EmEditor Text Editor

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Install Can you tell me how to install the new version of EmEditor? 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? Installation folder is set to C:\Program Files\EmEditor3. Is this correct? What do I do if EmEditor crashes when starting or editing? How can I remove the EmEditor Tray Icon permanently? How can I install EmEditor without displaying dialog boxes? How can I change the install folder? How can I install an EmEditor syntax file? 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? When EmEditor Professional is installed, the associated text file icon does not become one of EmEditor's icons. EmEditor does not run. 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? 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? 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 do I print my document in color or in black and white? What can I do to speed up opening a very large file? How can I paste a Japanese (or Korean, Chinese, etc.) Word document into EmEditor and save as a text file? 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? Can I open GB18030 files? How can I convert file encodings by the command line? How can I open a file with a certain file extension by double clicking in Explorer? How can I open a file exclusively? How can I convert the encoding of all files in the specified folder to a specified encoding? Internet Explorer terminates when I view source of a local HTML file and then save the file. What are three invalid characters at the beginning of my file? Edit How can I select the text with the keyboard? Can I insert control characters such as form feeds? I cannot paste text correctly when the content in the Clipboard has been copied from another application such as Netscape Navigator. How do I insert special characters? How can I select a column block of text? Where can I download Microsoft Global IME? How can I undo inserted strings character by character using the Undo command? How can I sort lines in alphabetical or numerical order? How can I check spelling? How can I assign a shortcut key to insert a special character? The Find Matching Parenthesis/Bracket command (CTRL+]) doesn't work. How can I enable this command? 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? 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? Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks? 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? When do I use Font Category under the View menu? How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page? I never had this problem, but now something changed in my configuration. What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line? 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? I don't like the new toyish Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons? Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon? How can I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors? How can I display an underline at the cursor position? How can I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))? The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker? How can I find the number of the words in the selection? How can I decode Numeric Character References ("&#xxx") in Unicode characters? How can I find the return type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line? How can I add the Marks button to the Toolbar? How can I display line numbers? Customize How can my favorite mail software run when clicking mail address? Clicking URLs will not run my favorite web browser. How can I make the year 4 digits when you insert dates? How can I open the Input Method Editor (IME) automatically when running EmEditor? How can I copy configuration properties on one machine to another? Why is there no ASP configuration? What is "HTML" and "HTML-Embedded" in Special Syntax combo box on the Highlight (2) tab of Properties? Can EmEditor encode Unicode characters as "Numerical Character References" (NCRs - those &#xxx; codes) when saving HTML or XML files? 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? After updating EmEditor to the newest version, how can I add the new commands to a menu or add the new keyboard shortcuts? How can I define two-keystroke keyboard shortcuts? Macros Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function? Tools How can I run an external compiler from EmEditor to compile the current file? Can I save multiple macros to files? 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? 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? 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? Uninstall 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? I cannot uninstall an older version of EmEditor from the "Add or Remove Programs" of Control Panel. How can I uninstall the older version? Plug-ins How can I enable the Outline Guide (Code Folding) while hiding the Outline Custom Bar? Why do I need to click the FindBar plug-in button twice in order to close the FindBar? Troubleshooting How can I create a Dr. Watson log?

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Install

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Edit

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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?
Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks?
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?
When do I use Font Category under the View menu?
How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page? I never had this problem, but now something changed in my configuration.
What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line?
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?
I don't like the new toyish Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons?
Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon?
How can I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors?
How can I display an underline at the cursor position?
How can I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))?
The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker?
How can I find the number of the words in the selection?
How can I decode Numeric Character References ("&#xxx") in Unicode characters?
How can I find the return type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line?
How can I add the Marks button to the Toolbar?
How can I display line numbers?

Customize

Macros

Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function?

Tools

Window

Purchase

Uninstall

Plug-ins

Troubleshooting

How can I create a Dr. Watson log?