SlickEdit 2025 (v30.0.0) - Now Available (11/02/2025)

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Fixes, Features, and Enhancements in SlickEdit 2025 (30.0.0)

• Project Support Enhancements
         
  • CMake Support
                   
    • Support for CMake's new file API. New CMake project support no longer requires modifying and building CMake source code
    • New support requires CMake version 3.22.0 or greater
    • Open your CMakeLists.txt file as if it's a SlickEdit project. "Project>Open Other Workspace>CMakeLists.txt Project"
    • Build support
    • Tagging support
    • Debugging support if GNU or Clang tools are used
               
     
• Language Support Enhancements
         
  • Drastically improved performance of the Context Tagging option "Prioritize navigation to symbols in the current project". Effects a number of tag navigation commands like the find-tag command.
  • C/C++ Enhancements
                   
    • Added support for -std=<standard> option to GNU C++ wizard and GNU C++ options
    • Added support for C++17 attributes
               
  • Google Go
                   
    • Added support for anonymous functions. Context tagging and Defs Tool window support
    • Added support for function pointers
    • Added support for "else", "else if", and "return" completion
    • Added support for unsurround
    • Added support for auto-close for braces
    • Added support for multi-variable assignments (like "key,value:=")
               
  • JavaScript
                   
    • Added JSX support (.jsx). Beautifier doesn't beautify XML literals.
               
  • New MDX Language Support
                   
    • Color coding. Markdown with JSX
    • Defs Tool Window show headings
               
       
• New native installer for Windows Arm64
     
• Selective Display Enhancements
         
  • Added Selective Display dialog options to show lines (context) before and after a search match (all /findme/options NBefore NAfter).
  • Added "seldisp_expand_context NBefore NAfter" command to show lines (context) before and after a selective display + bitmap.
     
• Math Enhancements
         
  • Support for many unit measurement types and automatic conversions. ex "100 troy ounces+ 1 kg= 132.150746569 troy ounces"
  • Convenient math features that can be used when typing in a source or documentation file.
  • Optionally update equation results while typing. Supports variables.
    

    gv=100 grams  ov=5 ounces 
    gv + ov=241.7476 grams

    
                   
  • Optionally copy result to clipboard when type '='. Supports variables.
  • Optionally insert result when type '='. Supports variables.
  • Optionally color variables.
  • Optionally color inserted results.
             
  • Support for many scientific calculator functions sin, cosine, sqrt, etc.
  • Support for superscripts (Requires Unicode file).
  • Updated calculator to support new math features.
     
• Find and Replace tool window
         
  • Added support for multi-file searching through Backup History file versions.
                   
    • <Backup History> specifies searching through all versions. <Backup History: Directory> specifies searching through versions started from Directory specified.
    • Output is sorted according to the most recently edited files.
    • Once a version is found containing a match, no more versions of that file are searched.
    • find-next opens backup history version matches in read-only edit windows. Use File>Backup History For to show all versions of file version containing the match.
               
     
• General
         
  • "Execute Saved Macro" submenu added to Macro menu for quickly executing and previously named and saved macro.
  • Softwrap option to wrap to the indent of the first line. On by default.
  • Optimized regular expression parser so it can compile large regular expressions faster. The regular expressions needed by the new math features are very large.
  • Changed File>New Location to combo box which lists previous responses, workspace path, and active project path.
  • Added "New Folder" and "Delete Folder" context menu items to Open Tool window folder tree.
  • Added "New Folder" and "New Child Folder" context menu items to Open Tool window file list.
     
• Not all fixes/changes have been listed.