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v17.00
Announcing UltraEdit v17.00:
Because user experience is EVERYTHING!
We are extremely excited to announce the release of UltraEdit v17.00, and we know you're going to love our usability improvements and additions. Helping you visualize your workflow is the aim of v17.00, and with features like a better File View, a more robust Highlight All option for Find or highlighting of all occurrences of selected text, or XML/HTML tag matching, or new file status icons, you'll soon see for yourself why UltraEdit v17.00 is, as one beta tester put it, "Fabulous..."
Read on to see what else is new in v17.00, and don't forget to download your copy today to see all of these new features and more!
New: Completely re-engineered explorer window in File View
You're going to love v17's new explorer window! Access and open files from network shares with the new network item. Decrease time spent browsing folders and files with the optional new split explorer — which not only works for your local and remote files, but FTP files as well! A new Open Files dialog is also now available, giving you the ability to filter, sort, and open files in a particular folder.
“...I love the new browser pane.”
You can access your FTP accounts in the split explorer view as well. Use the same method to connect - just expand the FTP account and the directory listing is shown in the top and bottom windows. Exploring your remote files has never been easier!
The new Open Files dialog can be accessed by right-clicking a folder in the explorer window and selecting the "Open Files..." option. This opens a dialog with a list of all files in the specified folder which you can filter, sort, and open.
Improved: More drag-and-drop functionality
In addition to the new File View features described above, drag-and-drop functionality has been greatly improved between the File View and the editor. Specifically, you can now drag and drop file tabs to add files to Favorites lists or the active project. Also, you can drag and drop files from Explorer or your Favorites lists directly into the editor to open them.
New: XML/HTML open and close tag matching
A powerful new feature in v17 is the XML and HTML open/close tag highlighting feature. Check your nested XML and HTML quickly by moving the caret inside of the tag (like with brace matching), and UltraEdit will automatically highlight the corresponding tag in the active file.
“The HTML tag highlighting is awesome!!...Kudos!!”
New: File status icons in file tabs
Lost track of which file is the one opened from your FTP server and which one is your local copy? Not a problem with v17's new file status icons in file tabs! The new file status icons include indicators for:
- New files
- Saved/unsaved files
- Remote (FTP) files
- Read-only files
New: Highlight all occurrences of selected word
Want to quickly highlight all occurrences of a word or variable in your file? UltraEdit v17 makes this possible via three different ways:
- Hold Shift and double-click a word
- Press Ctrl + . (highlights all occurrences of word under caret)
- Press the new "Highlight All Selected" toolbar icon (highlights all occurrences of word under caret)
Simply press Ctrl + . or use the "Highlight All Selected" toolbar icon to disable persistent highlighting.
New: XML Manager additions
UltraEdit v17 delivers several large improvements to the XML Manager, most notably the new Attributes pane which provides an organized grid-style view of XML node attributes and includes the ability to quickly and easily edit them. The XML Manager is better than ever now with several usability improvements, including the ability to expand nodes in the XML Manager and active file at the same time, and a new "Format Document" context menu item to reformat and re-parse your XML file.
New: Updated Save and Open dialogs
Access your favorite system places with the new Open and Save dialogs, designed to take advantage of the Vista/Windows 7 favorites and libraries features.
New: Re-themed, redesigned icons
UltraEdit v17 boasts a new icon set with higher-quality custom designed icons based on the .png format, providing smoother transitions between icon and background and better anti-aliasing.
“Compliments to IDM on the enhanced colors on those icons!”
See the full list of changes in UltraEdit v17.00
