History — Version 18.8

# Version 18.8

April 23, 2019

## New General Features

- Greatly improved the speed of opening very large files, Find/Replace/Filter, the Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Full-width, and Half-width commands using multi-threaded code and the AVX-2 instruction set found in recent CPUs.

- Greatly improved the speed especially when the opened document contains very long lines.

- The new version allows you to press CTRL + SHIFT + V several times consecutively in all text boxes in dialog boxes to paste previously copied text in the Clipboard history of the editor.

- Updated the IPTip.jsee macro to support new GeoLite2 CSV format. This macro is used to show the country name as a tooltip when the mouse hovers on IP v4 addresses if IP v4 active strings are enabled.

- Changed the default keyboard shortcuts. SHIFT + TAB is assigned as the Decrease Line Indent command, and CTRL + SHIFT + T is assigned as the Most Recently Closed File command.

### Test results:

| v18.7 | v18.8 | Comparison
--- | --- | --- | ---
Lowercase command | 56.6 seconds | 1.47 seconds | 38.5 times faster
Capitalize command | 72.5 seconds | 2.64 seconds | 27.5 times faster
Full-width command | 116 seconds | 4.27 seconds | 27.2 times faster
Open a very large file | 8.08 seconds | 7.55 seconds | 6.56% faster
Replace All "abc" with "@@@" (default options) | 1.86 seconds | 0.922 seconds | 2.02 times faster
Filter "abc" (default options) | 1.67 seconds | 0.906 seconds | 1.84 times faster
Move cursor in a very large document without newlines *1 | 1.36 seconds | 0.578 seconds | 2.35 times faster

*1 3.09 GB, 1 lines (no newlines), XML file, run a macro to move to the end of line, and then 20 characters left. Use Temporary Files option off.

Others: 4.72 GB, 50,000,000 lines, random ASCII data, Use Temporary Files option off.

All: Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD.

## New Options

- Added the Prompt if a Unicode (UTF-16) file size is an odd number in bytes check box to the File page of the Customize dialog box.

- Added the Ignore the last character in the selection on the Insert/Remove Newline Characters commands, Converts half-width backslashes (U+005C) to full-width Japanese Yen signs (U+FFE5) during half-width/full-width conversions, and Converts half-width backslashes (U+005C) to full-width Korean Won signs (U+FFE6) during half-width/full-width conversions check boxes to the Edit page of the Customize dialog box.

## Plug-in API New Features

- Added the eeWidthJapaneseYen and eeWidthKoreanWon flags to the ChangeWidth method of the Selection object..

## Macro New Features

- Added FLAG_JAPANESE_YEN and FLAG_KOREAN_WON flags to the EE_CONVERT message and Editor_Convert inline function.