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ProgramEdit Changelog

What's new in ProgramEdit 5.1.2

Feb 8, 2023
  • Minor Update

New in ProgramEdit 5.1.1 (May 31, 2022)

  • Word-Wrap Auto Update
  • Enable text editing
  • Add PgmEdit Help/Known Bugs/Word-Wrap Auto bugs
  • update Word-Wrap Auto Help files

New in ProgramEdit 5.1 (Mar 7, 2022)

  • add View/Word Wrap Auto
  • fix several minor bugs
  • update Word-Wrap Help

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.9 (Feb 13, 2022)

  • fix several minor bugs that slow down large-file editing
  • update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.8 (Jan 21, 2022)

  • Improve performance of large(MB) files
  • Fix several minor bugs
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.7 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Fix minor PageUp/PageDown bug
  • Fix minor LineChange indicator bug
  • Minor improvements to GoTo Line
  • Several code changes to improve Editor speed
  • Update Help file

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.6 (Nov 20, 2021)

  • Fix minor Vertical Scroll bug
  • Update Color Settings dialog

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.5 (Jul 20, 2021)

  • Add "Save" to the File-Tab Right-click menu
  • Add Char 255 Spell Check Error to PgmEdit Known Bugs
  • Update Help file

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.4 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • Fix NetSpell Spell Check Line-Change-indicator bug
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.3 (May 16, 2021)

  • Add Tools/Spell Dictionary Installer
  • Fix two minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 5.0.1 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • Add View/ZoomIn & ZoomOut
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 5.0 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • Fix Block Comment color errors.Tthis corrects C, C#, CSS, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL and Verilog Block Comment colors
  • Fix minor Zoom 100% bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.9 (Oct 22, 2020)

  • Fix Mouse-Wheel Zoom bugs
  • Fix several minor bugs
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.8 (Sep 14, 2020)

  • Add View/Zoom 100% menu item
  • Fix several minor bugs
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.7 (Aug 4, 2020)

  • Enable Date, Date Time, Insert Character and "Text Only" Recent Macros menus for Column Edit
  • Update PgmEdit to TLS 1.2 to eliminate Version check error message
  • Fix minor Highlight bug
  • Restore editing line/column positions after Trim Trailing Whitespace

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.6 (Jul 13, 2020)

  • Fix Highlight bug
  • Fix bug in Find Next searches that follow an AllWords Highlight

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.5 (Jun 14, 2020)

  • add "All Words" option to Highlight
  • update Search Help
  • fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.4 (May 19, 2020)

  • Change Macros file-Save format to Windows
  • Fix minor bugs
  • Update Search Help

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.3 (Apr 13, 2020)

  • Add Settings icon
  • Fix minor bugs in Paste, UnDo and Insert Character
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.2 (Mar 17, 2020)

  • Add language support for XML
  • Minor Search and Bookmark improvements
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.9.1 (Feb 11, 2020)

  • Update Language Settings to add Languages and replace Built-in Languages
  • fix SQL "--" comment bug
  • fix several other minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.9 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • add Tools/Language Settings to list Built-in Programming Language parameters
  • fix minor SaveAs bug
  • fix several other minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.9 (Dec 11, 2019)

  • fix SaveAs Bookmark bug
  • fix minor invalid Bookmark bug
  • fix minor case-sensitive SaveAs bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.8 (Nov 7, 2019)

  • Improve File Tab visibility for files that have unsaved changes
  • fix minor Save All bug for "New?" window
  • fix minor New? bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.7 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • fix Replace & File Replace LineChange Indicator bugs
  • fix two minor File/Save-As bugs
  • minor Help file updates

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.6 (Sep 9, 2019)

  • add support for SQL Query language
  • minor update to Options dialog
  • fix several minor bugs
  • update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.5 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Add Read-only text protection for Hidden files
  • Improve column selection for Column Edit
  • Fix several Line Change Indicator bugs
  • Fix minor View/Line Numbers bug
  • Update menu items for Read-Only files
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.4 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • fix minor Backspace key bugs
  • fix Line-Change-Bar bugs
  • fix minor File/Lock bug
  • fix Read-only file bugs
  • add dynamic detection of Read-only files

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.3 (Jun 18, 2019)

  • Fix minor Edit/Paste bug - Eliminate jump to top-of-screen after multiple Pasting

New in ProgramEdit 4.8.3 (Jun 18, 2019)

  • Fix minor Edit/Paste bug - Eliminate jump to top-of-screen after multiple Pasting

New in ProgramEdit 4.8 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • Add "All Words" option to File Find
  • Update Search Help

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.9 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • add "All Words" option to the Find dialog
  • update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.8 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Correct Status Bar bug
  • Minor improvements to all Search dialogs

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.6 (Jan 2, 2019)

  • - add Option: "Overwrite text/Show MsgBox" to detect selection of Overwrite mode (Insert key)
  • - fix minor Match-Brackets bug
  • - update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.5 (Nov 27, 2018)

  • Correct several minor bugs
  • Update Help file

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.4 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Add adjustments to Line Change indicators when other lines are added or removed
  • Fix minor Help/About bug
  • Update several Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.3 (Sep 19, 2018)

  • Add selectable Color for Line Change indicators
  • Update Search DropDownArray lists to eliminate duplicate items
  • Fix minor Line Rectangle color bug
  • Fix several other minor bugs
  • Update several Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.2 (Sep 4, 2018)

  • Fix non-selected Font bug. This corrects PgmEdit first-time installation Font problems
  • Fix minor Line Change Indicator bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.7.1 (Aug 30, 2018)

  • Add Line Change Indicators
  • Fix several minor bugs
  • Update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.7 Build 7-31-2018 (Aug 1, 2018)

  • Correct minor Version_check error
  • Update (3) Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.9 Build 7-02-2018 (Jul 3, 2018)

  • Add Security update to correct Version Check bug
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.8 Build 6-26-2018 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Add File/Lock function
  • Fix two minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.7 Build 5-30-2018 (May 31, 2018)

  • Add Options/File backups/files(maximum) to enable up to 9-levels of file backups

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.6 Build 4-04-2018 (Apr 4, 2018)

  • add an individual "BackupSettings" folder to each Session folder
  • add File filter "Exclude files" for File Find and File Replace
  • fix several Column-Edit selection bugs
  • fix several other minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.5 Build 3-14-2018 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Add Tools/Trim Trailing WhiteSpace
  • Add Option/Backup folder files (maximum)
  • Fix minor bug in Replace/Replace All for Regular Expressions

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.4 Build 2-21-2018 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • update Tidy to v5.6.0
  • add View/File icons menu item
  • update Main Menu Help file

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.3 Build 1-29-2018 (Jan 29, 2018)

  • add View/Print icons menu item
  • update several Help files
  • fix shortcut bug for Tools menu
  • fix repeating bug when all files are closed

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.2 Build 1-05-2018 (Jan 5, 2018)

  • Add Major update to Command Line interface
  • Add Shortcut setting to all Icon ToolTips
  • Fix minor bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.6.1 Build 12-12-2017 (Dec 12, 2017)

  • Add automatic file backup
  • Update Options dialog
  • Fix two minor file-reload bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.6 Build 11-28-2017 (Nov 29, 2017)

  • Add support for Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 encoding) files
  • Update Highlight dialog operation
  • Correct several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.9 Build 11-07-2017 (Nov 8, 2017)

  • Add View Hexadecimal for ASCII files
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.8 Build 10-17-2017 (Oct 18, 2017)

  • Add Regular Expression "Special Chars" descriptions
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.7 Build 9-26-2017 (Sep 27, 2017)

  • add Save/Convert for Windows, Unix and Mac file formats
  • fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.6 Build 8-31-2017 (Sep 1, 2017)

  • add Options: Help file source and Version check
  • minor improvements to Color dialog

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.5 Build 8-14-2017 (Aug 15, 2017)

  • Version 4.5.5 changes:
  • add Column Edit Paste and Tab Left
  • add SearchResults View menu
  • correct several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.4 Build 7-24-2017 (Jul 25, 2017)

  • Add Delete and Cut to Edit Column Text
  • Fix several minor Column Edit bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.3 Build 7-12-2017 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • Add Column Edit text editing
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.2 Build 6-06-2017 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • Update Colors dialog: add two-color(Text & Background) options for Keywords, Comments, and Strings

New in ProgramEdit 4.5.1 Build 5-17-2017 (May 18, 2017)

  • fix minor Column Edit bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.5 Build 5-03-2017 (May 4, 2017)

  • Add Edit Columns: Cut, Copy, Delete
  • Correct potential bugs in Restore and Sessions/Open
  • Fix several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.4.2 Build 3-21-2017 (Mar 22, 2017)

  • Security Update #3: add Digital Signature to PgmEdit Installer

New in ProgramEdit 4.4.1 Build 3-09-2017 (Mar 9, 2017)

  • Security Update #2: add Digital Signature
  • add periodic check for new PgmEdit versions
  • fix minor bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.4 Build 1-23-2017 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Security Update: Install Executable files in Program Files/Program Files (x86) directory
  • add DLL to correct Tidy bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.3 Build 12-14-2016 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • correct several minor bugs
  • update Help files

New in ProgramEdit 4.2 Build 11-01-2016 (Nov 1, 2016)

  • add Options/Date Format
  • add Options/Date-Time Format
  • fix two minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 4.1.1 Build 10-06-16 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • add Recent Macros Right-click menu
  • add Find All Double-click option
  • add file-open check to Macro play/run
  • fix minor Edit-shortcuts bug

New in ProgramEdit 4.0 Build 9-07-2016 (Sep 8, 2016)

  • add Recent Macros list
  • update Macros Help
  • add minor improvement to Customize Shortcuts

New in ProgramEdit 3.9 Build 8-11-2016 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • add Macros editing
  • update Help files
  • add WARNING for recursive Replace hazards

New in ProgramEdit 3.8 Build 7-21-2016 (Jul 28, 2016)

  • add Macros capability: Keystroke recording, playback, and save
  • CAUTION - ProgramEdit should be closed before installing an update

New in ProgramEdit 3.7 Build 6-15-2016 (Jun 23, 2016)

  • update System Requirements.txt to clarify the recommended installation folder
  • fix minor bug with startup file Tab
  • fix bookmark bug when the bookmark is beyond the end of file

New in ProgramEdit 3.6 Build 5-19-2016 (May 20, 2016)

  • add Auto Indent option to enable/disable Auto-indent
  • correct Auto-Indent to include Tab characters as well as spaces
  • made numerous minor improvements
  • add an error check for empty files for FileFind and FileReplace
  • fix a number of bugs related to "New?" windows

New in ProgramEdit 3.5 Build 4-26-2016 (Apr 27, 2016)

  • Changes include:
  • add "Select file[s]" button to File Find and File Replace dialogs
  • provide a smaller PgmEdit executable due to new 2015 .NET compiler
  • faster Web Help
  • correct minor (whitespace) PrintPreview/Print bug

New in ProgramEdit 3.4 Build 3-31-2016 (Apr 1, 2016)

  • Corrects a serious bug: repeated PgmEdit Help requests can cause PgmEdit to stop responding (hang/freeze/lockup)

New in ProgramEdit 3.3 Build 3-23-2016 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • add Tidy error-checker for html/xml files
  • add language extensions cmd, c++, erb, jse, pm, shtml
  • clear the text window and line numbers when all files are closed
  • update Extended ASCII table
  • fix minor bug that could prevent language keywords from being colored
  • fix minor file drag-drop bug
  • fix Go-To-Line bug with HT(TAB) characters
  • Made several other minor improvements

New in ProgramEdit 3.1 Build 2-09-2016 (Feb 9, 2016)

  • Add Insert Character/Symbol option
  • Add Clear Recent File List option
  • Improve & expand PgmEdit Help
  • Update ASCII Tables tool
  • Update PgmEdit Installer

New in ProgramEdit 3.0 Build 1-19-2016 (Jan 19, 2016)

  • Add Sort Lines option
  • Add Caret Line Marker No-Color option
  • Fix Proportional-font Line Numbers bug
  • Made several minor improvements

New in ProgramEdit 2.9 Build 12-15-2015 (Dec 16, 2015)

  • Add View/Line Numbers option
  • Fix minor bugs in Binary file "Save As" function
  • Fix Find-All bug for "New?" files
  • Eliminate a partial Caret line box when scrolling down
  • Improve Title to always show "File is Read-Only" for Binary and other Read-Only files

New in ProgramEdit 2.8 Build 11-23-2015 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • Add "Left margin" to Options/Wordwrap
  • Add Copy file name, Copy full path to File Tab right-click menus
  • Update PgmEdit, Find-Replace and Options Help files
  • Add instructions to Find-Replace "Special Chars" Help
  • Fix "Replace All" bug for Regular Expression with $ substitutions
  • Fix bug in Replace/ReplaceAll Selected text mode
  • Correct two other minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 2.7 Build 11-09-2015 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Add support for binary files: Bytes are shown in Hexadecimal format, and the corresponding Ascii characters are also shown (if viewable) or spaces are shown (if not viewable).
  • Add a Preview mode option(Tools/Options/Binary file hex view) to limit the hex/ascii view to 10,000 lines.
  • Decrease load time for monochrome files.
  • Correct several minor bugs (bracket double-click, SaveAs RTF).

New in ProgramEdit 2.6 Build 10-06-2015 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Add Highlight color option
  • Add red-text to file Tabs that have unsaved changes
  • Add Session Name to the PgmEdit Title
  • Update the Sessions dialog and its capabilities
  • Refine the alignment of bookmarks for all fonts and font sizes
  • Correct a bug that caused bookmarks to be lost after the font is changed or after lines of text are added/deleted
  • Correct several other minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 2.5 Build 9-16-2015 (Sep 17, 2015)

  • Add language support for Perl, PHP, Python & Ruby
  • Add a dotted-rectangular border around the line being edited
  • Correct the line (Ln) number when down-selecting multiple lines
  • Improve line alignment of Bookmarks
  • Correct several minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 2.4 Build 8-18-2015 (Aug 18, 2015)

  • Add capability to create & select multiple editing Sessions
  • Correct Print/Print Preview inconsistancies

New in ProgramEdit 2.3 Build 7-22-2015 (Jul 25, 2015)

  • Add Font menu to select Font family: Consolas, Courier New, Lucida Console, etc.
  • Add Options Help file
  • Add Print Preview
  • Update Tab function to eliminate text-overwrite cases
  • Update "This file has been modified by another program" function to show current text of file

New in ProgramEdit 2.2 Build 6-30-2015 (Jul 1, 2015)

  • Add Tools/Font size option.
  • Improve bookmarks so that bookmarks follow their original line of text when lines are added/removed before the bookmark.
  • Correct minor bug with Drag-Drop editing (Moved block is Selected).
  • Add editing support for Ctrl+Backspace (Delete to start of word).

New in ProgramEdit 2.1 Build 6-03-2015 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • Add Status Bar display of Decimal/Hexadecimal character codes.
  • Add the capability to Double-Click for a Bracket Match.
  • Add Invert Case.
  • Add context menus for Bookmarks 1-9,A-F (Right-click). This provides an easier way to Set, Clear and GoTo a bookmark.
  • Add Help/Bookmark Help.

New in ProgramEdit 2.0 Build 5-05-2015 (May 6, 2015)

  • Added the capability for multiple file filters for File Find and File Replace. Added Replace/Replace ALL.
  • Made numerous improvements to Find/Replace including find/replace counts in the Status bar.
  • Expanded PgmEdit Help and Find-Replace Help, and corrected a minor bug in File/Restore Session.

New in ProgramEdit 1.9 Build 4-08-2015 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • Add auto-backup/session restore, correct minor bugs

New in ProgramEdit 1.8 Build 3-16-2015 (Mar 17, 2015)

  • Add shortcut customization and selected-text option

New in ProgramEdit 1.7 Build 2-23-2015 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • Updated Find-Replace Help file to clarify the differences in "Text to find" and "Replace with" Regular Expression syntax.
  • Added a newline ("\n") function for Regular Expression "Replace with".
  • Changed Select Line shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Down for Microsoft compatibility.
  • Added shortcuts for date, time, and upper/lower/proper case.
  • Updated View/Title to allow all combinations of Path & First line.

New in ProgramEdit 1.6 Build 2-03-2015 (Feb 4, 2015)

  • Added a Help file (F1) for Highlight, Find, and Replace dialogs - this file describes all dialog entry fields and provides Regular Expression examples. Updated numerous editor functions including Language Comment, binary file detection, New Version check, Transpose, and Title path.

New in ProgramEdit 1.5 Build 1-12-2015 (Jan 17, 2015)

  • Update Tab/Tab-Left, additional functions

New in ProgramEdit 1.4 Build 12-17-2014 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • Additional functions, faster startup

New in ProgramEdit 1.3 Build 01-12-2014 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Additional functions, expanded menus and tooltips, several minor bug fixes

New in ProgramEdit 1.2 Build 11-06-2014 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • Additional bookmarks, wordwrap, file explorer & browse