Here's your chance to use what will become QCE v3. Before launching this new major release, I'd like forum users to
confirm that everything they actually use in QCE v2 is still running well. My tests are giving good results but I'd prefer to double check with you.
In this release, you will benefit from
new editing features from Scintilla, a powerful open-source code editing component that provides a robust text editing foundation for many popular code editors, including Notepad++ and SciTE. Not all Scintilla features has been implemented yet in Quick Clipboard Editor. But more will be added in future releases.
DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://clipboard.quickaccesspopup.com/beta/?v=2.9.5.1
Version BETA: 2.9.5.1 (2024-11-28)
- Fix bug preventing saved commands to be executed from QCEmessenger
Version BETA: 2.9.5 (2024-11-27)
- Add "multi-typing" (typing in multiple selections or vertical selection):
TYPING IN MULTIPLE SELECTIONS
1) Select multiple portions of text with Ctrl+Click.
2) Move the cursor (Right or Left keys) in all selections simultaneously and start typing to insert or delete text in all selections, or hit Ctrl+V to paste in all selections.
Hit Escape to deselect multiple selections.
TYPING IN A VERTICAL SELECTION
1) Hit simultaneously Shift+Alt+Down or Shift+Alt+Up to position the caret on multiple lines at the same column.
2) Start typing to insert or delete text on all selected lines, or hit Ctrl+V to paste on all lines.
- In "Options, Fonts and colors", redesign the "Colors" section, adding color selection for line number column in the editor
- Automatically restart QCE after resetting the default fonts or colors
Version BETA: 2.9.4.1 (2024-11-22)
- fix a bug in line auto-indentation
Version BETA: 2.9.4 (2024-11-21)
- Under "Options, Scintilla Editor", add the options
- "Show indentation guides" (vertical lines showing indentation accros lines)
- "Auto-indentation" (when pression Enter, start the new line at the same indentation as the previous line)
- Implement the "Tab width" option for the basic editor (at this time only fixed width tab stops)
- Move the "Tab width" option from the "Scintilla Editor" section to the "Editor Window" section as it is now available for both editors
- Disable controls in "Options" dialog box when they are not available depending on the selected editor (basic or Scintilla)
Version BETA: 2.9.3 (2024-11-17)
- add a new section in the "Options" window for "Scintilla Editor" and move existing Scintilla options from "Editor Window" to this new section
- under "Options, Scintilla Editor", add "Tabs width" option with default value of 4 characters
- under "Options, Editor window", add option for "See invisible" default setting
- upgrade Scintilla editor component from v3.7.6 to latest release v5.5.3 (no visible feature changes in QCE)
- include changes to be released in stable release v2.3.2:
- Allow for multiple selection in "Quick Paste" window (to paste or delete multiple clips at once)
- when the window is open with the Win+Ctrl+` hotkey (keeping it open after releasing Ctrl)
- or when user escapes the Quick Patse cycling with the Win escape key
- Fix a bug closing the "Quick Paste" and "History Search" windows when multiple items are selected
- Refactor "Convert, Convert number base" to support hexadecimal numbers w/o "0x" prefix
Version BETA: 2.9.2 (2024-11-13)
SCINTILLA EDITOR
Scintilla is a powerful open-source code editing component used in many popular text editors, including Notepad++ and SciTE.
It is now available in Quick Clipboard Editor:
- Under "Options, Editor Window", the new option "Use Scintilla editor" is enabled by default; deselect it to use the basic editor ("Edit" control) provided by Windows.
- Also under "Options, Editor Window", enable the "Display line numbers" checkbox to show line numbers in the left margin.
ADVANTAGES OF USING THE SCINTILLA EDITOR
MULTIPLE SELECTIONS and RECTANGLES
- Use Ctrl+Click to select more than one section the text.
- Use Alt+Click to select a rectangle of text.
- Once a rectangle or multiple sections has been selected, these commands will be applied to all selected text: Change Case, Substring, Insert String, Filter Lines, Filter Characters, Reformat paragraph, Convert text (all encode and decode commands), Find and Replace (with regular expression), File Save, Convert Colors and Convert Numbers.
HOTKEYS
Use various keyboard shortcuts common to text editors based on Scintilla, including:
- Delete Line Left (Ctrl+Shift+Back)
- Delete Word Left (Ctrl+Back)
- Toggle Overtype (Insert)
- Back Tab (Shift+Tab)
- Selection Duplicate (Ctrl+D)
- Line Cut (Ctrl+L)
- Case Upper (Ctrl+Shift+U)
- Case Lower (Ctrl+U)
- etc.
EDITING
- Edit text with invisible characters is possible (not with the basic editor).
- Lines can be moved up (Shift+Ctrl+Up) or down (Shift+Ctrl+Down) even when word wrap is enabled (not with the basic editor).
- Display line numbers in the left margin.
Notes:
Not all Scintilla features has been implemented yet in Quick Clipboard Editor (for example, syntax highlighting, code folding or auto-completion). But more will be added in future releases, starting with setting tab stops and indentation.
Some hotkeys of QCE v2 has been changed in this release in order to give priority to established Scintilla hotkeys.
- Filter characters: Ctrl+D changed to Shift+Ctrl+D (in Scintilla editor, Ctrl+D is Selection Duplicate)
- Filter lines: Ctrl+L changed to Shift+Ctrl+L (in Scintilla editor, Ctrl+L is Line Cut)
- Sort with options: Ctrl+T changed to Shift+Ctrl+S (in Scintilla editor, Ctrl+T is Line Transpose)
- Close window: Esc key changed for Ctrl+F4 (in Scintilla editor, Esc is use to deselect multiple selections)
See the download link at the top of this thread.