New in Version 17.6
April 18, 2018
New General Features
- Greatly improved the speed of theDelete Duplicate Lines command when very large files are used.
- Improved the speed ofsort commands.
Test results:
| v17.5 | v17.6 | Comparison | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delete Duplicate Lines | 392 minutes 31 seconds | 116 minutes 10 seconds | 3.38 times faster |
| Sort (default options) | 93.5 seconds | 74.4 seconds | 20.4 % faster |
| Sort (fast binary comparison) | 74.3 seconds | 46.5 seconds | 37.4 % faster |
* Delete Duplicate Lines: 32.2 GB, 1,360,000,000 lines, Unicode (UTF-16LE) random data, Sort: 538 MB, 10,000,000 lines, ASCII random data, All: Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i7-8700K, 32GB RAM.
- New support forDirectWrite, which uses sub-pixel anti-alising to improve the rendering of text. Also supported color fonts such as Emoji (Color fonts are supported only on Windows 8.1 or later). DirectWrite is turned off by default. After opening a file in EmEditor, changing options in theText Rendering page of theCustomize dialog box will preview the changes in the EmEditor window before confirming the changes.
- The Character Code Value dialog window now includes the Unicode name.
- New configuration forMarkdown.
- Improved theFlash Fill command.
New Options
- Added theText Rendering page to theCustomize dialog box.
- In the Join CSV window, headings in the key column of CSV documents will be ignored if theIgnore Headings checkbox is checked, so that original headings are retained in the merged document.
- Added theIgnore Case check box to theDelete/Bookmark Duplicate Lines dialog box.
- Added theSize slider to theToolbars dialog box, which allows you to adjust the font size of drop-down list boxes in theFind andFilter toolbars.
- Allows you to enter a negative value (up to -2) to theLine Space text box in theDisplay page of configuration properties.
Plug-in API New Features
- Added theEI_GET_NEWLINE_CODE flag toEE_INFO message.
- Added theMANAGE_DUPLICATES_INCLUDE_ALL andMANAGE_DUPLICATES_IGNORE_CASE flags to theMANAGE_DUPLICATES_INFO structure.
- Improved the EE_IS_CHAR_HALF_OR_FULL message and Editor_IsCharHalfOrFull inline function.
Macro New Features
- Added theNewlineCode property to theDocument object.
- Added theeeIncludeAll andeeSortIgnoreCase flags to theDeleteDuplicates method.
Bug Fixes
- Improved caret movement behavior on combining characters.
- Fixed an issue where EmEditor could crash if the number of columns in the Column drop-down list of the Filter toolbar does not match the number of columns in the CSV document.
- Fixed an issue where a regular expression search using “b” could result in an error.
- Fixed an issue related to theSave Opened Portion As button in theLarge File Controller.
- Fixed a bug where theDelete/Bookmark Duplicate Lines (Advanced) command could work incorrectly when theCompare Adjacent Lines Only option is enabled and only one column in a CSV document is selected.