PrimalPad gets upgraded with code folding, new languages and the ability to run scripts. With this new 2011 version of the ever popular Notepad replacement you get support for code folding in VBScript, JScript and PowerShell.
Because some of you…
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SAPIEN code editors usually default to “Courier New” when you install them first. The reason for that is simple: It’s installed on virtually every Windows system since Windows 98.
Once in a while we get a wave of emails asking…
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You may have noticed that we recently redesigned our entire web site. Multiple URLs where combined under the www.sapien.com home and we are pretty happy with the result.
However, that means that some old blog articles link to pages which…
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Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: “I use notepad, it works fine”, “Notepad is just on every machine” or “What would you…
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Every now and then you need to put a script as its own documentation somewhere. Either on a blog for others to see or on some internal web site for documentation.
PrimalPad has been updated to include that functionality.Simply click…
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PrimalPad has been updated to recognize all PowerShell V2 keywords and cmdlets for syntax coloring.
Check your Help -> About and look at the version number, if it’s not 1.0.13 you may want to head over to our Community Tools…
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PrimalPad has been updated (1.0.12) to support Windows 7’s taskbar thumbnails for open documents.
It shows all open documents as thumbnails and switches the current document temporarily as you hover over a thumbnail.
For those who wish to go with…
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We have received some feedback that PrimalPad’s saving its settings to a computer’s registry reduces its role as portable editor.
You can easily avoid that by placing a primalpad.ini file next to the PrimalPad.exe on your flash drive. PrimalPad will…
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The most common comment we received about PrimalPad was about the choice of color for the skin. Many users emailed us, expressing that they would wish for a different choice than the carbon theme.
Since PrimalPad is a statically linked…
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Associating a file type with a specific application has always been fairly easy to do under the various incarnations of Windows. Basically, you can right-click on a file of the type you wish to use, select the Open With |…
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