You may have noticed that we recently redesigned our entire web site. Multiple URLs where combined under the www.sapien.com home and we are pretty happy with the result. However, that means that some old blog articles link to pages which no longer exist. The most common question we get is where the Community Tools went […]
Tag: PrimalPad
Back from TechEd: What’s wrong with using Notepad?
Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: “I use notepad, it works fine”, “Notepad is just on every machine” or “What would you do that Notepad can’t do.?” Others bowed their head almost in shame while admitting that […]
PrimalPad updated to export scripts as HTML
Every now and then you need to put a script as its own documentation somewhere. Either on a blog for others to see or on some internal web site for documentation. PrimalPad has been updated to include that functionality.Simply click File – Export to HTML… and it will save your script as colored HTML. The […]
PrimalPad Community Edition update
PrimalPad has been updated to recognize all PowerShell V2 keywords and cmdlets for syntax coloring. Check your Help -> About and look at the version number, if it’s not 1.0.13 you may want to head over to our Community Tools site and download it in your color and platform of choice.
PrimalPad Community Edition update for Windows 7
PrimalPad has been updated (1.0.12) to support Windows 7’s taskbar thumbnails for open documents. It shows all open documents as thumbnails and switches the current document temporarily as you hover over a thumbnail. For those who wish to go with the default Windows 7 thumbnail, which only shows the currently active document, go to View […]
PrimalPad and registry access.
We have received some feedback that PrimalPad’s saving its settings to a computer’s registry reduces its role as portable editor. You can easily avoid that by placing a primalpad.ini file next to the PrimalPad.exe on your flash drive. PrimalPad will write and read its settings to and from that file rather than the registry. You […]
Why is it so dark in here?
The most common comment we received about PrimalPad was about the choice of color for the skin. Many users emailed us, expressing that they would wish for a different choice than the carbon theme. Since PrimalPad is a statically linked no-install executable, there is no on the fly switching as in PrimalScript or many other […]
Registering PrimalPad as your default editor
Associating a file type with a specific application has always been fairly easy to do under the various incarnations of Windows. Basically, you can right-click on a file of the type you wish to use, select the Open With | Choose Program context menu option, then select the program like PrimalPad from the list or […]
Sometimes all you need is an editor
System Administrator are a busy lot and some of them literally run around all day fighting fires on computers no longer connected to anything. Others use remote access to tend to a large number of servers. Or both. Thanks to scripting, most repetitive tasks are taken care of. But sometimes you need to double check […]
