EditPad Pro is a powerful text editor with built-in support for many file types, including syntax coloring or syntax highlighting for such files. If your favorite file type is not supported, you can create your own syntax coloring scheme for that file type. After creating your scheme, you can upload it to this web site (see below) and share it with other people. If you’re lucky, somebody else may have already created a coloring scheme for the file type you want to work with. In that case, you can simply download and install that scheme.
The easiest way to download and install a custom syntax coloring scheme is to pick Options|
If you cannot use EditPad Pro’s built-in download mechanism, you can download the schemes with a web browser using one of the links below. After downloading a .jgcscs scheme file place it into the folder %APPDATA%\JGsoft\EditPad Pro 8 under your Windows user profile. Go into Options|
See the list of Custom Syntax Coloring Schemes available for download.
Important: The custom syntax coloring schemes listed on this web site only work with EditPad Lite 8.x.x and EditPad Pro 8.x.x. If you are using an older version of EditPad Pro or if you are using PowerGREP, RegexBuddy, or RegexMagic, then you can download custom syntax coloring schemes within the software, as follows:
While many text editors support some form of syntax coloring, none do so in a way as flexible as EditPad Pro. Most other text editors allow you to customize keywords and delimiters for common programming language constructs. This effectively limits their use to standard programming languages.
Custom syntax coloring schemes for EditPad Pro are based on regular expressions. Regular expressions are a widely used pattern language for matching bits of text. By combining multiple regular expressions, you can make EditPad Pro’s syntax coloring schemes highlight any kind of text file with as much or as little detail as you want. No programming skills required!
If you are already somewhat familiar with regular expressions, creating a custom scheme is quite easy and straightforward with the JGsoft Custom Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor. If you have purchased EditPad Pro, you can download the scheme editor by entering your email address and EditPad Pro user ID below.
The scheme editor includes full documentation in the form of a help file. I recommend you read through the help file before creating your own coloring schemes. It contains quite a few tips for crafting useful and efficient schemes. You can also download the documentation for version 5 of the scheme editor in PDF format.
You can use the scheme editor to edit all schemes that are included with EditPad Pro as .jgcscs files, as well as all the schemes you’ve downloaded.
The version of the scheme editor you’ll get depends on the version of EditPad that your license is valid for. The scheme editor is also available to users of several other Just Great Software products.
To edit the schemes included with EditPad Pro or your other product you need the version of the scheme editor for each product. To create a brand new scheme that needs to work with multiple products or multiple versions of a product, use the version of the scheme editor that targets the oldest product that you want to support. To create a scheme for both EditPad Pro 8.x.x and PowerGREP 5.x.x, for example, you can use JGCSCSE 4.x.x. Newer versions of our products can use schemes created for older versions. Newer versions of the scheme editor can open schemes created with older versions. But the scheme editor can only save the latest version of the scheme format that it supports.
You only need to edit schemes if you want to adapt them to different file formats. You don’t need to edit the schemes if you only want to change the colors (e.g. you want comments to be blue instead of green). In EditPad Pro 7 you can change the colors for each file type via Options|
If you want to make your own syntax coloring scheme available for download, please enter the complete path to the .jgcscs file on your local hard disk below. Your web browser will then upload the file to our web server, where it will be stored and made available for download.
Only licensed users of EditPad Pro, PowerGREP and RegexBuddy are allowed to upload their schemes to our web site. Therefore, we ask that you enter your EditPad Pro, PowerGREP or RegexBuddy user ID below, as well as the email address associated with your license. This is the same user ID and email address that you would use to download your fully licensed copy of EditPad Pro, PowerGREP or RegexBuddy. Note that your email address is needed for verification only. It will not be displayed on this web site.
If you have updated your scheme, simply upload it again using the above form. The server will notice that a scheme with the same file name was already uploaded by you (you are identified by your user ID). The previous version will then be replaced with the new version.
Note that other people will not be able to overwrite your scheme. If they try to upload a scheme with the same file name, they will be asked to rename their scheme and then upload again.
If you want to remove a scheme file that you previously uploaded, please enter the file name of the scheme (e.g. MyScheme.jgcscs) below. You also need to enter the EditPad Pro, PowerGREP, RegexBuddy, or RegexMagic user ID and email address that you used to upload the scheme. You can only delete schemes that you uploaded yourself.