History — Version 18.2

# Version 18.2

October 10, 2018

## New General Features

- Greatly improved the speed of Find, Replace, Filter, CSV sort and other operations when opening very large files. Removed multi-threaded search/replace, as single-threaded search/replace is now faster.

- In the new version, the status bar is highlighted for important messages.

### Test results:

| v18.0 | v18.1 | v18.2 | Comparison to v18.0
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Find "abc" with "Count Matches" option | 4.09 seconds | 3.26 seconds | 1.80 seconds | 2.27 times faster
Replace "abc" with "@@@" | 4.30 seconds | 3.22 seconds | 1.75 seconds | 2.46 times faster
Filter "abc" | 4.16 seconds | 3.14 seconds | 1.73 seconds | 2.40 times faster
CSV Sort | 0.797 seconds | 0.781 seconds | 0.500 seconds | 1.60 times faster
CSV Sort by Multiple Columns (numbers, sort by 2 columns) | 1.88 seconds | 1.813 seconds | 1.30 seconds | 1.45 times faster
CSV Sort by Multiple Columns (numbers, sort by 3 columns) | 3.02 seconds | 3.02 seconds | 2.19 seconds | 1.38 times faster

\* Find/Replace/Filter: 538 MB, 10,000,000 lines, random ASCII data, Sort: 185 MB, 2,170,000 lines, CSV number data, Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i7-8700K, 32GB RAM.

## New Options

- Added the Sort by Occurrence Ascending and Sort by Occurrence Descending radio buttons to the Sort by Multiple Columns dialog box.

- Added the Do not display the Save Workspace button in the "Save Changes?" dialog box check box to the Workspace page of the Customize dialog box.

## New Commands

- Next Bookmark in This Document (Around)

- Previous Bookmark in This Document (Around)

- Sort by Occurrence Ascending

- Sort by Occurrence Descending

## Plug-in API New Features

- Added the SORT_OCCURRENCE flag to the Editor_Sort inline function and the SORT_INFO structure.

## Macro New Features

- Added the O (sorts by occurrence) option to the strColumns parameter of the Sort method.

## Bug Fixes

- Fixed the bug where the Backup feature did not work.

- Fixed customer-reported issues ( 1).