Released: Apr 2, 2020

Updates in UltraCompare v20.10

Features

New in UltraCompare v20.10

• Git enhancements:
  • Blame tooltips include commit message.
  • Full file name shown in file tab for merge mode.
• Command line enhancements:
  • Generate HTML report (append .html to output file name).
  • Disable recursive mode for folder compare via -nonrec.
  • Expanded support for text ignore options:
    • -ignb "STRING" to ignore lines starting with "STRING".
    • -ignc "STRING" to ignore lines containing "STRING".
    • -igne "STRING" to ignore lines ending with "STRING".
    • -ignbtw "STRING...

Released: Sep 3, 2019

Updates in v26.20

Features

• 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.

Released: May 7, 2019

Updates in v26.10

Features

• Greatly improved performance:
  • Threaded Quick Find for greatly improved performance in large files.
  • Faster scrolling and editing, especially in files with hidden lines.
  • Better performance when word wrap is enabled.
  • Faster undo / redo.
  • Improved grouped undo.
  • Eliminated flickering while typing.
  • Faster scrolling with HTML / XML tag highlighting.
  • Smoother scrolling with large files.
  • Improvements for indent guidelines with large sections of code.
• Various other fixes and improvements

Released: Feb 27, 2019

Updates in v26.00

Features

• Powerful command palette
  • Easy and quick access to all of UltraEdit's functionality and settings via Ctrl + Shift + P.
  • Filter commands in search box at top.
  • Pin favorite commands / settings to top of list.
  • Access recently used commands in MRU list.
  • Run macros, scripts, and user tools directly from command palette.
• JavaScript / CSS minifier and decompressor
  • JS/CSS drop down includes reformat, compress, and JavaScript Lint options.
  • New "Formatting" group in Coding tab containing all code...

Released: Sep 18, 2018

Updates in v25.20

Features

• 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...

Released: Jun 7, 2018

Updates in v25.10

Features

• 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...

Released: Mar 12, 2018

Updates in v25.00

Features

• 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...

Released: Aug 31, 2017

Updates in v24.20

Features

• 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...

Released: May 24, 2017

Updates in v24.10

Features

• 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...