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preview 1 (26.0.901) – March 11, 2026

New General Features

• When a file is modified externally, a delay of several milliseconds is now inserted before reloading, and the message box shown when reloading fails now allows selecting the Retry button.[PF]
• Improved the speed of various operations including Sort. [P]

New Options

• Added a The cursor moves to the correct position when sorting checkbox to the Sort page of the Customize dialog box.
• Added Provider, Model, Reasoning effort, and Text Verbosity checkboxes and drop-down list boxes, as well as a Web Search checkbox, to the AI Prompts page in the Customize dialog box. [P]
• Added Provider, Model, Reasoning effort, and Text Verbosity checkboxes and drop-down list boxes, as well as a Web Search checkbox, to the New Prompt dialog box. [P]

New Macro Features [P]

• Added the TextLength property to the Selection object.

Plug-in New Features [P]

• Added the EE_GET_SEL_LENGTH message and the Editor_GetSelLength inline function.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where a response to the “Do you want to terminate the current tool job?” message box was not respected.
• Fixed a certain issue related to the WordComplete plug-in. [P]

preview 2 (26.0.902) – May 4th, 2026

New General Features

• The new versions remembers an the “Apply to All” option when multiple unsaved documents are being saved.
• Improved the speed when replacing all newlines in a document or inserting newlines.
• Improved the stability when copying and pasting a very large text.

New Options

• The Preferred model drop-down list box on the AI Options page of the Customize dialog box is now populated dynamically. [P]

New Macro Features [P]

• Added the LineNumbersZeroBase property to the GeneralProp object.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a DirectWrite rendering issue with double IVS characters.
• Fixed an issue with case insensitive sort with locale.
• Fixed an issue where a null character may not be detected when a document contains no newlines.
• Fixed a potential issue where an empty line could be appended.
• Fixed a potential crash when removing all newlines from a very large file.
• Fixed an issue that copying a very large text may fail.
• Fixed an issue where the Search Previous Warning Character/Unicode command may not work correctly in a very large file.

Notes

• [P] EmEditor Professional only
• [PF] EmEditor Professional and EmEditor Free