cshnik

Please describe the actual task which should be addressed under this item. Do we need to implement the switch for boost engine or?

> I'd like to know if there are alternatives to boost (which we only need for regexp engine, right?) Correct. According to the comparison chart "Language feature comparison (part 2)"...

There is a difference for cases 1 and 2 related to difference in behavior of [IShellLink::GetPath](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nf-shobjidl_core-ishelllinka-getpath) vs [IShellLink::GetArguments](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nf-shobjidl_core-ishelllinka-getarguments) (these are used to retrieve LNK properties). The point is: by default...

> How can it be if GetPath returns `%systemdrive%\test.txt` which gets expanded by the following `ExpandEnvironmentStringsEx`? `ExpandEnvironmentStrinsEx` is a wrapper function (not a part of WinAPI) and does nothing when...

I reviewed the sources and found "MaxSearchDistance"-setting is actually used as a limiter for the "edit selection"-modes (Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+~), i.e. MaxSearchDistance=1 means "Edit Selection" will work only for the first +/-1KB...

I was mistaken. MaxSearchDistance actually affects highlighting and works the way you described it (with required area limits and performance). But there is a feature in its implementation: you can't...

> This is still a problem because in large documents this would make the program unresponsible. Needs to be fixed. The problem is caused by frequent and long document updates...

Very long lines are not handled properly which caused specified highlighting and some other issues (e.g UI hangs). I've already noticed this in my previous researches. Actually this is not...

Standard [IFileIsInUse interface](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-ifileisinuse) has required functionality.

Please consider the following: 1. ``IFileIsInUse`` interface can be used to provide/retrieve details by exclusively locked file. 2. Explorer use it to retrieve the file owner and to display "File...