False
	opt.LoopOK = True
	opt.UseSlashes = False
	opt.ReplaceText = u''
	opt.ReplaceInSelection = False
	doc.ReplaceAll(opt)
	# When recording, the result of this operation was: pn.FindNextResult(37)

	opt.FindText = u'(\\r\\n\\r\\n){2,}'
	opt.ReplaceText = u'\\r\\n'
	doc.ReplaceAll(opt)
	# When recording, the result of this operation was: pn.FindNextResult(16)

	opt.FindText = u'\\s*LogStep\\("([^"]+)"\\);'
	opt.ReplaceText = u'\\1'
	doc.ReplaceAll(opt)
	# When recording, the result of this operation was: pn.FindNextResult(10)

If I was going to use this script a lot, I could bind it to a shortcut key in Tools > Options > Keyboard.

Changes of interest in 2.3:

1. Jump dialog now filters results as you type.
2. Custom scheme is now implemented as a PN extension.
3. Double-click on tab bar (not on tab) starts a new doc.
4. 3 types of block comment supported in custom schemes (schemedef).
5. Tags only auto-closed in the correct state in HTML/XML, hr br and img not auto-closed.
6. Miscellaneous updates to schemes to improve highlighting (including HTML5 elements and attributes).
7. RTF export reworked, background colours now working better.
8. Properties scheme folding.
9. Crash issues with split views fixed.
10. Chinese Windows XP menu issues fixed.
11. Portable edition translations issues fixed.
12. Some autocomplete fixes

Downloads:
Download 2.3 RC Installer
Download 2.3 RC Portable
Download 2.3 RC Multi-Language

You may also like to add the following updated extensions to your 2.3 RC install:

PyPN to get support for scripting/macros with Python: PyPN 1.0 RC
TextUtil for miscellaneous extra text helpers: TextUtil 0.2

Thanks to all contributors, translators and testers for their help with this release.

p.s. this release has been available for a while, I just haven’t had time to write it up. A new family member has been keeping me very busy!

Download Updated Pascal Scheme

Instructions:

1. Download Pascal.scheme file
2. Copy Pascal.scheme to PN\Schemes directory, overwriting existing file
3. Restart Programmer’s Notepad

Headline Changes in 2.2:

There have been too many improvements since 2.0.10 to recount them all here, but these are the headline changes in 2.2 over 2.0.10:

1. Complete Unicode conversion, files, searching, projects, UI, clips…
2. Complete redesign of text clips, with editing built in to new UI view and code templates and text clips consolidated
3. Multiple concurrent selections (ctrl+select)
4. Type into multiple selections and block selections
5. Virtual space
6. Translations – PN in your language
7. Flexible split views
8. Converting between ANSI/Unicode properly converts current file contents
9. Vastly improved file encoding options and defaults

Downloads:
Download 2.2 Installer
Download 2.2 Portable
Download 2.2 Multi-Language

You may also like to add the PyPN extension to your 2.2 install to get support for scripting/macros with Python: PyPN 0.12

Thanks to all contributors, translators and testers for their help with this release.

Download:
PyPN 0.12 for Python 2.6

As of this release, I have dropped support for Python 2.4 and 2.5, as there seems to be little benefit in maintaining multiple versions especially as these releases are so old. I am considering trying to bundle a specific version of Python with future releases, to avoid the need for separate installs.

Once you have installed PyPN 0.12, you can now use Python code in your Text Clips by enclosing it in backticks, e.g.


`print "Hello from PyPN"`


Anything you print to stdout will be included in the clip text.

Changes in 2.1.5:

1. Text clips can now contain python script, anything written to stdout is included in the clip.
2. Improvements to ANSI/Unicode encoding support and conversion
3. Make sure smart highlight works throughout the whole document. Fixes issue #898.
4. Added files exclusion filter to magic folder.
5. Allow setting current scheme from Pyextensions. Allow inserting clip from extensions.
6. Now available in English, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian, Chinese, better translation support.
7. When saving the workspace sort the documents by tab order. Fixes issue #201.
8. Text clips now have a context menu
9. Allow forcing readonly from the command line. Fixes issue #953.
10. Switch desktop icon to common desktop. Fixes issue #81.
11. Add date and time for clips, fix tab size, and remove line endings from current line. Fixes issue #944.
12. Add updated clips thanks to Sam Collett
13. Next and previous placeholder now uses indexes properly. Fixes issue #925.
14. Allow resizing the text clip editor dialog, and centre on display. Fixes issue #926.
15. Handle the case where we fail to open xml files for writing better. Fixes issue #1024.
16. Make sure tab completion works with individual output window. Fixes issue #996.
17. Add the dollar sign to word characters for PHP. Fixes issue #951.
18. Fix smarthighlight/split view clash. Fixes issue #738.
19. Fix sorting in clips control.

Downloads:
Download 2.1.5 Installer
Download 2.1.5 Portable
Download 2.1.5 Multi-Language

Thanks to all contributors, translators and testers for their help with this release.