SlickEdit per HPUX 2016 (Build v21.0.1)

Language Support

• New Groovy support
  • Color Coding
  • Symbol Coloring
  • Smart editing features
  • Context Tagging
  • Project wizard for creating gradle project
  • Single file project support
  • Debugging
  • Beautifier
• Swift
  • Project support
  • Debugging
• C++
  • Color coding for C++ raw strings
  • Support for C++11 reference syntax
  • Support for C++11 and function overload syntax
  • >Add option to dynamically transform '.' to '->' for pointer types in C++.
  • >Improve handling of local variables with parenthesized initializers that look like function prototypes in C++.
• Verilog and System Verilog
  • Preprocessing configuration for `define macros
  • Inline parsing of quoted `include files

Tagging

• Added support for CTags tag files for SlickEdit Standard edition.
• Added new command 'edit-associated-symbol' (Alt+Backtick) to quickly jump between the current function and it's prototype and other overloaded versions.
• Improved design and performance for local variable tagging.

Editing

• Spell checking while typing.

Project Support

• New option to track active project history along with workspace history to make it easier to switch between the most frequently used projects within the workspace.
• New option to display file, project, and window history more compactly.
• New option to display file paths relative to the current project in the Project and Open tool windows.

DIFFzilla

• Choose resync points and re-diff files. Use "Align width..." menu item in context menu and choose line to resync with in the other file.
• Re-diff files after making edits. Use "Re-diff" button.
• Added option for Unicode Diff font. Previously only one Diff font could be for configured for both Unicode and SBCS/DBCS files.
• Added Diff Current Symbol With Most Current Version.

Debuggers

• Added support for Debug executable for Java.
• Cleaned up Debug > Attach submenu for easier navigation.
• Added support for using the LLDB debugger on MacOS and 64-bit Linux (a couple fixes/changes still left to be done).
• Debug executable command, and Debug with arguments now supports Java.

New Mini Find and Replace dialog

• By default, the find and replace commands display a new mini Find and Replace dialog which does incremental searching and match highlighting.
• Provides many of the features of the Find and Replace tool window including matching color coding.
• If you prefer the large Find and Replace tool window, you can configure the find/replace commands to display the Find and Replace tool window instead.
• Press the binding for gui-find or gui-replace a second time to display the Find and Replace tool window. For example, pressing Ctrl+F displays the mini Find/Replace dialog. Pressing Ctrl+F again to display the Find and Replace tool window.

Find and Replace

• Multi-file search/replace up to 15x faster. Best speed seen on SSDs with CPU's good at multi-threading.
• Added "Auto escape regular expression" option which will add escapes if the find dialog is initialized with a selection or the current word when regular expressions is on.

Open Tool window

• (Different than previous versions) By default, *.ext (i.e. *.cpp;*.h ) does current directory exact matching of files. Added match style option (current directory contains, current directory exact, recursive contains, recursive exact).
• (Different than previous versions) By default, other wildcard (i.e. file*.cpp ) does recursive exact matching of files. Added match style option (current directory prefix, current directory contains, current directory exact, recursive prefix, recursive contains, recursive exact).
• By default, non-wildcard does recursive contains matching of files. Added match style option (current directory prefix, current directory contains, current directory exact, recursive prefix, recursive contains, recursive exact).
• (Different than previous versions) By default, <Tab> key in File name moves focus to next control. Added option for this so you can configure this to complete the filename like previous versions.
• Added "Show all folders in directory panel" option. By default, this is off and the directory panel closes folders when the current directory chages.

Files Tool window,workspace/project tabs

• (Different than previous versions) By default, *.ext (i.e. *.cpp;*.h ) does recursive exact matching of files. Added match style option (recursive contains, recursive exact).
• (Different than previous versions) By default, other wildcard (i.e. file*.cpp ) does recursive exact matching of files. Added match style option (recursive prefix, recursive contains, recursive exact).
• By default, non-wildcard does recursive contains matching of files. Added match style option (recursive prefix, recursive contains, recursive exact).

New Configuration System

• Almost all configuration settings are now stored in "user.cfg.xml" (key bindings, fonts, colors, color coding, symbol coloring, language settings, user spelling dictionaries, printing profiles, and more). Recorded macros, macros, GUI resource (menus/toolbars/dialog), project templates, template manager code templates, preprocessing, compiler config (compilers.xml), and annotations, are not stored in "user.cfg.xml".
• Simply copy your user.cfg.xml from one machine to another to get almost all your configuration changes.
• Only your changes are stored in "user.cfg.xml". For example, if you change one color in the "Default" color scheme, only one XML line for the new settings for that color field is stored and not all color fields for the entire scheme. This means you can very easily know what settings you've changed. Also, when you update to a newer version of SlickEdit, you automatically get settings that you haven't modified.
• Properties in "user.cfg.xml" support a "configs" attribute which lets you specify a platform. Some properties like fonts, paths, and filenames have a "configs" attribute by default so that you can have specialized settings per platform ("win", "mac", "unix"). This was done because fonts, paths, and filenames are often not the same between platforms. The GUI does not have the ability to add a "configs" attribute but it will maintain/manage it if you add one.

Version Control

• Git Repository Browser. Shows each commit in the Git repository, including showing branches.
• Find Symbol Changes in file now searches the current working file.

General

• Support for .editorconfig files. Supports indent_style, indent_size, tab_width, end_of_line, and trim_trailing_whitespace. Color coding added for .editorconfig files.
• Move mouse over hex or decimal integer to view conversions (hex, dec, octal, binary, unicode) and optional copy conversion to clipboard by clicking button.
• Calculator dialog improved to display results in two bases as you type.
• "Extensionless file manager" renamed to "Advanced File Mappings" because it now allows you to map files with extensions too. For example, you can configure *.s files in a particualr directory to be mapped to a specific assembly language type.
• Enhancements for undo and redo. If the last modification operation was an undo or redo, cursor movement is not recorded. This means you can scroll around the file without messing up your next undo or redo step.
• Added delete_search command. Non-GUI command for remove lines which contain a search string.
• Added keep_search command. Non-GUI command for remove lines which do not contain a search string.
• Added support for key bindings using Windows shift key combinations for Ubuntu.
• Speed of searching in options dialog greatly improved.
• Added ability to collapse navigation panel of options dialog to save space.
• New regex replace syntax for choosing replace text based on tagged expressions found (switch statement-like syntax).
• Added "Restore Default Options..." button to Export/Import Options in Options dialog.