[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
2.
Ctrl+click+drag is not fixed: it still selects by characters if any selection is present.

Some users still want to be able to make multiple selections by using CTRL + click + drag, therefore, this is a combination of both good features. If you CTRL + Click + drag, it will select by character. However, if you CTRL + Click (No drag), it will select by words.

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Stefan,

In Find in Files dialog box, by the File types dropdown list, please click the “>” button, then click “Current File”, to show the current file name. You can then click “>” again and click “Save as Default” if you want to save this settings.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Deipotent,

Thank you for explaining. I am beginning to understand your task, but the question is how many users would use this feature. Even adding an extra button “Extract All” in the Find/Replace dialog will certainly annoy some users. I want the user interface as simple as possible.

I would also like to hear from other users about this topic.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Stefan,

Why do you need date and time macro functions while you can use JavaScript Date object? I would like EmEditor as lean as possible, and I believe date and macro functions are not necessary in EmEditor because JavaScript has the Date object, and you can easily write date and time related functions.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Deipotent,

Thank you for explaining. I am getting to understanding your task.

How about this procedure below?

1) Press Ctrl + F to bring up the Find dialog box, type “http://server.com/(d{3})/(d{3})”, check “Use Regular Expressions”, and click “Find All”. Alternatively, you can add “http://server.com/(d{3})/(d{3})” to the marker with the Regular Expression checked, right-click on this marker, and select “Find All”.

2) Make sure “Sticky Vertical Mode” is set by selecting “Edit” > “Selection Mode” > “Sticky Vertical Mode”. This will make sure a newline is inserted for each selection.

3) Ctrl + C to select all selections.

4) Ctrl + N to open a new document.

5) Ctrl + V to paste all the clipboard contents.

6) Ctrl + H to bring up the Replace dialog box, and replace “http://server.com/(d{3})/(d{3})” with http://server.com/2/1

For 6), you could click the marker and select “Replace”, but current beta version has a bug. I will fix this on the next beta version.

I can also write a macro to automate this process if you would like.

Thank you!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Flint,

Thanks for your reports.

1. 3. These will be fixed on the next beta version.

>In addition,

This is currently the specification. That is because when pasting text with NL, EmEditor will ignore the NL when pasting in multiple selections. In future versions, I might make it possible to paste text with NL.

Thank you!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Stefan,

I am afraid you are misunderstanding. In this version (v13), I have added so many features of your request! For instance, the new options in the Numbering dialog box is one of many features you had requested.

Please understand that I won’t be able to satisfy all the customers’ request in a limited time. Besides, many customers want stability and robustness, rather than the feature-rich program. The more features we added, larger and more bloated the program becomes. It would become much more difficult to maintain if the program became bigger and bloated. If I added all the features of all the customers’ request, the program would certainly become too bloated. I believe I have to choose which features I should add.

Nevertheless, I might add a few more features of your request unless the translation is involved. If not in v13, I might add in future versions.

Some responses to your feature request:

** Display result of “Find All” in current file to output bar.

–> You can use the “Find in Files” and search only the current file with the Use Output Bar option. Alternatively, you can use the Search plug-in.

** Improvement of the zero-wide selection edit mode.
(Move selection line, delete left and right)

You can use a combination of the Switch Starting Point and Ending Point (SHIFT + F8) and SHIFT + RIGHT/LEFT to adjust the selection.

** Navigation: GoBack/GoForward in edit history.

–> Back and Forward commands are already included in EmEditor. You can display these commands as the Toolbar, and also you can use the default shortcut keys (ALT + LEFT and ALT + RIGHT).

** The $(AppDir), $(AppDrive), and $(Clipboard) parameters as ${} snippets equivalent.

–> I have already added this feature per your request if it means the External Tool properties.

** Edit > Advanced > Insert at Start/End of lines

–> You can select Edit > Selection Mode > Select Beginning/End of Lines, and then type text. This feature was added per your request.

** Updating the help with better explanations and examples.

–> I will certainly add more explanations and examples to the Help.

** Macros

Date.Day
Date.Month
Date.Year
Date.Hour
Date.Min
Date.Sec
document.BaseName
document.Extension

–> These can be done by a combination of JavaScript built-in classes and string manipulations.

document.SaveAs( [ strNEWName ] );

–> What is the difference between document.Save and document.SaveAs?

Thanks always for your support and understanding!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Deipotent,

Thank you for explaining. For this purpose, I believe the multiple-selection editing would be easy to use. When you place the cursor at a string (in this case, http://server.com/123/321), you will see how many strings are matched on the status bar. And then you can press BACKSPACE 7 times to delete the last 7 seven characters, and type “321/123” to change the strings.

Thank you!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Deipotent,

I am sincerely sorry for my late responses. The v13 feature set has been fixed already, and I am not going to add or change any more resources because we are already asking translators to translate the resources.

For future versions, it is possible to add your feature. However, I am afraid that I am not generally good at understanding English. Your feature seems so complicated that I had a hard time figuring out why this feature is so important. Can you please explain (with simple words) what is a good example when this feature becomes useful? The screenshot (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/8zvbw) doesn’t explain why the feature is important. Please write as simple as possible.

Also, can you try the new multiple-selection editing feature of v13? With this new feature, you can easily select multiple selections using CTRL + SHIFT + A, and then you can replace the strings just by typing. In my opinion, the multiple-selection editing is much more easy to use.

Thank you,

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Stefan,

Yes! You can use eeFindSelectAll, and it is already implemented on the latest beta version.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

I am very sorry for late responses. Please try the latest beta version of EmEditor because many issues were addressed in the latest beta. If you still see any issues, please try to write as simple as possible.

However, this issue is not addressed: After typing, you won’t be able to change the starting/ending points with SHIFT+F8 because the box selection becomes multiple selection when you type something. This is currently the specification.

Thanks for your comments!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

I am very sorry for late responses.

I don’t want to add too many features because they might make EmEditor bloated, and it will become harder to maintain in the future.

I heard you can add dialog boxes using COM object such as SeraphyScriptDialog http://sourceforge.jp/projects/seraphyscrtools/ There might be other similar COM objects.

However, I will think about adding more GUI interfaces.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

This issue (status bar) will be fixed on beta 8. Thank you!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

Please right-click on the Tray Icon, and select Customize, and you can remove those shortcuts.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

BobBailey wrote:
That does not sort the selected column but rather the first column. Or, maybe the whole file, it’s not clear.

You don’t have to select a column, please put the cursor at the column you want to sort by, and then select one of the sort commands.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

BobBailey wrote:
My admittedly very nitpicky observations:
I’d like to preserve the first row if it contains headings.
I’d like to see the Select, Sort commands available as toolbar buttons.

You can select all lines except the first line before you do one of the sort commands.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello ToadLoadin,

Your MinimalZen theme is quite popular. Unfortunately, the following colors are missing from v12 or v13:

CompareChange=

	CompareChar=

	CompareAdded=

	CompareDeleted=

	CompareBlank=

	Spell=

	Unicode=

	VerticalSel=

	HexSel=

	IndentGuides=

	HorzGrid=

	Outline=

	LineNumberLines=

	RulerLines=

	VerticalSeparator=

	HtmlCharRef=

	Ucn=

	AutoMarker=

	Marker1=

	Marker2=

	Marker3=

	Marker4=

	Marker5=

	Marker6=

	Marker7=

	Marker8=

	Marker9=

	Marker10=

	MatchingTag=

	

Would you please add these colors?

Also, is it possible for me to add the MinimalZen theme to EmEditor as one of the installed themes?

Thank you!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

I believe you are opening a very large file. Please try v13 beta available in our beta forum, and you should be able to sort a larger file.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Deipotent wrote:
I’ve just had EmEditor crash after clicking on Associations… button on All Configuration Properties dialog under Association tab. Let me know if you can’t reproduce, as I have a crash report.

A related bug is that when EE is restarted, it says “EmEditor abnormally terminated in the previous session. Do you want to recover a previous unsaved workspace?”. If I click No, another dialog is displayed asking “Are you sure you want to erase the currect workspace?”. If I click No to this, EmEditor starts as normal.

However, when EmEditor is restarted again, I get the “EmEditor abnormally terminated…” dialog again. Even though I did’t erase the workspace, surely this abnormal termination dialog should not be displayed again, should it?

I reproduced this issue, and it is fixed on beta 7.
Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

zhouzh2 wrote:
Beta 5 still has this issue. doesn’t know if this is by design…
how to reproduce:
1. Do a vertical selection.
2. SHIFT+ARROWSHIFT+F8 work as they should.
3. type something. the selection is then be replaced with the text you input. this is fine.
4. SHIFT+ARROW has no effect afterwards. the cursor moves, but selection doesn’t, and text will only append to the last portion of the selection, no mater where your cursor is.
5. SHIFT+F8 changes the cursor from downright corner to upperleft corner, which is correct.
But SHIFT+F8 again changes the cursor from upperleft to downleft, instead of returning to downright.
this is also true with multiple selection.

I reproduced this issue. When a box selection converts to multiple selections (3. by typing something), SHIFT + ARROW no more works. On Beta 6, I will clarify the behavior by clearing all the selections in this case.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Deipotent wrote:

Yutaka wrote:

Deipotent wrote:
Glad to see a new version of EmEditor with some useful new features. Bit disappointed though that my suggestion for text extraction has still not made it in though, particularly given that EmEditor already has a lot of the functionality needed to implement this feature:

http://www.emeditor.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1647&forum=4&post_id=5462

I am not exactly sure what you would like to see in future versions. If you want to extract searched lines, you can “bookmark” searched lines (by pressing the “Bookmark All” button in the Find dialog), and then use the “Extract Bookmarked Lines to New File” command. You can also write a macro to automate this process.

Thanks!

I only want to extract text that matches the find expression, and not the whole line where the match occurs. The link I gave to the original suggestion topic explains in detail what I’m after, but a very simple example would be – Suppose I have the following lines:

abcdefgh
bbcdfgt
pskdbcdjksh
jsjkslkdj
jksahoiehw

If I do a simple match (ie. not regular expression) of “bcd”, all occurrences of “bcd” would be highlighted in EmEditor (as is currently the case when incremental search is enabled), and the output bar would have the following (as the first 3 lines contain this search expression):

bcd
bcd
bcd

Each match goes on a separate line. This would allow text to be extracted that matches a search expression. This is only a really simple example – see the linked topic for more detail.

It should update the output bar in real-time with the matches (ie. as the find expression is being modified), if incremental searching is enabled. It should obviously support regular expressions, with back-references.

EmEditor already has most of the funxctionality in-place to make implementing this feature relatively straight-forward:

– Regular expression support for Find/Replace
– Incremental search with all occurrences being highlighted

1) As CrashNBurn mentioned in the other topic, Find and Replace dialogs should allow output to Output bar

There are various other related features/options regarding this suggestion (eg. extract to a new document) that are mentioned in the other topic, so please read the other topic for more info.

With this functionality, EmEditor can be used as a text-extraction/mining tool, with real-time feedback on what is being matched (which helps with constructing the correct regex).

Let me know if there is anything that is not clear and I’ll do my best to explain it further.

Sometimes a simple image or screenshot can explain better than many words. Can you show an image including a new check box exactly how you want it to be called, and include sample text before and after you set this check box?

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Deipotent wrote:
While replying to your post in the previous beta topic about my extract text option, I noticed that when doing a find, the latest beta indicates there is one more match then there actually is. Using my example from my other reply – given a document with:

abcdefgh
bbcdfgt
pskdbcdjksh
jsjkslkdj
jksahoiehw

If I do a simple find using “bcd”, EmEditor 13 beta 5 incorrectly indicates 4 matches, instead of 3.

I reproduced this issue, and it will be fixed on Beta 6. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Stefan wrote:
.

Yutaka wrote:
Updates from beta 4 include:
– The Quick Launch window now includes options
and allows you to access a searched dialog box.

What does this means?
Where can I see this ‘options’?
How am I able to ‘access a searched dialog box’?

Please elaborate. Thank you.

.

All of these items in this screenshot are either Configuration Properties or Customize. By double-clicking one of these items will take you directly to the corresponding dialog box.

Notes that these items appear only when you have typed something in the Search text box (in this case “file”).

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
4.
Since Ctrl+click does not select a word anymore in multi-selection mode, why not use it for adding the clicked cursor position to the multi-selection? I mean, if I want to type in the same word in multiple places, I have to make a number of non-empty selections, which means I can only replace the text with some other text, not append it. It would be useful if EE allowed to add empty selections (insert points, actually) as well. EE already supports them for vertical selection, but the desired insert points are not always aligned vertically, and multi-selection could be very handy there.

5.
A bug similar to reported earlier.
Press and hold Ctrl. Start selecting text, then reduce the selection area to empty (return the mouse pointer to the beginning of selection). Release the mouse button, release the Ctrl key. Now press any alphanumeric key. The result is “freezing” of EmEditor window contents, just like in this report.

5. will be addressed on Beta 6. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
1.
I had a configuration named Makefile which had no association. In the new association dialog it was shown as “*.txt” with unticked checkbox. Now I assigned it to the wildcard:
Makefile*
However, in the Open/Save dialogs it still displays “Makefile (*.txt)”.

2.
Suggestion: remember the column widths in the the Quick Launch dialog. By default they are too narrow, so I have to enlarge them, but next time I open the dialog the witdhs are default again.

3.
Suggestion: make the drop-down path of the Commands listbox in the Configuration->Keyboard wider than the list itself. For example, there’s a screenshot of how this idea is implemented in Total Commander:

1. and 2. will be addressed on Beta 6. I will also think about 3. in future versions. Thanks!

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