UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!

Ian D. Mead,
President

UPDATE 8/20/2010: See below...

Progress on the Mac version of UltraEdit has gained significant momentum. For the first time ever, we are now able to share some screen shots with you.

As you can see from the image below, UltraEdit for Mac already has major functionality - and powerful file handling as well!

First Look: UltraEdit for Mac

Click the thumbnails below to take the tour!

Column mode

File view

Clipboard

Functions

Toolbars

Find/Replace

Tag list

The GUI supports dockable windows like the file viewer, output, function list, clipboard, tag list windows and more.

UltraEdit for Mac also accommodates the selection of predefined toolbars for macros, scripting, search, and user defined toolbars. You can of course choose whether or not to display them.

The editor is fully Unicode enabled, supports large file handling, code folding, syntax highlighting, column mode, and hex mode. We've also tuned the underlying core for optimal performance.

Our team is currently rounding out other core features. Once these and other features are complete, we will release the product to beta.

We anticipate selective alpha/beta testing to begin as early as September and commercial release would be sometime this fall.

Click here to sign up for the beta.

We greatly appreciate the community interest and support of UltraEdit for Mac and for your trust in IDM as your multi-platform solution provider.

See you next month with more exciting news and screen captures.

Best wishes

- Ian and team

Update (8/20/2010)

Hi Guys,

We wanted to give you a brief update on the progress of UltraEdit for Mac - we too are very excited!

In short, it's going very well and we are looking forward to a Beta start as planned in the middle of September.

Currently we are just finishing the spell checker and have added several additional features and resolved a lot of issues (including cosmetic and performance issues) since the last update.

The screen shot below uses older icons and we are updating these to OS X specific ones. The toolbar(s) is totally user configurable and while many users will not want to have a toolbar, or only have a few functions, others will want more. Users can simply pick and chose what they want.

Updated screenshot

The default toolbar configuration will be determined by user feedback during the beta cycle.

As with its Windows counterpart, UltraEdit for Mac will continue to offer users an array of configurable options, power, and large file handling.

Our intent is to enter the Mac community with a truly great UltraEdit for Mac! We know that there are things we still need to do in the interface and we are working on these. Some things will happen before Beta, some during Beta and others as time goes on in response to user requests.

We appreciate your patience and excitement and look forward to bringing you Beta I next month!

Thanks,

Ian and Team.

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Carl Bolduc
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Re: UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!
Reply #1 on : Fri July 09, 2010, 18:25:40

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beautiful

Thomas Fessler
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WooHoo
Reply #2 on : Fri July 09, 2010, 18:58:44

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It's about time! Great to see it coming to the platform. Been using EU32 since the dos days. Lookin forward to driving it on my mac.

Gregor
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Cool
Reply #3 on : Sat July 10, 2010, 06:32:44

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It looks great. can wait to see it in action.

arty
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You-pie!!!
Reply #4 on : Sat July 10, 2010, 09:25:14

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Finally, the wait is almoust over! (I hope)

arty
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UEstudio for OSX?
Reply #5 on : Sun July 11, 2010, 02:31:49

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P.S. Any chance to see also UEStudio for OSX and Linux?

Carl Bolduc
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Re: UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!
Reply #6 on : Sun July 11, 2010, 19:07:16

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beautiful

boboweb
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Re: UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!
Reply #7 on : Mon July 12, 2010, 01:36:06

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good,very nice.

John in Missouri
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Re: UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!
Reply #8 on : Mon July 12, 2010, 10:41:21

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I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces. Please bookmark me for giving the column function a good workout.

R,
John
P.S. Ian, do you *still* look that young and handsome after all these years? (grin)

Chris CB
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Re: UltraEdit for Mac nears beta... First look!
Reply #9 on : Tue July 13, 2010, 09:11:30

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That's a great news ! I won't need anymore parallels with windows to launch UE. Will you do something for people like me who have a permanent key for UE on windows ?

Jeff
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Looks Great
Reply #10 on : Tue July 13, 2010, 22:30:59

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The screenshots look great - I can't wait for the final.

Grex R.
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very nice news!
Reply #11 on : Wed July 14, 2010, 04:37:01

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i can't wait deinstall my parallels :)

keep on good work guys, i am looking forward to see it running on my apple
greetz from austria

Joe Cincotta
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Nice work!
Reply #12 on : Wed July 14, 2010, 08:11:19

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Guys, I have been an UltraEdit user for about 12 years and that is the one tool that has been missing for me since switching to Mac last year. Desperately miss it and can't wait for this. Well done!

Mike D
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Lookin' Good!
Reply #13 on : Wed July 14, 2010, 08:28:24

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I look forward to having quick access to UE without having to start a Fusion machine.

Jim Ekleberry
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Awesome!
Reply #14 on : Wed July 14, 2010, 09:29:16

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This is great news. Looking forward to seeing the actual product.

Jean-Pierre
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You did it !
Reply #15 on : Wed July 14, 2010, 10:19:06

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Great! just ready to help for the few remaining steps if you need/wish it !

More than happy to be able to install it on my Mac.

Tim
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Mac version...GREAT!
Reply #16 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 08:24:46

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I have used the pc version for years. now am on a mac most often, and really would like UE on that platform. At present i switch to the pc side (VMware) to edit files I am working with on my mac. what a painn
So...am excited.

TomO
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Yes.
Reply #17 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 08:25:08

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I dig it; excellent!

Peter Raganitsch
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UE+Mac
Reply #18 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 09:16:17

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Can't wait to get my hands on it!

Alan
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Ruby on Rails Syntax Highlighting
Reply #19 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 09:52:25

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Any chance that Ruby on Rails will be a supported language/framework?

Nick Tulip
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Awesome!!!!!
Reply #20 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 10:41:58

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TextMate has gone stale and this has always been a favorite. Now on the mac its going to rock!

Henning Petersen
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Can't await the release!
Reply #21 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 10:43:48

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Absolutly nice. Can't await the release!
So i can kickoff the VMWare from my system. :)

Robert
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Looks
Reply #22 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 11:05:49

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Is there going to be a little give on how it looks on the Mac? For instance, if you look at Coda by Panic, that is a good "looking" editor and looks matter to Mac folks. I realize that this is a first go...and probably not that big a priority. I did sign up for the beta so I was just throwing it out there.

trAnig
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Mac UI
Reply #23 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 12:35:17

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As a Mac user, I look forward to a great editor - but I sincerely hope that the UI will be made much more Mac-like than the screenshots currently show. If it doesn't look polished as other Mac apps, I predict it won't sell well.

Visitor
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Toolbar
Reply #24 on : Thu July 15, 2010, 13:16:06

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Fantastic.

UltraEdit is an editor for advanced users who are technically proficient. I wonder, how many people actually click on the Cut, Copy, Paste buttons in the toolbar. Or even Open and Save. I would assume the technically proficient are more likely to use keyboard shortcuts (or the main Apple menu).

Can the toolbar be customized?

Bruno
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Good work- but the UI needs a lot more work
Reply #25 on : Fri August 13, 2010, 18:05:40

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It's great to see a long-time great editor coming to Mac OS, and I'm sure the functionality is going to be superb. However, that UI is not very Mac-like at all. It actually looks like a Java or other cross-platform toolkit Aqua-ified UI. The tabs are incorrect, pop-up list and button spacing is incorrect, white-space around elements is incorrect and general placement of various UI widgets are also haphazard.

This is something I'd really like to buy, but please take a little but of time before release to polish up the UI, likely consulting UI guideline documentation on Apple.com and possibly offering a Mac UI designer a short contract to help you guys out. The effort and any money spent on this will be well worth it. Regardless of how good the underlying feature set is, the Mac OS faithful will not adopt an application that is not Mac-like.

Mark A Sanderson
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Super!
Reply #26 on : Wed August 18, 2010, 09:52:14

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Yea!!! Sign me up!

Mark@Sanderson.net

Stracca
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Can't wait ...
Reply #27 on : Thu August 19, 2010, 11:15:32

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one month and more is gone ... Hurry Up please!!!
No beta in the Air ... can i test an Alpha ;)

idmadmin
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New update
Reply #28 on : Fri August 20, 2010, 16:49:19

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Hello Everyone,

Thanks very much for all of your kind comments! We appreciate your enthusiasm and support.

Please make sure to see our latest update which we have appended to our original blog post above.

Thanks,

Ian and Team

Gero
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To quote Baby Sinclair from Brian Henson's "Dinosaurs" ...
Reply #29 on : Tue August 24, 2010, 11:29:53

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Gimme!

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme!

I'm the user, gimme, gimme, gimme! :)

I'm so eagerly waiting for UEx for Mac ... You know, most of the time that stupid Windows XP VM is up only to have UEdit at my hands. *le sigh*

JFM
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Eagerly awaiting the MAC
Reply #30 on : Wed August 25, 2010, 11:11:23

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Just my two cents. Not everyone on the MAC will care if UltraEdit's UI is completely "Mac-like" in the first go around. Like others have commented here - I get stuck VMing over to Windows just to use Ultraedit. (Using Smultron here on the Mac, but it is a dead product). To quote from the last post: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"

;o)

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