New in Version 26.0

February 4, 2026

New General Features

  • You can now add both folders and files to Favorites. [PF]
  • The Markdown Bold/Italic/Code command now works even when no text is selected. [P]
  • The Undo/Redo History dialog has been replaced with a custom bar. [PF]
  • The Insert Special Character dialog has been replaced with a custom bar, with improvements including a larger, color font and filtering by Unicode name and block. [PF]
  • The Character Code Value dialog has been improved with a larger font and color support. [PF]
  • Improved awkward English, German, and Japanese UI text. [PF]
  • Discontinued the Russian UI in v25.4. [PF]
  • Improved the speed of various operations including Opening a large file containing no newlines (one-line file). [PF]

Test results:

v25.4 v26.0 Comparison to v25.4
Open a large file without newlines [*a] 1.426 seconds 0.619 seconds 2.30 times faster
Find (Select All) [*b] 43.3 seconds 0.065 seconds 666 times faster
Replace All [*c] 44.1 seconds 0.359 seconds 123 times faster

*a: Open a file.
*b: Select all “abc”.
*c: Replace all “abc” with “###”.
*All: A Wikipedia dump file (UTF-8, 1.98 GB, no newline), All default options, Windows 11, Ryzen 9 7950X, 96 GB RAM.

New Options

  • Added the Add Folder button to the Favorites page of the Customize dialog box. [PF]
  • Added gpt-5.2 and gpt-5.2.codex to the Preferred Model drop-down list in the AI Options page of the Customize dialog box (this feature requires the Chat with AI plugin). [P]

Plug-in New Features [P]

  • Added the file search feature for Chat with AI, allowing you to upload files to use in chat.
  • Added the search feature for Chat with AI to search for chat messages.
  • Improved the performance of the commit list in CommitList.

Notes

  • [P] EmEditor Professional only
  • [PF] EmEditor Professional and EmEditor Free

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