What's new in UltraEdit Portable 29.2.0.52
Mar 24, 2023
- Features and enhancements:
- Footnote support for markdown live preview
- Tasklist checkbox support for markdown live preview
- New theme: Monokai
- Open URLs with shift+ctrl+click in currently open files
- Updated CSS wordfile
- Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now works for column mode
- Option to automatically recover documents on system or application failure
- FTP/FTPS/SFTP is updated to the latest encryption, hashing, and protocol standards including full TLS 1.3 support
- Telnet/SSH is updated to the latest encryption, hashing and protocol standards
- Other notable quality improvements:
- File added erroneously to project root instead of group folder
- Wordfile changes not reflected until files saved
- Command line flags return incorrect path error
- Reindent selection doesn’t work with unordered list
- Statusbar flickers while typing with wrapped lines
- F3 doesn’t work as expected with infinite column mode
- Perl highlighting shows all text as comment following qq
- Perl regex with K not finding all matches
- Quick find UI is hidden or partially visible
New in UltraEdit Portable 28.10.0.116 (Mar 24, 2021)
- IntelliTips:
- Code-aware suggestions for auto-completing class members, methods, etc.
- Function tips for typing parameters in function call
- UltraEdit parses active file and parent folder for symbols
- Supports local files and files opened via FTP
- Optionally scan other folders
- New config options in Settings » Auto-complete » IntelliTips
- Improved auto-complete:
- Fully themed auto-complete dialog
- Choose when auto-complete automatically shows in Settings » Auto-complete
- Fully resizable Find and Replace dialogs
- New context menu option "Delete lines" in Find String List to delete all lines containing string
- New option to "Highlight all items found" with Replace
- "Highlight all selected" optionally matches:
- Whole word only (and optionally only when selection is a whole word)
- Case
- Configure in Settings » Search » Advanced
- "Save and Close" command
- "Open last-closed tab" option (file tab context menu)
- Ability to save an empty, new file
- Save As option to leave both original file and new file open:
- Added support for remote (FTP) files as well
- Go to previous and next position using forward and back buttons mouse
- Dynamic highlighting of XML and HTML attributes and values
- Clicking in line margin to select now selects entire soft-wrapped line
- Expanded theme support with most dialogs using theme colors
- Other minor enhancements and issues addressed
New in UltraEdit Portable 27.10.0.120 (Oct 21, 2020)
- New tab sorting methods can be set to automatically sort on file open (Settings » Application layout » File tabs » Miscellaneous)
- New option in function list context menu to avoid automatically expanding function
- Support for horizontal scrolling via Shift + Mouse wheel
- Cloud Sync:
- Secure, cloud-based syncing of settings between different systems
- Authenticate with Google, GitHub, or Microsoft account
- Push / pull all settings, or specific settings categories
- Backup / restore system
- Manage, rename, and remove instances from sync account
- Requires a subscription license including Cloud Services
- Compute hash for active file or selected text (Coding tab » Tools group):
- MD5, CRC, SHA1, and SHA256 algorithms calculated and shown
- Copy hash value from result dialog
- Key mapping available
- Command line support available: uedit64 /md5|/crc|/sha1|/sha256 <file>
- No file size limitations
- New file tab sorting methods (file tab context menu) to sort open files by:
- Name
- Location
- File extension
- Date
- Modernized settings and config dialogs:
- Apply / OK buttons removed where applicable
- Obsolete settings and controls removed
- Unlimited bookmark support:
- Set unlimited bookmarks in a file...even multi-GB files with hundreds of thousands of bookmarks
- Greatly improved performance for toggling bookmarks and with Bookmark Viewer
- New option "Bookmark matching lines" in Find dialog:
- Automatically set bookmarks for all lines containing match (instead of using Find String List)
- Find bookmarks are tracked and appear separately from standard bookmarks
- Allows you to quickly and easily delete, cut, or copy all lines containing search string
- Clear Find bookmarks (Home » Bookmarks sub-menu) while preserving manually set bookmarks
- Improved XML support:
- XML compress / minify
- Greatly improved performance for parsing / reformatting huge multi-gigabyte XML files
- Improved support for parsing / formatting multi-byte character sets
New in UltraEdit Portable 26.20.0.48 (Dec 27, 2019)
- Internal improvements for multi-segmented edit control
- Progress bar (in status bar) for large parsing / edit operations
- Ability to immediately cancel long-running operations via ESC, including:
- Find / quick find
- Replace
- Macros
- Goto
- Ctrl + Home / Ctrl + End
- File open – cancel opening a huge file, or a large number of files
- Convert CSV / fixed width
- Convert tabs to spaces / spaces to tabs
- Convert line ends / wrap
- Reformat XML / JSON
- Reindent / reformat
- Print
New in UltraEdit Portable 25.20.0.100 (Feb 2, 2019)
- Markdown support:
- Preview Markdown files (via Coding » Live preview or Browser view)
- Preview is compatible with GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
- Select different styles for Markdown rendering (or add your own)
- Special Markdown syntax highlighting (with new MARKDOWN_LANG) language marker
- Support for embedded HTML highlighting
- Live HTML preview:
- Split window with code view and browser view
- Code changes (saved and unsaved) are automatically updated in browser view
- Position sync: Double-click on element in preview to jump to its location in source
- Configure under Advanced » Settings » Editor » XML / HTML / Markdown
- Updated HTML rendering component to support modern HTML / CSS / JS
- Added support for copying (via Ctrl + C) selected text
- Save state:
- Close UltraEdit without being prompted to save anything, then pick up where you left off – unsaved changes are restored
- Works for local, network, FTP, and even unsaved "Edit" files
- Prefer prompts to save? Disable this feature under Advanced » Settings » File handling » Session options
- Close unsaved Edit files with no prompt to save:
- This optional feature can be set under Advanced » Settings » File handling » Session options
- Improved file tab handling on startup:
- Changed default temporary file location:
- Many fixes and internal improvements:
New in UltraEdit Portable 25.10.0.32 (Sep 24, 2018)
- Faster brace / tag matching in source with very long lines
- "Filter on selection" switches to "Clear filter" when toggled on
- Code folding enhancements:
- "Peek" at folded code (hover over "..." to see preview of collapsed text in a tooltip)
- Ctrl + Click on folding node to expand / collapse all sub-nodes of that node
- Alt + Click on folding node to expand / collapse all folding nodes in the active file
- Expand / collapse code from any line within folding section (not just first line)
- Full Unicode support in wordfiles:
- Create wordfiles containing Unicode characters
- Wordfiles can be saved as ANSI, UTF-8, or UTF-16, with or without BOM
- Use Unicode characters in keywords, comment characters, indent/unindent strings, brace matching, more...
- New "/Word Select Include" wordfiles setting for overriding delimiters for navigating / selecting:
- Allows you to set override default delimiters on a per-language basis
- For example, /Word Select Include = $ would cause the "$" symbol to be included when double-clicking a word to select
- This would also cause Ctrl + Left / Right Arrow to skip "$" (instead of stopping on it)
- Delimiter based sort:
- Specify delimiter to sort by field (instead of specific column numbers)
- Makes IP address sort possible
New in UltraEdit Portable 25.00.0.76 (May 15, 2018)
- Collapsible Find in Files results for output window (per file)
- Find in files results highlighting in output window:
- Highlighting for matches, file path / name, line number, text, and more
- Modify colors in new "Output" tab in theme manager
- New spell checker based on Windows API:
- Replaces Aspell on Windows 8.1 and later (Windows 7 will still use Aspell)
- Supports all encodings, including Unicode formats
- Language support based upon installed languages on Windows
- Supports filters for strings, comments, HTML, and XML
- Bookmark enhancements:
- New bookmark gutter (right side of line numbers)
- Ability to click in bookmark gutter to toggle bookmarks
- Access special bookmark context menu by right-clicking bookmark gutter
- Optionally disable bookmark gutter
- New "Open folder" option in Explorer context menu:
- Selected folder set as root in file view "Explorer" pane
- Selected folder set as "Find in files" and "File open" default directories
- Internally refactored UTF-8 handling:
- Greatly improved editing for multi-byte ANSI formats (mostly Asian fonts / scripts)
- Better display of non-Latin characters in UTF-8 files
- Better handling of column editing with special characters in UTF-8 files
- UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion in memory – avoids conversion of temp file (or file on disk if temp files disabled)
- New "Filter on selection" in Home tab to show only lines in file containing selected text
- Ability to add macros or scripts to toolbar, ribbon, or context menu
- Key mapping, toolbar / ribbon support for "Save and upload to server" for FTP-linked files
- New "Automatically upload saved files" option to FTP-linked folder context menu (Project tab)
- Ability to customize tags inserted by HTML toolbar buttons
- Ability to set output encoding for user tools (ANSI, UTF-8, or UTF-16)
- Better folder pickers for Find in Files, projects, etc.
- Much more responsive XML / JSON manager trees, especially with large structures and data
- Greatly improved performance for files opened from slow network or VPN
- Other minor fixes, improvements, and enhancements
New in UltraEdit Portable 24.20.0.27 (Sep 1, 2017)
- Folded code highlighting
- Folding control turns solid when section is collapsed
- Background coloring for first line of folded code
- Configure colors for the above in theme
- Dramatic performance improvements for Find
- Blazingly fast, grep-like speed when writing of thousands of search results to the Output Window and Find String List
- Greatly improved performance and memory management for huge Find in Files results (700,000+ matches)
- Quicker and more responsive cancelling of Find / Replace in Files
- Greatly improved performance with many strings highlighted via "Highlight all" or Quick Find
- Addressed issues with mixed line terminators in Find String List causing erroneous line numbers
- Dramatic performance improvements for hidden lines
- Much faster "Delete all hidden lines", especially with many lines hidden
- Much smoother scrolling with large sections of hidden code / text
- Tab delimited sort
- Sort file based on tab-separated value fields instead of column numbers
- Optionally specify start and end characters for each field
- Syntax highlighting improvements
- Syntax highlighting preserved for partially selected keywords
- Function list no longer shows functions in block comments
- Unmatched string character in regexp class no longer causes unwanted string highlighting
- Addressed issue with incorrect syntax highlighting after wrapping lines
- Display improvements
- Title bar no longer uses black color for text with darker title bar background
- Improved display and spacing of line number margin (decreased width when line numbers disabled)
- Restored vertical scroll bar in vertically oriented multi-line file tabs
- Status bar "Bytes selected" now reports "Chars selected" instead (mainly for UTF-8 files)
- SSH/Telnet and FTP now prompt for user name when not set
- Reverted accelerator keys for File Change Detection dialog buttons
- Addressed XML / HTML tag highlighting issues with Asian characters
- Addressed several column mode issues when editing multi-byte (Asian) characters
- Addressed issues with file/folder paths containing Unicode characters in .prj files
- Addressed file change detection prompt with time zone change or daylight savings change
- Addressed word wrap issues with non-Latin characters
- Addressed issues with UltraEdit (legacy) and Unix style regular expressions
- Addressed issue with hex insert in files greater than 4 GB
New in UltraEdit Portable 24.10 (Jun 30, 2017)
- JSON manager:
- Provides tree-style view of JSON data (based upon .json file extension)
- Copy, cut, paste, and duplicate JSON objects and keys
- See table of key / value data for selected object
- Expand / collapse all nodes
- Drag-and-drop JSON objects / keys to move them
- Format, compress, and re-parse active JSON file
- JSON reformatter (Coding tab) to reformat, reindent, and compress JSON
- New wordfile and special syntax highlighting support for JSON
- Greatly improved performance with Document Map, especially in large files
- Greatly improved performance with Line Change Indicator (LCI), especially in large files
- Addressed all issues related to LCI
New in UltraEdit Portable 24.00.0.53 (Mar 6, 2017)
- "Close all files to left / right" in file tab context menu (with key mapping support)
- "Add to [Favorite / Project] Files" options on file tab / file view context menu
- Drag-and-drop file tabs to file view "Project" and "Lists" tab to add to projects and lists
- New option to use classic theme for printing ("Page setup" dialog)
- User tools and default associated shortcuts now begin with "1" instead of "0"
- Standardized capitalization of text (sentence case) in menus and UI
- New /LanguageMarker flag for wordfiles for expanded shebang line recognition
- New option to disable automatic hex mode for files containing nulls (hex 00) in Advanced » Settings » Editor » Hex mode
- "Defaults" button in sort settings dialog
- "Delete selected lines" now deletes complete line even if not completely selected
- Paste into multiple selected columns while in column mode now pastes into all columns
- Full customization support for edit window and file tab context menus
- Improved performance and data handling with shared FTP accounts
- Optimized file change detection to avoid pause when checking for changes in all open files
- Support for OpenSSH 7.0+ (SSH console)
- Addressed issues related to FTP-linked project folder
- Addressed several issues when default ANSI encoding set to non-Latin code page
- Compare in UC Pro externally detected changes from file change detection prompt
- Full Unicode support for / in:
- Macros and scripts
- Function list
- Tag list
- Output window
- Auto-complete
- Key mapping
- Open address and search toolbars
- Ctags
- Insert column
- GUI to easily browse, add, and remove syntax highlighting languages:
- Access from Coding tab or Advanced » Settings » Editor display » Syntax highlighting
- Check languages to add them, uncheck to remove them
- Search / filter for languages
- Reset syntax highlighting back to factory defaults
- Find / replace enhancements:
- Optionally leave replace dialog open when doing step-by-step replace
- Added ability to scroll find / replace histories with mouse wheel
- Added support for Perl regexp buffer boundaries (A, z, etc.)
- Added unobtrusive notification when search wraps to other end of file
- Find / replace "In" setting now defaults to selected text only if 2 or more lines selected
- Search in column now supports column number up to 20,000
- Improved performance with many filtered lines (Show / hide lines)
- Addressed many Perl regexp issues
- Addressed "Count all" issue with Unicode characters
- Addressed issues with slim replace dialog buttons
- Addressed several quick find issues
- Find string list enhancements:
- Find string list scrolls to track active line in edit window
- Ability to create new file from find string list contents (context menu)
- Highlighting of matches in find string list (toggle in context menu)
- Find / replace in files enhancements:
- Added button to set find / replace in files directory to active file's directory on the fly
- Added notification to status bar when find / replace in files completes
- Status bar indicates number of matches / files searched as search progresses
- Vastly improved performance and speed when writing results to output window
- Find in files now checks each file for BOM and uses BOM-specified encoding for search
- Added "Active file" option to encoding drop down (uses active file's encoding for search)
- Added "Auto-detect" option to encoding drop down (will auto-detect each file's encoding during search)
- Better results and display when searching across multiple encodings
- Addressed issue with double-clicking on FTP file in find in [open] files results
- XML manager enhancements:
- Added drag-and-drop support to move elements
- New "Copy XPath" option for nodes/attributes
- Added highlighting of current (edit window) position
- Addressed issues with incorrectly reported error positions
- Several other issues addressed
- Drag and drop images / graphics, or browse to images, to insert them in active HTML document:
- Drag-and-drop any number of images directly into an HTML based file
- For most HTML and web files, <img> links will be automatically inserted
- For CSS files, the URL to the image will be inserted
- Modify the HTML / CSS formats for inserted images in Settings » Editor » Image drag-and-drop
- Hold Ctrl while dragging-and-dropping to modify the format on the fly
- Select and open multiple files at once from Recently opened / closed files menu:
- New option "Open all"
- Hold Ctrl and click files to select multiple at once
- Click "Open selected" to open all checked items
- Native Unicode rewrite / refactoring of code for greatly improved handling and detection:
- Better rendering of non-Latin text in various Unicode formats
- Better handling of Unicode file paths in title bar, file tabs, open file list, etc.
- Resolved all issues related to opening files with Unicode characters
- Greatly improved detection of (non-Unicode) code pages
- Improved detection of UTF-8 string declaration
- Automatic font / script substitution for non-Roman and OEM character sets
- New "Encoding" settings under Advanced » Settings » File handling » Encoding
- Ability to set fallback encoding / code page when auto-detection cannot determine
- New prompt to convert ANSI file to UTF-8 when pasting Unicode/UTF-8 content
- Support for using Unicode with "^c" and "^s" variables in macros/scripts
- Added option to handle tool output as Unicode (in "Output" tab of tool settings)
- Proper and full rendering in menus, dialogs, etc. for all language versions, regardless of OS language
- Addressed multi-caret issues when inserting Asian / multi-byte characters
- Addressed caret "jumping" issues in UTF-8 files
- Addressed issues related to opening and saving UTF-8 files via FTP
- Addressed issues related to word wrap with multi-byte characters / Asian scripts
- Addressed caret positioning issues with Asian characters in Unicode / UTF-8 files
- Countless other Unicode / UTF-8 improvements and adjustments
- "Join line(s)" feature (Edit tab):
- Option to preserve leading spaces in Advanced » Settings » Editor » Advanced
- New context menu for "Lists" tab in file view:
- Add folders/files
- Show names only
- Rename file
- Remove file from list
New in UltraEdit Portable 23.10.0.2 (Jul 11, 2016)
- Find/replace issues addressed:
- Addressed issue with Find String List truncating lines after 260 columns.
- Addressed issue with Find String List not displaying "&" symbol in non-English versions.
- Improved elimination of duplicates in search histories.
- Addressed issue with Find in Files results highlighting more than the search keyword.
- Column mode issues addressed:
- Addressed replace in selection issues when in column mode.
- Addressed cut/copy/paste issues in column mode.
- Addressed issues deleting columns.
- Addressed issue inserting HTML tags while in column mode.
- Addressed issue with Shift + End not working as expected.
- Addressed column mode selection performance issue with Document Map enabled.
- Addressed several other isolated issues when working in column mode.
- User tool issues addressed:
- User tools added to Ribbon now show custom tool name instead of default name.
- Addressed sizing issues with custom bitmaps for user tools.
- Addressed issue with custom tool icons when large icons are enabled.
- Addressed maximized window / title bar issues.
- Addressed issues with variable and wildcard syntax highlighting with word wrap.
- Addressed issue with custom help files in toolbar / menu mode.
- Addressed issues with edit window minimize, restore, and close controls.
- Addressed issue with stopping macro recording in toolbar / menu mode.
- Addressed issues with caret when using Page Up / Page Down with folded lines.
- Addressed issue with "Sort file tabs on open" when dockable tabs are enabled.
- Addressed issue with showing Recent Files on File menu.
- Addressed issue that caused caret to disappear when clicking on status bar icon in hex mode.
- Addressed accelerator conflict for "Select" and "Sort" in Ribbon.
- Various other issues addressed.
New in UltraEdit Portable 23.00 (Jul 11, 2016)
- New UI featuring ribbon and classic toolbar/menu mode.
- Ribbon UI.
- Menu commands organized in logical groups for quicker access.
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in application title bar.
- Access commands via ribbon accelerators (Alt).
- Optional Compact Mode for consolidating vertical space.
- Customize ribbon and QAT with your own ribbon tabs and/or groups.
- Toolbar/menu mode.
- Provides classic menu and toolbar interface as with previous versions.
- Create and customize toolbars.
- Updated and modernized icons throughout application.
- Full support for UHD / 4k+ displays.
- Improved startup speed.
New in UltraEdit Portable 22.20.0.49 (Feb 19, 2016)
- Native 64-bit version and optimizations.
- Aggressive and deep optimizations to application startup time for 32- and 64-bit versions.
- Additional performance enhancements and optimizations for the 32- and 64-bit versions.
- New Brazilian Portuguese localization.
- New simplified and faster installer.
New in UltraEdit Portable 22.10.0.10 (Feb 19, 2016)
- Smarter indentation of auto-completed XML/HTML close tags:
- After closing tag is automatically inserted, press Enter
- UE will reposition and properly indent the closing tag on the line beneath the new (active) line
- Convert Quick Find to multi-select:
- Press Ctrl + , (comma) with Highlight All active to convert them to multi-selections
- Select some text, then press Ctrl + , to convert all occurrences of selection to multi-selections
- Create custom key mapping in Advanced -> Configuration -> Key Mapping (ViewConvertHighlightedToSelection)
- Highlight All Selected and search highlighting shown in the Document Map
- Highlight All Selected now uses entire selection (instead of just word under caret)
- Performance improvements for multi-caret editing with many selections/carets
- Document Map improvements with column mode, selecting, changing syntax highlighting, etc.
- Added support for Select All with Ctrl+a in "Edit Macro" dialog
- Addressed display issues in Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) with child windows, file tabs, tooltips, and other UI elements
- Improved selection and highlighting in column mode
- Addressed split window issues
- Addressed issues with Revert to Saved after manually changing file encoding
- Addressed issues when converting file encoding and then reverting to saved
- Addressed issue with Wrap after column #, insert CR/LF
- Addressed issue with line change indicator not showing for changes on first line of folded/hidden block
- Addressed some minor Find/Find in Files issues
- Addressed issues with Recently Closed Files list
- Addressed CSS syntax highlighting colors with some themes
- Addressed issue with Open Address Bar width
- Various other minor improvements
New in UltraEdit Portable 22.0.0.60 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Cut/copy all bookmarked lines (Search -> Bookmarks submenu)
- Trim Leading Spaces (Format menu)
- Document Map::
- "Filmstrip" overview of active file for visual context and quick navigation
- Zoom in or out to see more or less of the file
- Optionally shows bookmarks, code folding, and active line
- Optionally reposition caret on click
- Toggle via View -> Views/Lists or via toolbar icon
- Vertically split window:
- Accessible via Window menu or via splitter next to horizontal scrollbar
- Split window both vertically and horizontally for 4-way view of file
- "Recently Closed Files" menu item:
- Added beneath "Recently Opened Files" in File menu
- Includes a "first in, first out" ordered list of most recently closed files
- Mirrors same number of entries set for "Recently Opened Files"
- New Macro commands:
- CopyAllBookmarkLines
- CutAllBookmarkLines
- TrimLeadingSpaces
- New Scripting commands (UltraEdit.activeDocument):
- copyAllBookmarkLines
- cutAllBookmarkLines
- trimLeadingSpaces
- New key mapping commands:
- FormatTrimLeadingSpaces (CTRL + \ is default)
- FormatTrimTrailingSpaces (CTRL + / is default)
- ViewShowHideDocumentMap
- EditCopyAllBookmarkedLines
- EditCutAllBookmarkedLines
- WindowVerticalSplitWindow
New in UltraEdit Portable 21.30.0.1024 (Mar 25, 2015)
- UltraEdit v21.30 includes over 80 improvements and fixes to the following:
- Column Mode
- Undo/Redo
- Word Wrap
- File Conversions
- FTP/SFTP
- New/Open/Close
- Scripting
- List Lines Containing String
- Find/Replace/Find Next/Find Prev
- Find in Files/Replace in Files
- Regular Expressions/Find/Replace
- Find String List
- Function List
- Output Window
- Syntax Highlighting
- Split Window
- And more
New in UltraEdit Portable 21.20.0.1001 (Jun 27, 2014)
- Column mode editing / drag 'n drop
- Quick column mode
- Hide / show lines and code folding
- Folding for block comments in HTML
- Scripted find / replace
- Perl regular expression find/replace
- Find in files with customized output format
- Shebang detection for syntax highlighting
- Compare files (UC Lite)
- Mixed line terminator handling
- Open file under caret via context menu
- Word wrap
- Undo/redo
- Hex mode
- Themes and user interface
- Menu access via key accelerators
- OEM and special character input
- File and selection sort
- CSS color tooltips
- Project and workspace reload
- Status bar
- FTP connectivity and transfer issues
- Scrolling via mouse wheel in FTP dialogs
- Stability and performance
New in UltraEdit Portable 21.10.0.1032 (May 22, 2014)
- Dockable Find and Replace dialog:
- Includes Find, Replace, Find in Files and Replace in Files
- Themed dialogs for a more unified look and feel
- Cut/Copy/Paste support for multiple carets/selections
- Themed FTP Open, Save, and Accounts dialogs
- New "Glitch" editor theme
- Improved shebang detection for syntax highlighting
- Various other minor enhancements and improvements
New in UltraEdit Portable 21.00.0.1033 (Apr 10, 2014)
- Quick Find (similar to search in web browsers):
- Press Ctrl + F and type search string to quickly jump to next occurrence and highlight all matches
- Press Ctrl + F a second time to open regular Find dialog
- Press Enter to move to next match or Ctrl + Enter to move to previous match
- Input turns red when no matches are found
- Includes next / previous buttons and "..." button to expand to regular Find dialog
- Supersedes and replaces incremental search
- Number of matches shown in status bar
- Multi-caret editing and multi-selection:
- Use Ctrl + click to set multiple carets for editing in multple locations at once
- Use Ctrl + double click or Ctrl + Click n' drag to make multiple non-contiguous selections for editing
- Press Ctrl + Alt + Z to remove last set caret/selection
- Ctrl + click on caret or selection to remove it from set
- Select several contiguous lines, then Ctrl + Click beyond line end for quick end-of-line carets
- Supports HTML/XML tag auto-completion
- Reimagined multi-pane FTP browser:
- Split file view for both local and remote pane
- Drag-n-drop or press Enter to download / upload files
- New buttons, icons, and colors to match your theme
- Greatly improved and color-coded logging of transfers
- Various internal improvements for better performance
- Theming improvements:
- Custom scrollbars to match your theme
- Input fields and other form elements now fully match your theme
- Various other tweaks and adjustments for greater theme control
- FTP transfers shown in output window:
- New "FTP Transfers" tab in output window
- Reports color-coded transfer status for remote files opened via Explorer view or via reload/recent files
- Various maintenance items and other minor improvements
New in UltraEdit Portable 20.00.0.1056 (Dec 12, 2013)
- Editor Themes:
- Manage Themes dialog for creating and modifying themes
- Skin the entire application (dockable panes, menus, toolbars, file tabs, status bar, etc.)
- Set editor colors
- Set syntax highlighting colors
- Switch themes with a single click
- Use one of several pre-defined themes or create your own
- When adding a new language for syntax highlighting, UltraEdit will automatically pick up your theme's default colors for the new language
- Import, export, and share your themes with others
- Greatly improved file handling performance (100s of MB to 10+ GB):
- File parsing percentage shown in status bar
- Extremely faster navigation and editing
- Significantly smoother scrolling
- CSS color tooltips:
- Hover over CSS color definition to see color preview
- Ctrl + Click on preview swatch to select and insert a new color into file
- Supported color formats
- Hex RGB
- Functional notation RGB
- RGBA
- HSL
- HSLA
- Supported file types
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- PHP
- Perl
- Python
- Ruby
- Artistic Style improvements:
- Updated to v2.03
- Support for external configuration files
- Redesigned A-Style dialog for new options and features
- Chrome style file tabs
- CSS3 syntax highlighting support
- Various other minor enhancements and improvements
New in UltraEdit Portable 19.00.0.1022 (Dec 12, 2013)
- Significant performance gains in several areas:
- Reloading of files on startup
- Loading/opening large numbers of files (with temp files)
- Loading very large files
- Switching between file tabs
- Perl regular expressions
- Undo in larger files
- Copy/Paste syntax highlighting in RTF and HTML:
- Available under Edit -> Copy Special
- Paste text with HTML/CSS markup to render highlighting within a browser
- Paste syntax colored text into other RTF editors (like MS Word)
- Automatic highlighting of file types without extension:
- Perl via shebang (ex: #!/bin/perl)
- PHP via shebang (ex: #!/bin/php)
- Python via shebang (ex: #!/bin/python)
- XML via declaration (ex: )
- New status bar:
- Encoding selector
- Changes encoding used to view active file
- Will not change file's original encoding
- Syntax highlighting selector
- Read-only toggle
- Insert/Overstrike toggle
- Separate areas for line terminator and file encoding properties
- Better display
- Perl regular expression overhaul:
- Performance
- Searching in large files
- Find In Files
- Accuracy
- Several Perl regexp issues addressed
- Full support for negative look-ahead/look-behind searches
- File tab drag-and-drop improvements:
- Drag file tab outside of UltraEdit to open it in new instance
- File's settings retained when dragging and dropping between instances
- File View improvements:
- Modernized icons
- Optionally show hidden files
- Option to add close X to each file tab
- Improved support for 'Maintain separate process for each file opened from external applications
- Various other minor enhancements and improvements