Version 22.1

December 6th, 2022

New General Features

• Supported modern JavaScript using the V8 JavaScript engine. ^[P]

• The new version of the WebPreview plug-in uses the Microsoft Edge browser control based on Chromium by default. ^[P]

• Added the ability to create commits, change branches, stage changes, and undo changes with the CommitList plug-in. ^[P]

• Redesigned the Crash Report dialog box, and allow the report to be sent directly from EmEditor. ^[PF]

• The new version supports date formats (a type of number range) without separators (for instance, " yyyyMMdd"). ^[PF]

• The new version allows the use of a number range with the Extract button in the Replace dialog box. ^[P]

• The new version highlights brackets even if the cursor is at the right side of the bracket. ^[PF]

• Allowed copying and pasting cells from Excel to EmEditor. ^[P]

• Allowed full-width numbers in Jump and other dialog boxes. ^[PF]

• Remove the Find toolbar from the default layout. ^[P]

• Recategorized the All Commands menu and the command category in the Quick Launch and Keyboard Map windows. ^[PF]

• Improved the speed of counting the number of characters in a selection and copying strings. ^[PF]

Test results:

	v22.0	v22.1	Comparison
Count the Number of Characters	32.2 seconds	14.4 seconds	2.24 times faster

\* Click the Number of Characters in the selection on the status bar after Select All, 1 billion lines, 52 GB random ASCII data. Default options, Windows 11, Ryzen 9 7900X, 64 GB RAM, 1TB SSD.

New Options

• Added the Sort Selection, Sort Columns, and Manage Columns dialog boxes. ^[P]

• Added the Use V8 as JavaScript engine option to the Option page of the Customize Macros dialog box. ^[P]

• Added the Discard extra strings option to the Split Columns dialog box. ^[P]

• Added the Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer radio buttons to the WebPreview plug-in Properties. ^[P]

New Commands

• Sort/Remove Duplicate Split Strings in Selection ^[P]

• Sort Columns ^[P]

• Manage Columns ^[P]

Plug-in New Features ^[P]

• Added the SPLIT_DONT_DISCARD_EXTRA flag to the SPLIT_COLUMN_INFO structure.

• Added the EE_CONVERT_EX and EE_REARRANGE_COLUMNS messages.

• Added the CONVERT_INFO and REARRANGE_COLUMNS_INFO structures.

• Added the Editor_RearrangeColumns inline function.

• Added the pszSeparator, nSortFlags, and pszLocale parameters to the Editor_Convert inline function.

• Added the SORT_COLUMNS, SORT_DELETE_DUPLICATE, and SORT_REMOVE_EMPTY flags to the Editor_Sort inline function and the SORT_INFO structure.

Macro New Features ^[P]

• Added the Run, FileExists, FolderExists, DeleteFile, DeleteFolder, CreateFolder, GetFileAttributes, and SetFileAttributes methods to the Shell object.

• Added the RearrangeColumns method to the Document object.

• Added eeDontDiscardExtra to the SplitColumn method of the Document object.

• Added the Sort method to the Selection object.

• Added the eeSortColumns, eeRemoveDuplicates, and eeSortRemoveEmpty flags to the Sort method of the Document object.

• Added V8 to the #language directive.

Notes

• [P] EmEditor Professional only

• [PF] EmEditor Professional and EmEditor Free