SlickEdit 2023 (v28) beta 3 is now available for download. Please post beta issues in this
beta forum.
The beta is available to all SlickEdit customers.
To download the beta, visit your Registered Products page.
https://customer.slickedit.com/myproductsChanges in Beta 3- C++ fix for Enter key smart indenting for constructor initializer list which initializes members with braces and not parenthesis.
- Fix for pressing Tab in leading indent in a Utf-8 file not indenting/shifting the text over the correct amount (i.e move-text-tab).
- Fix so undo stores selection.
- Fix for keyin-space (bound to Shift+Space) working when there is a selection.
- Fix for key bindings dialog displaying correct comment.
- Fix for changing multi-file diff view menu options not always listing correct files.
- Fix for Multi-File diff "Del File" button leave lists in odd state.
- Better handling of symbolic links to "vs".
- C++ constructor list beautifier fix for handling braced initializations.
- Linux fix for handling a default shell which is csh or tcsh.
- Don't allow DTDs for Ant files. Assume the file is XML.
- Not all fixes are listed. We are still work on a few bugs and enhancements.
Changes in Beta 2- Improved color coding for Windows Batch language.
- Fixes for losing tool window layout due to bad vrestore.xml.
- Fix for handling very old format .csproj file.
- Fix for invoking SlickEdit with a workspace that does not exist.
- Fix for Linux installer creating config when installing license file which bypasses Quick Start Configuration wizard. The Linux installer no longer installers license files.
- Fix for manual spell checking source for XML and HTML.
- Vim emulation fix for handling backslash escapes in search commands.
- Not all fixes are listed. We are still work on a few bugs and enhancements.
Fixes, Features, and Enhancements in SlickEdit 2023 (28.0.0)- Block Matching (find matching paren)
- Parenthesis, brace, and bracket matching uses a new high performance set of callbacks written in C++ (rather than Slick-C) for languages that support building a token list while parsing.
- XML and HTML block matching has been rewritten in C++ for additional speed and also provides some new features.
- Implemented advanced fast block matching for:
- Assembly
- Bourne Shell
- C Shell
- Erlang
- Fortran
- C# LINQ query expressions
- Clojure
- Common Lisp
- M4
- Modula-2
- PowerShell
- Rust
- SQL (PL/SQL, Sybase, DB2, and ANSI)
- Swift
- New Languages Supported
- Dockerfile
- Django
- Add Django color coding to HTML or other languages.
- Common Lisp
- Color Coding
- Symbol Navigation
- Symbol Completion and List-Symbols
- References
- Statement Tagging
- Auto Parameter Information
- Docs for all Common Lisp builtins
- Syntax Indent
- Expand/Collapse Code Blocks
- Advanced Paren Matching
- Interactive Shell for SBCL
- F1 API Help jumps to Lisp Hyperspec
- Language Support Enhancements
- All Languages
- Added "Encoding for new files" option to language specific File Options. For example, you could set "Encoding for new files" for Plain Text (.txt) to "Utf-8" which includes a signature. The encoding for existing files isn't changed but new files you create would default to Utf-8 with a signature.
- Added "Encoding" option to language specific File Options. The extension specific encoding option is still available in case you need more granularity.
- Added new frameworks for fast block matching (find-matching-paren)
- Added ability for language specific parsers to annotate the token list with block matching information
- Added ability for block matching to recognize start, scope, and end positions of a symbol or statement as a block matching group. Languages with a good statement parser, even they have no codified block matching intelligence will get good block matching using this technique.
- CSS Enhancements
- Inline color samples. Click on the sample color to change them.
- HTML Enhancements
- Inline color samples. Click on the sample color to change them.
- XML and HTML Enhancements
- Smarter handling of XML and HTML self closing tags. Typing <code>/</code> while in a tag will finish the self-closing tag. Hitting space or enter between <code>/</code> and <code>></code> will expand the self-closing tag with a complete end tag.
- Support for completion of entity names within HTML and XML attributes.
- Scala Enhancements
- Updated Scala debugger backend to improve performance and breakpoint handling.
- Bourne Shell Enhancements
- Improved color coding.
- Implemented native Bourne Shell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
- C Shell Enhancements
- Implemented native C Shell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
- PowerShell Enhancements
- Implemented native PowerShell parser for tagging which has statement tagging support and also picks up locals and global variables.
- Made numerous improvements to PowerShell syntax coloring for builtin functions and variables.
- Clojure Enhancements
- Added select-code-block support.
- Expand/Collapse Code Blocks
- Symbol Completion for API Symbols
- Auto Parameter Information
- F1 API Help jumps to Clojure API pages
- Windows Batch Enhancements
- Tagging
- Added new option (ON by default) to show brief comment summary for Auto-Complete and Function Parameter Info in order to save screen space
- Version Control
- Git
- Diff Selection with most up to date
- Select a group of lines to diff with Git.
- User configurable ability to extend from the selection to the ends of the difference block.
- User configurable ability number of matching lines required at the top and bottom of the difference block.
- Added "Go to GitHub for <repository name>" to Version Control menu
- Editor Window
- Force-wrapped long lines now have a long line indicator drawn on the right side of the editor.
- Added "Edit > Insert Unicode Char..." dialog (insert-unicode) for quick entry of Unicode characters.
- Added delete-all-blank-lines command.
- Fixes for a number of line oriented commands which needed to ignore the last line of empty char/stream selection.
- Find and Replace
- Improved granularity of items for color coding searches. For example, you can search for any String, single quoted strings, or backquoted strings.
- Improved multi-file search and replace performance.
- Added time elapsed for multi-file search or replace operations..
- Now ` and ! can be used instead of / (slash) for command line search/replace (`find-me` or c`find-me`replace-with-me`). Using other separators requires a space between the command name and the search separator character (l $find-me$ or c $find-me$replace-with-me$)
- General
- Changed format of vrestore.slk to XML (vrestore.xml). It is fairly easy to make edits to vrestore.xml due to it's simplicity.
- Not all fixes/changes have been listed.
