Version 2.3.0 adds international and 64-bit

Andrew Redd — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:37:35 -0000

Great news. NppToR 2.3.0 was just released. There two noticeable improvements. First NppToR now handles passing Unicode strings for international characters. Since Notepad++ is Unicode now, NppToR supports it now as well.

Second there was a problem with reading the registry for 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. That has now been fixed and the R-home and Notepad++ directories are read from the registry as they should be when running NppToR on a 64-bit system.

Of the less noticeable changes, the clipboard restoring is managed a bit better and there is now a silent install option.

NppToR-1.9.3 is feature complete

Andrew Redd — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:16:43 -0000

Version 1.9.3 was just released. I did a lot more tweeking with the syntax generator that should make it a lot more friendly for both install and updates afterwords. There is even a front end now, accessible through the menu. Which brings me to the point. This is now feature complete for my plans for version 2.0. From here I only plan on bug fixes if any come in.

I have a few things in mind for Version 3 that I'm not even sure are possible, but for now enjoy, and happy coding. If there are any suggestions please post a feature request I would love to hear how you think it could be better.

Minor bug fixes in NppToR-1.9.1

Andrew Redd — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:53:39 -0000

I've fixed a few bugs with from the 1.9.0. The syntax generation is still really slow. I'll be working on that next in my spare time.

Version 1.9.0 make major improvements

Andrew Redd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:10:00 -0000

Version 1.9.0 has just been released. This makes some major improvements over the previous 1.5. The version jump to 1.9 is to reflect that this is one step away from my planned version 2. All the functionality that I had planned to have in version 2 is there, but some of it could do with some improvement. A few people have been wanting me to get out a new version with these improvements.

The biggest improvement is the dynamic syntax highlighting. The highlighting is no longer fixed but generated at install time depending on the packages present in the R library. There is also a new menu command to regenerate the files after a new package is installed and your looking to highlight the new function names. Along with this is a slightly modified color scheme. Red is for builtin keywords as before, but fuchsia is used for keywords from base packages, blue for those from recommended packages, these were both blue before. The user packages are bolded. I would appreciate some comments on how to improve the color scheme. Let me know what color scheme you use.

Also new is a Simulation Dialog box. It monitors the active simulations (running locally only for now), and gives you the start time the time it's been running and the option to kill active simulations.

The improved setup is also very nice. it will no longer overwrite or delete other user defined languages as it did in the past, which several people have complained about. Also important is the fact that since The Notepad++ settings are defined on the user level, NppToR is also defined on the user level and so the Installer reflects this and should not require admin privilages.

NppToR also plays more friendly with R, or not. it forces R to run in the correct single document interface mode. It also sets notepad++ as the default editor for R so that commands like fix and edit with open a notepad++ window rather than an internal editor window. Unfortunately this is only for the R processes spawned by NppToR, and the new script command still does not work.

Enjoy the improvements and let me know your thoughts.

Version 1.4 released

Andrew Redd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:25:09 -0000

Version 1.4 released today Nov 13. Here are the major improvements:
Totally customizable hotkeys.
improved performance.
no longer activates R to pass code.
integrated passing to putty (for execution on remote servers)

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