May 17th, 2012Smart Templates:
· Ability to add multiple user-defined variables to templates
· New "Languages" template group to store templates based on syntax highlighting languages
· Template "Auto-suggestion" (provides smart suggestion of matching template based on what you type)
· Optionally disable template auto-suggestion for comments and/or strings
· Ability to insert templates via auto-complete (Ctrl + Spacebar)
Inserted template respect:
· Indent level
· Line terminators
· Spaces/tabs settings
· Drag-and-drop templates from template list into active file to insert them
· New template configuration options in Advanced -> Configuration -> Templates
· Access Global, Environment, and Language templates at the same time
· Redesigned, modeless "Modify Templates" dialog
· Default language templates provided for most major programming/scripting languages
· Ability to reorder templates in template list
· Create an unlimited number of templates
· Template files stored in XML format in centralized location
Automatic auto-completion of closing HTML and/or XML tags:
· Configurable in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> XML/HTML
· Configure whether to close on same line or on new line
Dockable "Lines containing find string" window:
· "Find String List" can now be docked, floating, or auto-hidden
· Window options are now available in right-click context menu
· Enable/disable in View -> Views/Lists
Full support for proportional fonts:
· Corrected caret positioning issues with fonts that are not fixed-width
· Improved syntax highlighting for fonts that are not fixed-width
Improved FTP performance:
· Faster modification and saving accounts, especially when many accounts are configured
· Better handling of connections closed by server
· Added support for automatically connecting to FTP account when opening FTP Open or Browse dialog
Other changes:
· Removed "Open Files" splash screen on startup
· Both 32-bit and 64-bit shell integration DLLs are installed on 64-bit systems
· Increased "Recent Files" list from 16 to 32
· Addressed PHP debugging (Xdebug) issues
November 2nd, 2011Active Column Highlighting:
· Can be enabled and configured in View -> Set Colors
· Can be toggled via View menu, toolbar button, or with key mapping
New Find in Files functionality:
· New "Date created" ($Dc) and "Date modified" ($Dm) template options for Find in Files output
· Open all files matched by Find in Files/Replace in Files
· New FindInFiles and ReplInFiles macro property: OpenMatchingFiles
· New scripting property: UltraEdit.frInFiles.openMatchingFiles (Boolean)
New scripting functionality (all document objects):
· cancelSelect() - cancels the current selection (if any) without changing caret position
· gotoEndOfPrevWord() - moves caret to end of previous word
· gotoEndOfPrevWordSelect() - selects from current position to end of previous word
· gotoEndOfNextWord() - moves caret to end of next word
· gotoEndOfNextWordSelect() - selects from current position to end of next word
· UTF8ToASCII() - converts UTF-8 file to ASCII
· ASCIIToUTF8() - converts ASCII file to UTF-8
New macro commands:
· CancelSelect - cancels the current selection (if any) without changing caret position
· GotoEndOfPrevWord - moves caret to end of previous word
· GotoEndOfPrevWordSelect - selects from current position to end of previous word
· GotoEndOfNextWord - moves caret to end of next word
· GotoEndOfNextWordSelect - selects from current position to end of next word
· UTF8ToASCII - converts UTF-8 file to ASCII
· ASCIIToUTF8 - converts ASCII file to UTF-8
Project workflow and workspace enhancements:
· Removed prompt to close open files during project open if only unsaved Edit files are open
· Open files are no longer closed when creating a new project (only applicable if "Close all files when opening or switching projects" is enabled)
· Ability to save user-specific project PUI files in user config directory (configured in Advanced -> Configuration -> File Handling -> Advanced)
· "Yes to All" and "No to All" options added to "File no longer available" prompt
· Ability to add all open files to lists/favorites in Lists tab of File View (with "..." button in the Lists tab)
FTP enhancements:
· Ability to delete files in FTP Browser with DEL key
· Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Keys now selects to word boundaries in file path field of FTP Open/Save/Browse
New editor display features and improvements:
· Selected bytes/lines information displayed in status bar
· Cursor now changes to pointer when hovering over margin
· Improved file status icons in file tabs for higher contrast and better visual distinction
Find/Replace improvements:
· Better handling of Perl regex results in Lines Containing Find String window
· Better highlighting of Perl regex matches in Find in Files output
· Selecting text and pressing Find/Replace hotkey updates Find/Replace string when dialog is already open
Syntax highlighting and wordfile improvements:
· Improved highlighting of nested block comments
· Improved syntax highlighting with word wrap
· More flexible Comment Add/Remove
· Better writing of custom highlighting colors to wordfile
· Non-default wordfiles no longer removed when updating default wordfiles
· New Python wordfile added to default wordfiles
· Ability to clear undo buffer (via Edit menu, toolbar button, or with key mapping "EditClearUndo")
· Improvements to Goto in Hex mode to support addresses in very large files
· New MSI installer (requires Windows Vista SP2 or greater)
· Re-skinned installer with new messaging
· More user-friendly licensing/registration messaging
· Redesigned "Check for Updates" dialog and messaging
· Improved handling of saving multiple files to FTP
· Improved performance when selecting text in large files
· Improved handling of file paths with multi-byte Unicode characters
· Improvements to Explorer tab in File View
· Several translation/localization improvements in non-English versions
· Files created via command line respect default line terminator setting
· Improved auto-completion when using ".." instead of "->"
· Various other improvements and enhancements
May 9th, 2011· Completely re-engineered explorer window for File View
· Optional split view for folders on top, files on bottom
· Split view for FTP accounts
· New Network item to browse network/shared directories
· New Open Files option (from right-clicking folder in Explorer)
· Greatly expanded drag-and-drop functionality for lists/file tabs
· Drag a file tab to the File View to add it to a list or to your active project
· Drag files from Lists or Explorer to open in the editor
· XML Manager additions
· New "Attributes" pane for exploring and modifying node attributes
· "Format Document" context menu option for reformatting XML
· Double-click a node in the XML Manager to expand it in the file
· New file tab status icons for
· New files
· Saved/unsaved files
· FTP files
· Read-only files
· Highlight all occurrences of selected word
· Activated via Shift + Double Click
· Alternatively activated via Ctrl + . (will highlight word under caret)
· New "Highlight All Selected" toolbar icon / key mapping command for quick access
· Persistent "Highlight All" for Find
· HTML and XML open/close tag matching
· New File Open and Save As dialogs for Vista/Win 7 (including Favorites, Libraries, etc.)
· "Count All" functionality for selected text or in column range
· Increased wordfile color groups for up to 20 total groups
· Re-engineered SVN/CVS integration (allows you to externally update Subversion or CVS binaries)*
· Completely re-themed modern icon set
· Ability to lock toolbars
· New config item (File Handling -> Save) to maintain Save As directory for duration of edit session
· Configure order of file name / application name in title bar
· New streamlined installation and registration for ease of license management
· Other improvements and enhancements
April 28th, 2010· New: Re-engineered function list, with tree-style view and sub-groups
· New: Line Change Indicator
· New: Hide/Show lines containing find string
· New: Add block comments to selected text
· Enhanced: More noticeable read-only indication
· New: Regular expression builder in Find/Replace dialogs
· Enhanced: Edit XML node text directly in XML Manager
· New: HTTPS support for Subversion (SVN)
· New: Delete all hidden lines
· New: Scripting additions, including the ability to include a script(s) in another script
November 5th, 2009· Stunning New Interface
· Refined Version Control Support, PHP Debugger, JavaScript Lint
· Quick Open Address Bar
· File Encryption/Decryption
· Enhanced Find/Replace dialogs
· WebSearch Toolba
August 22nd, 2009· fixed issue where ALT accelerator doesn't work when cursor is positioned above file tabs
· fixed issue where pressing Alt + - (minus) with fixed non-dockable file tabs causes UE to hang
· fixed display issue with Convert to DOS prompt and very long file names
· fixed issue where read-only setting lost if file modified outside of editor/reloaded by "Revert to Saved"
· fixed issue where read-only prompt cannot be dismissed with autosave on focus change turned on
· fixed "Save file" accelerator keys issue (Korean version)
· fixed "Enable Session Logging" automatically toggling on after unchecking and pressing Apply
· explorer filter (file tree view) is now retained from session to session
August 11th, 2009· Stunning New Interface
· Refined Version Control Support
· PHP Debugger
· JavaScript Lint
· Quick Open Address Bar
· File Encryption/Decryption
· Enhanced Find/Replace dialogs
· WebSearch Toolbar
May 9th, 2009· Stunning New Interface,
· Refined Version Control Support,
· PHP Debugger,
· JavaScript Lint,
· Quick Open Address Bar,
· File Encryption/Decryption,
· Enhanced Find/Replace dialogs,
· WebSearch Toolbar
January 15th, 2009· New: GUI refresh; new toolbars, child windows
· New: Integrated PHP Debugging with Xdebug
· New: Javascript Lint integration
· New: Quick Open Address Bar
· New: Scripting access to the clipboard
· Enhanced: CVS support: Auto-discovery of CVS files
· Enhanced: Improved FTP support
· Enhanced: Automatic large file detection
July 2nd, 2008· Environment Selector
· Import/Export Environments
· File Encryption/Decryption
· Enhanced Find/Replace dialogs
· WebSearch Toolbar
February 24th, 2008· Environment Selector, Import/Export Environments, File Encryption/Decryption, Enhanced Find/Replace dialogs, WebSearch Toolbar
March 7th, 2007· Integrated scripting support
· Spell check while typing
· MSI Installer support
· Search in Favorite files
· Search and Replace will step through all open files
· Search in Files for any files not containing search string
· User customizable format of Search in Files result
· Integrated IE browser support to show active HTML file
· Explorer view uses system-registered Icons for file types
· Express Install for typical installations
· Prompt before UE is set as View Source Editor during install
· Cursor word-right or word-left to optionally stop at underscore string literals
· Nested comments for languages
October 13th, 2006· SSH/Telnet Window,
· x64 Shell integration