Aba 2.8 released

9 Mar 2025

The new version goes beyond just search and replace; it allows you to convert text and images to and from Base64, encode and decode HTML entities like <, encode and decode percent-encoding (also known as URL encoding), decode JSON Web Tokens, and convert Unix/JavaScript timestamps to dates and vice versa.

Other new features and fixes include:

• Fixed: a long file name was cut in the combobox (many thanks to Duane who reported the bug).
• An option to disable the dot matches newline mode (the \s modifier; thanks to Helmet for the idea).
• Line numbers in the text viewer (thanks to Yonatan).
• An option to preserve the files' date/time (thanks to Duane).
• Syntax highlighting for Scala and Go.
• Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc. to switch between the tabs.
• Updated translations.
• Fixed: when reading from disk failed, Aba crashed (mostly applicable to old HDDs and network drives).
• Fixed: incorrect cursor position for Chinese characters.
• Fixed: excessive completion sound when the search pattern was changed.
• Fixed: in the Undo > In files field, the vertical scrollbar was displayed for long directory names.
• Fixed: in some cases, a previous file name remained in the status bar when the search did not find anything.

Just as always, the upgrade is free for the registered users.

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