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I had Save as … (encoding) commands in the main menu at a certain beta version, but some people (including me) found complicated, and even worse, deliberately chose a Save as … (encoding) command where they meant to reload with a correct encoding, and ruined existing files. That is why I hid these commands into the All Commands, but you can easily define your menus.
Unfortunately, Save as UTF-8 without BOM is not in a command list, but if you had EmEditor Professional, you would be able to write a simple JavaScript macro like this:
document.UnicodeSignature = false;
document.Save();You would be able to assign this macro to a menu item, and insert the menu item to anywhere you would like.
Thanks for your nice comments!
No problem. For the rest of us, EmEditor already has a feature to auto-detect without displaying the result dialog box:
First, select Properties for Current Configuration (or All Configurations) on the Tools menu, select File tab, and check Detect All checkbox. Second, select Customize on the Tools menu, and clear Always Show Detect All Result checkbox. Now you can open a file with Auto Detect but without the Detect All Result dialog box.
Can you please send me a few Windows-1251 files or any files that can cause a problem (after zipped as .Zip) as an attachment. Please also write a list explaining which file should be opened as which encoding. My email address is [email protected]. I will need to repro your problem here to fix this issue. Thanks!
You can disable the Auto Detect result dialog box:
Select Customize on the Tools menu, select the File tab, uncheck Always Show Detect All Result check box.
By default this is checked because the Auto Detection can make mistakes sometimes especially in small files. But if that is not a problem, you can uncheck this option. If you see a mistake, you can always reload the file as a correct encoding by double-clicking the encoding on the status bar.
You can open an IME by a particular configuration, but I don’t think there is any way to change the current input language. If this is an important option you need, I might consider that in future, possibly as a plug-in or a macro.
You can remove \% from Line Comment field in Highlight (2), but then \% will not be recognized as a comment. Thanks for your comments!
Actually, You can do those now:
Select “Replace” on the Search menu (or press CTRL + H), Check “Use Regular Expressions”, and then:
Eduate Quotes:
Find: '(.*?)'
Replace with: ‘1’
Stupefy Quotes:
Find:‘(.*?)’
Replace with: '1'
Or you can write macros like these (JavaScript):
Eduate Quotes:
document.selection.Replace("x27(.*?)x27","‘1’",eeFindNext | eeFindReplaceCase | eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
Stupefy Quotes:
document.selection.Replace("‘(.*?)’","x271x27",eeFindNext | eeFindReplaceCase | eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
I will submit these macros into the library.
Thanks again for following up! The tab bar is always on when tabs are enabled. This is the current specification. However, it many people ask this as an option, I might change the specification. Thanks!
Thanks for following up your message. It is not hard for someone to create a plug-in to do smart quotes. Can you please clarify what educate quotes or stupefy quotes mean. Thanks!
It is a specification that text must be selected before you can select each command in Convert Selection sub menu. However, it is possible to make it an option if many users like that way.
You can add Save As (encoding) to the main menu by selecting Customize Menus on the Tools menu, and then select File category – List of Encodings to Save.
I perfectly understand what you mean, and I know some text editors allow you to do just that. I will consider that in future. Thanks! :-)
This is one of frequently asked features, and I consider that seriously. Thanks!
p.s. Please don’t post the same message in different forums.
