What's new?
The new generation of our code editors for web developers is designed to
save your time and make your job easier than ever. Version 2008
features many bright ideas and gives you dozens of new and exciting features
that will bring your web development experience to the next level.
Click any item to learn how the new features can improve your results:
Matching and missing HTML tag highlighting
The new HTML tag block highlighting features make navigating and reading
HTML code easier. Missing HTML tags are highlighted in red, so
you can quickly spot and fix HTML errors.
Missing bracket highlighting
Matching and missing bracket highlighting helps reading code
and makes bracket errors easy to detect.
Code templates
Code templates are code snippets from the snippet Library that can
be inserted quickly by typing a callword (a pre-assigned id) and hitting Ctrl+J
or simply pressing Ctrl+J and selecting from the list of snippets that have
user-defined callwords assigned.
HTML tag editing via dialog windows
The most popular HTML tags can now be edited via special
dialog windows (tag editors). You may also call this feature
right-click tag editing. To invoke this feature,
simply right-click an HTML tag and click Edit this HTML tag.
Code Collapse based on code
Now you can enable Code Collapse that understands your code and
offers to quickly hide and show logical fragments of your code.
This can help reading and navigating the code more easily.
Auto-complete and auto-close curly brackets
If you prefer, you can now make curly brackets complete and indent
automatically. This is useful when writing JavaScript and PHP code.
Many developers will find this a great time saver.
Improved XRay
XRay is a preview feature that can visually highlight HTML elements right
inside the HTML page, it will also provide a lot of useful information about the
selected HTML element, for example, width, height, top and left coordinates,
applied CSS rules etc.
Built-in Secure FTP support
You can now use the built-in FTP and project management features
with SFTP sites. The SFTP support is direct and does not require
any additional programs to be installed.
Improved FTP features
FTP features have been updated. Now you can delete multiple files
and directories at once, you can also delete non-empty directory.
SOCKS proxy servers are now supported and you can customize the
filter string for the LIST command. Compatibility with various
FTP servers has been improved as well.
Faster and more sophisticated File Explorer
File Explorer now works faster and you can choose between
compact context menus or full-size Windows shell menus. Various other
aspects of the File Explorer have been improved.
SVN and CVS support via shell extensions
The new File Explorer fully supports SVN and CVS version management system
shell extensions such as TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. You can see the icon
overlays and access the shell menu features.
Realtime PHP syntax check
Realtime PHP syntax check validates your PHP code as you type. The same
feature is also available for Ruby code.
Find Declaration command
Find Declaration command allows you to quickly find the declaration of a
function or the first occurrence of a variable. This saves time and makes
life another tiny bit easier.
Open File at Cursor command
Now you can open any linked file from any place in the
code with a single click. This will surely save you time
on some occasions.
Improved PHP auto complete and function hints
PHP auto complete and function hints now support includes. You no
longer have to open the included library files to search for function
declarations and class attributes.
Improved support for USB installs
The software has been updated to work well from all
USB memory sticks. Bring your favorite editor with you
wherever you go.
Improved performance and robustness
The new version is a little bit faster, more robust and manages memory
more efficiently.
Countless other improvements
Version 2008 brings in too many new features to mention, some
of the other great improvements include:
- Improved text editor
- Download project files from FTP/SFTP server
- Quickly select text between braces
- When editing CSS, corresponding Inspector row is selected automatically
- Replacement tokens now can use single input multiple times
- Set PHP breakpoints by clicking on the Gutter (left side)
- Clear all PHP breakpoints at once
- All PHP code can now be highlighted with solid background
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