UltraEdit v16.00 - What to Expect?

Ian D. Mead,
President

My intent in this announcement is to talk about our development strategy for the v16.xx series, as a whole, and to provide some insight into what's coming in v16.00 (expected Mar 2010).

To those who participated in our user community survey last year I want to thank you again for your time and for sharing your perspective. The survey affirmed to us that the perfection of existing features is as important as accommodating new technology.

To this end, the v16.xx series will feature some exciting feature improvements and upgrades, but v16.xx will also be underpinned by a year-long maintenance and performance cycle that will rejuvenate many aspects of the application - with an especially concentrated effort of seeking performance gains under the hood.

In short, the strategy for the v16.xx series is all about adding more depth to existing features as well as polishing those that you use most.

We have already made significant progress in both departments.

As for adding depth to the features you use most...

Regarding extending, v16.00 will feature the following functionality improvements:

• UTF-8 Improvements
  • Add codepage selection to Find/Replace In Files dialog
  • Add UTF-8 as New File Creation setting
• Hide/Show all lines containing
• Delete all hidden lines
• Insert File to convert to specified file type
• Add/Remove block comments
• Auto/Quick Column Mode
• Find In Selection - Maintains selection + highlight target
• Scripting code page support
• Ability to include one script in another
• Auto brace matching to match both braces
• Line modification indicator
• Improved function list
• Add visual clue that file is read only
• Highlight 'search' string in output window
• Additional XML capability
  • Allow text editing from XML Manager
  • Support moving objects/sub-objects via drag and drop
• And more...

Polish - Focus on perfection

No, this is not ongoing maintenance. This is a strategic plan, with allocated resources to perfect the core features of the world's best text editor. The v16.xx series will reflect specific refinements in the areas listed below and many more that you have requested.

• Find/Find in Files
• Regular Expression Support
• FTP/SFTP
• Syntax Highlighting
• Column Mode
• Folding
• Scripts/Macros
• Sort
• Scrolling
• File Tabs
• Undo/Redo
• Word Wrap
• XML Manager

And this is just the beginning... We have the balance of the year ahead of us to work together to perfect the features you use most, address your feedback, enrich your user-experience, and seek to understand how we can further exceed your expectations.

As exciting as v16.00 will be, users can be equally excited about v16.10, v16.20, and beyond as each point release this year will bring major polish strokes to the features you use the most.

Thank you for trusting IDM as you solution provider. We are excited about the v16.xx series and taking UltraEdit to the next level of excellence.

- Ian and Team

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Markus
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Re: UltraEdit v16.00 - What to Expect?
Reply #1 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 09:35:47

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Hello Dev Team,

the new features sounds good to me, but regretably I missing one feature which I would need every day.

It would be great if could selecet mutible points in a document and type only on one point something which will mirrowed on the other selected points.

For example you have a list with 6 lines and you like to add on the end of each line the same content, you could select the end of each line and type only in the first line the content. This works also in lines with different contents where a row selection is not possible.

The e-editor for example has this feature.

Would be great if you could add somthing like this as well.

Best regards

Markus

DaleR
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UE Macros
Reply #2 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 10:19:21

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I would LOVE to see the ability to have more than one macro file loaded. I used html and JavaScript and the html macro fills the right side of the screen when use it because I have a lot of commands there. But when I want to switch to my JavaScript macros while editing PDF file programs, I have to go thru the process of loading and unloading one macro at a time. I would really like to see the ability to place at least 3 different macro files on the side bar with a tab for each just like there is now for the single macro loaded file. Please don't take this wrong because I believe that UltraEdit is the most fantastic text/hex editor that is out there for all users. This program is the best, handiest, user friendliest, most versatile program on the market today. There... now do you know how well I like UltraEdit? Just would like this one feature added to version 16. THANKS UE TEAM!

Dave
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font quality
Reply #3 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 10:27:02

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Please work on the "pixelated" quality of some fonts, e.g., consolas. This is irritating to some of us, as I have seen this commented on previously. Every time I type the <?php tab, the "p" looks as though it were chipped out of rock. In fact, UE is one of the only "great text editors" with this characteristic.

Thanks.

LoneWolf
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Project Macro
Reply #4 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 11:15:11

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Hi. One feature I would like would be the ability to assign a macro file to a specific project so that it is loaded when the project is loaded and unloaded otherwise.

A side note about your Comments section here -- tab order settings on the fields would be nice. Every time I hit tab I'm taken up to the Search field rather than the next field in the comment form.

I really love UltraEdit. Keep up the great work.

Dale
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Hidden lines!!!
Reply #5 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 11:54:17

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# Hide/Show all lines containing
# Delete all hidden lines

Yay! YAAAY!!! Finally! Thank you, Ian. Thankyouthankyouthankyou. :-D

Great. Now I gotta wait until March! (I coulda used it a coupla minutes ago.) Oh well, it's good to have something to look forward to ... I guess.

And BTW ... the Earth is an oblate spheroid. But I guess round is close enough. ;-)

fpdave
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yippee
Reply #6 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 16:38:03

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really looking forward to this now you are going to include
- Hide/Show all lines containing

can you make it cumulative, such that multiple search expressions (REs) can be applied one after another and each may be specified to either show or hide lines? I dont think that would add too much complexity (what do I know?) and it would add lots of power, especially for my main use for it which would be the filtering down of large log files.

roll on, and carry on the great work.

Bob Sandberg
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Suggestion for better Reg Expr Support
Reply #7 on : Tue January 19, 2010, 18:18:57

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I am glad to see you have plans to improve the reg expr support.

I love reg expr, but I would love to see some assistence whenever enter a RE. My memory aint as hot as it used to be, plus I learned on perl RE and now code in .NET RE, and I'm never quite sure what I've got with UE RE.

QuickHelp, or maybe something like what expresso offers for testing out a RE.

Joshua
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Scroll-wheel zooming in editor
Reply #8 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 09:37:47

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I 2nd Dave's comment about the pixelated fonts... also, adding scroll wheel zooming to the text editor (CTRL+Scroll Wheel to zoom in/out) is essential! I've become addicted to this feature in other editors and even though I own UltraEdit I use it a lot less because of this lack.

Thanks!

Michael
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All very nice, but...
Reply #9 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 10:22:44

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...I sincerely hope that the polishing will also include full support for Unicode in Wordfiles which would make UE[S] much more useable in my day-to-day work!

Jeff A, UK
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UltraEdit v UltraStudio
Reply #10 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 11:18:33

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Love the products, but... the divergence between UltraStudio and UltraEdit is an irritation when using both.
Specifically the lack of auto-completion in UltraEdit - I love this UES feature - it speeds typing and increases accuracy, it would be great if this could be ported back into UE. And the slightly naff Find+Highlight would be more useful if it were fab-a-la-firefox. I have a hard job persuading my NetBean techies to switch - they like feature such as "easy-peasy rename-this-var-everywhere", and "select-a-var-and-highlight-it-everywhere" etc. All the best for 2010.

Restless
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Re: UltraEdit v16.00 - What to Expect?
Reply #11 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 11:29:56

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It'd be great if you'd add more ciphers for SFTP. I can't access my webhost without going through another client because UE doesn't support the newer ciphers they're using.

Adam Ainsworth
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Font rendering
Reply #12 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 11:49:23

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Another vote for fixing font rendering before addressing anything else. I use UltraEdit for looking at text all the time. In particular, addressing these two issues (quotes from UltraEdit support):

" We are aware of the font-clipping issue. This does happen only in syntax-highlighted files for the right edges of certain characters of certain fonts. Right now the only possible work around is to adjust the font quality slider to a position where the clipping disappears (at the expense of font rendering quality)."

"Currently proportional fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, etc. are not supported in UltraEdit." - Either fix proportional font support, or remove the separate font control for hex mode and correct the manual.

Luis
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Syntax Highlighting
Reply #13 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 11:49:36

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I'd love to see some improvements in the way that UE handles syntax highlighting.

Last Edit: January 28, 2010, 14:28:48 by idmadmin  

jct
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U3 version?
Reply #14 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 12:10:35

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Hi -

Will there be an UltraEdit v16.00 U3 version?

- jct

Michael
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UI Look
Reply #15 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 13:55:22

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Hi UEdit Team,
I use UEdit frequently and I think it is a very good tool.

Unfortunately the UEdit UI looks a little bit inconsistent (especially on Windows 7). I think with very lees effort it should be possible to make look it nicer in next major release.

Since version 15 you are using BCGs toolkit for all Docking Views and ToolBars but you have not enabled this toolkit for the menu. This gives an inconsistent look. Beside this I think you should activate the render BCG render style "Windows XP Native" instead of "Visual Studio 2005" for Windows 7 & Windows Vista. This will look much better. Of course a consistent "Visual Studio" style would be welcome, too.

Best regards,
Michael

Jeroen
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Feature request
Reply #16 on : Wed January 20, 2010, 14:28:12

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How about WebDav support?

Marcus Plewa
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font clipping
Reply #17 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 03:32:50

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Hi Dev Team,

I just wanted to add my vote for fixing the font clipping issue. Plus a little speed improvement on startup times and UE would be close to perfect.

Thanks for your work.
Marcus

Dave W.
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Hex editing
Reply #18 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 09:51:24

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I'd like to see big improvements to the hex editing features. A more practical insert and delete would be a good starting point. I hate having to leave UE to do my hex stuff.
PS- I love UE!

Jerry
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Column Markers
Reply #19 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 10:03:29

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As a person that does a lot of programming and works a lot with databases and data, I really appreciate the column markers functionality. This is a huge, huge time saver when working with fixed width files. Thank you! It would be nice, however, to be able to use a comma delimited list of column positions to create the markers.

Another feature that would be nice is Morph to Delimited where you can highlight several lines of data, choose Morph to Delimited and it transposes from multiple lines to delimited text.

Last Edit: January 28, 2010, 14:29:19 by idmadmin  

Tomasz
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Python support
Reply #20 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 10:13:29

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I am still waiting for a better support for the Python language, the e.g. indentation-dependent code folding.

Best regards,
Tomasz

Ryan
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Re: UltraEdit v16.00 - What to Expect?
Reply #21 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 10:42:58

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How about a robust plugin architecture?

Steve
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Feature Request - HTML tag matching - PLEASE!
Reply #22 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 12:01:01

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Even if only <div> </div>. This remains an upgrade showstopper.

Victor
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+1 on Python support
Reply #23 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 12:09:20

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I am also waiting on better python support. UltraEdit is my favorite editor but I had to to stop using it because of the lack of good python support.

Numalfix
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"Replace In Files" with confirmation dialog
Reply #24 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 15:29:12

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Thank you for adding "Hide/Show all lines containing" and "Delete all hidden lines".

I am waiting for years for a "Replace in Files" function with a confirmation dialog with the following buttons:
- Find next
- Replace
- Replace all
- Skip file
- Skip directory

Terry dlM
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Bookmark names & text from file
Reply #25 on : Thu January 21, 2010, 18:35:28

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Hi, guys,

Is it possible for bookmarks to have an option to select the displayed 'text from file values' as from the matched text onwards rather than the start of the line contianing the matched text? Also, would be useful if there was an option to combine/utilise the bookmark name & the bookmark 'text from file' fields to output the bookmark identifier. I frequently use bookmarks to find procedure names that can be up to 35 chars long. The current processing truncates the useful bookmark text identifier to 20 chars. There appears to be another 20 chars available in the bookmark name field. If there was an option to combine these two fields for the output text the bookmark info would be much more useful.

Also, when a copy of UE is already running & another file associated with UE is opened outside of UE would be good if it just opened in the already-running copy of UE rather than starting another running copy.

Regards,

T

Josef Schroettle
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Indent settings in file
Reply #26 on : Fri January 22, 2010, 03:16:14

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Hello there,

I often share code with other people with different indention settings (tab width, indent size, etc.).
I think there is an editor out there which is able to place some options or settings in the first line of a file. This options are typically hidden in a language specific comment. It would be nice to have a similar feature in UltraEdit.

Regards

Josef

Tim Dawson
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Enhancement to Projects
Reply #27 on : Sat January 23, 2010, 06:00:08

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At present a 'Project' seems to be only a list of files that were open when the Project was lasted closed, irrespective of the files actually listed in the Project. I'd like to see the following improvements:-
1. Ability to 'purge' a Project so that only files actually listed are open.
2. Ability to open ALL Project files even though they may not have been open when the Project was last closed.
Perhaps these could be options in the Configuration ?

And there was me thinking baseballs were spherical.

Bernd
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A nifty HTML and CSS improvment
Reply #28 on : Tue January 26, 2010, 09:36:32

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I have used UE for years now but I edit mostly XHTML and CSS files and I always wanted to see a feature like in the free editor Webocton from www.scriptly.de.
When hovering over a HEX color notation like #A65522 a tooltip shows a rectangle filled with the color. That's an awesome feature when editing a lot of CSS files! There is no way to get a more quick overview about a used color value.

uefan
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Portable NON U3 version
Reply #29 on : Tue January 26, 2010, 15:51:43

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Happy with all the new features... one thing is on MY wishlist ..

Wish there would a portable version of UltraEdit, that cud be launched by simply double clicking an .exe file. I donot want U3 stuff on my USB drive...

thanks
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Gerard
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Syntax Highlighting - Heredoc Support
Reply #30 on : Tue January 26, 2010, 17:20:36

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UltraEdit is a great product, however, it would be good if syntax highlighting in a future version of UltraEdit was able to recongise the heredoc syntax used for multiline quoting in php.

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