New in Version 26.1
May 6, 2026
New General Features
- When a file is modified externally, a delay of several milliseconds is now inserted before reloading, and the message box shown when reloading fails now allows selecting the Retry button. [PF]
- The new versions remembers an the “Apply to All” option when multiple unsaved documents are being saved. [PF]
- Improved the performance of various operations, including Sort, Remove Newlines, and Insert Newlines, as well as Horizontal Scrolling in large files with no newline characters (single-line files).
Test results:
| v26.0 | v26.1 | Comparison | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Sort | 1.317 seconds | 0.745 seconds | 1.77 times faster |
| 2. Remove Newlines | 7.70 seconds | 1.27 seconds | 6.06 times faster |
| 3. Insert Newlines | 21.5 seconds | 16.0 seconds | 1.34 times faster |
| 4. Horizontal Scrolling | 106.4 seconds | 38.9 seconds | 2.74 times faster |
- 1: Sort A to Z (all default options) [*a]
- 2: Replace all
\nwithawhileEscape Sequenceoption enabled, 20,685,609 newlines replaced [*a] - 3: Replace all
awith\nwhileEscape Sequenceoption enabled, 96,626,226 characters replaced [*b] - 4: Run the following macro to move the cursor to the end of the line, then move it 1,000 characters to the left. [*b]
document.selection.EndOfLine(false,eeLineView);
document.selection.CharLeft(false, 1000);
- *a: A Wikipedia dump file (UTF-8, 2.00 GB, 20,685,610 lines)
- *b: A Wikipedia dump file (UTF-8, 1.98 GB, 1 line)
- *All: All default options except
Always discard lengthy undo information to improve performanceoption enabled, Windows 11, Ryzen 9 7950X, 96 GB RAM.
New Options
- Added a The cursor moves to the correct position when sorting checkbox to the Sort page of the Customize dialog box. [P]
- Added Provider, Model, Reasoning effort, and Text Verbosity checkboxes and drop-down list boxes, as well as a Web Search checkbox, to the AI Prompts page in the Customize dialog box. [P]
- Added Provider, Model, Reasoning effort, and Text Verbosity checkboxes and drop-down list boxes, as well as a Web Search checkbox, to the New Prompt dialog box. [P]
- The Preferred model drop-down list box on the AI Options page of the Customize dialog box is now populated dynamically. [P]
New Macro Features [P]
- Added the TextLength property to the Selection object.
- Added the LineNumbersZeroBase property to the GeneralProp object.
Plug-in New Features [P]
- Added the EE_GET_SEL_LENGTH message and the Editor_GetSelLength inline function.
- Chat with AI
- Added the Anthropic provider.
- Support file upload feature for Google provider.
- Support tool calling for Anthropic and Google providers.
- Added the Import and Export Chat feature.
- Added the PowerShell tool.
Notes
- [P] EmEditor Professional only
- [PF] EmEditor Professional and EmEditor Free












