SlickEdit Pro Changelog

What's new in SlickEdit Pro 2023 28.0.0.6

• Fixes, Features, and Enhancements in SlickEdit 2023 (28.0.0):
• Block Matching (find matching paren):
• Parenthesis, brace, and bracket matching uses a new high performance set of callbacks written in C++ (rather than Slick-C) for languages that support building a token list while parsing.
• XML and HTML block matching has been rewritten in C++ for additional speed and also provides some new features.
• Implemented advanced fast block matching for:
• Assembly
• Bourne Shell
• C Shell
• Erlang
• Fortran
• C# LINQ query expressions
• Clojure
• Common Lisp
• Modula-2
• PowerShell
• Rust
• SQL (PL/SQL, Sybase, DB2, and ANSI)
• Swift
• New Languages Supported:
• Dockerfile:
• Color coding
• Django:
• Add Django color coding to HTML or other languages.
• Common Lisp:
• Color Coding
• Symbol Navigation
• Symbol Completion and List-Symbols
• References
• Statement Tagging
• Auto Parameter Information
• Docs for all Common Lisp builtins
• Syntax Indent
• Expand/Collapse Code Blocks
• Advanced Paren Matching
• Interactive Shell for SBCL
• F1 API Help jumps to Lisp Hyperspec
• Language Support Enhancements:
• All Languages:
• Added "Encoding for new files" option to language specific File Options. For example, you could set "Encoding for new files" for Plain Text (.txt) to "Utf-8" which includes a signature. The encoding for existing files isn't changed but new files you create would default to Utf-8 with a signature.
• Added "Encoding" option to language specific File Options. The extension specific encoding option is still available in case you need more granularity.
• Added new frameworks for fast block matching (find-matching-paren)
• Added ability for language specific parsers to annotate the token list with block matching information
• Added ability for block matching to recognize start, scope, and end positions of a symbol or statement as a block matching group. Languages with a good statement parser, even they have no codified block matching intelligence will get good block matching using this technique.
• CSS Enhancements:
• Inline color samples. Click on the sample color to change them.
• HTML Enhancements:
• Inline color samples. Click on the sample color to change them.
• XML and HTML Enhancements:
• Smarter handling of XML and HTML self closing tags. Typing <code>/</code> while in a tag will finish the self-closing tag. Hitting space or enter between <code>/</code> and <code>></code> will expand the self-closing tag with a complete end tag.
• Support for completion of entity names within HTML and XML attributes.
• Scala Enhancements:
• Updated Scala debugger backend to improve performance and breakpoint handling.
• Bourne Shell Enhancements:
• Improved color coding.
• Implemented native Bourne Shell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
• C Shell Enhancements:
• Implemented native C Shell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
• PowerShell Enhancements:
• Implemented native PowerShell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
• Made numerous improvements to PowerShell syntax coloring for builtin functions and variables.
• Clojure Enhancements:
• Added select-code-block support.
• Expand/Collapse Code Blocks
• Symbol Completion for API Symbols
• Auto Parameter Information
• F1 API Help jumps to Clojure API pages
• Windows Batch Enhancements:
• Improved color coding.
• Tagging:
• Added new option (ON by default) to show brief comment summary for Auto-Complete and Function Parameter Info in order to save screen space
• Version Control:
• Git:
• Diff Selection with most up to date
• Select a group of lines to diff with Git.
• User configurable ability to extend from the selection to the ends of the difference block.
• User configurable ability number of matching lines required at the top and bottom of the difference block.
• Added "Go to GitHub for <repository name>" to Version Control menu
• Editor Window:
• Force-wrapped long lines now have a long line indicator drawn on the right side of the editor.
• Added "Edit > Insert Unicode Char..." dialog (insert-unicode) for quick entry of Unicode characters.
• Added delete-all-blank-lines command.
• Fixes for a number of line oriented commands which needed to ignore the last line of empty char/stream selection.
• Find and Replace:
• Improved granularity of items for color coding searches. For example, you can search for any String, single quoted strings, or backquoted strings.
• Improved multi-file search and replace performance.
• Added time elapsed for multi-file search or replace operations..
• Now ` and ! can be used instead of / (slash) for command line search/replace (`find-me` or c`find-me`replace-with-me`). Using other separators requires a space between the command name and the search separator character (l $find-me$ or c $find-me$replace-with-me$)
• General:
• Changed format of vrestore.slk to XML (vrestore.xml). It is fairly easy to make edits to vrestore.xml due to it's simplicity.
• Not all fixes/changes have been listed.