Version 19.9

June 16, 2020

New General Features

• Added the ability to batch or multi-search in the Find, Find in Files, and Replace in Files commands.

• Added the Split Columns command to split a column of a CSV document by a specified separator, and put them into right columns or lines beneath.

• Improve the robustness of file opening and sort commands under low-memory situations.

• Improved the Crash Report dialog box/files.

• The new version allows you to open a file path starting with a tilde-slash (~/) from within WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

• The Wrap Indent option now optionally ignores full-width spaces.

• Greatly improved the speed of Advanced Filter with multiple strings combined by logical disjunction (OR), by using an improved algorithm and SSE, AVX-2, and AVX-512 instructions sets.

Test results:

	v19.8	v19.9	Comparison
Advanced Filter (16 threads)	7.33 seconds	2.34 seconds	3.13 times faster
Advanced Filter (single thread)	61.8 seconds	17.1 seconds	3.61 times faster

\* 50 random ASCII search strings combined by logical disjunction (OR), ignore case, 1.34 GB, 100,000,000 lines, ASCII random data file. Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD.

New Options

• Added the Batch Find, Batch Find in Files, and Batch Replace in Files dialog boxes. Redesigned the Batch Replace dialog box.

• Added the Split Columns dialog box.

• Added the Select from Batch List command in the menu displayed when clicked the > button by the Find drop-down list box in Find, Replace, Find in Files, and Replace in Files dialog boxes.

• Added the Batch Options dialog box.

• Removed the Right Click to Set Cursor Position check box from the Mouse page of the Customize dialog box.

• Added the Ignore Wide Spaces check box to the Tab/Indent dialog box.

New Commands

• Split Columns

• Send Feedback

• Write a Review

Plug-in API New Features

• Added the EE_SPLIT_COLUMN message, Editor_SplitColumn inline function, and SPLIT_COLUMN_INFO structure.

• Added the Editor_BatchFindReplace inline function and BATCH_INFO structure.

Macro New Features

• Added the SplitColumn method to the Document object.

• Added the BatchFind and BatchReplace methods to the Selection object.

• Added the filters property to the Editor object.

• Added the AddFind and AddReplace methods to the Filters collection.

• Added the strFilter and nExFlags parameters to the Add method of the Filters collection.

• Added the ExFlags and Replace properties to the Filter object.