What's New?

WinEdt 8.0 is now the official version of the program. Below you will find the changes log pertaining to the latest version and build of WinEdt...

        * WinEdt News.txt
        Last modified on Tuesday, May 7, 2013  14:42
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        WinEdt 8 is a Unicode (UTF-8) text editor built on WinEdt 7 sources
        and compiled with Delphi XE3.

        UPGRADING ISSUES:
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        WinEdt 8 is installed parallel to WinEdt 7, 6 or 5 and you can
        continue to use an older version of WinEdt and possibly uninstall
        WinEdt 8 if you prefer the old version.

        IMPORTANT: If you already have WinEdt 5.x or 6 on your system you
        cannot import your old settings directly into WinEdt 8! If you
        already have WinEdt 7 installed the migration is easy: just execute
        the command 'Import WinEdt 7 Settings' from within WinEdt 8 and
        you're done...

            Upgrading WinEdt 8 series from here on will be easy since your
            local settings are preserved during upgrades. Executing the
            command 'Upgrade Personal Configuration' will merge your custom
            settings with the new defaults.

        REGISTRATION: WinEdt 8 series uses the same Registration Data as
        WinEdt 7 and 6. You will, however, have to enter the data (Name and
        Code) again in the Registration Dialog of WinEdt 8. WinEdt 5 users
        will have to pay an upgrade fee if they want to register WinEdt 8
        (see www.winedt.com for details).

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        WinEdt 8 [Build 20130513 (v. 8.0)]
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        - Internal code has been optimized and overall performance of
        WinEdt has been improved (particularly noticeable in large TeX or
        HTML documents).

        - Brand new section [FOLDING] that controls code folding
        functionality has been added... See FOLDING in the Configuration
        Manual index for the details.

        - New macros that control folding functionality:

            ShowFoldingMargin(Visible: -1..1);

          Note: folding functionality is only enabled when the folding
          margin is visible. Folding margin has its own context-sensitive
          popup menu in response to right mouse clicks.

            FoldNodes(All: 0..1, Subnodes: 0..1, "Category_Filter",
                      exclude_current_line: 0..1);
            UnfoldNodes(All: 0..1, Subnodes: 0..1, "Category_Filter");

          Optional Category_Filter allows you to affect only nodes that has
          been assigned to a certain category.

        - Preference Dialog| Appearance allows you to enable and disable
        code folding functionality for certain modes.

        - Shortcut F7 toggles visibility of the folding margin and can be
        used to temporarily enable or disable this functionality... The
        following commands, also available in the context popup menu, can
        be accessed through the shortcuts:

          Ctrl+F7           Fold All
          Shift+F7          Fold Surrounding Nodes
          Shift+Ctrl+F7     Unfold All

        - Detection of Errors and Warnings in LOG files has been improved
        (once again!).

        - A few oddities with collection of unwanted data inside softly
        wrapped comments or paragraphs have been fixed...

        - Performance for collecting Tree and Gather Items (most noticeably
        bibliography) has been optimized and improved...

        - A new configuration macro:

          LoadPrjList("ProjectList.dat", Open_Top_Project: 0..1);

        If the filename is not specified then the default project list as
        specified in the [PROJECT_MANAGER] configuration section:

          PROJECT_LIST_DATA_FILE="%b\WinEdt-PrjList.dat"

        is used.

        The second parameter is ignored unless an empty instance of WinEdt
        (with no opened project and no documents) is running.

        - A new property VERBATIM=0/1 can now be assigned to [SWITCHES]
        items. This property is used to prevent WinEdt from gathering data
        and input directives inside such environments.

        - A new property ALLOW_INDENTED_ENVIRONMENTS=0/1 in
        [HIGHLIGHTING_EFFECTS] can be used to disable the indentation of
        environment backgrounds. This is also available in Preference
        Dialog| Highlighting.

        - A new property WRAP_ENVIRONMENTS=0/1 in [PRINT] can be used to
        enable or disable wrapping of special environments (as defined in
        the [ENVIRONMENTS] section) when printing. This option is also
        available in the Print Dialog.

        - MENU can now be ended by an optional END property in [MAIN_MENU]
        and [POPUP_MENUS] for visual feedback. The same applies to BRANCH
        and ITEM in [NAVIGATION_BAR], to PAGE and ITEM in [GATHER], and to
        INPUT in [INPUT_DIRECTIVES].

        - END_TABLE property has been replaced with END (for consistency
        with other sections that use END)...

        - BRANCH/PAGE_IGNORE_COMMENTS and BEGINNING_OF_LINE_ONLY properties
        in [NAVIGATION_BAR] and [GATHER] no longer use negative values for
        managing DTX items. These items are now handled through a new
        LINE_START property. The same has been done in [INPUT_DIRECTIVES]
        and [FOLDING].

        - Summary of changes to Configuration Keywords:

        [INPUT_DIRECTIVES]

          These are new:
            LINE_START
            IGNORE_COMMENTS
            IGNORE_VERBATIM
            END

        [NAVIGATION_BAR]

          These are new:
            BRANCH_IGNORE_VERBATIM
            LINE_START
            EXCEPTION
            END

          This is no longer supported and has to be removed:
            START

          These have their range changed:
            BRANCH_IGNORE_COMMENTS
            BEGINNING_OF_LINE_ONLY

        [GATHER]

          These are new:
            PAGE_IGNORE_VERBATIM
            LINE_START
            EXCEPTION
            END

          This is no longer supported and has to be removed:
            START

          These have their range changed:
            PAGE_IGNORE_COMMENTS
            BEGINNING_OF_LINE_ONLY

        [TRANSLATION_TABLES]

          Replacement:
            END_TABLE -> END

        [SORTING]

          Replacement:
            END_TABLE -> END

        [SWITCHES]

          This is new:
            VERBATIM

        [HIGHLIGHTING_EFFECTS]

          This is new:
            ALLOW_INDENTED_ENVIRONMENTS

        [BACKGROUND_SCHEMES]

          These are new:
            FOLDING_MARGIN_MODE
            SCOPE_COLOR
            SCOPE_RGB
            SCOPE_HOT_COLOR
            SCOPE_HOT_RGB

        [PRINT]

          This is new:
            WRAP_ENVIRONMENTS

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        WinEdt 7 [Build 20130321 (v. 7.1)]
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        (see History)...

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