UltraEdit Text Editor Latest Changes

The list below contains the latest changes for UltraEdit. This is a brief listing of new or enhanced features of the application. For a more thorough look at what has been added, take the tour of the new features.

The most up-to-date version is 16.10, released on 2010-05-28.

UltraEdit v16.10 Changes (2010-05-28)

Major performance advancements
- 2x faster startup time *
- 2x faster file load time
Expanded Code Folding Options
- New graphical fold lines
- Configurable/color enabled matched brace highlighting
New interactive replace in files
- Incremental step through each matched directory/file
- Accept or ignore file, folder, or all
Project-specific macro autoload
New scroll wheel zooming (CTRL + mouse wheel): increase/decrease font size on the fly...
Write/debug scripts faster with new variable dump (var_dump) function
FTP Account sharing between UltraEdit/UEStudio/UltraCompare: set and forget FTP account information
Sort faster and easier: sort keys now auto-populate from column mode selection
XHTML/HTML 5 support in tag list and wordfiles
Plus extended maintenance/performance improvements on core features
- Enhanced Unicode Support: improved handling of file names/paths with Unicode characters
- Numerous Macro/Scripting enhancements
- Numerous display improvements
- Enhanced File Open/File Save
- Win 7 compatibility improvements
- Improved Spell Check functionality including better handling of accents and mixed case
- Several File Tree View updates
- Faster and more efficient function list when switching between files
- Improvements for working with FTP/SFTP files via user tools or command line
- Improved German localization support: several cosmetic/localization enhancements

* Speed test performed on Windows 7 32bit, using ~20 syntax-highlighted files stored on local drive. Results may vary.

UltraEdit v16.00 Changes (2010-02-25)

Line Change Indicator (optional; enabled in advanced configuration)
- Show unsaved modifications and saved modifications in different colors
- Set custom colors for Line Change Indicator
Re-engineered function list
- Ability to define an unlimited number of function strings
- Add "groups" for each function string, allowing display of functions in tree-style view with child elements (such as parameters, variables, properties, includes, etc.)
- New "Modify Groups" dialog for adding/removing/modifying function strings
- New search box for searching through function list
Find/Replace additions:
- Find/Replace In Selection now maintains selection highlighting for better visual indicator of search area
- Option to Hide/Show all lines containing search target (hidden lines are collapsed and can be expanded with folding nodes in margin)
- New Regular Expression builder
Find/Replace in Files additions:
- Find in Files output in output window now highlights each match of the Find string
- Ability to specify codepage of target files in Find/Replace In Files dialog
- New Regular Expression builder
Scripting additions (see Help for full documentation)
- Ability to include one script in another (relative or absolute paths)
- Added "activeDocumentIdx" property for accessing active document's index
- Added "useEncoding" (boolean) and "encoding" (int) properites for UltraEdit.frinFiles object to specify whether to use encoding settings and set which code page to use (respectively) when doing Find/Replace in Files via scripting
- Added "codePage" property for accessing and setting document code page via scripting
- Added "lineTerminator" property for accessing the active document's line terminator
- Added "commentSelectionAdd()" and "commentSelectionRemove()" methods for new block comment functionality
- Added "delAllHiddenLines()" method
Added better visual indication that a file is read-only
- Read-only file tab includes a "lock" icon
- Read-only files have separate background colors
Quick column mode: hold Alt, then drag the mouse to make a columnar/block selection
Comment/Uncomment Selection to add or remove language-specific block comments from single- or multi-line selection
New option in Edit -> Delete menu to Delete All Hidden Lines
Ability to edit XML node text directly in XML Manager
Ability to specify UTF-8 as default encoding for all new files (in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> New File Creation)
Insert File now converts the inserted file's encoding to match the target file's encoding
Automatic brace matching now highlights/matches both braces
Undo enhancements:
- Undo for replacing selected text with user/project tool output
- Undo for Insert File