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++, Python, and virtually any other coding/programming language. UltraEdit can handle and edit files in excess of 4 gigabytes. UltraEdit supports 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows XP and later).

Text Editing Features:

• Disk based text editing - supports editing of large 4GB+ files, minimum RAM used
• Configurable tab options (multiple tabstop values, use spaces instead of tabs, etc.)
• Tab/word wrap options based on file type/extension
• Insert/overstrike mode with caret and status bar indication
• Paragraph alignment
  • Left, center, right, fill (for fixed pitch fonts)
  • Reformat paragraph (cleans up and beautifies text)
  • Line spacing support for single, 1.5 and double spacing
• Drag-and-drop editing
• Shift + double click to highlight all occurrences of selected word
• Line Change Indicator (optional) in margin
  • Saved changes are indicated in green
  • Unsaved changes are indicated in red
  • Set colors of Line Change Indicator in View -> Set Colors
• Auto-indent wrapped lines
• Support for extremely long lines (up to 20,000 characters before wrap is added)
• Home key positions at first non-space, then first character
• IntelliMouse scrolling support
• Unicode/UTF-8 editing support
• Save selection as separate file
• Revert to saved (refresh active file)
• Favorite files list (stores up to 50 of your favorite files)
• Recent files list (up to 32 recent files)
• Make a copy/backup of active file
• Rename active file
• Delete active file
• Configurable font/editor colors
• Zoom in or out on text with Ctrl + Mouse scroll wheel
• Active line and active column highlighting
• Optionally display spaces, tabs, and line breaks
• Toggle line numbers and column ruler
• Set UltraEdit to "Always on Top" to always keep it on top of other windows
• Full screen mode to maximize editing space
• Column mode (Alt + C) to make columnar/block selections
• Quick column mode (hold Alt and drag mouse to make a block selection)
• Printing functionality, including:
  • 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
• Multi-level undo and redo for nearly every editor function
• Robust Cut/Copy/Paste:
  • Paste HTML source or raw RTF
  • Cut/Copy and append to existing data on clipboard
  • Copy full file path and name
  • Multiple (up to 9) user clipboards in addition to Windows clipboard
• Text selecting features:
  • Select entire file, select line, or select word
  • Select user-defined range of text
  • Persistent selection
  • Triple click to select a line
  • Click a line number in the margin to select the line
• Text deletion features:
  • Delete selection
  • Delete from current cursor position to start of line or end of line
  • Delete all bookmarked lines
  • Delete all hidden lines
• Move active line up or down
• Duplicate active line
• 100,000+ word configurable Aspell spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish)
• Interactive spell check while typing
• Word wrap (toggle on or off):
  • wrap at window edge
  • wrap at user-defined column number
  • absolute wrap (wrap inside words)
• Open file tabs
  • File tabs provide quick access to and easy switching between all open files
  • Sort file tabs alphabetically
  • Two styles: dockable or fixed
  • Multi-row file tabs or single row with tab overflow options
  • Dockable file tabs can be docked or floating outside of the application
  • Ability to "drag" file tabs to split the window (horizontally or vertically) multiple times
  • Ability to "hide" open file tabs and expand them on mouse hover
  • Tab close button optionally available on active file tab or end of tab row
  • (Optional) Middle-click to close file tab
  • (Optional) Double-click empty file tab area to open a new/blank file
  • (Optional) File tabs background coloring based on file extension
  • (Optional) File status icons (new, saved, unsaved, read-only, etc.) in file tab
• Integrated file viewer (tabbed interface) includes:
  • File explorer (select multiple files to open them) with system file icons and file information
  • Optional split view for local, network, and remote/FTP files
  • Explorer includes (optional) Windows explorer right-click context menu
  • Right-click a folder and select "Open Files" to see all files in that folder, filter, and sort them
  • List of open files (close/save/tile/print selected files)
  • List of project files (open selected files)
  • "Lists" tab for user favorites and user-created file groups/lists
  • Filter for file view and file explorer
  • File find for "open files" tab
  • FTP/SFTP account access in file tree view
  • Right click to compare from explorer view
  • Drag-and-drop files from the file view to open them in UE
  • Drag-and-drop file tabs into the file view to add them to project or lists/favorites
• Multiline find and replace dialogs for all searches (Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files)
• Bookmarks
  • Dynamically named bookmarks include line #, column #, text from file, filepath
  • Bookmark viewer with ability to sort on any parameter
  • Go to next/previous bookmark
  • Clear all bookmarks
  • Delete all bookmarked lines
• Count words in entire file or in selected text if selection exists (includes line count)
• Insert lines, page breaks, or even an entire file at current cursor position
• Insert string at every increment (ideal for formatting database records and inserting hard returns)
• Insert date/time (F7) into active text file at current position
• Zoom in/out on text by increasing/decreasing font size
• Full help file/manual with indexed and searchable contents
• Quick Start Guide with links to online tutorials for common tasks
• Context sensitive help (press F1 to access help topic for current command/location)
• Plenty of power tips at your disposal to maximize your efficiency

Find and Replace Features

• Find, find next, find previous, replace and replace all
  • Select text between caret and find target by holding Shift
  • Search and replace will (optionally) step through all open files
  • Save, name, and edit favorite search and replace strings/regular expressions for later use
  • "Replace where" option defaults to selected text if you selected text (see Help documentation for further information on enabling this feature)
• Full regular expression support for Find/Replace (Perl syntax, Unix syntax, and UltraEdit/legacy syntax) including support for tagged regular expressions
• Regular expression quick reference / regex builder
• Preserve case option to preserve the case of a word when being replaced
• F3 will search and highlight next occurrence of string if find dialog is closed
• Hide all lines or show all lines containing search string
• Find/Replace in column; column positions automatically from start and end positions of selected text
• "List Lines Containing String" option will create list of lines containing Find string; double-click an entry to jump to the line; also provides ability to bookmark all lines containing string
• Highlight all found occurrences of string
• Count number of occurrences of string
• Find in files/replace in files:
  • Specify multiple directory paths for searching
  • Interactive Replace in Files allows you to optionally step through the replace file-by-file, skipping files or directories you wish to leave alone
  • Find or Replace a string in multiple files by directory, in all open files, in project files, or in your favorite files
  • Optionally open matching files
  • Full regular expression support including regex guide/builder
  • Specify file extensions to search in find/replace in files
  • User-configurable ignore options for directories/files
  • Send results to output window and double-click (or new file, and right-click) result to open and jump to result in target file
  • Separate threading for find/replace in files (allows you to continue working while searching files)
  • Option to match files not containing find string
  • Specify code page (including Unicode formats) to use for Find/Replace in Files
  • Use empty find string to create listing of all files matching directory/name specification
  • Replace in files includes option to list changed files and number of changes
  • Customize the output format of find/replace in files results
• Find matching braces (Ctrl + B) plus automatic brace highlighting
• When cursor is next to an open or close brace, editor will highlight its matching brace
• Quick find box/dropdown (with recent find history) on toolbar for quick access to find
• Find dialogs can optionally default to word under caret
• Configurable special character (default is '^') for matching tabs, line breaks, etc. in find/replace (^p will match any line break, ^t will match a tab character, ^n will match Unix-style line terminators and ^r will match Mac-style line terminators)
• Back/forward buttons in main toolbar take you to the previous place you edited, scrolled from, or jumped to a tag from etc. and works across multiple files
• Incremental search
• All find/replace dialogs support Unicode

Programming/Web Development Features

• Full FTP support
  • FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save (32-Bit only)
  • Support for SFTP (SSH2) and FTPS (Control only, Control and data, Implicit)
  • "Open from FTP" and "Save as to FTP" dialogs
  • Ability to link local folder and remote folder and upload, download, and sync files between remote server and local system
  • Select and open multiple files from FTP
  • Optional default local default directory for each FTP account
  • Ability to create new file on server from FTP window
  • Support for ASCII, binary, and passive transfers
  • Access FTP accounts and files from the explorer window
  • Robust server support including AIX / AS400 / BS2000 / MVS / HP3000 / OpenVMS / OS9000 / Stratus VOS / Tandem / UNIX / VShell (and auto-detection of server type)
  • SFTP allows public/private key encryption
  • SFTP supports PuTTY key format
  • Store FTP accounts and settings in a user-definable file
  • Ability to set a remote (server based) or local (Perl regex based) filter (provides filtering ability for SFTP)
  • Asynchronous save/open of FTP/SFTP Files
  • Advanced proxy support
  • Advanced SSL certificate handling
  • Optional FTP account sharing with UltraCompare Professional
• SSH/telnet console with optional logging and configurable terminal colors
• Highly configurable syntax highlighting:
  • Unlimited number of syntax highlighting languagessupported
  • Each wordfile saved separately into wordfile directory
  • Pre-configured for C/C++, VB, ASP, Java, PHP, XML, HTML, javascript, Perl and more
  • Special handling for FORTRAN and LaTex
  • Hundreds of syntax highlighting wordfiles available for download
  • Allows different background colors
  • Support to highlight words beginning with a specified character (for instance variable highlighting using $ in PHP)
  • Code folding based on indentation level (especially useful for Python)
  • Automatic highlighting based on file name or extension
  • Font styling for syntax highlighting in addition to color styling
  • Multi-language highlighting (e.g., PHP/HTML/javascript highlighting in the same file)
• Smart Templates (code completion and auto-expanding text)
  • Templates grouped globally, per environment, and per programming language
  • Default language templates provided for most major programming languages
  • Create templates with multiple user-defined variables (provide variable text when templates is inserted)
  • Support for special/dynamic data in templates (see Help documentation for details)
  • Template "Auto-suggestion" (provides smart suggestion of matching template based on what you type)
  • Optionally disable auto-suggestion in comments and strings
  • Select and insert templates through auto-complete dialog (Ctrl + Spacebar)
  • Drag and drop templates from Template List to active file to insert them
  • Create an unlimited number of templates
• Code Folding
  • Fold any function or structure (all popular languages supported)
  • "Collapse All" and "Expand All" folded nodes
  • Support for ignore strings and comment strings
  • (Optional) graphical folding guide lines
  • (Optional) folding level guides and current fold-level highlighting
  • Folding processed in separate thread for fast performance
  • Dynamic updating of folding structures
  • Add your own custom open/fold strings
• Function list (dockable/hideable list)
  • See all functions in source file in a tree view, including subgroups (parameters, variables, properties, etc.)
  • Supports function listing for all project files
  • Double-click function to jump to it in the file
  • Active function highlighting
  • GUI for adding/removing/modifying function group and subgroup strings
  • Define an unlimited number of function strings (regular expressions)
• Automatic HTML detection, code folding, and indentation
• XML and HTML open/close tag matching
• Optional automatic HTML and XML tag completion
• Base64 encoding and decoding (on selected text)
• Option to avoid converting tabs to spaces in strings/comments
• CSS style builder
• Special XML support
  • XML Manager window for editing XML - includes parsed tree view of XML-based document (including XHTML) for browsing, editing, deleting, duplicating, copying/pasting nodes
  • Reformat XML files based on user-configurable parameters
  • Add line endings to XML files that have little or none (Format -> XML Convert to CR/LF)
  • Highly configurable integrated XMLlint tool to reformat XML
• Project support (logical grouping and ordering of files/folders)
  • Easy creation or switching of projects via "Project" menu
  • Access entire project in File View (Ctrl + U)
  • 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
  • Project specific user tools (in addition to standard set) with custom bitmaps
  • User/project tools supports having output go directly to the active document
  • Virtual "group" support for projects allows files to be grouped together
  • Support for nested groups with no limit on depth
  • Project/favorites - add files/add all open files dialog allows multiple file selection
  • Directory groups dynamically updated
  • Direct addition/removal of files from File Tree View
  • Recursive addition of files/folders
  • Filter files to include/exclude from project
  • Specify optional wordfile for syntax highlighting in project files
  • Specify optional project-related macro file for autoload
  • Create a Ctag file for all of your project files then use Find Symbol (F11) to find symbol underneath caret in project files
• HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular HTML functions as well as configurable/custom HTML toolbar commands
• View active (HTML) file in default browser
• View rendered HTML within UltraEdit
• HTML Tidy support (integrated) for reformatting HTML
• CSE HTML Validator support (integrated)
  • Run validation
  • Setup validator options and configuration
  • Job type support
  • Requires CSE HTML Validator from http://www.htmlvalidator.com/
• 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
• Ctags support*:
  • Project-specific Ctag file with option to create automatically when opened
  • Configurable parameters and tag file for use outside of projects
  • "Find Symbol" (F11) command will locate symbol in Ctag file of selected item or item under cursor and position it in appropriate file
  • *Requires the use of third party Ctag .exe for tag file generation (links provided)
• WebSearch Toolbar: highlight text and click a websearch toolbar button to search for highlighted term from within the editor (or assign it a custom hotkey or add it to your menus)
  • Google search
  • Yahoo search
  • Wikipedia
  • Dictionary.com
  • Thesaurus.com
  • Whois
  • Network Solutions Whois
  • PHP.net search
  • cplusplus.com search
  • MSDN online search
• Add line comments or block comments to active selecting (using comment definitions in language wordfile)
• Artistic style (Astyle) formatter (visually beautifies source code)
• Insert color value into active file via color picker; formats include decimal, hex, HTML, and RGB
• Number convertor (selected number to binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal)
• Auto-completion for coding language
  • When invoked all the keywords from syntax highlighting will be available in the list (if the file uses syntax highlighting)
  • A user-specified file may be used to provide the strings for auto-completion
  • UltraEdit will search back 50K in the file for words that match a partially typed word and offer these as options
• Reindent/reformat selected code or entire source code file based on syntax highlighting indent/unindent strings
• Auto-correct case of keywords (optionally) based on definitions in wordfile

Advanced Features

• MSI Installer support for mass deployment or silent installs
• Optional shell integration adds "UltraEdit" option to right-click context menu in Windows explorer
• Associate UltraEdit as the default program for any file type
• Configurable tool support (run compiler, run a batch file, integrate with version control, etc.) provides smart and dynamic command-line interaction with active file(s)
• Completely configurable key-mapping
  • Keyboard shortcuts for nearly everything
  • Multi complex key mappings ("chords")
  • View/print key mapping from within UltraEdit
• Right-click on a file path or URL in the active file to access option to open it
• Integrated scripting language (based on javascript) to programmatically automate tasks
  • Includes most powerful javascript functions (loop, while, case/switch, variables, arrays, etc.)
  • Edit scripts from within UltraEdit
  • Access most UltraEdit commands via scripts (file opening, saving, editing, run tools, access clipboards, etc.)
  • Script list accessible as docked window
  • Include one or multiple scripts in another
  • Scripts can be assigned hotkeys for fast access
  • Scripts can write output to output window to allow for debugging
  • Launch script in UltraEdit from command line
• Editable macros
  • Automated macro recording; edit a macro when finished recording
  • Set macro file to load (and optionally run) macro when UltraEdit starts
  • Load, save, and run multiple macros with hotkeys
  • Special characters ^c and ^s allow access to copied and selected text, respectively
  • Set a macro to automatically execute on every file open or save
  • Save all your macros to one file
  • Assign custom hotkeys and chords to macros
  • Macro commands support conditional loop and if statements
  • Column mode functions accessible from within macros
  • Run tools from within macros
  • Change clipboard in macro
  • Launch macro in UltraEdit from command line
• Column/block mode editing
  • Ability to edit text files based on columns (blocks) instead of rows
  • Select a column (instead of a row) and type characters to insert
  • Multi-line caret for typing into multiple columns at once
  • Ability to run a search and replace on a selected column/block (instead of rows)
  • Insert, fill, delete, or cut columns
  • Insert sequential numbers in column (hex/decimal)
  • Sum selected columns (selection must contain numbers)
  • Column mode justify (left, right, center) to justify text within the specified columns
  • Set a different font for column mode
• Column markers
  • Set and toggle column markers to display a vertical line at specified columns
  • Optional fixed non-scrollable area (columns left of the first column marker)
  • Create an unlimited number of column markers and column marker "groups"
• Environment Selector - Provides predefined or user-created editing "environments" that remember the state of all of UltraEdit's layout, including dockable windows, toolbars and more for user convenience.
• Highly configurable and aesthetically pleasing layout/window theme
  • Ability to auto-hide child windows or "tab" them within each other for a cleaner workspace
  • While dragging and positioning windows, auto-docking controls will activate
  • Duplicate window of the active file
  • Split active file's window
  • Tile edit windows horizontally/vertically
  • Access previous/next edit window
  • Cascade windows
• "Open as" option (in File -> Open dialog) to force loading files as binary, UTF-8, and other Unicode-based formats
• File encryption/decryption
  • Based on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) algorithm
  • Optionally integrates with UltraSentry to securely destroy original unencrypted file
  • Encrypted files can only be decrypted in UltraEdit
• ASCII/binary file compare (saving and or printing of difference summary) with UltraCompare Lite
• Full integration with UltraCompare Professional for two- or three-way file and folder compare
  • Compare FTP files
  • Compare modified file against source file on disk
  • Compare highlighted text
• File data sorting
  • Sort ascending/descending
  • Sort on entire line or on 4 sort "keys" (columns of data to evaluate in sorting)
  • Remove duplicates based on any or all sort keys
  • Sort keys auto-populate from column mode selection
• Output window
  • Resizable, can be docked or floating
  • Used (optionally) for Find in Files results
  • Can contain script or tool output
  • Double-click a file name to open it in UltraEdit (including support for specified line/column number)
  • 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
• ASCII table - allows viewing and insertion of all available ASCII characters
• File format/line terminator conversions:
  • Unix/Mac line terminator conversions (to/from DOS), EBCDIC file conversions (to/from ASCII), OEM conversions (to/from ANSI)
  • Convert from ASCII to Unicode/UTF-8 (Big endian, little endian, ASCII-escaped Unicode)
  • Configure UltraEdit to automatically or prompt to convert non-DOS formatted files
• Create new files as Unicode or UTF-8 instead of regular ASCII
• Code page detection/conversion support
• Character properties popup dialog shows:
  • Value of character in decimal/hex and display
  • Offset of character from start of file in decimal/hex
• Completely configurable toolbars/menus: customize existing or add your own
• View/hide toolbars and/or status bar
• Status bar displays number of bytes and lines selected
• Completely configurable right-click context menu
• Edit files with hex nulls (00) with configuration option to convert nulls to spaces
• Integration with UltraSentry to securely delete temporary files created by UltraEdit
• Multi-byte support with integrated IME support
• DDE support with full command line options
• Open multiple files at once from the file open dialog and command line
• Open files as read-only, or open files and lock them for use
• Read-only indicators
  • Set optional background color for read-only files
  • "Lock" icon displayed in file tab if file is read-only
• "Quick Open" toolbar 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)
• Configurable file change detection
• File change polling with option to poll file for changes at set interval and automatically scroll to bottom of file
• "Send Mail" feature sends the active file as an email attachment (selected programs only)
• Position cursor beyond line end
• Commands to position active line at top, middle or bottom of screen
• Support for alternate data streams on NTFS operating systems
• Support for optional multiple instances
• Configurable default edit window size
• View page breaks as lines
• Selectable OEM character set - option for fonts that support it
• Line numbering is based on real lines (not wrapped lines)
• Formatting conversions:
  • 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
  • Tabs to spaces
  • Spaces to tabs for all tabs, or just leading tabs in a line
  • Character-delimited files to fixed-column (CSV file support)
  • Fixed-column file to character-delimited
  • Lower to Upper Case or vice versa
  • Invert case/capitalization
  • Capitalize every word in selection
• Backup and auto-save:
  • Every file can be backed up on save
  • Create incremental/versioned backups with configurable save format
  • Set timed backup/auto-save
  • Auto-save files when application loses focus
  • Auto-save and backup FTP files
  • Set custom backup directory
• Trim trailing spaces (set to execute on save)
• Auto-recovery of modified files after system/application crash
• Option to minimize UltraEdit to system tray
• Option to minimize UltraEdit on close of last open file
• Run DOS command or Window program directory from UltraEdit
• Launch a new instance of UltraEdit directly from UltraEdit
• Extensive command line options (see Help file for full documentation)
  • INI file selection using command line - great for multiple configurations (see Help file for full documentation)
  • 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
  • Run scripts/macros from command line then automatically exit once completed
• Streamlined update/upgrade process
  • Check for FREE updates
  • Check for updates notifies if update is free or paid
  • Patch files (instead of EXEs)
  • Backup and restore toolbars, menus, settings, and other personal customizations

Hex editing features

• Ctrl + H enabled hex mode for the active file, providing hex and ASCII view
• Configure number of hex bytes per line in hex mode
• Hex rule provides hexadecimal positions
• Find/Replace hex bytes
• Insert or delete actual hex values while in hex mode
• EBCDIC/hex combined view without conversion
• All copy/cut/paste functions available for manipulating hex data
• Copy selected hex view of text to clipboard