Version 19.0

July 30, 2019

New General Features

  • Added an ability to check syntax of HTML, CSS, and JSON documents using CSS HTML Validator Lite (EmEditor edition), which is included in the installer.

  • Added an ability to check syntax of XML documents using MSXML Parser.

  • The Validate CSV command is now called the Syntax Check command, and it can check syntax of all supported document types (CSV, XML, HTML, CSS, and JSON).

  • Syntax check errors are displayed with red wiggly underlines (customizable), and hovering the mouse pointer causes a tooltip show information about the errors. Syntax check can be automatically refreshed for smaller documents.

  • The new version allows you to customize underline colors for highlight separately from the text colors ( Display page of the Configuration Properties dialog box).

  • Added the new Sort Reverse command, which allows you to sort document(s) in reversed order.

  • Greatly improved the speed of switching to a CSV mode, and the Syntax Check (CSV) and Adjust Separator Position (Whole Document) commands using multi-threaded code and the AVX-2 instruction set found in recent CPUs .

  • Greatly improved the speed of the Delete Duplicate Lines command on a very large file using multi-threaded code and the AVX-2 and SSE4.2 instruction sets found in recent CPUs.

Test results:

v18.9

v19.0

Comparison

Switch to CSV mode

1.67 seconds

0.206 seconds

8.11 times faster

Delete Duplicate Lines

47.7 seconds

20.3 seconds

2.35 times faster

\* Switch to CSV mode: 1.99 GB 15.8 million lines, comma separated numbers.

Delete Duplicate Lines: 2.70 GB, 200 million lines, random ASCII data.

All: Use Temporary Files option on, 16 threads, Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD.

New Options

  • Added the Syntax Check page to the Customize dialog box.

  • Added the Syntax Check page to the Configuration Properties dialog box.

  • Added the Underline Color drop-down list box to the Display page of the Configuration Properties dialog box.

  • Added the Enable file mapping when saving a large file check box to the File page of the Customize dialog box.

  • Added the Instruction Set drop-down list box to the Advanced page of the Customize dialog box.

  • Added the Number of Tabs option to the Type drop-down list box in the Outline page of configuration properties.

  • Added the Inspect Selected Strings Only radio button to the Delete Duplicate Lines dialog box.

  • Added the Inspect only selected strings when vertical selection or multiple selections exist (Delete Duplicates command) option to the Edit page of the Customize dialog box.

  • Added the Inspect only selected strings when vertical selection or multiple selections exist option to the Sort page of the Customize dialog box.

New Commands

Plug-in API New Features

Macro New Features

  • Added the V (sorts reverse) option and the eeSortInspectNotSelOnly flag to the Sort method of the Document object.

  • Added the eeSortInspectSelOnly flag to the DeleteDuplicates method of the Document object.