UltraEdit Latest Changes

The list below contains the latest new and enhanced features for UltraEdit. For a more thorough look at what has been added, take the tour of the new version.

The most up-to-date version is 19.10, released on 2013-05-31.

• UltraEdit v19.10 Changes
• UltraEdit v19.00 Changes

UltraEdit v19.10 Changes (2013-05-31)

• New "Simplistic" environment for simple, minimalistic editor layout
• Leap forward in function list support with much improved functions and parameters
  • Groups and subgroups fully support Perl regex
  • More robust and precise function strings
• Version backup support for FTP files*
  • "On FTP Save" added to Configuration -> File Handling -> Backup
  • "Default FTP backup directory" added to Configuration -> File Handling -> Backup
  • Existing auto-save options moved to Configuration -> File Handling -> Save
• Expanded auto-complete functionality
  • Optionally show case sensitive matches first or exclusively
  • Fully typed words are omitted from auto-complete dialog
  • Auto-complete dialog automatically hides if the only match is typed
• Full Jump List support
  • "Pinned" and "Recent" items now listed in UltraEdit Jump List
  • Accessible with right-click on taskbar icon
• UltraSentry integration
  • Send active file to File Shredder queue
  • Run shredder directly from UltraEdit
  • Send active file to Digital Locker
  • Open files from Digital Locker
• UltraFinder integration: "Find files" or "Find duplicates" in active file's directory
• UltraEdit now appears in Explorer's "Open with" context menu for plain text file formats
• Quickly toggle dockable file tabs with new Window menu option "Enable tiling / Dockable tabs"
• Much improved HTML/XML tag highlighting when tag spans multiple lines
• Improvements for Reindent Selection
• Various other minor enhancements and improvements

* If "Local Backup Directory" is set under the "Advanced" tab for an FTP account, that directory will override the "Default backup directory" option for files opened from that account.

UltraEdit v19.00 Changes (2013-03-07)

• Significant performance gains in several areas
  • Reloading of files on startup
  • Loading/opening large numbers of files (with temp files)
  • Loading very large files
  • Switching between file tabs
  • Perl regular expressions
  • Undo in larger files
• Copy/Paste syntax highlighting in RTF and HTML
  • Available under Edit -> Copy Special
  • Paste text with HTML/CSS markup to render highlighting within a browser
  • Paste syntax colored text into other RTF editors (like MS Word)
• Automatic highlighting of file types without extension
  • Perl via shebang (ex: #!/bin/perl)
  • PHP via shebang (ex: #!/bin/php)
  • Python via shebang (ex: #!/bin/python)
  • XML via declaration (ex: )
• New status bar
  • Encoding selector
    • Changes encoding used to view active file
    • Will not change file's original encoding
  • Syntax highlighting selector
  • Read-only toggle
  • Insert/Overstrike toggle
  • Separate areas for line terminator and file encoding properties
  • Better display
• Perl regular expression overhaul
  • Performance
    • Searching in large files
    • Find In Files
  • Accuracy
    • Several Perl regexp issues addressed
    • Full support for negative look-ahead/look-behind searches
• File tab drag-and-drop improvements
  • Drag file tab outside of UltraEdit to open it in new instance
  • File's settings retained when dragging and dropping between instances
• File View improvements
  • Modernized icons
  • Optionally show hidden files
• Option to add close X to each file tab
• Improved support for 'Maintain separate process for each file opened from external applications
• Various other minor enhancements and improvements

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