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HippoEDIT 1.41 released - windows text editor for programmers

Added: (Fri Jan 23 2009)

This release is a major update in of HippoEDIT functionality. It brings a lot of new features, usability improvements, bug fixes, and updates for syntax files.

Here is a brief overview of what you get after upgrade to 1.41:

Information Bars:
- Overview bar. Shows you an overview of the complete document
- Hierarchy bar. Shows nesting hierarch for current cursor position
- Navigation bar and Labels. Helps you to navigate between labels in the document (functions, classes, includes)
- Quick Search Bar. Firefox like search panel, used for simple search in current document

Informers (Hover helpers):
- Color Previewer. Shows preview of the color in information tooltip
- Image Previewer. Shows thumbnail of the image with its dimension
- Entity Previewer. Shows how the symbol under the entity would look like in browser

Workspaces:
Workspace combines current windows positions, open files, shown panels and bars, recent files, input history, current project etc. You can save it, load saved or use as command line parameter.

Window management:
Now you can maximize current tab (as document tab as tool tab) on complete editor area with double click or command or you can dock tool panel as tabbed document.

Other Functionality:
- New asynchronous loading for big files
- File Templates. Now you can apply file templates for new files
- Column Mode Editing. If you do the selection in Column (block) mode, your changes are applied for all lines
- Smart Highlighting. Dynamic word search and highlight by Ctrl Mouse Click
- Highlight Matching Braces. Highlights pair brace (or any other defined pair symbol), if cursor stays in close or open pair
- Auto-delete pair symbols. New smart helper which controls how pair symbols should be deleted
- Modes for File Explorer. Now it is possible to control how file explorer would look like
- Status Bar gets new indicators: Current indent size and Scale

More info can be found in “What is new” on HippoEDIT web-site: http://www.hippoedit.com/whats_new.php

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