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v18.00
Announcing UltraEdit v18.00, featuring Smart Templates:
It's what's next in text editing!
UltraEdit v18.00 delivers one of the most powerful and exciting pieces of functionality available in the world of text editing today, period... Smart Templates! Smart Templates are not simply an addition to UltraEdit's existing template functionality; but a completely re-imagined and re-engineered method of modifying and creating source code. Smart templates provide a seamless blend of code completion, auto-expanding text, and context sensitive auto-complete... all while still supporting your existing templates, of course!
New: Smart Templates
With Smart Templates, you can set up language-specific code templates and insert them (either automatically or through existing auto-complete functionality) based upon context (i.e., what kind of source file you're editing). Additionally, Smart Templates allow you to add as many custom variables/placeholders to your template as you'd like, then tab through them upon insertion in order to complete the template.
Click the Play button below to see a 90-second demo on Smart Templates.
To see a full-length video tutorial on this feature, please click here.
“This new function is just PERFECT. I love it...”
Included in Smart Templates are the following new features and enhancements:
Redesigned template list
Version 18.00 introduces several new functionality items here including collapsible template groups, the ability to reorder/sort templates, the drag-and-drop support for inserting templates into the active file, and the ability to see global, environment, and language templates at the same time. (The language template group will automatically change based upon the syntax highlighting language of the active file.)
Custom template variables
Template variables are an extremely important and powerful component of Smart Templates. Template variables allow you to define which portions of your template should be editable after it is inserted into your file. Furthermore, you can use variables in multiple places within your templates, so when you've updated the first occurrence of the variable, whatever you type will be cascaded to other occurrences of that variable within the template.
Code completion and expanding text with auto-suggestion
Code faster...and with fewer mistakes! Auto-suggestion checks your last-typed word against your active templates to see if there are any exact matches (based upon the template name). UltraEdit will then automatically display an insertion preview (signified by a special background color) of any matching template, and you can press TAB or ESC to insert it into the active file. This is a huge time saver when used with source control structures or frequently-used code blocks.
Template insertion via auto-complete dialog
UltraEdit now supports template insertion via the auto-complete dialog. Quickly access any template, any time, even if you can't remember the exact template name! Type part of a template name (even a single letter), press Ctrl + Spacebar to open the auto-complete dialog, then use Up/Down Arrow and Enter to select and insert a template. Global templates are listed with a gray icon, environment templates with a blue icon, and language templates with a green icon.
More template improvements and enhancements
In addition to the new features described above, several enhancements to templates are new to v18.00:
• Templates respect indent level, line terminators, and spaces/tabs settings
• Modeless "Modify Templates" dialog
• Template files stored in XML format
• New configuration options
“At first, I did not see what could be improved in Ultra-Edit... when I received your email, I watched the small video and I said WOW, have to try that feature... and it rocks!”
New: Auto-closing HTML/XML tags
Never forget to close an HTML or XML tag again! The new auto-close feature for HTML/XML tags is a set-and-forget configuration item. Decide whether UltraEdit closes tags on new lines or on the same line in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> XML/HTML.
Enhanced: Dockable "List lines containing find string" window
"List lines containing find string" is one of the staple features of UltraEdit's powerful Find engine, and it gets even better in UltraEdit v18.00. This window is now called the "Find string list" and is dockable/hideable, just like all the other child windows (template list, function list, output window, etc.). Additionally, the options for the "Find String List" have been moved to the context menu for quick and easy access.
Enhanced: Full support for proportional fonts
UltraEdit v18.00 includes support for all font types - both monospace and proportional. In the screenshot shown below, the fonts in use are Calibri, Cambria, and Tahoma, respectively.
Enhanced: Increased "Recent Files" list from 16 to 32 maximum entries
Double the size of your "Recent Files" list in v18.00! You can set a maximum of 32 entries on the "Recent Files" list by changing the numeric value in Advanced -> Configuration -> Toolbars/Menus -> Miscellaneous. (Note: A restart is required for the change to take effect.)
See the full list of changes in UltraEdit v18.00
