Developer’s Description
Providing support for C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, and Ruby languages, this editor comes with an intuitive interface and simple controls
Portable EditRocket
Review by Mihaela Teodorovici on November 5, 2021
What’s new in Portable EditRocket 4.5.11:
- Enhancements:
- Added a Tools -> Base64 Encoder tool
- Added a Tools -> Base64 Decoder tool
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A reliable source code editor is a must-have for any programmer, regardless of their previous experience. While some can get accustomed to write code using a simple text editor such as Notepad, the majority call to a dedicated source code editor, given that the latter brings to the table a few functions meant to make the programmer’s life easier.
One good example is Portable EditRocket, a text editor and development tool that comes with support for more than 20 programming languages, providing syntax highlighting, database support, auto-completion, bookmarks, macros, and more, as detailed below.
A portable code editor
First of all, it is worth mentioning that Portable EditRocket is the install-free counterpart of EditRocket, meaning it does not require users to go through a setup process. Instead, it is up and ready for use as soon as you double-click on the executable file.
Additionally, Portable EditRocket leaves no traces on the host system and does not modify the system’s registry. As a plus, it can be used on the go, directly from a removable drive.
HTML and CSS support
Upon launch, Portable EditRocket greets its users with usage tips that help you get the most out of the editor. The application features syntax highlighting and auto-completion for all the supported programming languages, as well as code builders and coding assistants for some. As a plus, it comes with code inserts and suggestions and it even features various customizable code templates.
The application is capable of creating CSS style sheets and it comes with code manipulation tools for HTML, such as the tag builder, the tidy tool, the entity selector and the integrated validators. It also features a text to HTML converter, as well as built-in HTML wizards to help users create HTML tags easier and faster.
A few other productivity tools allow users to manipulate code with ease. Portable EditRocket comes with advanced code navigation tools (tab navigator, function / method navigator and lookup function, key ahead and bookmarks).
A powerful source code editor
The user-friendly source code editor and the support for so many programming languages turns Portable EditRocket into a pretty versatile tool. The application delivers an all-in-one package that is ready to meet the requirements of all programmers, with productivity tools that allow code editing and debugging.
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The EditRocket download is a full trial version that includes all features.
The download expires 30 days after the first use. After the expiration, a registration code / serial number
must be purchased to continue using EditRocket.
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Portable EditRocket is a complex programming text editor which supports over twenty languages, such as C++, CSS, HTML, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, XML and Java.
This is the portable version of EditRocket, which means you can easily skip the installation process. As a consequence, the Windows registry will not suffer any changes, and after its removal, there will be no leftovers.
You should also know that dropping the program files to a portable storage unit (e.g. USB flash drive), you can run Portable EditRocket on any computer you can get your hands on, by just clicking the EXE.
The interface is pretty straightforward, thus allowing all user categories to find their way around it with great ease. It encloses a menu bar, a few shortcut buttons, a folder structure and a panel where to input scripts.
It enables you to use sidekicks in many of the supported languages, so that you can write much faster. You can open a URL in order to view how the code was written, as well as compare two files.
You can undo or redo actions, cut, copy, paste and delete elements, go to the beginning or the end of a line, previous or next word and paragraph, use a search function or a find and replace tool, as well as add bookmarks and duplicate lines.
It is possible to view word count, ASCII table, insert special characters, use a spell checker, text to HTML converter, and various HTML wizards. Help contents are provided online, while the utility requires little CPU and memory.
Taking all of this into consideration, we can safely say Portable EditRocket is an efficient piece of software, for both novice and power users, with a good response time, feature-rich environment and intuitive UI.
Portable EditRocket 4.5.11 full description
Portable EditRocket application was designed to be a powerful an easy to use programming text editor that supports 20 languages such as: C, Shell Script, Ruby, Batch, C , C#, COBOL, JSP, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Python, Perl, XML, SQL PL, and Transact-SQL.
FEATURES:
Editing Tools:
· Auto Tag Closure for XML and HTML
· Auto Tag Complete for HTML tags in PHP, JSP, and HTML pages
· Auto Code Block completion for C style languages when entering open curly brackets
· Auto Method / Function Completion / Lookup for Java, JSP, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby
· Auto system package procedure lookup / completion for PL/SQL
· Key Ahead functionality that is customizable by programming language for quickly entering text
· Bookmark functionality for quickly navigating through code.
· Recordable macros for quickly executing common tasks
· Select Text options for quickly selecting lines, paragraphs, words, and pages
· Delete Text options for quickly deleting lines, paragraphs, words, and pages
· Favorites and Recent Files options for bookmarking files or quickly viewing previously opened files
· Customizable keyboard shortcuts
· Spell Checker
Search Tools:
· A Find / Replace / Replace All tool with options for regular expression searching, direction, selected lines vs. the whole document searching, case sensitivity, wrap search, whole wordd search, showing found lines, and counting found objects
· A Find / Replace In Files Tool for finding or replacing text in files that has the ability to recursively search directories.
· A Find in Open Editors tool for finding text containted in open editor tabs
· A Goto Line Tool for taking a user directly to the specified line
· A Match Bracket tool for matching brackets, parentheses, and curly braces
· A Match Tag Tool for matching XML or HTML tags
· A Replace Range Tool for replacing sections of lines
File System Tools:
· A File System Browser with the ability to show files on the user’s machine in an expandable tree structure
· A Regular Expression capable search tool for searching files
· A Head tool for getting the first so many lines from a document as specified by the user
· A Tail Tool for getting the last so many lines from a document as specified by the user
· A Get Section Tool for getting text from the middle of a document
· Tools for renaming, moving, deleting, and copying files
· Tools for displaying File sizes, permissions, and other information
· A File Compare Tool for comparing files
Programming Tools:
· Syntax Highlighting for ActionScript, Ada, Batch, C, COBOL, CSS, C++, C#, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, PHP, Perl, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, TransactSQL, and XML
· Coding Sidekicks for C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, Transact SQL, and XML
· Code Builders for many programming languages such as C, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script and Transact-SQL
· A CSS Style Builder for generating CSS style sheets
· A CSS Validator for validating CSS style sheets
· An HTML Validator for validating HTML content
· An HTML Tag builder for selecting HTML tags and their attributes and listeners
· An HTML Tidy tool for cleaning up HTML source
· An HTML Entity selector
· An XML Validator for validating XML syntax or validating against XML schemas
· An XML Tree View tool
· Java Tools for looking up methods, compiling Java, or generating getter and setter methods
· HTML Tools for encoding and decoding URLs, converting selections to hyperlinks, and wrapping selections or lines in tags
· XML Tools for converting characters to entities and entites to characters and wrapping selections in tags
· Integration with local web servers for JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby
· A Tag Navigator Tool for displaying a clickable list of all HTML or XML tags in a document