EmEditor Free

[smaragdus]

Preamble
EmEditor has been mentioned and discussed in the forum but it seems that there are users who do not know that EmEditor has a free version - EmEditor Free, which is very limited.

Synopsis

If you need a best free text editor, EmEditor Free might be right for you. While not at the same level of EmEditor Professional, EmEditor Free allows you to do most of text editing tasks without purchasing the product. You can use it as Notepad-replacement with enhanced features like syntax-colored highlighting, find and replace function, Unicode support, and printing capabilities. However, this free version does not include many features that EmEditor Professional offers, such as very large file support, plug-ins, macros, etc.

Starting with v13, EmEditor Free and EmEditor Professional use the same binary program. Running a single command switches Professional to Free, and vice versa. However, the Free version is available only for personal use.

Once you downgrade the product to EmEditor Free, you will never be asked to upgrade or get any marketing messages, so please go ahead and keep it as the free version as long as you would like!

Features

• Unicode support;
• Tabbed interface;
• URL detection;
• Different wrap types;
• Split window;
• Always on top;
• Find/Replace, Find in files/Replace in files;
• Line numbers;
• Ruler;
• Backup;
• Colour themes;
• Support for many programming languages

Links
Website - https://www.emeditor.com/
EmEditor Free - https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-fe ... itor-free/
Download Page - https://www.emeditor.com/download/ (warning- this page automatically starts download for the installer, more download options are listed.)
History - https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/history/
Features - https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/
Versions - https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-fe ... table-uwp/
Products Page - https://www.emeditor.com/about/other-products/
Support - https://www.emeditor.com/support/
Help - http://www.emeditor.org/en/
Forum - https://www.emeditor.com/forums/
Blog - https://www.emeditor.com/blog/
Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-too ... onal.shtml
Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-S ... onal.shtml
Download3K - http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilit ... ional.html
AlternativeTo - https://alternativeto.net/software/emeditor/
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmEditor

Downloads
Direct download links for EmEditor version 16.9.3 (released on 2017-06-15):

• Archive
  • x32
  • x64

• Installer
  • x32
  • x64

Downgrade

Starting with v13, EmEditor Free and EmEditor Professional use the same binary program. Running a single command switches Professional to Free, and vice versa. However, the Free version is available only for personal use.

Once you downgrade the product to EmEditor Free, you will never be asked to upgrade or get any marketing messages, so please go ahead and keep it as the free version as long as you would like!

Download the normal EmEditor Professional/Free installer, install, and select All Commands on the Tools menu, select Help, and select Downgrade. (Alternatively, select Quick Launch (CTRL+Q) on the Tools menu, type “downgrade”, and press Enter twice.)

Downgrade Instructions (how to downgrade EmEditor Professional to EmEditor Free)

• Download the archive.
• Extract the archive to a folder of your choice.
• Run EmEditor.exe.
• Go to Tools and choose All Commands.

• Select Help and then Downgrade.

• Confirm downgrade.

• EmEditor will restart automatically.

• After restart EmEditor is downgraded.

Images

EmEditor - program window (black theme):



EmEditor - file:



EmEditor - edit:



EmEditor - search:



EmEditor - view:



EmEditor - tools:



EmEditor - window:



EmEditor - preferences:



EmEditor - keyboard map:


Portability
EmEditor has both x32 and x64 portable versions. EmEditor seems to be stealth.

Instructions

• Download either x32 or x64 archive.
• Extract the archive to a folder of your choice.
• Run EmEditor.exe.
• Settings are saved inside program folder.

Requirements
EmEditor supports all Windows versions from Vista to 10.

License
EmEditor Free is available for personal use only.

Note
For me EmEditor Free is very limited, even full screen is not available in the free version.
I have read that EmEditor Free is very good at editing very large files but I don't have such files, I have not tested it with huge files and therefore I cannot confirm.
I suppose that TP109 might be interested to test EmEditor Free and include it in his Text Editor Performance Tests.

Details
File details for EmEditor version 16.9.3 (released on 2017-06-15).

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EmEditor archive x32:
Name: emed32_16.9.3_portable.zip
File Size: 6824788 Byte(s) (6.51 MB)
Modified Date: 2017-06-15 21:35
MD5: 5b874183561f52910014609e3376af01
SHA1: d2866594dcea4d64a3176d8c24f4b519ff25eccf
SHA256: c520326a6e36c7f928e287d3159b53e435a03bc788561ea38ad9fd405d2ac3a5
SHA512:c686e12bf9ea0be1e03dfed73f038f62d24fe915d6bf45cb73f2e277a5fbd7cd8d91cffb2e80be9754e9beca9979c21e8f779c1e570fb1bcdc6b4a8dd8f31246

VirusTotal analysis
SHA256: c520326a6e36c7f928e287d3159b53e435a03bc788561ea38ad9fd405d2ac3a5
File name: emed32_16.9.3_portable.zip
Detection ratio: 1 / 56
Analysis date: 2017-06-18 00:01:03 UTC

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EmEditor archive x64:
Name: emed64_16.9.3_portable.zip
File Size: 7215395 Byte(s) (6.88 MB)
Modified Date: 2017-06-15 21:35
MD5: 65a13a991d22a5b3870cb1c62f8ee254
SHA1: 7c3f16fbd6cfc20b41dbc5dc7751bdeb0d1043ed
SHA256: 3a13561bfe418977bdb31698beff3ce3094f3c0227de2dd09293b51842e98c8a
SHA512: 144860d4f360ae69634c2503c064df09cc699f0d2237e2a28b79010bfc7299d090a2ec30a021ca7104bf67fb434e4ffce37dfcbed717e36d23225c3ae9e5965a

VirusTotal analysis
SHA256: 3a13561bfe418977bdb31698beff3ce3094f3c0227de2dd09293b51842e98c8a
File name: emed64_16.9.3_portable.zip
Detection ratio: 1 / 56
Analysis date: 2017-06-18 00:09:05 UTC

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EmEditor installer x32:
Name: emed32_16.9.3.exe
File Size: 6889128 Byte(s) (6.57 MB)
Modified Date: 2017-06-15 21:35
Version: 16.9.3.0
MD5: 3a8c9fd90c63c33452d947de247ec8cf
SHA1: 0382c3f3f7b9a0bc9895342d0677084273e79189
SHA256: 87c8781db64465b3f64ba45a23ce3ccd034a2138118521b6f64c3cec2049cf97
SHA512: 8d5c66e0889ecfb9e8c7800d61bd4b91b4594f57838ee13cd96b59cff60f0cbaca0656f9319c22dc3996452c147bab0d566f15d3f1a900fc843d385a21ef3da3

VirusTotal analysis
SHA256: 87c8781db64465b3f64ba45a23ce3ccd034a2138118521b6f64c3cec2049cf97
File name: emed32_16.9.3.exe
Detection ratio: 0 / 60
Analysis date: 2017-06-18 00:13:50 UTC

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EmEditor installer x64:
Name: emed64_16.9.3.exe
File Size: 7077008 Byte(s) (6.75 MB)
Modified Date: 2017-06-15 21:35
Version: 16.9.3.0
MD5: 55a2cf5f10bf6029aa34d64a8cf96524
SHA1: aad8abf705e1a15d1a60fad0ea467491392d5a5b
SHA256: fb0e875e050e6dc27e77f0fb9dc3f13fc8325c1f75aa6df8e20bb94462b04fcd
SHA512: 8fec9aca678594578027c87c04fed7ae259f389d5b095362d60295df3c3eb71d24ccc80ca8f5cc9487ba56b0d99650e6cbd74a2a2eee1e094d9db28e64831d29

VirusTotal analysis
SHA256: fb0e875e050e6dc27e77f0fb9dc3f13fc8325c1f75aa6df8e20bb94462b04fcd
File name: emed64_16.9.3.exe
Detection ratio: 0 / 60
Analysis date: 2017-06-18 00:18:19 UTC

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[webfork]

EmEditor Free - https://www.emeditor.com/text-editor-fe ... itor-free/

I'm a little bummed it won't do something as basic as a Find-Replace, but I can see some of it's other features making it worth the effort. Thanks for the downgrade instructions.

The program was discussed at some length in this speed test thread:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums ... 135#p75135

[smaragdus]

@webfork

I'm a little bummed it won't do something as basic as a Find-Replace, but I can see some of it's other features making it worth the effort. Thanks for the downgrade instructions.

In fact EmEditor Free has Find/Replace- see screen-shot "EmEditor - search", it is mentioned in the Features section as well.

[webfork]

... it is mentioned in the Features section as well.

Oh Find and replace in files is paid version only. Missed that.

[webfork]

I went ahead and added the program to the database: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2960

[Nh]

I have been using this program for many years, since v.5.00.1. Absolutely the best program by all criteria, at least for my needs.

[TP109]

EmEditor appears to be good program. This editor wasn't included in the text editor performance tests because testing was limited to freeware editors and because it doesn't run on XP. See the below forum topic for why EmEditor was not included in the text editor performance tests:

Text Editor Performance Tests - EmEditor

The database entry for EmEditor Free mistakenly claims that EmEditor was included in the Text Editor Performance tests and "beat a variety of other text editors." That is an error that should be corrected.

[Midas]

The database entry for EmEditor Free mistakenly claims that EmEditor was included in the Text Editor Performance tests and "beat a variety of other text editors." That is an error that should be corrected.

Done!

[hamasaki]

I used to use EmEditor years ago, I even got the paid version. The problem with it is it truncates the paths in the recent files list. Did they make this optional?

I contacted the developer several times years ago, but it never got changed so in the end I dumped the software. It`s a problem for me because the recent files list would show like 30 files, but the paths would all be the same, even though they were different files. So, I never knew which file I was opening. Why it`s truncated I have no idea, it`s stupid. I took a quick look at this again recently, but it`s still truncating the paths and I can`t see anything in the settings to disable it, unless I missed it?

[webfork]

EmEditor was not included in the text editor performance tests

That's 100% my fault. Sorry about that.

[Midas]

Topic update: EmEditor v20.0.0 released (release announcement at www.emeditor.com /emeditor-core/emeditor-v20-0-0-released/; full changelog at www.emeditor.com/text-editor-features/history/).

I've been toying a little with EmEditor lately and was quite surprised to discover that the 64-bit version more than doubles disk cost (~117MB) when compared with the 32-bit version (~54MB).

Turns out the latter has a single main executable for the editor, while in the former the same name executable is just a wrapper and there are three(!) different copies of the main executable -- named 'ee128.exe', 'ee256.exe', and 'ee512.exe'.

In my case, whenever I launch the 64-bit EmEditor, it's 'ee128.exe' that gets executed. Now, can anyone explain the reason for this?

My first guess was it's tied to system memory, but my system has 16GB RAM so I don't get why the smaller footprint executable is the one being launched...

And can I just rename one of them to 'EmEditor.exe' and get rid of the rest, for example? (Rhetorical question, I will try that next...)

BTW, EmEditor portability is officially achieved by the following procedure:

To create the 64-bit portable version:

1. Download EmEditor Professional (64-bit installer) from the download page.

2. In the Command Prompt window of the Run dialog box, run the following command. A sub folder will be created, and all the installer contents will be extracted into the sub folder.

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msiexec /a "(...path...)emed64_18.9.3.msi" /qb TARGETDIR="targetpath"

(if the installer file name is emed64_18.9.3.msi)

3. Copy all the contents in the folder into an install folder such as a USB portable drive.

4. In the same folder, create an empty file as eeUseIni.ini.

The above procedure creates the 64-bit portable version.

@ https://www.emeditor.com/support/#toggle-id-13

[billon]

there are three(!) different copies of the main executable -- named 'ee128.exe', 'ee256.exe', and 'ee512.exe'.

In my case, whenever I launch the 64-bit EmEditor, it's 'ee128.exe' that gets executed. Now, can anyone explain the reason for this?

AVX-128/256/512?

[Midas]

AVX-128/256/512?

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX, also known as Sandy Bridge New Extensions) are extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and AMD proposed by Intel in March 2008 and first supported by Intel with the Sandy Bridge processor shipping in Q1 2011 and later on by AMD with the Bulldozer processor shipping in Q3 2011. AVX provides new features, new instructions and a new coding scheme.

AVX2 (also known as Haswell New Instructions) expands most integer commands to 256 bits and introduces fused multiply-accumulate (FMA) operations. They were first supported by Intel with the Haswell processor, which shipped in 2013.

AVX-512 expands AVX to 512-bit support using a new EVEX prefix encoding proposed by Intel in July 2013 and first supported by Intel with the Knights Landing processor, which shipped in 2016.

@ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

A likely explanation, thanks billon. I'm still unsure of what to do in the case of EmEditor, though...

[billon]

I'm still unsure of what to do in the case of EmEditor, though...

Improved the speed by dividing the core program into 3 executable files — ee512.exe for AVX-512, ee256.exe for AVX-2, and ee128.exe for SSE2 instruction sets (64-bit only). EmEditor automatically selects the most optimized executable file by default, or a user can select any executable file as long as the current CPU supports the corresponding instruction set.

[Midas]

Great!

So, that settles it. I'll stick with the least denominator, I think.