EmEditor has been “almost perfect” to me for a long time; thanks for your marvelous work, Yutaka! Recently I switched to a high DPI laptop (ThinkPad X1 Carbon) for the daily work, and some annoying little problems appeared.

Suggestion 1: could we have customizable font size for the Find Bar? (The font name is already customizable, thanks!) On my laptop it’s too huge:

I guess it will appear differently on other screens. I often need to look at EmEditor for hours on a daily basis, and each time I look up at the beloved Find Bar, it feels a little funny.

Suggestion 2: could we have a customizable font for dialog boxes? The painful problem on a Chinese Windows 10 is, Microsoft YaHei is used for some areas (nice!) and SimSun for the other (inherited from Tahoma?):

Besides the imbalance, SimSun is really hard to read on a high DPI screen. This affects other programs, too. For example, Total Commander is so considerate to provide an option to customize the fonts for “major parts” of its UI:

Here is a related post for the Rhino project: https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-37528

These usability suggestions may be nitpicking and not as exciting as new features, but I believe they make EmEditor cozier and a step forward towards perfection. Thanks for your consideration.

Let’s say I want text files to be in Courier New 8pt. So I open EmEditor and by default I have a blank new file of the Text configuration. So I hit Alt+Enter to bring up the Text Properties dialog, go to the Display tab, hit the Font button, and (finally) I can change the font to Courier New 8pt. If only it were that easy.

So I want to open a TSV (tab-separated value text file) in EmEditor. I double-click the file in Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and Windows asks me what application I want to use to open the file. I choose EmEditor. The file opens in EmEditor… in Courier New, 10pt!

OK, maybe EmEditor hasn’t realized that TSV files should be of the Text configuration. So I go to Tools|Associate Configuration, add a *.tsv association, and set it to the Text configuration. And I try again; I reload the TSV file. Same thing: Courier New 10pt.

So I hit Alt+Enter again to bring up the settings for the current configuration (which it says is Text, as it should be), and the font is Courier New 10pt! So I close the TSV file and create a new, blank text file. I hit Alt+Enter again and go to the font… and it shows Courier New 8pt! So wait a second… how can the Text configuration be configured both for Courier New 10pt and Courier New 8pt, depending on which file is loaded?

(As a side note, as marvelous as EmEditor is, this whole business of per-configuration settings is extremely difficult to use. EmEditor should allow a “default configuration” or “base configuration” settings, and then each of the file types could override only those properties that they need to. So if I wanted to change the default font to Courier New 8pt, I would go into the “default configuration” and set the font to Courier New 8pt. Done! That’s all I would need to do. If a particular configuration wants to override that setting, it could. This is how it’s done in Eclipse. This is how it’s done in Notepad++. How it’s done in EmEditor fries my brain, and I’m tired of changing the font each time I open a different file.)