EmEditor Text Editor

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Install Can you tell me how to install the new version of EmEditor? When does EmEditor submit a portion of the registration key via Internet? EmEditor does not run. When EmEditor Professional is installed, the associated text file icon does not become one of EmEditor's icons. How can I change the install folder? I am using a new version (or a new beta version) of EmEditor. Can I install an older version of EmEditor without uninstalling the new version? How can I install an EmEditor syntax file? How can I install EmEditor without displaying dialog boxes? How can I remove the EmEditor Tray Icon permanently? What do I do if EmEditor crashes when starting or editing? Installation folder is set to C:\Program Files\EmEditor3. Is this correct? I am using a previous version of EmEditor. Can I install a newer version of EmEditor without uninstalling the previous version? Can both the old version of EmEditor and new version of EmEditor coexist on the same computer? Can I install and use EmEditor, and enter a registration key even without an Internet connection? Plug-ins Why do I need to click the FindBar plug-in button twice in order to close the FindBar? How can I enable the Outline Guide (Code Folding) while hiding the Outline Custom Bar? Uninstall I cannot uninstall an older version of EmEditor from the "Add or Remove Programs" of Control Panel. How can I uninstall the older version? I was using EmEditor on a trial basis and decided I don't want to purchase it. How do I uninstall EmEditor? I have uninstalled EmEditor. When I double click a file to open the file, my computer looks for EmEditor. Since EmEditor does not exist in my computer anymore, I can't open the file. How do I open such a file? After I uninstalled EmEditor, why isn't the source code displayed in notepad when I select View Source from the context menu in Internet Explorer? After I uninstalled EmEditor, emedtray.exe and emedres.dll are still in the folder C:\Program Files\EmEditor. How do I delete them? Purchase If I purchase EmEditor, can I get the newer version for free? Or do I have to pay for the registration fee every time I get a new version? How can I find whether the currently installed EmEditor is Professional or Standard? Window What is the split window for? How can I save the EmEditor window size, and always open EmEditor windows at the same size? How can I always open EmEditor windows at the maximized size? How can I save the current positions of all EmEditor windows, and open all the windows at the same positions next time? How can EmEditor display as if it were a tabbed window? Why doesn't the Cascade or Tile command work? How can I make the EmEditor window stay open when I close the last open document? Is there a way to make EmEditor move through document tabs in sequential order from left to right? Tools How can I do a Google search for the word at the current cursor position? I want to compile the opened file with an external tool in Command Prompt, but how can I keep the Command Prompt window from closing after the compilation is finished? What are examples of External Tools configuration? How can I run an external compiler from EmEditor to compile the current file? Can I save multiple macros to files? Macros Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function? Customize How can my favorite mail software run when clicking mail address? After updating EmEditor to the newest version, how can I add the new commands to a menu or add the new keyboard shortcuts? There is no encoding available in the Reload sub menu under the File menu except Same Encoding, Detect All, System Default, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, and UTF-7. How can I add more code pages? Can EmEditor encode Unicode characters as "Numerical Character References" (NCRs - those &#xxx; codes) when saving HTML or XML files? What is "HTML" and "HTML-Embedded" in Special Syntax combo box on the Highlight (2) tab of Properties? Why is there no ASP configuration? How can I copy configuration properties on one machine to another? How can I open the Input Method Editor (IME) automatically when running EmEditor? How can I make the year 4 digits when you insert dates? Clicking URLs will not run my favorite web browser. How can I define two-keystroke keyboard shortcuts? View The cursor shape used to look like 'I' but now it looks like a solid rectangle. When I type a letter, it is not inserted but overwrites an existing character. What happened? How can I add the Marks button to the Toolbar? How can I find the return type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line? How can I decode Numeric Character References ("&#xxx") in Unicode characters? How can I find the number of the words in the selection? The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker? How can I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))? How can I display an underline at the cursor position? How can I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors? Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon? I don't like the new toyish Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons? I display line numbers on the left edge of EmEditor window. When a line is wrapped, I do not want to see the line number incremented within the logical line. How do I configure this behavior? What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line? How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page? I never had this problem, but now something changed in my configuration. When do I use Font Category under the View menu? When I open a file using the default settings, it becomes unreadable, and if I choose another character set from the Font Category sub menu under the View menu, it becomes worse. But if I select a proper encoding when I open the file, it works. Why? Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks? How can I display line numbers? Search How can I erase all the previous words in the Find box? In the Find in Files dialog box, can I search for a string in Japanese JIS or EUC files? Can I use regular expressions to search or replace? How can I search for a word at the beginning of lines or a word at the end of lines? What are examples of regular expressions? Why doesn't EmEditor highlight multi-line strings? Why is the Find/Replace dialog box so big? How can I enter a multiple-line string as a search string in the Find/Replace dialog box? Edit How can I select the text with the keyboard? How can I check spelling? The Find Matching Parenthesis/Bracket command (CTRL+]) doesn't work. How can I enable this command? How can I sort lines in alphabetical or numerical order? How can I undo inserted strings character by character using the Undo command? Where can I download Microsoft Global IME? How can I select a column block of text? How do I insert special characters? I cannot paste text correctly when the content in the Clipboard has been copied from another application such as Netscape Navigator. Can I insert control characters such as form feeds? How can I assign a shortcut key to insert a special character? File When I try saving a file as a file name without an extension, ".txt" will be added automatically. How can I prevent an extension from being added to a file name? How can I open an XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8? How can I start a new Java file or XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8? EmEditor is specified as an external text editor from another application. Why doesn't the change made by EmEditor reflect the application? How can I open a file with a certain file extension by double clicking in Explorer? How can I convert file encodings by the command line? Can I open GB18030 files? How can I open a file exclusively? Internet Explorer terminates when I view source of a local HTML file and then save the file. How can I paste a Japanese (or Korean, Chinese, etc.) Word document into EmEditor and save as a text file? What can I do to speed up opening a very large file? How do I print my document in color or in black and white? When opening a file, EmEditor detects the file as a Western European even though it is actually a Japanese (Shift JIS) file. How can I close all windows at the same time? How can I open from the same folder in the open dialog? How can I save an empty file? Printing font size is too small. When reading Macintosh text files, some characters are converted to different characters. How can I read Macintosh text files correctly? What are three invalid characters at the beginning of my file? When using a shared folder on a network, is it possible to prevent other users from making changes to a file that I have open and I am working on? How can I convert the encoding of all files in the specified folder to a specified encoding? Troubleshooting How can I create a Dr. Watson log?

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Install

Plug-ins

Why do I need to click the FindBar plug-in button twice in order to close the FindBar?
How can I enable the Outline Guide (Code Folding) while hiding the Outline Custom Bar?

Uninstall

I cannot uninstall an older version of EmEditor from the "Add or Remove Programs" of Control Panel. How can I uninstall the older version?
I was using EmEditor on a trial basis and decided I don't want to purchase it. How do I uninstall EmEditor?
I have uninstalled EmEditor. When I double click a file to open the file, my computer looks for EmEditor. Since EmEditor does not exist in my computer anymore, I can't open the file. How do I open such a file?
After I uninstalled EmEditor, why isn't the source code displayed in notepad when I select View Source from the context menu in Internet Explorer?
After I uninstalled EmEditor, emedtray.exe and emedres.dll are still in the folder C:\Program Files\EmEditor. How do I delete them?

Purchase

Window

Tools

Macros

Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function?

Customize

View

Edit

File

Troubleshooting

How can I create a Dr. Watson log?