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 15.20, released on 2009-10-02.

UltraEdit v15.00 Changes (2009-04-02)

Usability and interface improvements; including
- New gradient toolbars
- Named child windows with improved docking control functionality
- New file tabs with (optional) coloring and close icon
- Tabbed, auto-hidden child windows
- Drag-and-drop functionality to vertically or horizontally split window
- New file open address bar
- Open file dropdown menu
- Re-skinned UltraCompare Lite interface
SSH/Telnet session logging
Ability to create a new file on FTP server diretly from FTP dialog
Each syntax highlighting wordfile split into its own file (in "wordfiles" directory)
Unlimited number of wordfiles
Syntax highlighting color settings moved from INI to wordfile
Ability to pass font code page and script from UltraEdit to UltraCompare Professional
Websearch toolbar improvements:
- modifiable via the right-click context menu
- map Websearches to hotkeys
Ability to delete bookmarked lines
New streamlined upgrade process
- Check for FREE updates
- Check for updates notifies if update is free or paid
- Streamlined upgrade request process
- Elimination of reboots during update
- Patch files (instead of EXEs)
Find/Replace column positions automatically from start and end positions of selected text
.config files automatically recognized as XML format for highlighting
Easier column marker toggling
Ability to reorder templates directly in template list

UltraEdit v15.10 Changes (2009-07-10)

New XML Manager
- Supports any XML-based document, including XHTML
- Double-click a node to jump to its position in the edit window
- Shift + double-click to select node in edit window
- Ability to cut, copy, paste, and duplicate nodes within the XML browser
- Move nodes up/down
- New configuration item for XML browser window
XMLlint and XML Convert to CR/LF now support all extensions used for XML highlighting
Code Folding enhancements
- Code folding graphical lines
- Folding processed in separate thread
Expanded sort functionality
- Sort now supports removal of duplicates based on any or all sort keys
- New macro/scripting commands for sorting and duplicate removal based on keys (see Help for details)
Column marker enhancements
- Unlimited number of column markers
- Create column marker "groups"
- New keymapping item "ViewShowColumnMarkers"
- Toggle column markers on/off from toolbar button
- Existing (legacy) column markers preserved
Plus other minor features and enhancements

UltraEdit v15.20 Changes (2009-10-02)

Significant Undo enhancements
- Users can undo much larger segments per undo operation
Expanded Undo Support for the following:
- Wrap after column #, insert CR/LF
- Convert to Fixed Columns
- Convert to Character Delimited
- Insert String at Every Increment
- Sort
- Convert CRLFs to Wrap
- Convert Wrap to CRLF
- Tabs To Spaces
- Spaces To Tabs (all)
- Spaces To Tabs (leading)
- XML Convert To CRLFs
- Artistic Styler
- Tabs to Spaces / Spaces to Tabs
Major performance improvements for multi-file open
New setting to ignore tabs in string literals in Syntax Highlighted Files in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor Display -> Formatting "Do not convert spaces and tabs inside comments and strings"
List Lines Containing String dialog now uses edit font
Base 64 encoding and decoding (in Edit menu)
- Key mapping support
- Macro support
- Scripting support (activeDocument object): encodeBase64() and decodeBase64()
XML Manager window colors now match application colors
Child window positions now remembered separately for each separate instance