FAQ
Main »» 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? |
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| "Overwrite" mode is turned on. Press the Insert key on your keyboard to toggle "Overwrite" mode. |
| Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks? |
| Yes. On the Marks tab of Properties, check the Show Spaces check box. |
| 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? |
| EmEditor's internal processing is Unicode. EmEditor converts ANSI text to Unicode text when you open an ANSI file. When opening a file, you should select an encoding in the Open dialog box. If you don't select an encoding, EmEditor defaults the file to the system default encoding. In order to open a file with a different encoding, you need to select the desired encoding when you open the file. You can later change the encoding by choosing the Reload command under the File menu choose an encoding to reload the file as. |
| When do I use Font Category under the View menu? |
| EmEditor cannot detect a language from Unicode files. You will have to manually choose a Font Category under the View menu to display a non-default character set in a Unicode file correctly. When creating a new file with a language other than default character set, you also need to select the Font Category you want to use. |
| How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page? I never had this problem, but now something changed in my configuration. |
| On the General tab in the Current Configuration Properties dialog box, uncheck the Display Page Number check box. |
| What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line? |
| Logical coordinates refer to the coordinates in a document regardless of the wrap mode in use. Returns due to the wrapping of lines are not counted. Logical lines refers to the number of lines, discounting lines formed by wrapping, in a document. Display coordinates, on the other hand, include wrapped lines in their sum. |
| 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? |
| On the General tab in the Current Configuration Properties dialog box, select one of the logical coordinates options from the Line and Column Display as combo box. |
| I don't like the new toyish Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons? |
| Yes. Select Customize Toolbar from the Tools menu, and select 16 color. |
| Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon? |
| Yes. Run Registry Editor (RegEdit.exe), and find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EmSoft\EmEditor v3\Common. Create a TrayIconFile value as REG_SZ and set the icon file path, and TrayIconIndex value as REG_DWORD and set the icon index. |
| How can I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors? |
| On the Display tab in the Current Configuration Properties dialog box, enter how many times you want to highlight in the Search Colors edit box. To highlight with different colors, scroll down to the bottom of the Specify Part list box, select Search string (1), (2), ..., and click on Background Color or Text Color to select new colors to display searched strings. |
| How can I display an underline at the cursor position? |
| On the Scroll tab in the Current Configuration Properties dialog box, check Horizontal Line. |
| How can I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))? |
| On the Link tab in the Current Configuration Properties dialog box, add characters you don't want to break URLs (such as , (comma)) to Recognize These Characters. |
| The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker? |
| In Windows Vista, select Optimize Visual Display in Control Panel, and select a greater number in the Set the Thickness of the blinking cursor drop-down list. In Windows XP, select Accessibility Options in Control Panel, select the Display tab, and adjust the Width under the Cursor Options. |
| How can I find the number of the words in the selection? |
| You can use the Word Count plug-in, which is included in EmEditor Professional 6.00.1 or later. If you use EmEditor Standard, you can download the plug-in from the library. |
| How can I decode Numeric Character References ("&#xxx") in Unicode characters? |
| You can use the DecodeUnicode plug-in, which you can download from the Library. |
| How can I find the return type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line? |
| If you set the Character Code at Cursor checkbox in the Status tab of the Customize dialog box, and when the cursor is at end of any line, you will see 0D+0A (CR+LF) or 0D (CR only) or 0A (LF only). You can also check the Show CR and LF with Different Marks in the Marks tab of Properties to distinguish the return types. Since each line can have different return types in EmEditor, this is how EmEditor displays the return types for each line. |
| How can I add the Marks button to the Toolbar? |
| Double click on the toolbar (the basic one) border, and the Customize Toolbar dialog will appear, where you can select the Marks button and add it to the toolbar. Alternatively, you can select Customize Toolbar on the Tools menu, and then double-click the Toolbar 1 in the Toolbars list, where you can select the Marks button and add it to the toolbar. |
| How can I display line numbers? |
| Select Properties for Current Configuration on the Tools menu, click the General tab, and check Show Line Numbers. |
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