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- “Request error: error sending request” during registration
- Can both the old version of EmEditor and new version of EmEditor coexist on the same machine?
- Can I install a version of EmEditor without uninstalling a different version?
- Crack, Keygen, Serial
- How can I update the portable version to the latest one without losing my previous settings?
- How can the portable version be shared by all users?
- How do I change the associated text file icons?
- How do I change the install folder?
- How do I change the installation location?
- How do I install EmEditor without displaying dialog boxes?
- How do I install the new version of EmEditor?
- How do I remove EmEditor from the File Explorer context menu ?
- How do I remove the EmEditor Tray Icon?
- How do I resolve an invalid registration key error with “machine ID mismatched” message?
- How do I transfer my EmEditor settings to another machine?
- How do I troubleshoot “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.” during installation?
- How do I uninstall EmEditor?
- How do you install EmEditor per computer?
- How do you set up Git to use EmEditor as the default text editor?
- How to verify the digital signature of an EmEditor executable
- How to verify the digital signature of an EmEditor installer
- How to verify the file hash of an EmEditor installer or portable ZIP
- I have uninstalled EmEditor. When I double click on a file associated with EmEditor, I can’t open the file. How do I fix this?
- I want to uninstall EmEditor from one computer, and install EmEditor to another computer. Are there any procedures to follow for licensing?
- If I cannot find EmEditor in “Apps & features”, how do I uninstall EmEditor?
- Installation Troubleshooting
- My security software blocks downloading because the domain switched from emeditor.com to emeditor.info.
- The “User Account Control (UAC) prompts are required to update” notification appears when EmEditor is launched. How should I resolve this?
- The digital signature of a program files could not be verified (when the Internet connection is unavailable).
- What do I do if EmEditor crashes when starting or editing?
- When I try to install EmEditor, the “Error deleting file” message appears.
- “Edit with EmEditor” does not appear in the Explorer modern context menu on Windows 11.
- “EmEditor” does not appear in the Explorer classic context menu.
- There are duplicate “EmEditor” entries in the Explorer classic context menu.
File
- Can I open GB18030 files?
- EmEditor is specified as an external text editor from another application. Why doesn’t the change made by EmEditor reflect in the application?
- How do I close all windows with one click?
- How do I convert file encodings through the command line?
- How do I increase the font of printed documents?
- How do I open an XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?
- How do I open from the same folder in the open dialog?
- How do I paste a Japanese (or Korean, Chinese, etc.) Word document into EmEditor and save as a text file?
- How do I prevent other apps from modifying a file that is opened in EmEditor?
- How do I print my document in color or in black and white?
- How do I save an empty file?
- How do I start a new Java file or XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?
- I want to double click on a file in File Explorer to open it with EmEditor. How do I accomplish this?
- What are three invalid characters at the beginning of my file?
- What can I do to open very large files faster?
- When I save a file without an extension, it automatically adds “.txt.” How can I stop an extension from being added?
- When opening a file, EmEditor detects the file as a Western European even though it is actually a Japanese (Shift JIS) file.
- When reading Macintosh text files, some characters are converted to different characters. How do 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?
Editing
- Are there Undo and Redo commands for the cursor position?
- Can I insert control characters such as form feeds?
- How do I assign a shortcut key to insert a special character?
- How do I check spelling?
- How do I make a data file of fixed-length records without newlines easier to read?
- How do I select a column block of text?
- How do I select the text with the keyboard?
- How do I sort lines in alphabetical or numerical order?
- How do I undo inserted strings character by character using the Undo command?
- I cannot paste text correctly when the content in the Clipboard has been copied from another application such as Netscape Navigator.
- The Find Matching Parenthesis/Bracket command doesn’t work. How do I enable this command?
- The paste command doesn’t work.
- The sort commands are disabled. What are the conditions that disable the sort commands?
CSV
- How do I create a column that depends on other columns or rows?
- How do I disable adjusting column positions when opening CSV files?
- How do I disable CSV detection?
- How do I display only empty cells in a column?
- How do I enable TSV (tab-separated) file detection?
- How do I open Excel files with EmEditor?
- How do I round numbers in a column to 2 decimal places?
- How do you convert a CSV file to use different delimiters?
- How do you convert CSV to fixed-width columns?
- How do you remove embedded newlines in a CSV document?
Find
- How do I change the size of the Find/Replace dialog box?
- How do I enter a multiple-line string as a search string in the Find/Replace dialog box?
- How do I erase all of the previous words in the Find box?
- How do I filter a column by a certain range of numbers?
- How do I filter a file based on millions of search strings?
- How do I find/replace by date?
- How do I search for a word at the beginning of lines or a word at the end of lines?
- How do you count the number of identical lines in a document?
- How do you extract email addresses?
- How do you extract lines that contain a certain string?
- I would like the Find dialog box to show the previously searched string, not the word at the cursor.
- What are examples of regular expressions?
- Why doesn’t EmEditor highlight multi-line strings?
View
- A backslash character is displayed as a Japanese Yen or Korean Won mark.
- Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon?
- Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks?
- Different fonts are used when opening different files, or the font used for a new file is different. How do I always use the same font?
- How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page?
- How can I display emoji in full colors?
- How can I select large icons for toolbars?
- How do I add an icon to the toolbar?
- How do I add the Marks button to the Toolbar?
- How do I change the UI to dark theme?
- How do I decode Numeric Character References (“&#xx”) in Unicode characters?
- How do I display an underline at the cursor position?
- How do I display line numbers?
- How do I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))?
- How do I find the newline type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line?
- How do I find the number of the words in the selection?
- How do I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors?
- How do you select a large number of lines?
- 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?
- In XHTML and XML documents, XML files, text inside a tag and the matching tag at the cursor becomes highlighted. Can you disable this behavior?
- 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?
- The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker?
- What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line?
- 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?
Customize
- After updating EmEditor to the newest version, how do I add the new commands to a menu or add the new keyboard shortcuts?
- Can EmEditor encode Unicode characters as “Numerical Character References” (NCRs – those &#xx; codes) when saving HTML or XML files?
- CTRL + Mouse Wheel can change the font size, but can you disable this?
- Double-clicking a tab causes to create a new window. Can you disable this behavior?
- How do I associate extensions to configurations?
- How do I change the email app that is opened when clicking on an email address?
- How do I change the user interface language?
- How do I copy the configuration properties from one machine to another?
- How do I define two-keystroke keyboard shortcuts?
- How do I install an EmEditor syntax file?
- How do I make the year 4 digits when you insert dates?
- How do I open the Input Method Editor (IME) automatically when running EmEditor?
- How do I set the web browser that is opened when clicking on a URL?
- What is “HTML” and “HTML-Embedded” in Special Syntax combo box on the Highlight (2) tab of Properties?
- Why is there no ASP configuration?
Tools
- How can I run an external compiler from EmEditor to compile the current file?
- How do I do a Google search for the word at the current cursor position?
- How is the data used for AI features processed?
- I want to compile the opened file with an external tool in Command Prompt. How do I keep the Command Prompt window from closing after the compilation is finished?
- What are some examples of External Tools configurations?
Macros
- Can I save multiple macros to files?
- Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function?
- How do I run a macro on multiple documents?
- How do I use the v8 engine?
- How do you import libraries to a macro?
- The “Object doesn’t support this property or method” error is displayed when I use a certain method of JavaScript in my macros. Why?
Window
- How can EmEditor display as if it were a tabbed window?
- How do I make EmEditor open with the window maximized?
- How do I make the EmEditor window stay open when I close the last open document?
- How do I save the current positions of all EmEditor windows, and open all the windows at the same positions next time?
- How do I save the EmEditor window size, and always open EmEditor windows at the same size?
- Is there a way to make EmEditor move through document tabs in sequential order from left to right?
- What is the split window for?
- Why doesn’t the Cascade or Tile command work?
Purchase and Update
- How do I find the version of the currently installed EmEditor and the expiration date of my license?
- How do I transfer the license from one device to a different device?
- If I purchase EmEditor, can I get the newer version for free? Or do I have to pay a fee every time I get a new version?
- When I try to update EmEditor, I see the dialog box that says “You might need to purchase an upgrade.” How do I know if I need to purchase an upgrade?
Troubleshooting
- An Error message similar to “The paging file is too small for this operation to complete” appears when I try opening a very large file. How do I fix this error?
- How can I report a crash?
- When I try to launch EmEditor, it is trying to load very large files. Can you disable this?
- When updating EmEditor, an error occurs and a system restart is required.