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| Developer(s) | Emurasoft, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 24.4.1 / October 20, 2024 [1] |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | emeditor.com |
EmEditor is a lightweight extensible commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Yutaka Emura of Emurasoft, Inc. It includes full Unicode support, 32-bit and 64-bit builds, syntax highlighting, find and replace with regular expressions, vertical selection editing, editing of large files (up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines), and is extensible via plugins and scripts. [2] The software has free trial and after that it downgrades to free version, which still can handle huge files and regex. [3]
EmEditor supports Unicode and provides tools for work with various character encodings. These features include automatic encoding detection, byte order mark support, file reload with a different encoding, and detection of encoding errors. EmEditor is able to use any encoding that Windows supports and converts between encodings with ease. The software searches for Unicode characters while opening Unicode file names.
EmEditor is capable of working with very large files. [4] 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.
EmEditor is extensible via plug-ins written in C/C++. 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:
An optional 32-bit plug-in for CSE HTML Validator support is also available. [5]
The program is scriptable using the Windows Script Host. The program's scripts are written in either JScript or VBScript. EmEditor can generally be scripted in any scripting language that supports Active Scripting. The program includes powerful macros. [6]
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