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 http:||www.w3.org|People|Raggett|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 http:||www.htmlvalidator.com|
- 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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