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UltraEdit Changelog

What's new in UltraEdit 20.00.0.32

Jun 8, 2020
  • Added "No to all" option when closing files with unsaved changes
  • Adde option "Start ruler numbering at column 1" under Preferences » Display » Misc.
  • Addressed issue with extra line breaks when pasting data from Excel
  • Addressed issue with double-clicking to select word in wrapped line
  • Addressed issue with very large print font in certain cases
  • Addressed issue with match highlighting when searching in selected text
  • Addressed high memory usage when application left open for days or weeks at a time
  • Addressed issue with macro not playing to end of file
  • Addressed issue with character being removed from macro when re-saving
  • Addressed issue with Cmd D no longer working in "Save changes" prompt
  • Addressed minor display issue with caret on certain 4K displays

New in UltraEdit 20.00.0.10 (Mar 13, 2020)

  • Addressed crash with sort
  • Addressed crash with Web Search Toolbar
  • Addressed issue with clipboard being cleared when pasting string into Quick Find
  • Addressed issue with "Show hidden files" setting not being remembered in Open dialog
  • Addressed issue with Ctrl + Cmd + Alt custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Addressed issue with application not reloading on secondary display
  • Addressed issue with FTP browser window not moving to background when losing focus

New in UltraEdit 20.00.0.8 (Dec 27, 2019)

  • Markdown support:
  • Preview Markdown files (via live preview – see below)
  • Preview uses GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) library for rendering
  • Select different styles for Markdown rendering (or add your own)
  • Special Markdown syntax highlighting (with new MARKDOWN_LANG) language marker
  • Support for embedded HTML highlighting
  • Live HTML preview:
  • Split window with code view and browser view
  • Code changes (saved and unsaved) are automatically updated in browser view
  • Quick find:
  • Supersedes incremental search
  • Press Cmd + F to open; begin typing to highlight matches
  • Press Enter to move to the next search string
  • Number of matches shown in status bar
  • Smart Templates:
  • Redesigned "Modify Templates" dialog
  • Ability to add user-defined variables with selectable parameters
  • Template "Auto-suggestion" (suggests template that matches what you type)
  • Ability to insert templates via auto-complete dialog
  • New "Languages" template group to store templates based on syntax highlighting languages
  • New template behavior configuration options in Preferences » Editor » Templates
  • JSON manager:
  • Provides tree-style view of JSON data (based upon .json file extension)
  • Copy, cut, paste, and duplicate JSON objects and keys
  • See table of key / value data for selected object
  • Expand / collapse all nodes
  • Drag-and-drop JSON objects / keys to move them
  • Format, compress, and re-parse active JSON file
  • New wordfile and special syntax highlighting support for JSON
  • Automatic auto-completion of closing HTML/XML tags:
  • Configurable in Preferences » Editor » HTML
  • Set whether to close on same line or on new line
  • Brace auto-completion:
  • Brace pairs defined in wordfile are auto-closed when opening brace is typed
  • If no braces in wordfile, or if file is not syntax highlighted, "()", "{}", and "[]" are used as defaults
  • Pressing Enter will reposition close brace on separate line while maintaining proper indent levels
  • Pressing Backspace immediately following auto-completion will remove both opening and closing brace
  • Typing close brace skips over auto-completed close brace without inserting second brace
  • Can be disabled for non-highlighted (plain text) files
  • Can be disabled for comments and strings
  • Configurable in Preferences » Editor » Auto-complete
  • String auto-completion:
  • Can be disabled for non-highlighted (plain text) files
  • Can be disabled for comments
  • Configurable in Preferences » Editor » Auto-complete
  • Added config option to create "Run as root" UE shortcut on desktop:
  • Enable in Preferences » File handling » Misc.
  • Added feature to right-click on file path in text file to open it
  • Optimized for Catalina (macOS 10.15):
  • Full dark mode support
  • New privacy and security features
  • Various improvements and fixes

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.66 (Nov 11, 2019)

  • Addressed issue saving macros containing a line break
  • Addressed positioning issue with Goto in certain files
  • Addressed slowness switching file tabs with files open from SMB server
  • Addressed issue with disabling status bar
  • Addressed issue printing ASCII files
  • Addressed reformat paragraph issues
  • Addressed several isolated crash scenarios

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.40 (Oct 12, 2018)

  • Addressed a few crash scenarios
  • Addressed issue with UltraEdit not properly remembering its position across multiple monitors
  • Addressed performance issue with pasting from Excel to UltraEdit

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.34 (Aug 28, 2018)

  • Ctrl + Tab now cycles through tabs in last-used order
  • Addressed issue where not saving changed new files resulted in saved file in home directory
  • Addressed crash when using count all followed by Unix regex

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.30 (Aug 1, 2018)

  • Addressed issue with UltraEdit preventing system shutdown
  • Added support for Cmd + M to minimize all UltraEdit windows

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.19 (Jan 17, 2018)

  • Addressed issues with line selection when clicking in margin
  • Addressed an issue with display beyond column 300

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.17 (Jan 12, 2018)

  • Corrected an issue with margin line selections
  • Addressed a crash when using custom menus
  • Addressed a crash related to full screen use

New in UltraEdit 18.00.0.12 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • Line change indicator (LCI):
  • Visual indicator of saved and unsaved changes to file
  • Customizable colors via theme manager
  • Toggle via View menu, or via toolbar icon
  • Document map:
  • "Filmstrip" overview of active file for visual context and quick navigation
  • Zoom in or out to see more or less of the file
  • Shows changed lines and search string highlighting
  • Optionally shows bookmarks, code folding, and active line
  • Optionally reposition caret on click
  • Toggle via View menu, or via toolbar icon
  • Greatly improved performance:
  • Faster / smoother scrolling
  • Faster / more responsive typing and general editing
  • Faster / immediate rendering of file display, highlighting, etc.

New in UltraEdit 16.10.0.22 (Nov 19, 2016)

  • Addressed issue with List Lines Containing String.

New in UltraEdit 16.10.0.19 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • Improved code folding
  • Addressed various crash scenarios
  • Addressed issues with the ruler
  • The FTP account browser drop down now always sorts accounts alphabetically
  • Addressed issues with languages on macOS Sierra
  • Files open during a replace in all files now update correctly

New in UltraEdit 16.0.0.2 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • Added theme functionality and default themes
  • Added theme manager
  • Updated graphics for Retina and UltraHD
  • Added font zoom
  • Addressed an application hang when switching between 20+ files with function list open
  • Addressed issue with configuration management UI
  • Fixed rare crash when cycling through open applications and quitting UE a second time
  • Addressed rare open crash
  • Addressed cursor issue with OS X El Capitan
  • Addressed issue where prompt dialog was displayed subdued when closing a dirty file
  • Addressed a rare issue causing unexpected license expiration
  • Changed ‘View -> Views/Lists’ to ‘View -> Toolbars/Windows’
  • Addressed view not switching appropriately with file open when using multiple desktops
  • Addressed an issue where File View > Places sometimes didn't show files in unsplit view
  • Addressed an issue where "Places" didn't remember the position of the previous session
  • New: Themes:
  • UEx 16 fully implements UltraEdit's theme system, allowing our Mac and Linux users to build, customize and share themes with friends on other operating systems. Choose one of our core themes or try our beautiful user-contributed themes to get UltraEdit looking exactly how you'd like it to.
  • New: Theme manager:
  • Easily create custom themes and modify existing ones to your liking with our theme manager, built from the ground up just for UEx. The theme manager delivers a granular level of control over your editing environment with an interface that's easy to understand.
  • New: Modernized GUI:
  • We went back and reimagined graphics throughout the applicaton to modernize and enhance the overall user experience.
  • New: Retina/UHD support:
  • We polished the entire UI to look phenomenal on Retina displays and any other Ultra High Definition screen you might work on.
  • Additional changes:
  • Fixed minor key mapping issues
  • Fixed minor display issues
  • Status bar now shows regional date
  • Fixed rare crashes experienced by some users
  • Improved syntax highlighting performance
  • Improved FTP performance
  • Various other performance improvements
  • Favorite Files:
  • Addressed an issue where ‘Add Active File’ was not subdued in Favorite Files dialog when the active file was a temporary ‘Edit’ file
  • Addressed a rare crash involving using Favorite Files while no files were open
  • Display:
  • Addressed issue where repeated Ctrl+Tab with subsequent release would incorrectly cycle through files
  • Addressed rare toolbar corruption scenario
  • Addressed localization issues
  • Addressed a minor discrepancy in relative mouse pointer position
  • Key Mapping:
  • Addressed issue where shortcuts were not properly added
  • Addressed issue where shortcuts could not be added after a failure to properly map
  • Addressed issue where Ctrl+Tab would occasionally behave unexpectedly
  • Search:
  • Addressed issue where undo would not work in Find dialog fields
  • Addressed issue where it was impossible to select ‘No’ when prompted to continue search from the other end of the file without using the mouse
  • File Tab:
  • Addressed a graphical issue when a file was marked dirty with an asterisk
  • Addressed rare issue where file tabs did not properly stack to a new row
  • File View:
  • Addressed an issue that caused a pasted new node name to be pasted into the active document
  • Addressed issue where the Places pane did not update automatically when a mounted image was ejected
  • Fixed an issue where the splitter did not adjust when resizing the app/File View window
  • Status Bar:
  • Addressed an issue where the status bar fails to initialize with correct information when first opening a file
  • Addressed an issue where the status bar did not display regional date correctly
  • Syntax Highlighting:
  • Addressed an issue where certain user settings resulted in unexpected character display behavior
  • Removed unexpected bold defaults

New in UltraEdit 15.1.0.8 (Jan 4, 2016)

  • Addressed issue with invisible caret when using arrow keys to navigate on OS X El Capitan.

New in UltraEdit 15.1.0.0 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • Find/Replace improvements:
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for Count all and Replace all
  • Addressed issues with Find in column in All Open Files
  • Addressed truncated text issues in search message boxes
  • Addressed issue with pasting formatted data into Find dialog
  • Addressed issue with List Lines Containing String only showing first occurrence in larger file
  • Addressed issue with "Replace With" text disappearing when switching to Replace in Files
  • Addressed minor display issues with Find/Replace dialogs
  • Macros:
  • Stability improvements
  • Improved handling of macro hotkeys
  • Addressed issue with "Continue if search string not found" macro setting
  • Addressed issue with replace from macros
  • Addressed issue deleting/undeleting macros
  • File change detection:
  • Addressed focus issue after updating changed file
  • Addressed cosmetic issues with File Change Detection prompt dialog
  • Addressed problems with file change detection when temp files are disabled
  • Addressed issue with detecting changed file permissions
  • Bookmarks:
  • Addressed issue with bookmarked line content not fully showing in bookmark viewer
  • Addressed issue where bookmark markers don't show when file is re-opened
  • Addressed issue with bookmarked line numbers
  • Added support for full screen mode (Mac)
  • Addressed issues when customizing toolbars
  • Addressed issue with Save As with BOM
  • Addressed minor project issues
  • Addressed focus issues when creating new files
  • Addressed issues with Next/Previous Window
  • Addressed key mapping issues
  • Addressed minor display/UI issues
  • Addressed file tab display and positioning issues
  • Addressed Toggle Browser View issue
  • Addressed issue with numeric sort
  • Addressed visibility issue with I-beam caret against dark backgrounds
  • Addressed issue with double-click in Function List creating new file
  • Addressed typing issues in dialogs on some versions of Ubuntu
  • Improvements for interacting with File View
  • Various other minor improvements and enhancements

New in UltraEdit 15.0.0.11 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • Addressed typing issues on Ubuntu 14.10
  • Addressed issue with AltGr key and Alt keyboard shortcuts
  • Addressed UC Lite issue
  • Addressed auto-complete issue
  • Addressed Perl regex find/replace issues
  • Addressed issue with default File Open directory
  • Addressed external style sheet issue with Toggle Browser View
  • Addressed macro recording and playback issues
  • Addressed printing issues
  • Addressed issues with projects, including deleting/removing folders
  • Addressed issue with file tab rows loading twice on startup
  • Several other fixes and improvements

New in UltraEdit 4.2.0.12 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Addressed issue with dragging and dropping files from Finder to open them in UltraEdit
  • Addressed issue "Count all" and search in column

New in UltraEdit 4.2.0.2 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Find/Replace:
  • Added support for sorting "Lines containing find string" with column headers
  • Expanded display of search results in output window with Find in Files
  • Addressed issues with remembering last-used search string
  • Addressed issue with Find in Project Files when project includes filter
  • Addressed issue with Replace in All Open Files inserting empty line between replacements
  • Addressed issue with "File names/extensions to ignore" setting with Find in Files
  • File Tabs:
  • File tab groups are now restored startup
  • Addressed issue where inactive file tab becomes active on right click
  • Addressed resizing an visibility issues
  • Several file tab display and behavior improvements
  • Key mapping and keyboard navigation:
  • Faster file navigation via Up/Down Arrow on keyboard
  • Corrected tab order on Save dialog
  • Addressed issues with key mappings for scripts and macros
  • Addressed Ctrl + Tab issue when using Windows key mappings
  • Addressed issue with Shift + F3 for Find Previous command
  • Addressed several issues related to assigning custom key mappings
  • Localization support / translations:
  • Display language is now determined by system language setting instead of region/locale setting
  • Addressed issue converting projects.lst file to Unicode on startup in Spanish version
  • Addressed issues with sorting files with non-English names
  • Column Mode:
  • Addressed issue with undoing column mode paste
  • Addressed issue with Sum Column
  • File View:
  • Improved usability with File View tabs
  • Addressed "Permission Denied" error when renaming project folder in file view
  • Command line:
  • Addressed issues when creating and opening new file via command line
  • Addressed issue with read-only command line switch
  • New file types added in Prefs -> Editor -> File Types now inherit default file type settings
  • Added error prompt when saving unavailable / locked file
  • Addressed issue running scripts via Tools -> Scripts submenu
  • Addressed display issues with toolbars
  • Addressed issue with hex delete in large files
  • Addressed issues when recording and saving new macros
  • Addressed issues with inserting data from ASCII table
  • Addressed issues with display of caret
  • Addressed issues with Toggle Browser View
  • Addressed issue expanding hidden lines after Collapse All
  • Addressed issue with display of special UTF-8 characters from XML Lint in output window
  • Addressed focus issues when switching between windows and panes
  • Addressed issue with saving remote files
  • Addressed issues with caret / cursor positioning
  • Addressed issue where double-clicking compiler error in output window doesn't position to correct line
  • Addressed issues with tab stop settings
  • Addressed issue with undoing column mode paste
  • Addressed issue with Sum Column
  • Addressed issue when cancelling Print All
  • Addressed issues with running user tools
  • Many other improvements and enhancements

New in UltraEdit 4.1.0.4 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • Greatly improved file handling performance
  • Instantaneous and smooth scrolling and navigation in larger files
  • Greatly improved speeds with general editing of large files
  • Greatly improved hex mode scrolling and performance
  • Auto-complete improvements for case sensitivity
  • Sort matches by case
  • List exact case matches first
  • File size threshold for temporary files*
  • View entire FTP server tree in remote explorer rather instead of the active directory only
  • Several improvements and fixes for Reindent Selection
  • Addressed flickering issues when scrolling in syntax highlighted files
  • Many other minor tweaks and improvements

New in UltraEdit 4.0.0.7 (May 22, 2013)

  • Sort improvements:
  • Added ability to sort selection instead of entire file
  • Added ability to undo sort
  • Addressed other minor sort issues
  • Find/Replace improvements:
  • Improved performance of "Highlight all items found" in larger files
  • Addressed other highlighting issues with "Highlight all items found"
  • Addressed issue with "List lines containing string" positioning with Perl regex
  • Addressed issue where Cmd + A in search dialog invokes Find/Replace
  • Framework improvements:
  • Main window no longer minimizes when focus is lost
  • Auto-hidden dockable windows can now collapse to bottom of application
  • Added support for horizontal scrolling on OS X with Shift + mouse wheel
  • Added support for sorting selections
  • Addressed issue with incorrect remote file path in projects
  • Addressed problem with landscape printing
  • Addressed console errors when opening and modifying XML files
  • Addressed key mapping issues with scripts
  • Addressed display issues with auto-complete
  • Addressed issues with modifying color groups in syntax highlighting configuration
  • Other minor fixes and improvements

New in UltraEdit 3.2.0.9 (Oct 12, 2012)

  • Fix for double-clicking function list in remote files
  • Fix for double-clicking Lines Containing Find String item in remote files
  • Fix for horizontal scrolling in File View with two-finger drag
  • Fix for macro Find strings including quote character
  • Fix for SaveAs macro command
  • Fix for Sum Columns with non-English system settings
  • Insert Time command now uses local time instead of UTC
  • File modified date in lower pane of File View now respects system preferences for date formatting

New in UltraEdit 3.2.0.5 (Oct 12, 2012)

  • XML Manager:
  • Toggleable attribute pane - view node attributes in split pane
  • Reformat XML document from context menu
  • Edit XML data directly in the XML Manager
  • Double-click to position to node in file
  • Shift + double-click to select node in file
  • Cut, copy, paste, and duplicate nodes
  • Move nodes up/down
  • Bookmark Viewer:
  • Customize columns and bookmark sort order
  • Optionally list bookmarks for all files
  • Delete and edit bookmarks
  • Increase/decrease font size
  • Encode/decode selected text in base64
  • Comment/uncomment selected text (add/remove block comments)

New in UltraEdit 3.1.0.1 (Oct 12, 2012)

  • Encrypt and decrypt files directly from UltraEdit:
  • Create your own password on a file-by-file basis
  • Optionally delete original unencrypted file
  • Uses AES-256
  • Browser View:
  • Render the active HTML file from within UltraEdit, just like a web browser
  • Preview your HTML as you create it
  • Split View in Places tab of File View (optional)
  • Reformat Paragraph / Paragraph Formatting options
  • Miscellaneous file tab improvements
  • Remote accounts now ordered alphabetically
  • Addressed scripting issues with output window

New in UltraEdit 2.3.0.0 (Oct 29, 2011)

  • "Tools" toolbar, including:
  • Color Selector
  • CSS Style Builder
  • HTML Tidy
  • GUID Generator
  • Number Converter
  • Artistic Style (code reformatter)
  • xmllint
  • Status bar enhancements
  • Encoding selector drop down
  • Syntax highlighting selector drop down
  • Read-Only toggle
  • Selected bytes count
  • Date modified / file size information
  • Web toolbar additions
  • Apple developer link
  • Bing link
  • Framework update/maintenance
  • New dockable windows with auto-hide
  • Performance improvements for typing and editing
  • New toolbar painting
  • Function list enhancements
  • "Tree-style" view for displaying paramaters, variables, etc.
  • Several fixes and improvements for faster performance
  • Improved FTP error handling and reporting
  • New line terminator conversion options (File -> Convert to...)
  • Input method enhancements for extended keyboard entry

New in UltraEdit 2.2.0.9 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • Fixed strange layout/display issue when OS wakes up from sleeping (Mac only)
  • Improved performance for Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity desktop
  • Fixed issue where caret doesn't change to white when editor background is set to darker color
  • Fixed crash closing or switching project with modified file
  • Fixed issue where typing to changing directory in remote file browser doesn't work properly
  • Fixed issue where changing printer doesn't update printer name in Print dialog
  • Fixed issue where multi-line strings picked up from selected text are not matched during Find
  • Fixed issue with inserting hex numbers beginning with a letter in column mode
  • Fixed missing check mark indicating active clipboard in "Clipboards" menu
  • Fixed a couple of issues with Find/Replace and regex in macros
  • Fixed a couple of issues related to recording, updating, and loading macros
  • Fixed issue with MSDN button in Web search toolbar
  • Fixed "Marker characters" in wordfile and syntax highlighting
  • Addressed issue with C++ files being incorrectly highlighted in certain cases
  • Fixed a couple of column mode editing issues
  • Added "Copy File Path/Name" support to hex mode
  • Added configurable option for CWD to FTP account manager
  • Several other internal FTP improvements

New in UltraEdit 2.2.0.4 (Jun 11, 2011)

  • New functionality:
  • User and project tools
  • Unlimited wordfiles for syntax highlighting
  • Wordfiles saved in individual files (inside "wordfiles" directory)
  • Auto-correction of coding language keywords (enabled in configuration)
  • Multi-line file tabs
  • Ability to see hidden files in Open/Save dialogs
  • Auto-completion (enabled in configuration or activated via Ctrl + Spacebar):
  • When invoked all the keywords from syntax highlighting will be available in the list (if the file uses syntax highlighting)
  • A user-specified file may be used to provide the strings for auto-completion
  • UltraEdit will search back 50K in the file for words that match a partially typed word and offer these as options
  • Full localization support for all standard languages:
  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Chinese (simplified and traditional)
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • Fixed/improved:
  • FTP/SFTP stability and performance improvements
  • Improved performance of function list
  • Fixed issue where Find in Files doesn't always ignore hidden directories
  • Fixed a couple issues relating to toolbars and toolbar icons
  • Fixed "Search" field in Preferences dialog
  • Fixed a couple column mode editing issues
  • Fixed a couple of issues related to file backups
  • Fixed couple of project issues
  • Fixed caret positioning issue with "To Upper Case"
  • Other minor improvements and fixes

New in UltraEdit 2.1.0.7 (May 3, 2011)

  • Corrected FTP connection issue with Windows-based servers
  • Addressed incorrect application permissions in .dmg installation package

New in UltraEdit 2.1.0.6 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • Addressed issue with FTP list filters
  • Added ability to open multiple remote/FTP files at once
  • Added ability to open recent remote files (from File menu)
  • Added ability to see hidden ("dot") files and folders in remote/FTP dialogs
  • Addressed issue where focus is not on edit window when using ESC to close Find dialog
  • Addressed a couple of issues related to Mac OS X Spaces
  • Addressed a couple of issues with user clipboards
  • Addressed incorrect spell check hit on quoted strings when using Email filter
  • Addressed issue where duplicates were shown in function list
  • Addressed a couple of macro playback and save issues
  • Implemented more user-friendly behavior with remote Save As dialog
  • Added option to switch to toolbar icons only with no text on toolbar
  • Improved handling for files with very long lines
  • Addressed a few FTP stability issues
  • Other minor/internal improvements and enhancements

New in UltraEdit 2.1.0.3 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • New Format menu conversion options
  • Convert Line Terminators to Wrap
  • Convert Wrap to Line Terminators