Released: Mar 12, 2018

Updates in v25.00/v18.00

Features

New in UltraEdit v25.00

• 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.

New in UltraCompare v18.00

• Full syntax highlighting support for source files
  • Theme-based comment, string, and keyword coloring.
  • Automatically detects and uses existing UltraEdit / UEStudio wordfiles.
  • Install additional wordfiles from website (or create your own).
  • Manually set or disable highlighting type per-frame.
  • Configure settings under Settings » Display » Text » Syntax highlighting.
  • See syntax highlighting in active line window.
• Highlight differences per-word
  • New "Highlight" group in Edit tab with options.
  • New session property to set highlighting method.
  • New global setting under Settings » Compare » Text.
• Increased session limit to 50.
• Algorithmic improvements for text compare matching / diffing.

Fixes

• Minor fixes, improvements, and enhancements.