• Word anchor matching - Match a word boundary or anything except at a word boundary.
• Extended escape sequence - Match all characters as literals until reaching a specified point.
• Case-sensitive matching - Match the casing of text or ignore case.
• Character case modification on replace - Convert matched characters to upper- or lowercase.

• Tagging operations run off current identifier - Previously, Context Tagging relied on word characters to find identifiers in the code being analyzed. Now, Context Tagging operations are based on the current identifier. If you are creating color coding support for a new language, you can adjust ID start and follow characters by using the Identifiers options on the Tokens tab of the language-specific Color Coding options screen (Window > SlickEdit Preferences, expand Languages and your language category, then select your language and click Color Coding).

• A new Context Tagging option is available for all languages: Go to Definition ignores forward class declarations. This option is on by default. When on, Go to Definition will filter out forward class declarations and only show you the actual class definitions. Note that when this option is off, turning on Go to Definition navigates to symbol definition (proc) will still navigate directly to the class definition, as it did before. However, Go to Definition navigates to symbol declaration (proto) will not navigate directly to forward class declarations (because you never want to actually do that by default). The option also appears on the Select a Tag dialog on first use, like the other Go to Definition options.

• Go to Definition has been enhanced with better centering.

• The grep_tag command now supports wildcards and Perl regular expressions.

• List Members is now supported for PHP. Local variables in PHP (those that are not explicitly declared and the function parameters) are now added to the tag files.

• The SlickEdit Core file search is now easier to launch from Eclipse. There is now a file search menu item in the Navigator/Package Explorer views: right-click and select Search With SlickEdit.

• Wildcard regular expression syntax now supports #, which matches any single digit (0-9).

• The gui_goto_col command has been added to the Search menu (Search > Go to Column). This makes it possible for you to record a macro to position the cursor on a particular column (which can also be done by clicking on the status line).

• A new command has been added, find_current, to complement find_next and find_prev. Use this command to jump to the currently selected reference.

• The Color Coding Search Options dialog (accessed by clicking the Color button on the Find and Replace view window) has been changed to show the "modern" names for the sets of symbols. Therefore, the labels for Symbol 1-4 are now Punctuation, Lib symbols, Operators, and User-defined.

• Menus in SlickEdit Core have been updated to match the menus in SlickEdit. The following menu items have been added except as noted otherwise:

* File > Open URL
* Edit > Copy Word
* Edit > Append to Clipboard
* Edit > Copy Append (removed)
* Edit > Cut Append (changed to Edit > Append Cut)
* Format > Adaptive Formatting
* Format > List Open Files (removed)
* Format > Select Mode (now shows current mode)
* Format > Language Options
* Navigate > List Open Files
* Tools > Add Selected Expr (changed to be enabled/disabled based on selection in buffer)
* Tools > Spell Check
* Tools > Imports (enabled/disabled based on current file)
* Tools > Quick Refactoring
* Tools > ASCII Table
* Tools > Validate XML (removed)
* Tools > Well-Formedness Check
* Macro > List User Loaded Modules
* Macro > Load (removed)
* Window > SlickEdit Preferences

• SlickEdit Core now honors settings for Eclipse to shut off or modify Java Live Errors. For example, you can shut off Java Live Errors by going to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > "Report problems as you type". You can also modify what is displayed for Live Errors (i.e. shutting off the squigglies, etc.) and change the style of the error/warning markers from a squiggly to a box or a dashed box. Every other style will default to squiggly. These options are set in Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations.

• Fixed a bug that caused some commenting commands to work improperly from the Format menu.

• Fixed a bug that caused SlickEdit Core to corrupt certain files containing special Unicode characters on save.

• Fixed an issue with Perforce support in SlickEdit Core that prevented expected usability.

• Fixed a bug that caused the bookmark stack to be corrupted.

• Fixed a bug that caused some problems with Selection menu items.

• Fixed a bug that prevented SlickEdit Core from respecting File Options > Encoding value.

• Two enhancements have been made to the Key Bindings options (Window > SlickEdit Preferences > Keyboard > Key Bindings).  First, a new button is available, located next to the Search by key sequence box at the top, that prompts for a list of mouse events that can have bindings, including WheelUp and WheelDn. If you want to add a modifier to the event (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Command), hold down the modifier key(s) when clicking on the mouse event button, and that modifier will automatically prefix the events in the list.

Second, Key Binding options have been enhanced to better handle those SlickEdit Core commands that work on a range of keys. For example, in CUA emulation, the alt_bookmark command is by default bound to Ctrl+0 through Ctrl-9. Ctrl-0 creates a bookmark named "0", Ctrl+1 creates a bookmark named "1", etc. Formerly, Key Binding options did not display any command bindings based on a range of keys, and therefore the command appeared as unbound in the list. Now, these bindings are shown in the list, with the ranges for these commands shown as "Ctrl+0 -> Ctrl+9". These bindings also now appear when you use the Export and Save Chart features. When unbinding one of these commands, SlickEdit Core displays a message asking if you want to remove the entire range from the command. There is no way to remove a single key from within the range; however, you can rebind a key to a different command.

• SlickEdit Core now supports DocBook as a language. DocBook is a DTD set that includes both SGML and XML versions which are used to create technical documentation. Support has also been added for XHTML.

• The Emulation mode is now transferred when upgrading (no more prompt).

• The Fundamental language mode has been renamed as "Plain Text" mode.

• A Binary language mode has been added for viewing non-text files in hex mode.

• Delete Code Block has been enhanced. Now when you use delete_line or cut_line and are prompted with the Delete Code Block dialog, you can just press the key you used to initiate the cut_line to select just to delete the line. This makes it much easier to chain together cut_line's even if you have this feature turned on, since you can use cut_line, get the dialog, use cut_line again to specify to just delete the line, and then continue using cut_line to delete subsequent lines.

• The edit_associated_file command has been added to the Document menu and the right-click context menu (Document > Edit Associated File). It has also been enhanced to support WPF (XAML) files, and the finding of files in different directories.

• In Ada, the ada_enter command now splits lines of syntax-expanded statements.

• SlickEdit Core now detects UTF-8 files without signatures.

• Bookmarks, breakpoints, and annotations are now retained when beautifying, refactoring, auto-reloading, multi-file diffing, and reverting code, and SlickEdit Core attempts to relocate the markers.

• A Delete button has been added to the Bookmarks view window to delete a selected bookmark.

• Color Coding now provides the capability to import lexer definitions from any VLX file. Use the Import button on the language-specific Color Coding options screen (Document > [Language] Options).

• The gui_draw command (Draw Lines dialog) has been enhanced to include an ASCII line drawing option.

• A new configuration variable, def_save_config_on_autosave, has been added for saving the SlickEdit Core config if necessary on the autosave timer. The default value is set to off. Use Macro > Set Macro Variable to enable the option.

• DIFFzilla has been enhanced so that Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Enter, and Ctrl+Shift+Enter work properly in diff mode.

• The Visual Studio emulation has been renamed as the "Visual Studio default" emulation. This change is because Visual Studio has multiple sets of key bindings. They prompt for the kind of development you will be doing and assign a set based on that. If you select "General Development", you are assigned their "default " emulation, which is the emulation supported by SlickEdit Core.

• SlickEdit Core now ships the Mingw version of GDB 6.7.1 on Windows to eliminate the dependency on the Cygwin libraries.

• Alt-hotkeys have been added for the buttons on the Refactoring Results dialog that appears after a refactoring operation.

• The Save Macro dialog (which appears automatically when you stop macro recording) has been enhanced. Now, when you attempt to save a macro with a name that is already taken, SlickEdit Core displays a message asking if you want to overwrite the existing macro. The Save Macro dialog also has a new button: Save and Bind to Key. This saves the new macro and allows you to quickly create a key binding for it with the Key Bindings dialog. You can also create/change key bindings for recorded macros by clicking Bind to Key on the List Macros dialog (Macro > List Macros or list_macros command).

• Structs now behave like Slick-C classes and are their own data type, instead of being represented in the interpreter as arrays.

• Slick-C now supports ISO C struct initializers.

• Wildcard regular expressions are now supported for parse.

• A foreach statement has been added to Slick-C, that works with arrays, hash tables, strings (same as Bourne shell), structs (iterates over the fields of the struct), and classes (if instance of IIterable, otherwise like structs). There is an optional key, which is useful for hash tables. The value may be omitted ( key => . in ht ). value and index can be auto-declared using the auto keyword. If value is auto-declared, its type will be inferred from the type of the collection. The implementation uses _nextel(). The syntax of foreach is:

 
                                foreach
 
                                ( v in a ) {
 
                                statements;
 
                                }
 

• Slick-C now provides the interfaces sc.lang.IEquals and sc.lang.IComparable, which the compiler and interpreter hook into.

• Slick-C now provides the interface IToString for implicit string conversion. If a class implements IToString, then an instance of that class can be implicitly converted to a string, without calling the _toString() method.

• Slick-C now supports the overloading of operator [] and operator :[].

• New #pragma options have been added:

#pragma option(twopass,on) - Specifies that the Slick-C compiler do a two-pass compilation. This allows the compiler to verify all function call signatures even for functions that are declared later in the file.
#pragma option(strictarglists,on) - This makes it an error to have implicitly typeless arguments, for example: void first_char(s) { return substr(s,1,1); }
#pragma option(strictincludes,on) - Verifies that all #import and #include statements preceed any real code in the current module. This is required for two-pass compilation.
#pragma option(strict2,on) - Second generation of strict Slick-C compilation checks. All the options in #pragma option(strict,on), plus the three new options above.

• Slick-C hash tables now support indexing by class objects.

• The Slick-C const declaration now works with Slick-C classes and namespaces. It is no longer be deprecated by default, constants support type inference (so the compiler can tell ints from booleans from strings), constants work in namespaces and classes, constant names and values are stored in the state file in order to allow introspection, and now tagging recognizes the const declaration correctly.

• Slick-C now provides better support for global variable initialization across modules.

• Slick-C now includes namespace default;, which will return you to the "default " global namespace.

• In Vim emulation, you can now press Esc to not only dismiss any codehelp windows, but also enter Command mode. A new configuration variable, def_vim_esc_codehelp (off by default), is available to turn this feature on and off.