[Yutaka Emura]

EmEval1 wrote:
When compared to my current editor, I am missing the following in EmEditor

1. The ability to left, right and center justify sections of the (same) print header and / or footer (I think this one was mentioned elsewhere in the forum).
2. The ability to set text attributes for the header / footer text (font, bold, etc.)
3. The ability to add a separator line for both header and footer (to separate it from the page text).

Am I missing anything.

Thank you.

I might consider these options in the future. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Dino wrote:
Thanks, this works. A bit slow, however. I personally think this “show spaces” should be triggered by the Marks button. All these “marks” are also customized in one place, why aren’t they shown in one place? In many editors showing line breaks and spaces is done by the same button.

I will consider the option to customize which marks can be trigerred by the button. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

EmEval1 wrote:
I just started evaluating EmEditor and am setting up syntax highlighting for an environment that I use. Is it possible to set a highlight / color for all numbers? I did not see number(s) in the “Specify Part” list of the display tab.

Thanks.

You can specify [0-9]+ as a highlight word and check “Regular Expression” and “Whole Word Only” in the Highlight (1) tab of configuration properties. I hope this helps. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

PeterWgtnN wrote:
I have inadvertently closed the EmEditor Note gadget (Windows Vista) and now cannot find my previous notes I had written? Where are these stored?
Thanks,
Peter Thompson

The notes should be stored in

C:Users(username)AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindows SidebarSettings.ini

I hope you can retrieve the text!

P.S. You should use the latest version of EmEditor Notes 1.01. It fixes some issues like this.

[Yutaka Emura]

alanf wrote:
Wow, that was a VERY fast reply! Indeed, resizing the box made the problem go away. In fact, now I’m unable to replicate it because I can’t seem to make the box small enough to cause that display problem.

Is it possible to fix this? If not, or in the interim, perhaps you could add something about it to the documentation, either in the product or here on the web, or both.

Thanks a lot!

It is included in our FAQ. In v9, you won’t see this problem. In v9, you will need to click [-] or [=] button to switch between single and multi-line text box. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

alanf wrote:
All of a sudden, when I bring up the Find or Replace dialog boxes, the text fields in the dialog box where I want to type in the text to be found or replaced are mostly filled with arrow bitmaps (a left and a right arrow). I took a screenshot and could send it to anyone who wants to see it.

This makes it impossible to use the find/replace functionality. Very scary, as I need it to do a translation job immediately.

I saw this in the version I was using, installed the latest version (8.06), restarted the editor, and even restarted the computer, but the arrows kept returning.

What can I do?

The Find/Replace dialog box allows resizing by dragging the right bottom corner with the mouse. When the height of the dialog box is minimum, only a single line can be entered as a search string, while the taller dialog box allows multiple lines entered as a search string. Please drag the right bottom corner with the mouse so you can enter just the right size of the text.

[Yutaka Emura]

dw7832 wrote:
Thank you for the new beta and the included sort functionality! Unfortunately, the following seems not to be currently available:
– The ability to sort just the current selection instead of the whole file.
– When printing headers and/or footers, the ability to have multiple elements (for example, one left aligned and one right aligned) in the same header or footer. By way of example: “&f &r &p of &a” (minus the quotes) leads to both the file name and page numbers to be right aligned instead of the file name to the left edge and the page number to the right.
– A spelling check plug-in or built-in functionality for the 64-bit version.

Thank you.

(This is a repost of my reply to the first beta. Apologies if you did spot my first reply.)

I am really sorry for my late reply, but I am positive about adding features you wrote. Thanks for trying out the beta version!

[Yutaka Emura]

dw7832 wrote:
I’m currently struggling to set the properties of the active configuration of a file in a macro:

// toggle show spaces
if (document.Config.Mark.ShowSpaces) {
document.Config.Mark.ShowSpaces = false;
} else {
document.Config.Mark.ShowSpaces = true;
}

and

with (document.Config.Indent) {
TabColumns = 4;
InsertSpaces = true;
WrapIndent = true; }
document.Config.Save();

Neither of these give an error message but when alert()-ing the properties they are not changed nor does EmEditor act like they’ve changed. Can anybody shed any light?

Thank you in advance.

Please try this way:

	cfg = document.Config;

	if (cfg.Mark.ShowSpaces) {

	cfg.Mark.ShowSpaces = false;

	} else {

	cfg.Mark.ShowSpaces = true;

	}

	cfg.Save();

	

[Yutaka Emura]

dsscicin wrote:
When I use regular expression in “replace in files…”, it doesn’t work!
However, when I open all the files in Emeditor and use the same regular expression to replace one file by one file, it is OK!

By the way, a small suggestion in “outline”:
If the background color of the “+” and “-” column (I mean the whole column) could be set, it will be better! Now the column is in the editing region, and it’s easy to make users under an optical illusion.

version: 9.00 beta 1.

The new lines must be specified as rn in Replace in Files.
Please check:
http://www.emeditor.com/help/howto/search/search_nl.htm

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Salabim wrote:
Really nobody ?

Is it possible to make your sample as simple as possible? That will make it easy to reproduce the issue. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
I have a file named “09.txt” that is encoded in UTF-8 without a BOM. I have found that the encoding that EmEditor opens it in depends on whether I select it from the recently used file list, or select it in the file-open dialog box.
– If I close the file, and then click File -> (select “09.txt” from the recently used list), it opens in UTF-8 without Signature (correct)
– If I close the file, and then click File -> Open, and then select it from the directory list, it opens in “Central European (ISO)”, which is wrong.

I tried changing the setting in Tools -> Properties for Current Configuration -> File tab, Opening Encoding, but that seems to have no effect. What is that box for?

Note that **even when the file has a BOM**, it still opens in “Central European (ISO)” when I use File -> Open. This, despite the fact that in the settings for current configuration, I definitely have “Detect BOM” and “Detect UTF-8” both set.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

When you open a file from File > Open, you will need to make sure the “Configured Encoding” in the Encoding drop-down list. I suspect “Central European (ISO)” is selected in ths drop-down. This option is remembered when you open a file, and so next time you open a file, you will need to make sure you are selecting a correct option. I hope this helps. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

secox0 wrote:
I edit text files a lot, but often must find a certain string of 1 or more characters starting at some column position, or within a range of column positions.

Example: find ‘abc’ 10
which means find abc in columns 10-12.

Example: find ‘1’ 11 15
which means find 1 anywhere in columns 11 – 15.

Is this possible, or can this be added in the future ?

Thanks

It is possible to replace in selection only, but there is no feature to only find a particular string in the selection. To replace a string in the selection, you can press CTRL + H to bring up the Replace dialog box, and then check “In the Selection Only” check box before replace something.

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
I tried beta 1 and found that right click + wheel does not work. With clean install in a virtual machine it works only if I check the “Use Mouse Wheel to Select” checkbox.

OS: WinXP SP3.

I fixed this on beta 2. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Salabim wrote:
Hi Yutaka,

Yes, I’m still using v8, is it safe to use v9 now already ?

Thanks.

Sure.

[Yutaka Emura]

gning wrote:
Thank you.

I think I’d better find or make a utility to scan files for BOMs.

I think the problem happens when it loads files that contain only ASCII-7 and interprets them as UTF-8. I think one thing I can probably do that will help is to change the “opening encoding” for the configuration that these files get loaded with (which is “SQL”). I’ll change it from “system default” to “western european”. Will that prevent it from seeing ascii-7 as utf-8?

If you always want to open in Western European, you might want to uncheck “Detect UTF-8” in the Configuration Properties > File tab. This should be enough to prevent from BOM being added. I hope this helps.

[Yutaka Emura]

Monkeyman wrote:
EmEditor is probably the best editor I ever saw, but it seriously lacks one simple feature – text block search. Right now you can only search for one string, but in some cases you have to find a formatted text block like this:

Some text

For example, CuteFTP integrated editor has it and it’s quite handy. Would be great if you add this feature to EmEditor.

You can resize the Find dialog box to enter multi-line text. Alternatively, you can use n as a new line with “Use Escape Sequences”. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Salabim wrote:
Hi,
I have the “Save Workspace” and “Restore Workspace” checked.

When I close EmEd, and then start it again, it correctly loads the tabs that were open before closing EmEd.

However, when I close EmEd, and then doubleclick some .txt (or other) file, EmEd opens with the selected document, but the one that was open before I closed it is not returning, it’s being swapped by the newly clicked document ?

Please, what option did I miss ?

I guess you are using v8, but the new v9 corrects this behavior. I hope you can try it. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

gning wrote:
Something in our office has been guilty of sneaking byte-order marks into text files that cannot tolerate them, and it looks a lot like EmEditor 8 is the guilty party. I thought I had found a setting that stopped it from doing that, but the problem has apparently recurred. What settings would be good if I want to make sure that text files written by EmEditor never get a byte-order mark inserted?

If you don’t change encoding when you save as a file, there should be no problem at all. If you need to change encoding when you a file, you should select UTF-8 without BOM. I don’t if there is a good way to prevent from selecting UTF-8 with BOM.

[Yutaka Emura]

First, I’d like to see repeating macros that have the option to (1) go to the end of the file and (2) run through a selection.

It is not easy but you can write a macro to run only within the selection.

Second, I’d like to have the abilty to sort lines.

There are plug-ins. Also, version 9 will support Sort commands within EmEditor core.

Third, I’d like Em Editor to include a “proper title” capitalization case (where words such as “the,” “from,” “for,” and “as” are not capitalized).

EmEditor doesn’t automatically correct capitalization. EmEditor is not a word processor. However, you can select a word and select the Capitalize command.

Finally, I’d like the option for searches to extend the selection.

You can press F8 before searching to extend the selection.

[Yutaka Emura]

wOxxOm wrote:
sorry for not following the thread for so long, notifications aren’t delivered to my email.

1. any english text (readme.txt e.g.)
2. font: Tahoma, encoding: any (UTF8 e.g.)
3. Alt-click somewhere in the middle of a long line and drag the mouse somewhere to bottom-right

here’s my Text config HKCU->EmSoft reg file: http://rapidshare.com/files/272294650/Em_Text_Config.zip.html

Thanks for information. I reproduced your issue, and will look into this issue. This happens because we changed the block selection behavior.

[Yutaka Emura]

rayd wrote:

Title says it – where does Emeditor save its preferences? I have looked in all the obvious places such as AppData etc but can’t find them.

I had to reinstall as my hard drive died and it would have been useful to have the preferences saved for the reinstall rather than having to go through each configuration trying to remember what the settings were.

Cheers,

Ray D

It saves to the Registry in the default install, or INI files if you choose portable edition. You can export your current configurations from the Tools menu > Import and Export.

[Yutaka Emura]

sirjarda wrote:
Hello!

Is it possible to maximum of tab-size from current 16 to… whatewer, 100.
I usually use emeditor for quick editing tsv (tab-separated-values), it would be very handy.

Thank you!

16 is the maximum value for tab-size. However, Version 9 supports TSV files, and it aligns the tabs vertically in any size.

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
When I install EE 9 b37 on Vista and UAC window is shown, the name of the program shown there is vague (something like e5tx9.msi). It would be better if the installer contained the correct program name/desctiprion so that UAC could use them instead of this temporary file name.

I agree. The only way to change this name is to change the installer program. I might consider that in future versions. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
Currently there is an option in EE: Customize -> Mouse -> Use Mouse Wheel to Select. It controls two ways of selecting tabs:
1. Mouse wheel when the cursor is over tab headers.
2. Right click + mouse wheel anywhere in the window.
For me the first behaviour is very annoying, because sometimes I scroll the file contents when the cursor is near the top, and slight movement of the mouse immediately stops scrolling and starts switching files. But right click + wheel is very useful (I’m used to it in Opera and would like to use it in EE too). So why not split this single option into two different options to control these behaviours independently?

I will consider two different options to split this single option. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

kualoa1 wrote:
does this tool feature a wordstar-like column block copy/move?

I see the vertical column description but cannot determine if it works like the old (and great) wordstar.

thank you.

I don’t know what the wordstar-like column block copy/move is. Can you please describe the feature in details? Thanks!

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