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OK, I understand.
So, if a more granular export/import is indeed going to be implemented, I would suggest to do so as an extension of the Tools->Import and export… wizard. It should present an itemized list of check-boxes, a check-box for each category, with multiple boxes that can be individually checked or cleared. By default, all boxes should IMHO be checked. Also, “buttons” for “Clear all” and “Check all” should be there too.
I guess our dear Yutaka might suggest a list of check-boxes for us to comment (or vote?)
What do you say?
1) can be done, albeit with some manipulation using “Sticky vertical mode”;
2) Is already implemented: right click on the vertical ruler at a particular column and choose “sort …”
3) EmEditor is NOT excel. A TSV can be directly loaded to any Excel, no “conversion” necessary!
4) Is also implemented. Again, use “Sticky vertical mode”;I resent making any application a “catch all” one. Do you want EE to also be a Musical notes editor? I want EE to be lightning fast loaded, lightning fast execution, code editor. I don’t want it even to be a word processor! Please do dot burden it down with too many “features”!
Dear Yutaka,
I would be glad to try it out, but only if one of two things are provided:
1) The beta version can be installed IN PARALLEL to the previous, production one.
2) Alternatively, There would be an automated, embedded way to restore the last production version.In other words, I will, but only if I can switch back and fourth between the two versions with a single push of a button so to speak…
Regards,
MeirAre you aware of the “Word Count” plugin?
It is in Tools -> Plugins -> word count.
A pane is opened at the bottom of the window and you have two columns, one for the whole document and the other for selected text. It gives for each of these two columns the number of characters, the number of bytes (Unicode…), the number of words and the number of lines.
Meir
I have an idea, if it is not too difficult to implement (it also applies to the “jump out of the brace scope” feature request):
Once you focus on one end of the tag/brace/etc., paint the background of all the text in-between these two in light gray.
IMHO it would be very useful in all programming languages, particularly Perl and SQL.
I cannot recreate “Crash type 1”. It opens up the Macro in EmEditor, as usual.
Trying to recreate “Crash type 2” also failed to crash EE, but didn’t do anything either. The macro didn’t seem to actually run.
I am using EmEditor Professional (32-bit) Version 11.0.3 on a Hebrew enabled XP box, OS Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 with all windows updates successfully installed.
Meir
Yeh, sure! I looked it up and indeed it can be handy! And what about USER SETTABLE (as opposed to setting those by a configuration file) font attributes like italics, bold, color, etc.?
Add all these and more, and before you know it, you have a word processor. Is that what you want?
I like EmEditor for its speed and small footprint. It starts and opens program files of tens of KB practically instantaneously! This is precocious, I don’t want to loose this, even if I have to do some more manual work here and there to achieve the same results…
That’s my two piece of opinion…
Five years passed by and no one seconded this request??? I can’t believe this!
I am talking about something akin to Word’s AutoCorrect, albeit not with all the bells and whistles there. Just a simple substitute of a word (not part of a word!) as you type. An ESC would undo the substitution.
This is great in cases like this:
* Type an unlikely small string and it will be substituted by a (much longer) one;
* Substitute a string by a non-keyboard character, e.g., type << and it will be substituted by '«'And there are many more!
Yes, all these can be done by current features too but the AutoCorrect is a lot easier and intuitive!
One more request: I noticed that the Marks toolbar button only toggles Ret, EoF, and Tab marks, does NOT toggle Space and other marks. I’d like the toolbar button to toggle ALL marks.
I’ll second this!
Meir
Dear Yutaka,
Right now, a given marker set is displayed on the Markers Toolbar as a color patch (plus text). Associated with it is the left-click “Find Next” command and a number of “context” (i.e. right click) commands.
I find the left click extremely helpful. I also found myself using extensively the “Find previous” context command, but this is a bit more involved. I would like to have it as equally convenient as the “Find next”. Assigning it a keyboard shortcut is not an option. The toolbar button is frequently created and destroyed.
So I have an idea regarding these Markers Toolbar buttons, apart from their color, so while you are at it, you might consider the following:
Make the color patch a two-button, up/down arrow (two small triangles), vertically divided, with the upper half assigned the “Find previous” and the lower one assigned “find next”.
Please give it a thought.
Many thanks for a fine product!
Meir
Dear Yutaka,
Version 11 and its “Markers” feature came about at a very fortunate juncture in my work. I now have to simultaneously compare long numbers in a large body of text and how they relate to each other. The “Markers” feature turns out to be a truly, truly indispensable tool. Thank you!
This problem of fixed toolbar button colors for each marker, although not a major one, it still gets me confused every now and then.
So please, do fix it…
Thanks!
MeirHey folks!
I still didn’t download and tried any of these Beta versions, but I thought to pitch in with my two bits…
An immediate redo of any check with a change in the options is a mixed blessing. You sometimes what to change more than one. So the immediate response after just one change might be distracting or even irritating. Take for example the Visual Basic’s continuous, on-line syntax analysis: you start an edit on one line only to see another thing to be fixed on a second line. You leave the current line and suddenly a syntax error pops up and you have to acknowledge it. Irritating!
Just my thoughts…
Regards,
MeirDear Yutaka,
My apologies regarding my less-than-tolerable knowledge of even the most basic facts about the Japanese language. I have to look it up…
Regarding BiDi/RTL: let me hastily say that yes, I do understand your hesitation to commit major efforts just to support something which might not translate into demand.
But look, even as it is, EmEditor correctly displays Hebrew, unless spell checking is ON. When this is so, it reverses the word order in the string, while each word by itself is still correctly displayed. Strange, but not really a major issue. Usually this is enough!
It is however practically impossible to edit Hebrew or even to select parts of it. What I do when the need arises is to select the whole string, sometimes with a bit of LTR text on either side, paste it to MS Notepad, edit what I need there and copy/paste it back. This too is tolerable most of the time.
So, take your time…
Regards,
MeirThanks Yutaka!
And since everybody reinstates their wishlist, I’ll contribute my two bits, actually just one: BiDi support.
Judging by my Hebrew support experience, it seems that bi-directional text is already supported to some extent. (That’s why I picked EmEditor in the first place. I tried at least half a dozen other editors before I decided on it.) UNICODE is supported, and Windows has built-in Bi-Di support too. Doesn’t the support of Japanese also require Bi-Di support?
So, aren’t you already half way there? Would it be such a major undertaking? I hope you have at least plans to support it one day, do you?
Regards,
MeirThanks Yutaka,
Sorry, I missed it!
I looked into it and a few settings do not seem to fit another machine. And I doubt very much that they will fit even another user on the SAME machine. In particular all file paths.
How about “Import/Export with options”, similar to the one you have for “Compare”? Check-boxes and text boxes that seem right are:
* file paths Check-box (with a base path text-box)
* Macros Check-box
* Keyboard shortcuts Check-box
* Display
* … etc.Would that be a significant effort?
Regards
MeirHey all!
That requires a quite extensive syntax analysis, deeply configuration dependent! Isn’t this a bitch to implement? And how would you structure the configuration file???
And not all languages follow even similar paradigms. Take for example SQL. There, the scopes I would like to see highlighted are sub-queries. those could start and/or end in the middle of the line. I don’t think that something similar applies to say C++ or Perl.
Regards,
MeirSorry Yutaka, my mistake!
As it turned out, my EmEditor was configured to insert SPACES when I hit the Tab key, and I didn’t turn-on the “Marks” -> “Spaces” view, so nothing was shown.
Sorry
MeirDear Yutaka,
Yes, you have a point!
Would it be too difficult though to return to a point just to the left and possibly above the no-more-existent edit point?
Regards,
MeirDear Yukata,
I think I caught the culprit!
As you suggested, I uninstalled EmEditor and answered “No” to the proposal to keep the settings. On reinstall however, the speller behavior was the same. I then went on and with the RegEdit expunged all traces to the EmEditor from the registry. I also deleted all related files.
Such a clean reinstall seemed to do the trick. All these speller features were there: Suggested spelling alternatives, “Ignore all” (Thank you Yukata!) and “Add to dictionary”. Wonderful!
I then went on with (misplaced as it turn out) confidence to configure where spelling is checked. As a software developer (and a non-native English speaker) I need the speller to check just comment text where I use “natural” (as opposed to “computer”) language. Well, when I did that, all speller features disappeared! Oh God, not again!
I experimented a little, and my conclusions are:
* Checking only “Comments” turns off the features
* Checking say “Strings Enclosed by Single (Double) Quotation Marks” will turn on the spelling features only when right clicking over misspelled single (double) quotation marks, but NOT when right clicking a misspelled comment text, even when the “Comments” check-box is checked (!)
* However, checking both the “Comments” and the “Rest” check-boxes did turns on the spelling features on right clicking misspelled comment text (?)Please make it possible to have a full featured speller on comments only…
Regards,
MeirDear Yutaka!
I installed EmEditor as an Administrator (obviously) but I immediately switched to my working user account. Only There I configured it to my liking, mostly display and keyboard shortcuts. The Admin account however remained in its mint default condition.
So I had an idea: I’ll switch to the Admin account and see how is the speller doing there. And voila, there, not only were “word suggestions” and “Add to Dictionary” alive and kicking, the out-flier when clicking the bottom context menu, “Dictionaries >” was grays-out, namely as though no dictionaries are installed. As opposed to this, in my working account, an active “1 en_US” is shown!
So I came back to my work account and tried to switch back to the mint default condition, as in my Admin account. I clicked many “Reset” buttons in many tabs of the “Properties of ALL configurations” menu item, but no improvement!
How can I reset all settings to the default, clean installation state?
Regards,
Meir
