UltraEdit Text Editor Features

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UltraEdit Text Editor Features UltraEdit is a powerful disk-based text editor, programmer's editor, and hex editor that is used to edit HTML, PHP, javascript, Perl, C/C++, and a multitude of other coding/programming languages. UltraEdit can handle and edit files in excess of 4 gigabytes. This page contains a list of all features in the application. Related features are grouped into different categories - simply click on a category to jump to those features. Some features may link to a related Power Tip, which provides a tutorial for using the feature. Key text editing features * Code Folding * Supports 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later) * Unicode support * "Open as" box for binary, UTF-8 files, and other Unicode-based files * Disk based text editing and large file handling - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files * Multiline find and replace dialogs for all searches (Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files) * 100,000 word spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish) * Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex. Multiple wordfiles available for download * FTP client with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save (32-Bit only). o Includes support for SFTP and FTPS (Control only, Control and data, Implicit) o Ability to set a remote (server based) or local (Perl regex based) filter (provides filtering ability for SFTP) o Advanced proxy support o Advanced SSL certificate handling o Set local default directory for each FTP account * SSH/Telnet window * Project/workspace support * TaskMatchTM Environment Selector - Provides predefined or user-created editing "environments" that remember the state of all of UltraEdit's dockable windows, toolbars and more for user convenience. * Integrated scripting language to automate tasks * Configurable keyboard mapping * Column/block mode editing * Hexadecimal editor allows editing of any binary file, shows binary and ASCII view * Named templates * HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular HTML functions * WebSearch Toolbar: highlight text and click a websearch toolbar button to search for highlighted term from within the editor o Google search o Yahoo search o Wikipedia o Dictionary.com o Thesaurus.com o Whois o Network Solutions Whois o PHP.net search o cplusplus.com search o MSDN online search * File encryption / decryption o Encrypt your sensitive source code files using your own key o Integrates with UltraSentry to (optionally) securely destroy original, unencrypted file o Decrypt files in UltraEdit only * Integration with UltraSentry to securely delete UltraEdit temporary files * Multi-byte support with integrated IME support Programmer's features * Code Folding o Fold any function or structure (C/C++) o "Collapse All" and "Expand All" folded nodes o Support for ignore strings and comment strings * Syntax highlighting (user configurable): o Pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl o Special options for FORTRAN and LaTex o Support for up to 20 languages o Multiple wordfiles for download o Support for ASP o Allows different background colors o Support to highlight words beginning with a specified sub-string o Support for syntax highlighting based on file name/extension o Color sections may be named o Font styles available * Ctags support*: o Project specific Ctag file with option to create automatically when opened o Configurable parameters and tag file for use outside of projects o "Find Symbol" command will locate symbol in ctag file of selected item or item under cursor and position it in appropriate file o *Requires the use of third party CTag EXE for tag file generation (links provided) * Comprehensive macro support, including saving and loading, multiple complex macros with hot keys * Integrated scripting language (based on javascript engine) to automate tasks * Artistic style formatter (visually beautifies source code) * Number convertor (selected number to binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal) * Auto-correction of keywords based on definitions in wordfile * Character properties popup dialog shows: o Value of character in decimal/hex and display o Offset of character from start of file in decimal/hex * Duplicate line * New line/insert line * Auto-completion: o When invoked all the keywords from syntax highlighting will be available in the list (if the file uses syntax highlighting) o A user-specified file may be used to provide the strings for auto-completion o UltraEdit will search back 50K in the file for words that match a partially typed word and show these * FTP client with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save (32-Bit only). o Includes support for SFTP and FTPS (Control only, Control and data, Implicit) o Ability to set a remote (server based) or local (Perl regex based) filter (provides filtering ability for SFTP) o Advanced proxy support o Advanced SSL certificate handling o Set local default directory for each FTP account * Regular expression searches - Perl-style, Unix-style, or UltraEdit legacy expressions supported * Automatic highlighting of matching brackets/braces as typing or cursor positioning occurs o Highlight based on line/column Background o User configurable match strings o Includes < and > for HTML * Hexadecimal editor - allows hex editing of any binary file, shows binary and ASCII view * Project/workspace support - allows user to group files and define multiple workspace configurations * Project can use separate wordfile for syntax highlighting * ASCII table - allows viewing and insertion of ASCII characters * Add/Remove line comments to selected lines * Support of line comments up to 5 characters * Configurable tool support (run compiler, run a batch file, etc.) used via command-line interaction * Function list shows functions in active file (with up to 6 function strings per language) * Reformatting of existing code to indent/unindent based on language Database handling features * Disk based text editing - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files * Insert string at every increment (ideal for formatting database records and inserting hard returns) * Column/block editing - allows insertion/removal of columns of data * Insert/fill columns * Insert line numbers * Sum columns/selection * Convert records to fixed column width or convert to character-delimited File management features * File tree view (tabbed interface) includes: o List of files on drive (open selected files, file properties) o List of open files (close/save/tile/print selected files) o List of project files (open selected files) o "Lists" tab for user favorites and user-created file groups/lists o Filter for file tree view o Filter for explorer tab o File find for open files tab o FTP/SFTP account access in file tree view o Right click compare from explorer view * Tree view function to change view to drive/path of active file * Open multiple files at once from the file open dialog and command line * "Quick Open" option to open all matching files recursively through sub directories * Option to open file without temp file (with threshold size to allow only large files to use this option) * Close one or all files * FTP: o FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save (32-Bit only). Includes support for SFTP (SSH2) o Open from FTP dialog o Save as to FTP dialog o Asynchronous save/open of FTP/SFTP Files o Supports FTPS (Control only, Control and data, Implicit) o Date-based synchronization of FTP-linked project folders o Allows multiple selection of files o Supports filenames with spaces o Setting for ASCII / binary / passive transfers o Specific support for AIX / AS400 / BS2000 / MVS / OS9000 / Stratus VOS / UNIX / VAX/VMS Servers o SFTP allows public/private key encryption o SFTP supports PuTTY key format o Store FTP accounts and settings in a user-definable file o Ability to link local folder and remote folder and upload/download files between remote server and local system o Set default local default directory for each FTP account o Ability to set a remote (server based) or local (Perl regex based) filter (provides filtering ability for SFTP) o Advanced proxy support o Advanced SSL certificate handling * File revert to saved * Save, Save As, Save All, Save Selection As file * ASCII/binary file compare (saving and or printing of difference summary) * Sort support for up to 4 sort keys with option for alphanumeric or numeric sort * Support for setting code page and locale o Locale used (optionally) for sort o Code page used for Unicode conversions * Unix/Mac file conversions (to/from DOS), EBCDIC file conversions (to/from ASCII), OEM conversions (to/from ANSI) * EBCDIC/HEX combined view without conversion * Auto detect Unix, Mac and binary/hex files when loaded * Unicode support on all Win32 platforms * Unicode Big-Endian support for editing * Conversion between Big-Endian and Little-Endian formats * Support for UTF-8 and conversions to/from UTF-8 * Support for direct editing of ASCII-escaped Unicode * Support for the new WM_UNICHAR message * Edit Unix/Mac files without any conversion required (^n/^r used in find/replace for lf/cr) * Insert file into an existing document at cursor position * Support for renaming of files * Reload changed files without files becoming active * Option to automatically reload changed files * Delete active file * Insert string at every increment * Favorite files list stores up to 50 files * Functions strings can recognize multiple lines * Recent files submenu stores up to 16 files * Recent projects/workspace submenu stores up to 8 different projects/workspaces * "Send Mail" - sends the active file as an email attachment - (selected programs only) * Minimize all * Support for alternate data streams on NTFS operating systems * Sort file tabs * Right click on file and open * Right click URL and open * Open from Unicode paths via drag-and-drop from Explorer * Configuration options: o Default file type for new files (DOS, Unix, Mac) o Show filename only in title (not path) o Make file that changed and is reloaded the active file o Delete existing file before saving o Edit files containing nulls (hex 00) in text mode o Cache INI file for quicker load/shutdown o Setting for file compare EXE to use in place of UltraEdit's compare o Setting to disable left cursor from going to end of previous line Printing features * Print preview * Print line numbers * Print command doesn't print hidden lines * Headers/footers (with alignment commands), margins and page breaks * Printing of syntax highlighting in color * Print 2 pages on one sheet in landscape or portrait modes * Separate font selection for display and printer (supports all fonts installed including True Type fonts) * Print all open files Text editing features * Automatic XHTML detection, code folding, and indentation * HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular functions and HTML tags * Customize tags in HTML toolbar or create new tags and buttons * CSS style builder * Multi-level undo and redo * Multiple tab positions * Cut, copy and paste * "Paste special" command: paste RTF and HTML source into UltraEdit directly from browser * Copy-append and cut-append allow the user to copy the selection and append it to clipboard * Clipboard history * Insert/overstrike mode with cursor and status bar indication * Select all, select line, select word, delete, delete line * Delete to end of line or start of line from cursor position * Insert date and time * Hex editing with: o Hex cut, copy and paste support o Hex insert and delete of characters o Hex find, replace and replace all o Hex mode ruler shows offset o Hex mode copy function to copy hex view of text to clipboard * 100,000 word spell checker, with foreign language support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish) * Spell check while typing * Read only default option and edit menu item * Ability to move current line up or down in file with click of a button * Drag-and-drop editing * Word wrap support * Auto-indent wrapped lines * Automatic word wrap at specified column with hard return * Auto-indentation * Line length of up to 9k allowed * Home key positions at first non-space, then first character * Function to copy active file path/name to clipboard * Triple click selects a line * Clicking a line number in the margin selects a line * Persistent selection Search and replace features * Find, find next, find previous, replace and replace all o Find "entry" box/dropdown on toolbar for quick finds o Allows selection of text between caret and find target when shift key is pressed o Search and replace will (optionally) step through all open files o Save, name, and edit favorite search and replace expressions for later use o Replace where defaults to selected text if you selected text (see help files for further information on enabling this feature) * "List Lines Containing String" opens non-modal find dialog; double-click an entry to jump to the line * Highlight all found occurrences of string * Count number of occurrences of string * Find in files/replace in files support for all open files or project files * Separate threading for Find/replace in files (allows you to continue working while searching files) * Find in files/replace in files option for Unicode searches * Find in files allows ignoring of directories in search and replace * Find in files for any files not containing search string (optional) * Find in files with an empty find string will create listing of all files matching directory/name specification * Exclude file/folder names and/or file extensions from find/replace in files * Find in files search in your "favorite files" * Multiple search paths allowed with find/replace in files * Replace in files (including option to list changed files and number of occurrences) * User customizable format of Search in Files result/output * Regular expression support with tagged expressions for find/replace * Perl-style regular expressions * Unix-style regular expressions * Hex find, replace and replace All * Find matching braces * Goto line number or page * Bookmarks: o Dynamically named bookmarks include line #, col #, text from file, filepath o Bookmark viewere with ability to sort on any parameter o Go to next/previous bookmark o Clear all bookmarks * Word count will count only selected text if selection exists (includes line count) * Dockable function list shows all the functions in a file in a list box and supports function searches in all project files * Regular expression support for 0 or more occurrences using ++ * Option (default) to automatically find selected text with find next/previous * Commands for going to end of next or previous word * Option (default) for find dialog to use word under cursor * Configurable '^' character for find/replace (via INI setting) * Back/forward functions take you to the previous place you edited, scrolled from, or jumped to a tag from etc. and works across multiple files * Preserve case option to preserve the case of a word when being replaced * Incremental search * Dialogs have full Unicode support Project/workspace features * Separate project file for user-specific and workspace information * Open multiple files as a single project/workspace * Delete files from project * Recent project list showing up to eight of the last projects opened * Automatic detection of UltraEdit project file when loaded or dropped onto UltraEdit * Capable of having separate wordfile * Project specific user tools (in addition to standard set) * User bitmap icons and project tools for user * User/project tools supports having output go directly to the active document * Group support for projects, allowing files to be grouped together * Project/favorites - add files/add all open files dialog allows multiple file selection * Support for nested groups with no limit on depth * Directories allowed as a group * Directory groups dynamically updated * Direct addition/removal of files from File Tree View * Recursive addition of files/folders Editor display and customization features * TaskMatchTM Environment Selector - Provides predefined or user-created editing "environments" that remember the state of all of UltraEdit's dockable windows, toolbars and more for user convenience. * User configurable toolbars - save multiple configurations * User configurable right-click context menu for main edit windows and file tabs * View/hide toolbar and/or status bar * Configurable default edit window size * File tabs to select between open files * file tab color highlighting on a per file extension basis (optional) * Multiple files open and displayed at the same time * View/hide output window * View menu includes option to show page breaks as line across the screen * Ability to hide and unhide selected portions of text * File tree view includes: o List of files on drive (open selected files, file properties) o List of open files (close/save/tile/print selected files) o List of project files (open selected files) * Set display and/or printer fonts independently, or use display font for printing, reset default fonts * View menu items (and toolbar support) to zoom in/out by increasing/decreasing font size * Separate font for hex/column mode * Selectable OEM character set - option for fonts that support it * Color selection for background, normal/selected text, bookmarks, line/column numbers * Color selector allows user to select a color and insert the value into a file * Line numbers based on real lines (not wrapped lines) * Show spaces, tabs and new lines * Column markers to display vertical line at specified columns * Optional fixed non-scrollable area (columns left of the first column marker) * Ruler for column numbers * Viewing with line numbers on left side of window * Dockable ASCII table - with ability to insert directly from table * Codepage conversion support * Status bar line with line/column number display * Popup menus with right mouse button * Dockable "Tag List" allows definition of a set of "tags" that can automatically be inserted into a file. Designed in part for HTML, it allows text to be selected for automatic insertion of tags around the selected text * Dockable named bookmark list - view all your bookmarks and their names * Status bar displays number of bytes selected * Color selection for active line (line with cursor) * Commands to position active line at top, middle or bottom of screen * Color selection for ruler lines and column markers * Dockable "Function List" shows all the functions in a file in a list box * Macro list for quick access (dockable) * Script list for quick access (dockable) * Full screen mode * Auto-recovery of modified files after system/application crash * Option to minimize UltraEdit to system tray Formatting features * Add line endings to XML files that have little or none * Highly configurable integrated XMLlint tool * Paragraph alignment o Left, center, right, fill (for fixed pitch fonts) o Reformat paragraph * Convert CR/LF's to word wrap (removes CR/LF's from file) * Convert word wrap to CR/LF's allowing word wrap to be written to file with hard returns * Conversion of: o Tabs to spaces o Spaces to tabs for all tabs, or just leading tabs in a line o Character-delimited files to fixed-column o Fixed-column file to character-delimited * Trim trailing spaces * Line space support for single, 1.5 and double spacing * Convert ANSI to OEM, OEM to ANSI * Text conversion to lower or upper case, invert case and capitalization * Automatic line indentation (add, remove) * Insert page break * Tab and word wrap settings based on file extension (optional) Column/block editing features * Ability to edit text files based on columns (blocks) instead of rows * Ability to run a search and replace on a selected column/block (instead of rows) * Insert/fill columns * Delete/cut columns * Insert sequential numbers (hex/decimal) * Sum columns/selection * Column mode justify (left, right, center) to justify text just in the specified columns * Column mode editing: select columns and type characters to insert Macro and scripting features * Comprehensive macro support, including saving and loading multiple macros with hot keys * Integrated scripting language, based on javascript, to automate tasks * Scripting engine can write output to output window, providing a way to debug scripts * Integrated scripting includes most powerful javascript functions (loop, case/switch, variables, arrays, etc.) * Macro load and save as support special characters for dynamically setting up file to load or save within macro * Macros can be run when file is loaded and when file is saved * Save all macros to one file * Autoload (and optionally run) macro when UltraEdit starts * Edit a macro following record * Delete macros, or modify hot key assignments * Easy record of macro * Play again/play any macro multiple times * Option for automatic warning on exit if edited macro is unsaved * Rename macros * Ability to conditionally loop a macro * Macro support for "IfFound" and "IfNotFound" to check if a string was found and conditionally execute macro commands * Macro functions for "IfNameIs" and "IfExtIs" to check active filename/extension within macros for conditional statements * Macro support for column mode functions * Macro support for running tools * Support for changing clipboard in a macro * Unix or Perl regular expressions setting can be used in macros * Command line support for executing macros and scripts any number of times Advanced configurable features * File Logging o Automatically update log files at configurable interval o Files can individually be set to be log files * Named template support (display/modify/insert up to 50 user templates) * Template list view provided for quick access to templates * Run DOS command * Run Windows program * Tools configuration, up to 25 user tools (also project specific user tools) * User tools may have user icons/bitmaps * Default save directory and backup directory may be specified * Timed backup/auto save * Tab settings * Separate indent and tab stop setting * Automatic backup file generated (several options available) * Auto save files as input format option to allow automatic detection, editing and saving of Unix or Mac files * Option to minimize UltraEdit on close of last open file * Configuration for number of hex bytes per line in hex mode * Option for word wrap at absolute column number for viewing data files - (optionally based on file extensions) * Option for UltraEdit to always be on top of all other displayed windows * Option to minimize UltraEdit to the system tray * Many more options available for user to set personal preferences Window management features * Duplicate window of the same file * Split window option * Tile windows horizontally/vertically * Previous/next window * Close all files * Show output window/output window resizeable while docked * Double-clicking in the output window will look for a file in project directory if not fully qualified and not found in active file directory * View file in default browser * Cascade windows * Arrange icons * File tabs may be resized to show multiple rows while docked * Minimize all * Output window resizeable while docked Help and support features * CHM-based help files * UltraEdit help index * Using help * Add your own help files * Version/registration information * Quick Start Guide with links to online tutorials for common tasks Additional features * SSH/Telnet window * Default browser button/menu item to show current file in the default web browser * Integrated IE browser support to show active HTML file * INI file selection using command line - great for multiple configurations * Backup toolbars and other personal customizations * Command line parameter (/a) to allow specifying an already open file without having the prompt to reload it (just position to specified line) * Command line parameter -lx and -cx allowed following each file name to specify line and column in which to position * HTML Tidy support (integrated) o See Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY * CSE HTML Validator support (integrated) o Run validation o Setup validator options and configuration o Job type support o Requires CSE HTML Validator from CSE HTML Validator - Professional HTML Syntax Checker and HTML Editor * Command line option for line and column positioning * DDE support with full command line options * Context sensitive help * IntelliMouse scrolling support * Drag and drop support from the file manager * UltraEdit retains its screen position each time it is used * Many keyboard shortcuts including - positioning, Next/Previous paragraph etc. * Multi-key mappings (sometimes called chords) * Ability to view and print key mapping from configuration * MSI Installer support * And much more... 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