New in Version 20.7
May 11, 2021
New General Features
- The new version allows the Combine Files Wizard to use existing files as the source without opening in the editor.
- Improved the Clipboard History feature. By selecting Up or Down in the menu displayed when right-clicking on the Clipboard History, you can reorder the history, or select multiple-items to paste multiple items combined.
- The new version uses a separate thread for running macros. This allows you to stop a macro while running it by selecting the new Stop Macro command, or by pressing ESC twice or CTRL+BREAK.
- Added a new way of pasting cells in the cell selection mode after selecting multiple cells as the target.
- Added $(Path), $(Dir), $(Filename), $(FilenameEx), and $(Ext) to the Replacement Expression Syntax.
- Updated the Onigmo regular expression engine to Version 6.2.0.
- Updated the Hunspell spelling engine to Version 1.7.0.
New Options
- The first page of the Combine Files Wizard was split to the Welcome to File Combiner page, which includes the Existing Files option, and the Destination file and options page.
- Added the Clipboard page to the Customize dialog box.
- Added 4 more bracket pairs (“/”, ‘/’, 《/》, and 〖/〗) to the Bracket Pairs list box in the Highlight (2) page of configuration properties.
- Added the Use editor font option to the menu displayed when you click on the > button or right-click in the text/list box in the Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files, Advanced Filter, and Clipboard History dialog boxes.
New Commands
- Customize Clipboard
- Stop Macro
- Hide Quotes Temporarily
Plug-in API New Features
- Added EI_GET_VIEW_FONT, EI_GET_HIDE_QUOTES, EI_SET_HIDE_QUOTES commands to the EE_INFO message.
Macro New Features
- Improved the SendKeys method so that the method could work against the EmEditor view.
- Added {CONVERT}, {NONCONVERT}, and {VKnnn} keys to the str parameter of the SendKeys method.
- Added the HideQuotes property to the Document object.