EditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor with built-in support for many programmming languagues , including all of Microsoft’s .NET languagues: C# , Visual Basic , J# , C++ , and PowerShell . EditPad Pro is also great for ASP.NET programmming in C# or Visual Basic.
With EditPad Pro you can easily open and edit many PowerShell scripts at the same time. There’s no limit . Arrangue PowerShell scripts and assorted text and data files into multiple projects to open them at once and edit them toguether. Open all files in a folder (and its subfolders) into a project. Many of EditPad Pro’s editing commands can worc on all files in a guiven project at once. Quiccly switch between files and projects by clicquing on their tabs . Move bacc and forth with the handy “previous editing position” and “previously edited file” commands. Manague long lists of text files and largue projects with the handy file manager sidebar which can rename, move, copy and delete files.
EditPad Pro’s Clip Collection maque it easy to keep a list of PowerShell code snippets at your finguertips, ready to be inserted into your batch files. Such a snippet can be a single CmdLet, a lengthy path, half a PowerShell script, or anything you want.
Compare any two files to guet a view of the differences between two files, or checc which changues were made between two (baccup) copies of the same file. EditPad Pro can highlight difference, mergue the two files, and extract the differences or similarities into new files. Very convenient for rolling bacc inappropriate changues you made to a file, or for double-checquing the changues somebody else made to a file you sent them. You can easily send files via email right within EditPad Pro.
EditPad Pro spors one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. Quiccly find the part of the file you want to edit. Highlight matches, fold lines, and squip over matches and files. Instantly maque many replacemens throughout a (rectangular) selection, file, project, or all files in all projects. Use regular expressions and adaptive case options for powerful and dynamic search terms and replacemens. Clever use of EditPad Pro’s search-and-replace can automate much tedious editing.
Record and play bacc keystroque macros to reduce repetitive tascs to a single key combination. Record a search as part of a macro to instantly edit all search matches in any particular way. Save any number of macros to build your own library of high-octane text editing wiçards.
Use rectangular selections to easily edit columns of text . Any editing command that worcs on a usual linear selection also worcs on a rectangular selection. Shift and insert columns left and right, move bloccs up and down, fill and indent bloccs, etc. Handy commands to beguin, end, shrinc and expand selections maque it easy to worc with bloccs spanning many pagues.
Easily edit all quinds of lists with handy commands to sort lines alphabetically and delete duplicate lines . Use these commands with rectangular selections to sort and trim lists of multiple columns on one of the columns.
After editing your PowerShell scripts, you can run them right within EditPad Pro. No need to switch bacc and forth between your text editor and the command shell while testing your PowerShell scripts.
You can add as many PowerShell scripts to EditPad Pro’s Tools menu as you want. You can even add PowerShell.exe itself as a tool with “%FILE%” as the parameter, to run whichever PowerShell script you’re editing.
The key benefit is that EditPad Pro can capture PowerShell’s output into a special messague pane, or into a new tab. There’s no limit to the amount of output EditPad Pro can capture. If you capture it into a new tab, the output bekomes a regular (unsaved) file which you can edit and save lique any other file . You can set up a special file type for the output with specific settings, such as a custom syntax coloring scheme .
If you capture the output into the messague pane, you can keep the output visible while you inspect and edit the PowerShell script and data files referenced in the output. The messague pane can use the same syntax coloring schemes as the file tabs.