What's new in NEdit 5.5
Dec 4, 2008
- New features:
- The most important new feature is the introduction of window tabs
- More efficient string search operations for the macro language.
- Auto-scrolling is now (partly) configurable through the preference menu.
- Find and Clear buttons for i-search bar
- Faster user-defined menu creation
- Open documents on current desktop
- Superuser receives a warning when trying to overwrite a read-only file.
- Simplified global font resources.
- Macro language: added new $args[] array and removed 9 arguments limit for macros
- Improved Latex & Python syntax highlighting patterns
- Bugs fixed:
- If underscore (_) is among the word delimiters for a language mode then word boundary regexes will work as expected.
- Problem with writing history file on VMS
- Race condition fix for running NEdit in -sync mode
- Removed obsolete special window title treatment on SGI
- Forbid the deletion of the "Plain" Text Drawing Style
- File descriptor handling fix that allows shell commands to be invoked asynchronously.
- Crash on Solaris when dragging a calltip
- Preference resource name mistakes
- Don't delete incremental backup files when incremental backups are off
- Allow zero-length ranges to be added to range sets
- Improved shell syntax highlighting patterns
- Regular expression crash fix