Released: Feb 10, 2017

Updates in v24.00

Features

• Native Unicode rewrite / refactoring of code for greatly improved handling and detection
  • Better rendering of non-Latin text in various Unicode formats
  • Better handling of Unicode file paths in title bar, file tabs, open file list, etc.
  • Greatly improved detection of (non-Unicode) code pages
  • Improved detection of UTF-8 string declaration
  • Automatic font / script substitution for non-Roman and OEM character sets
  • New "Encoding" settings under Advanced » Settings » File handling » Encoding
  • Ability to set fallback encoding / code page when auto-detection cannot determine
  • New prompt to convert ANSI file to UTF-8 when pasting Unicode/UTF-8 content
  • Support for using Unicode with "^c" and "^s" variables in macros/scripts
  • Added option to handle tool output as Unicode (in "Output" tab of tool settings)
  • Proper and full rendering in menus, dialogs, etc. for all language versions, regardless of OS language
• Full Unicode support for / in:
  • Macros and scripts
  • Function list
  • Tag list
  • Output window
  • Auto-complete
  • Key mapping
  • Open address and search toolbars
  • Ctags
  • Insert column
• GUI to easily browse, add, and remove syntax highlighting languages
  • Access from Coding tab or Advanced » Settings » Editor display » Syntax highlighting
  • Check languages to add them, uncheck to remove them
  • Search / filter for languages
  • Reset syntax highlighting back to factory defaults
• Find / replace enhancements
  • Optionally leave replace dialog open when doing step-by-step replace
  • Added ability to scroll find / replace histories with mouse wheel
  • Added support for Perl regexp buffer boundaries (\A, \z, etc.)
  • Added unobtrusive notification when search wraps to other end of file
  • Find / replace "In" setting now defaults to selected text only if 2 or more lines selected
  • Search in column now supports column number up to 20,000
  • Improved performance with many filtered lines (Show / hide lines)
• Find string list enhancements
  • Find string list scrolls to track active line in edit window
  • Ability to create new file from find string list contents (context menu)
  • Highlighting of matches in find string list (toggle in context menu)
• Find / replace in files enhancements
  • Added button to set find / replace in files directory to active file's directory on the fly
  • Added notification to status bar when find / replace in files completes
  • Status bar indicates number of matches / files searched as search progresses
  • Vastly improved performance and speed when writing results to output window
  • Find in files now checks each file for BOM and uses BOM-specified encoding for search
  • Added "Active file" option to encoding drop down (uses active file's encoding for search)
  • Added "Auto-detect" option to encoding drop down (will auto-detect each file's encoding during search)
  • Better results and display when searching across multiple encodings
• XML manager enhancements
  • Added drag-and-drop support to move elements
  • New "Copy XPath" option for nodes/attributes
  • Added highlighting of current (edit window) position
• Drag and drop images / graphics, or browse to images, to insert them in active HTML document
  • Drag-and-drop any number of images directly into an HTML based file
  • For most HTML and web files, <img> links will be automatically inserted
  • For CSS files, the URL to the image will be inserted as a background-image property
  • Modify the HTML / CSS formats for inserted images in Settings » Editor » Image drag-and-drop
  • Hold Ctrl while dragging-and-dropping to modify the format on the fly
• Select and open multiple files at once from Recently opened / closed files menu
  • New option "Open all"
  • Hold Ctrl and click files to select multiple at once
  • Click "Open selected" to open all checked items
• "Join line(s)" feature (Edit tab)
  • Option to preserve leading spaces in Advanced » Settings » Editor » Advanced
• Compare in UC Pro externally detected changes from file change detection prompt
• New context menu for "Lists" tab in file view:
  • Add folders/files
  • Show names only
  • Rename file
  • Remove file from list
• "Close all files to left / right" in file tab context menu (with key mapping support)
• "Add to [Favorite / Project] Files" options on file tab / file view context menu
• Drag-and-drop file tabs to file view "Project" and "Lists" tab to add to projects and lists
• New option to use classic theme for printing ("Page setup" dialog)
• User tools and default associated shortcuts now begin with "1" instead of "0"
• Standardized capitalization of text (sentence case) in menus and UI
• New /LanguageMarker flag for wordfiles for expanded shebang line recognition
• New option to disable automatic hex mode for files containing nulls (hex 00) in Advanced » Settings » Editor » Hex mode
• "Defaults" button in sort settings dialog
• "Delete selected lines" now deletes complete line even if not completely selected
• Paste into multiple selected columns while in column mode now pastes into all columns
• Full customization support for edit window and file tab context menus
• Improved performance and data handling with shared FTP accounts
• Optimized file change detection to avoid pause when checking for changes in all open files
• Support for OpenSSH 7.0+ (SSH console)

Fixes

• Native Unicode rewrite / refactoring of code for greatly improved handling and detection
  • Resolved all issues related to opening files with Unicode characters
  • Addressed multi-caret issues when inserting Asian / multi-byte characters
  • Addressed caret "jumping" issues in UTF-8 files
  • Addressed issues related to opening and saving UTF-8 files via FTP
  • Addressed issues related to word wrap with multi-byte characters / Asian scripts
  • Addressed caret positioning issues with Asian characters in Unicode / UTF-8 files
  • Countless other Unicode / UTF-8 improvements and adjustments
• Find / replace enhancements
  • Addressed many Perl regexp issues
  • Addressed "Count all" issue with Unicode characters
  • Addressed issues with slim replace dialog buttons
  • Addressed several quick find issues
• Find / replace in files enhancements
  • Addressed issue with double-clicking on FTP file in find in [open] files results
• XML manager enhancements
  • Addressed issues with incorrectly reported error positions
  • Several other issues addressed
• Addressed issues related to FTP-linked project folder
• Addressed several issues when default ANSI encoding set to non-Latin code page