Epsilon 13.07

There are many programmer's editors available. Why should you choose Epsilon? Why not settle for the "free" editor that comes with your compiler, or some lesser programmer's editor, or even try to use a word processor to edit your programs? 

If you decided to build a house, you'd first select the right tools. It's the same with software. Epsilon is like a toolbox full of premium tools you can use to get your job done quickly, easily, and with minimum fuss. Unlike some other editors, you won't outgrow it.

In addition to Mac OS X support, there are a variety of other new features including extensive HTML/XML mode enhancements, built in spell checking, new support for Tcl and Objective-C, context-sensitive keyword help, new support for Microsoft's source code browser database, marking files by content, smart aligning, follow mode, prefix filling, many enhancements in modes for Python, GAMS, PHP, and all C-like languages.

Major Benefits:

1. Complete. Everything you need is there at your fingertips.
2. Carefully thought out. Keys behave the way you expect.
3. Consistent. Commands are easy to learn.
4. Flexible. You won't need to reach for another program to finish an unusual task.
5. Customizable. It's easy to make small changes to fine-tune Epsilon's behavior just the way you want it.
6. Extensible. You can teach Epsilon brand-new tricks if you ever have to.

Major Features:

1. Epsilon now supports Mac OS X. It can run in either Terminal or X11 mode, dynamically selecting the best available mode. Epsilon for Mac OS X is distributed as an application bundle that supports drag-and-drop installation.
2. Modes for XML and HTML have been extensively enhanced. They now support smart indenting and embedded CSS and Python scripting. And they automatically highlight matching and mismatched tags. There are new commands to move by tags or elements, delete matched tags, insert an end tag to close the current element, list unmatched tags, and sort and align XML attributes.
3. Epsilon can now display misspelled words as you edit. In programming language modes, it marks only words in comments and strings. (Modes can easily customize this.) Epsilon also offers suggestions for correcting these misspellings, either using its own guessing algorithm or one of several external programs. It maintains per-file, per-directory, and global ignore lists. A traditional spell-buffer-or-region command and a spell-grep command to list all misspelled words are also available.
4. A new context-sensitive help feature provides help on language keywords using flexible mode-based rules. It includes built-in rules for C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Visual Basic, LaTeX, Shell scripts, VHDL, Tcl, and EEL, and you can customize them by simply setting a variable. Rules can offer help by conducting a web search, accessing Windows-based help in various formats, displaying Info documentation, and other methods.
5. A new browse-symbol command provides an enhanced interface to the source code browser database generated by Microsoft compilers. Epsilon can display the names of all functions that read or write a certain variable or call a particular function, and show the actual lines that do so, letting you quickly navigate to one. Results can be filtered in various ways. You can now use Epsilon's native tagging facility side by side with a browser database.
6. More Major Features:
   • Epsilon now prompts for SCP passwords and passphrases, automatically restarts disconnected SCP jobs, and detects when an SCP URL names a directory. Grep and completion now work on ftp:// filenames.
   • The new align-region command makes it easy to have various language elements line up into columns.
   • The new compare-to-prior-version command shows what changes you've made in the current editing session.
   • The new undo-movements and redo-movements commands return to those locations in a large file where you've made modifications before.
   • A new mode supports the Tcl language.
   • Epsilon for Unix supports new-style clipboard usage under X11, distinguishing between the primary selection and the clipboard. This helps it interact more naturally with KDE and Gnome programs. Setting the clipboard-format variable to 1 mimics Epsilon's previous behavior of only using the primary selection. Middle-clicking, which normally performs pan-style scrolling, now inserts the primary selection when shift-clicked.