PrEditor Features

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No limits on number of files, line length, number of lines, file size, or number of windows.
Syntax highlighting - automatically detects the language type based on file extension.
Print / Preview with full colour or 'Pretty printing'.
Long filename support.
Tabbed user interface for easier navigation of open files.
Language sensitive menus.
Context menus (configurable).
Transparent support for DOS, UNIX, and Macintosh format files.
Middle mouse scrolling support.
FTP open / save allows you to edit files on remote computers seamlessly.
Files history support. The settings, bookmarks, and file locations are remembered for the (default 100) previously edited files.
Dockable windows.
Save and restore state between sessions.
Line numbers display/printing.
Show invisibles characters.
Open associated file.
Automatic reload of externally edited files.
Autosave, crash-recovery, and auto-backup all reduce the possibility of losing work.
Built-in encryption - keep documents safe from prying eyes.

Simple Windows compatible user interface.
Comprehensive online HTML Help.
Tutorials covering main editing functionality.
Comprehensive preferences allow you to edit the way you want.
Full-featured dialog boxes with help.
Customisable menus, toolbars, and key-bindings (shortcut keys).
Customizable Dockable Toolbars - Toolbars can be docked to the left, right, top and bottom or can be free floating. You can also modify or create your own toolbars.
Edit in Living Colour! - with configurable colours and fonts (bold, italic, and underlining).
File Export to HTML format - in colour!
Color shemes - you can have multiple screen colour schemes.
Skins

Unlimited undo/redo.
Drag 'n' drop editing supported.
Comprehensive editor commands
- Auto-indent
- Tabify / Untabify.
- Block indent/outdent.
- Goto match (parenthesis or matching pattern).
- Goto line.
- Bookmarks.
- Change case commands (upper, lower, toggle, and capitalise).
- Align commands (left, right, centre, and justify).
Line wrap & Word-wrap
Tab-size adjustable on a per file basis.
Line numbers display/printing.
Drag 'n' drop editing
Macros - extend the editor's functionality. Macros can be recorded, and assigned to keystrokes in exactly the same way as built-in commands.

Search & replace with Perl compatible regular expressions. Whole words, match case, and keep case options.
Find-in-files (grep utility) with Perl compatible regular expressions. Double-click on a matched line and jump to that file directly.
Complete Perl compatible regular expression reference, with examples.
Find text highlighting.
Find combo box on toolbar.

User / third party tool support. You can run other programs from within PrEditor on files that you are currently editing.
Project support allows you to...
- Organise your files into neat packages. All you have to do is tell PrEditor which files, the project directory, and how to build the project.
- Run your compiler from within PrEditor. Tell PrEditor how to interprete the error messages, and it will jump to the correct file and line number within the file.
Multiple projects, multiple project configurations.
Environment variable aware.
Tags support - to allow you to browse through classes, methods, and variables in your project.
Integration with Visual C++.
- Open files in PrEditor from within Visual Studio.
- Convert Visual Studio workspace and project files to PrEditor project files.

Pre-defined syntax colouring for the major programming and scripting languages (including C/C++, Java, Pascal, SQL, Perl, HTML, etc.). More...
Easy to customise your own language.