[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

Please use a fixed-pitch font, not a proportional font!

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello ginger,

In recent versions of Windows, Ctrl+Shift+0 is by default used by Windows, so it can’t be used by EmEditor even though EmEditor set this shortcut correctly.

Please see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967893

to remove this shortcut assignments from Windows.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

You probably used the portable version of EmEditor. If you use the installer, the installer will warn you about the new key requirement during the installation, and there is 30-day grace period. However, if you just overwrite files using the portable version, there is no way for EmEditor to detect when you started to use v13, and EmEditor won’t be able to give you a grace period. Please use the Installer version whenever possible.

Thank you,

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello Andreas,

I see. I believe some users still want the current behavior, so I will have to add new commands. I will add these new commands in future versions.

Thank you,

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
Thank you, it would be helpful. I didn’t think about such possibility.

BTW, how do you access these options? I don’t see them in the reference. Or did you mean a macro that will send specific keypresses for opening the dialog and ticking the checkbox?

Hi Flint,

I thought it was possible by doing this:

n = editor.GetProfileInt( eeRegCommon, "", "EnableMultiSel", 1 );

	editor.WriteProfileInt( eeRegCommon, "", "EnableMultiSel", !n );

	

But this code doesn’t work actually. It is because EmEditor has to be refreshed with new Registry values.

I might add a feature to refreh EmEditor or ability to toggle the Mulitple Selection option in future versions.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi David,

Yes, that’s correct.

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello,

Can you please make sure “http” protocol is associated with the Internet browser you use?

I suggest you go to Default Programs in the Start menu, and set your default internet browser.

Thanks,

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi Flint,

I will consider this in future versions. Can I write a macro to toggle this for you?

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello David,

You can create an external tool. Please go to the Tools menu, External Tools, Customize Tools, click “New” button, enter a name in the title, and then enter:

http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/$(CurText)

	

in the Command field. “en” means English, and you can replace it with another language name if your destination language is not English.

Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

I already changed this back to “off” by default (same as older version). I think I shoulnd’t confuse users. Please set this check box.

Thanks,

[Yutaka Emura]

Hello urlwolf,

Please go to the Scroll tab of configuration properties, and check “Always Enable 1 Page Vertical Scroll”. If this is checked, you will see an extra scrollable space below the EOF. Some users like it this checked because you can always scroll down one page. Since some users like this checked, I made it on by default on v13. Obviously, some others users like you, urlwolf may not like this unchecked. Should I make it back to unchecked by default?

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:

If you CTRL + Click + drag, it will select by character. However, if you CTRL + Click (No drag), it will select by words.

Wait a minute, if I Ctrl+click+drag and there is no selection yet, EE selects by words already! It’s only when selection is present, it selects by characters. It looks a bit inconsistent to me.

Yes, that’s correct.

[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!

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