Users of the powerful text editor StrongED who like to keep up to date with test versions – and therefore try out features before they become part of the main ‘stable’ release cycle – can now download test version 4.70a20s [zip file]. And for those interested, with this release Fred Graute, who maintains StrongED, has decided to release the sources [zip file]
According to Fred the search and replace functionality in this versions has been given a lot of attention, although more in terms of under the hood refactoring, so users of other recent releases may not see much difference.
Another change comes with a ‘MatchBrackets’ section in the ModeFile, which allows users to choose which types of matching bracket or brace (angle, curly, round, or square) should be highlighted when the cursor is next to one of the pair. The example provided by Fred is angle brackets, where highlighting matching pairs makes sense when editing HTML, in which they surround tags, whereas in other languages you might see them in comparisons, with no matching pair.
Also benefiting from some update work is the manual, which now contains a brief description of regular expression (regex) searches, albeit mostly referring to other resources, along with an explanation of the regex replace syntax. The manual is also now around 100kB smaller thanks to a new set of screenshots.
