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The best way to do what you desire is to put an EmEditor shortcut in the Windows “SendTo” folder.and EmEditor will give you the option of opening the file as ASCII or binary. Not sure why you would want to put a static menu entry for all file types in all context menus but you would want to modify the File Context | Folder Context [HKCR\Directory] | Drive Context [HKCR\Drive] and Desktop [HKCR\Folder\shell] context registry keys. Good luck.
Horizontal line option works for me. Thank you.
On restore, I will have to test again. As I recall, the syntax was properly restored, but non of my custom coloring choices were restored. But I will try again to double check.
@LTT. Yes, that is exactly the way I have it set now, just like your screen shot. But as I said, when I mixed a regex definition with a non-regex user defined bracket, there’s some sort of conflict and it won’t work, at least in my configuration where I am only useing User-Defined Strings. Hope that clarifies things.
@LTT. I had already tried your first suggestion but it didn’t work, I guess because it conflicts with the normal string I had defined for [. Your suggested regular expression didn’t work either until I also defined a regular expression for the normal bracket ^\[. So now I have a regular expression of ^\[- for disabled key and ^\[ for enabled key and everything works fine. Just offering this detailed explanation in case someone else runs into the same issue. Thanks again.
@LTT. Wow. How obvious. Thanks for the heads up.
@Patrick C. Notepad3 does an excellent job of replacing Windows Notepad in both versions 8.1. and Windows 10. I usually supplement it by merging a companion registry file that extends Notepad3 file associations to *.reg, *.xml and other files I want to open with a text editor. But alas Notepad3 it is not as robust as EmEditor, particularly with respect to search and replace. But your second observation gets to the crux of my issues with EmEditor: once you spend hours customizing EmEditor and then, subsequiently, do a clean install of Windows (as I like to do when upgrading to avoid conflicts and compatibiility issues) you lose all the settings and have to start from scratch.
@Patric C. Notepad3 does an excellent job of fully replacing Windows Notepad and I usually supplement it by merging a registry script to extend file associations to *.reg, *.xml files and others I frequently need a text editor for. Don’t understand why EmEditor can’t do that.
But your second observation gets to the crux of my complaint about EmEditor: after you spend hours and hours customizing it there is no way to quickly and easily set it up again if your PC crashes or if (as I do) you do a clean install of Windows. EmEditor is a great piece of software but I this is its achilles heel for me.
