HippoEDIT is an easy to use, powerful text editor for Microsoft Windows, primarily targeted at power users and developers.

It has a modern and lightweight skinable user interface, multi-tab environment, seamless web and help browser, file and project explorer, external tools integration, and many more features.

HippoEDIT is implemented with a great attention to usability guidelines, so it is equally suitable to both novice and experienced users. User interface is highly customizable and adoptable to current programming language.

The editor comes with pre-defined syntax highlighting for C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Pascal HTML, XML, XSLT etc. Syntax definitions are inheritable (C->C++, C# or XML->HTML, XSLT) and embeddable (JavaScript, PHP and CSS in HTML).

To facilitate the source code editing HippoEDIT provides more than 160 integrated commands with customizable keyboard shortcuts, code auto-completion using syntax dictionary and statistical information, real-time code hints with best guesses from editor and sophisticated code templates engine with big set of built-in tags.

Source code outlining, current scope and change lines indication, mismatching brace highlighting, indent guides etc. greatly help in code analysis and navigation.

Clipboard ring, full support of text and files drag & drop, transparent usage of different clipboard formats to paste syntax-highlighted code into other applications, or paste highlighted code as HTML back into editor smoothly integrates HippoEDIT in your work environment.

Other features include powerful search and replace, support of different text encodings, WYSIWYG printing and previewing, syntax specific code formatting rules, and more.

Here are some key features of "HippoEDIT":

Interface
· Multiple Document Interface
· Document Tabs
· Different interface themes
· Workspace layout management
· Dynamic adoption for current programming language
· Customizable keyboard schemas

Text Editor – General
· Support of different encoding types
· Multiple level Undo/Redo with grouping
· Document Auto Save
· Trim trailing spaces in lines on save;
· Leave undo after save provides ability to undo changes even after saving.
· Complete Wheel Mouse support

Text Editor – Visualization
· Line numbering
· Change lines indicator
· Page width indicator
· Different types of Word Wrap
· Current line highlighting
· Structure separators
· White Space display
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Text Editor – Syntax highlighting
· Configurable via syntax files
· Define colors for text blocks
· Define styles for text blocks
· User defined text blocks
· Use of any font and size
· Only mono spaced option
· Preconfigured for HTML, PHP, Java, C/C++ and more
· Syntax schemas inheritance
· Syntax schemas embedding

Text Editor – Outlining
· Display Start/End/Middle of language block
· Collapse/Expand Block
· Collapse same type blocks
· Collapse Comments
· User defined "Outlining Regions"
· See current scope
· See collapsed text

Text Editor – Code Templates
· User and language dependent
· Expandable by keystroke
· Built in runtime tags (Date Time, Clipboard Content, Document Name)
· Interactive tags
· Suggested by Code Hints
· Extract template from selected text
· Surround by template

Text Editor – Code Hints
· Best guess for already typed words with statistical analyze
· Code Hints for Keywords
· Code Hints for templates shortcuts
· Code Hints for misspelling from auto correction dictionary
· Customizing of suggestions

Text Editor – Auto Completion
· Completion from language keywords
· Completion from statistics data (words from text)
· Dynamic filtering by type

Text Editor – Clipboard Management
· Clipboard Ring
· Extended Paste Menu
· Normal and column mode format

Multiple Clipboard Formats:
· Paste in MS Outlook with syntax highlighting
· Paste in MS Word with syntax highlighting
· Copy/Cut Append to clipboard
· Paste as HTML
· Insert Date/Time
· Unicode or ASCII format support

Text Editor – Current Scope
· Highlight of current scope tags in source
· Highlight current scope on outline margin
· See current code hierarchy in status panel
· See current brackets highlighted in source
· See mismatching brackets highlighted in error color

Text Editor – Extended Find/Replace
· Incremental search
· History of search/replace items
· Highlight all occurrence with mark color
· Search in collapsed text
· Saving of search parameters between sessions
· Use of regular expression
· Find Results window

Text Editor – Edit Functions
· Column Selection mode
· Expand/Shrink Selection functions
· Mistyping Correction
· Drag & Drop Editing
· Auto Brackets
· Keyword Case correction
· Auto Indenting
· Caps Lock correction
· Smart Tab
· Surround Selection
· Format After Paste
· Line operations
· Text Sorting
· Change Case
· Indent/Unindent of selection or lines

Text Editor – Print and Print Preview
· Print source in color
· Use outlining to hide comments or not interested parts
· Print with Line numbers
· Customize page header and footer
· Wrap lines on printing
· Preview document before printing in-place

Text Editor – Text Export
· To Rich Text Format (RTF)
· To HTML
· To Adobe PDF

Text Editor – Extended Navigation
· Go to last change
· Navigate backward/forward on code
· Navigate to previous/next occurrence of the word
· Support of named and unnamed bookmarks (as in MSVS)
· Shared Bookmarks Window for all open files
· Scroll Info

Text Editor – Keyboard Shortcuts
· User defined shortcuts
· Different keyboard schemas
· Several shortcuts for one command
· Actual shortcuts are displayed as in menus as in toolbar tool tips

Text Editor – Files handling
· Automatic syntax determination
· Automatic DOS/UNIX/MAC format determination
· Tracing external changes of opened document, and reloading if necessary
· Saving/restoring document info (breakpoints and bookmark)
· Unlimited file size

User Tools
· Execute external programs with proper arguments
· Compile, execute and test your code.
· Capture tool output with Output Window

Project explorer
· Manage group of related files into one project
· Create/Delete Project Folders.
· Include user tools.
· Include URLs
· Define Main File

File Explorer
· Browse file system
· Filter to display only selected file class.
· Use patterns user defined for filtering of files
· Open by Double click
· Add to current project

Code Previewing
· Preview in Internal Browser (Internet Explorer)
· Preview in External Browser

General
· Single/Multiple instances
· Built in or external help browser
· Built-in language dependent online help
· External files Drag & Drop Support
· Unlimited open files
· Minimize to system tray


Limitations:

· Nag screen
· 30 days trial period

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Navigation Up/Down in text editor works in correctly in Virtual Spaces mode, if line has tabs
· After changing of syntax schema that has one font to schema with another font, font face is not restored with Undo
· Non-regular crashes on closing of the application
· Crash when switching between directory that exist to one which is not exist in the File Explorer
· If more than 10 recent project used, project names are corrupted in recent menu list
· Crash on using horizontal and vertical split in view
· For documents with more than one view in different frames, title in tab shown incorrectly
· Selection status text is not cleaned after text selection in a view removed (set to empty)
· Update of tab and window title on reload does not works, that leads that if file was locked meanwhile this change is not visualized
· Initial filter in File Save dialog selected incorrectly when saving new file
· After switching between word-wrap and non modes, vertical scrollbar is not always calculated correctly
· Why should I reload if I saved before? The text in reload message box has been changed
· Crash on deleting block selection after end of line
· Fix for block paste after line end
· Stream selection from clipboard is auto-converted to block if paste done into multi-line block selection
· Caret is not hided during scrolling
· Added Objective-C syntax schema