EmEditor is a lightweight extensible

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for

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. It was developed by Yutaka Emura of Emurasoft, Inc. It includes full

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support,

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and

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builds,

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, find and replace with

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s, vertical selection editing, editing of large files (up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines), and is extensible via plugins and

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s. The software has free trial and after that it downgrades to free version, which still can handle huge files and regex.

Features

Unicode support

EmEditor supports Unicode and provides tools for work with various

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s. These features include automatic encoding detection,

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support, file reload with a different encoding, and detection of encoding errors. EmEditor can use any encoding supported by Windows and easily converts from one encoding to another. The program opens Unicode file names and searches for Unicode characters.

Large files

EmEditor is capable of working with very large files. For large files up to 248 GB, rather than opening them in memory, EmEditor "spills them out" into disk space. For files over 248 GB, it uses its Large File Controller to edit separate sections of the file.

Plug-ins

EmEditor is extensible via plug-ins written in C/

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. The editor's API is available, so that users can write their own plug-ins. The following plug-ins are installed with EmEditor by default: * HTMLBar * Open Documents * Outline * Projects * Search * Snippets * WebPreview * WordComplete * Word Count An optional 32-bit plug-in for

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support is also available.

Scripting macros

The program is scriptable using the

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. The program's scripts are written in either

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. EmEditor can generally be scripted in any scripting language that supports

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. The program includes powerful macros.

Awards and nominations

*EmEditor Professional has been nominated for the Epsilon Award 2010. Later it won the second place of the award. *EmEditor 10.0 was awarded a 5/5 Cows editor's rating on

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. *EmEditor won the

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for 2008 in the Best Applications category. *EmEditor 8.00 was awarded a 5/5 stars Editor's Rating on CNET's Download.com on November 18, 2008.CNET Download.com EmEditor page
Retrieved on 12 March 2009.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Emeditor Windows text editors 1997 software