[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
Hi, I looked through the list of command-line options, and don’t see one to open a new window. The closest is “/sp”, but that’s not what I want.

My problem is that I’m using GoScreen, which is a desktop manager, which gives me multiple desktops. I’d like to be able to open up an instance of Emeditor on whatever desktop I’m currently working, and have that instance stay there. But what happens is that the instances get all confused about what desktop they’re supposed to be on.

I don’t like the “/sp” option because I do want the windows to all be running under the same process.

In the Customize dialog box, in the Tab tab, you might want to select “New Window” in the “Open In” drop-down list.

[Yutaka Emura]

gning wrote:
I want to indent blocks by one column in addition to being able to indent them by the normal distance. I want two separate commands. Coarse and fine tuning, so to speak.

I see. Please try this:

	cfg = Document.Config;

	cfg.Indent.IndentColumns = 1;

	cfg.Save();

	

[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
I am using the latest version of EmEditor, and I notice that it still doesn’t have support for the Unicode line separator (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2028/index.htm).
I use Wenlin a lot — unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with Wenlin 2, since I’ve customized the dictionary a lot. Wenlin 2 doesn’t allow me to change what character it uses for newlines — it wants to use U+2028.
Anyway, regardless, I think EmEditor, which boasts unicode support, should support it.

I might consider that in future versions. Thanks for your input!

[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
Thanks, you’re amazing!! When can we expect V9?

Thanks! Please don’t ask me when. :-)

[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
Well, I just found the snippets plug-in, and played with it a little. It is nice, but not nearly as good as the feature in Textpad.
Here is what I’d love to see:
– multiline snippets (this is *essential*)
– as mentioned above, and as you said you’re already working on: ability to insert text around whatever is currently selected
– ability to give each snippet a nice abbreviated name, rather than using the text as the “name”

P.S. the “notify me of new posts in this thread” isn’t working — I didn’t get a notice of your reply, and, yes, I checked my spam folder.

Just wanted you to know that I bought a personal license. It’s a very nice peice of software. Keep up the good work!

The Snippets plug-in will be greatly imporved in v9. In case you don’t know, you can also use HTMLBar plug-in. You might want to check your account setting from the left-side “Edit Account” also. Thanks for buying a license!

[Yutaka Emura]

gning wrote:
I’m trying to indent and outdent blocks by a single column. I tried temporarily setting Document.Config.Indent.IndentColumns to 1 but the value stays unchanged, and likewise for TabColumns. The help seems to be saying that these properties are settable, but it won’t do anything but indent by the previously set width.

Do you need to use a macro? If not, you can change indent/tab numbers in the Configuration Properties > General > Tab/Indent.

[Yutaka Emura]

Klortho wrote:
I’m a convert from TextPad. I switched to EmEditor because of its excellent unicode support. But there’s one feature from TextPad that I pine for — the clip library. In TextPad, I could have one pane open on the left of my document, with a long list of “clips”. Each clip, if I double-clicked it, would insert that text. Each one had an optional placeholder so that if I had selected text in the document, the “clip text” would be inserted around it.
In other words, for example, I could select a word like “foo” in my document, and then double-click the “em” clip, and I’d get “foo“.
I work a lot with XML and HTML, and I really miss that clip library. Macros can do the same thing, but I haven’t figured out a way to get a long list of them in one pane.
With textpad, I could group the clips into “books”, so that hundreds of clips were no more than two mouse-clicks away.
Anything like that here?

In the next version (v9), the Snippets plug-in will have the similar feature. Please try it when the beta version of v9 becomes available. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
But it won’t work.
It does offer you to import from ini files. However, it’s only eeCommon.INI.
Importing that one only doesn’t help. There’s a big one 1.5mb, that is called eeConfig. This carries the info I need. But the Import wizard does not let you import that one. Is that right? How?

The Open dialog box displays only “eeCommon.Ini” file, but actually the Wizard imports both eeConfig.ini and eeCommon.ini. I tested and it worked. Do you have eeConfig.ini file in the same folder as eeCommon.ini?

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:

Yutaka wrote:
Yes, you can use a macro to accomplish these tasks. Do you need a sample?

I think it would use the highlite list collection but a vbs sample would be appreciated.

Steven

Bookmarking all matching items from a search
Copying to clipboard all matching items from a search

For these, you don;t need highlight list collection. You will only search and bookmark. You can also get a hint from Macro that extracts lines that contain the specified string.
http://www.emeditor.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=169

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
Not on my copy. It might be that if you install portable, then you don’t get that option? Also, I installed standard on the same directory as portable, and I still don’t get that option (I think it still uses the INI files, so there might be nothing in the registry for it to import).

My question is: how do I force it to move INI information to the registry now?

If I start from a clean install, I still have no access to the INI files, and I’ve lost all my cofiguration. Maybe I can dump them to text somehow?

You are right. I am sorry for confusion.
You will first need to install EmEditor with the Registry. Then you can import the INI files into the Registry.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
Yes, I could do that with autohotkey, and the advantage is that it works on any app.
But this method is not smart enough to decide whether you are closing an open comma, or if it’s an apostrophe etc.
My experience whith the ‘blind’ method is that it becomes a nuisance very soon. This is something the editor itself should know how to do.

The Snippets plug-in in the next major version will include auto-complete feature, and it will become much easier to add new strings. For instance, press { and TAB key to insert }. Of course you can add hundreds of new auto-complete items.

[Yutaka Emura]

jigga wrote:
Sometimes I close tabs accidentally. I wonder how can I undo it, so it gets back?

It might be possible to undo by writing a macro. You can use an event to launch a macro.

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
Thanks for this terrific product and your assistance as I learn it.

Here are my questions

Can Macros Be defined in a User Menu?

When I try to customize a Toolbar and put macros on it, only some of my defined macros show on the list box at the left
as available macros for the toolbar. Why?

User Menu, are they only activated with a hot key or can they be shown as part of the regular Menu

I am trying to figure out what the macro section of the solution configuration does. I know it allows the passing of paramters to macros.
But is there any example of how to use it. Are the macros that are defined there existing macros. Do you have to enter the entire path?
Once entered how are they accessed?

Steven

Macros need to be defined in My Macros list. Can you please make sure all macros you want to display in a menu exist in the Customize Macros dialog box?

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
Is there anyone who can answer?

Yes, you can use a macro to accomplish these tasks. Do you need a sample?

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
it is wordcomplete. It makes tab switching extraordinary slow (about one second).
It might be only if the syntax file has a few thousand entries.

I cannot try the registry method.
I installed the standard 8.02 on top of the portable one, but it is still very slow when changing configurations etc, so I suspect it is reading INI files.

Import/export does not offer an option to export to registry, only the other way around (registry to INI).

Is this possible?

It is possible. Import/Export offers an option to export INI files to the Registry. Please make sure you use the latest version of EmEditor — currently v8.02.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
I disabled all plugins but project, and now switching is fast.
Nevermind. I only need project right now anyway.

Thanks for letting us know. It might be nice if you could find which plug-in was causing the problem.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
This is a very basic feature request: autoclose brackets, commas, etc.
I couldnt find it in the forum or help.

Thanks

Not in the core feature, but it is possible to make a plug-in for this purpose.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
I’m finding that, even for tiny text files that do not have syntax highlighting, ctrl+tab is very slow, about 1sec on a 2GHz machine. Why? Is there anything I can do to improve this? It kills my flow since I ctrl+tab all the time.

Thanks

Are you using the Registry or INI files (portable option)? If you are using INI files, try the Registry please.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
I’m certainly interested. Thanks

The next major version will have this feature.

[Yutaka Emura]

urlwolf wrote:
How can I get the checkbox “Close when finished” on the find dialog to be always on?

It should be remembered once you search something with checkbox “Close when finished” on.

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
Yes, I see thanks,

It seems that snippets have a maximum of about 260 characters.

Is that true?

It is true, but it will be increased in the future version. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
I think there is a mistake in the documentation for VBS of document.selection.Find

It shows parentheses like javascript

Also, it should be pointed out somewhere when combining multiple flags in vbscript to use the &

Steven

You will need parantheses even in VBScript if it is a function, not a statement. However, if you don’t need return values, you can omit parentheses. I will try to add more samples. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
I am trying to learn this product and your input would help me greatly as I get more aquainted with its features and have questions.

Snippets
Can snippets be multi line?
Is there a way of automating the input of snippet?

Steven

Yes, you can use multiple lines using n as a new line character.

To automate the input of snippet, you can drag selected text from the text editor to the Snippets list.

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
I just wanted to congratulate you on a fantastic product. I have been looking and trying other editors and this is simply what I am lookingfor,

From the way it is put together, being intuitive and lean. Also the tremendous power of the macros as well as the excellent plug-ins, just make this a fantastic product.

I will be purchasing this.

thanks

Steven

Thanks, and you are welcome!
:-)

[Yutaka Emura]

shx wrote:
I am really excited about your editor. It is well thought out with excellent features.
I have a question in regard to word complete,

In my situation I want only the words bracketed in the document to pop up.
So I only want to see things like [myvar] [firstsw] etc…

I know about the custom word and first and last char but that causes it to be included but does not create an exclusive list of bracketed items.

Is there a way of this happening?

Also, is there a setting in the editor to change the brackets to another color?

Steven

Unfortunately, I don’t think there is any way to create the list of bracketed items exclusively. If this is critical to your work, can you please describe why you need this feature, and I might add this feature in future versions.

To highlight [ and ], please go to the Highlight (1) tab of the configuration Properties, and add [ and ] to the list.

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