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Animated Highlighting and New Settings

Animated Highlighting
Ever since I first created Regex Hero there was one little thing that bothered me. If you made a change in your regular expression that didn't affect the highlighting, then it wasn't obvious that Regex Hero was updating automatically because nothing really changed visually. Well, now the highlighting will actually flash orange and then fade to yellow whenever it's updated. It's a little detail that I think helps provide better feedback to the user.

CrLf Setting
This is an extension of the work around carriage returns and line feeds I've done recently. The CrLf setting is configurable so Regex Hero will use carriage return/line feed combinations by default, or line feeds only if you wish.

Real-time Highlighting Setting
9 times out of 10 I'd think most people would prefer the real-time highlighting that Regex Hero has always had. But in the rare case when you're dealing with massively complex regular expressions and/or target strings, you may want to disable real-time highlighting so it doesn't slow you down. So now you can disable it if you wish and click the "Process All" button to process your regular expressions.

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