UltraEdit (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

UltraEdit 30.2.0.41 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 30.2.0.33 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 30.2.0.27 (64-bit)
Features and enhancements:
- Macro edit/create and settings UI update
- Consolidates global macro settings into a single “Macro settings” dialog
- Improved edit/create macro dialogs
- Individual macro settings now exposed in edit/create dialogs
- Proof of concept plugin framework
- Plugin: Code surround
- Plugin: SQL formatter
- Plugin: JSON to XML
- Plugin: File splitter
- Plugin: Tabs to spaces (leading)
- New community reviewed and approved application icons

Other notable quality improvements:
- Files saved without an extension erroneously have CSH extension
- Hang when trying to access Find history
- Alt shortcuts added to macro play dialog
- FTP Browser now uses dockable window font for local/remote panes
- Extension is incorrectly added when file is saved
- Expose current tab stop value in scripting API
- Reproducible hang when inserting comment on last line of file
- Resolved intermittent startup instability
- Brace matching is incorrect in PHP when strings include braces


UltraEdit 30.1.0.23 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


UltraEdit 30.1.0.19 (64-bit)
Features and enhancements:
Enhanced large file mode:
- Brings all large file settings into a common location
- Easily customize large file optimizations
- Enable/disable line numbers, code folding, Intellitips, and more
- New “Replace once” functionality added to Find/Replace dialog
- Improved detection and highlighting of URLs in source files
- Environment variables now supported for default backup directory
- PowerShell terminal font can now be customized

Other notable quality improvements:
- Improved detection of PowerShell scripts
- Addressed crash when loading specific project data
- Selection after spell checking “Change” doesn’t work correctly
- “Right-click”…”Only if Ctrl is pressed” spell check option not working
- Focus is in wrong pane after opening file from FTP and invoking Find dialog
- Display standard deletion confirmation message box when “Remove Script” is selected
- Added setting to specify the number of recent projects shown in list in ribbon/submenu
- Improved C# function detection for function list
- Spaces at beginning of lines are dropped when inserting templates
- Dragging a selection in column mode and dropping it doesn’t work as expected
- Find next (F3) with unlimited columns not working as expected


UltraEdit 30.0.0.50 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 30.0.0.48 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 30.0.0.41 (64-bit)
Features and enhancements:
Application scripting update:
- Modern JavaScript support and full browser capabilities
- Legacy JavaScript support by default for full backwards compatibility
- Enable latest JavaScript by adding header to script: // @Engine=WebView2

Dockable PowerShell terminal:
- Dockable window, place anywhere you wish as a floating window or dock in any orientation
- Execute any valid shell commands
- Edit and run PowerShell scripts from the ribbon
- Run selected portions of PowerShell scripts

Enhanced live preview: Dev Tools & Select/Capture/Print:
- Select Inspect from the live preview context menu
- Review DOM and loaded resources
- Select command from live preview context menu
- Capture as text
- Capture as image
- Print rendered page to printer or PDF

- Spell check improvements
- FTP/FTPS/SFTP improvements

Other notable enhancements and quality improvements:
- Caret position is incorrect with certain UTF-8 content
- Comment/Uncomment improvements
- URL highlighting and interaction improvements
- Highlighting incorrect after replace all in selected text
- Inserting multi-line HTML templates positions the closing tag incorrectly
- Incorrect highlighting of inline PHP comments
- Active string isn’t highlighted correctly after quick find
- Crash on startup with specific command line parameters
- Caret jumps to beginning of line when editing with Live Preview enabled
- Enable updated JavaScript support for command line script execution
- Spellcheck checks entire document instead of selection
- Added PHP, Python, Ruby, and PowerShell commands to Coding ribbon
- Crash in command palette with root path
- Crash when inserting a template
- Unable to scroll to leftmost tab when single line scrollable tabs are enabled
- FTP: Parsing certain large directories is very slow
- FTP: Issue loading PPK v3 keys
- FTP: Files opened in wrong tab group when using tiled windows mode
- FTP: Extra line added to files opened using ASCII transfer mode
- FTP: Rename Folder navigates into folder instead of renaming with Show Current Directory Only enabled
- FTP: F5 triggers Capitalize command in active file when focus is in FTP pane
- Caret position and auto complete dialog incorrect with Ctrl + Backspace
- Brace matching incorrectly highlights brace inside string
- Macro quick record forces Find Up for find actions
- Crash after sorting file with specific content
- Quick find skips first occurrence in file after search wraps from end to beginning of UTF-16 file
- Find (and subsequent find string selection) works in ANSI file, but not in UTF-16 files
- Find Next skips first occurrence of search string in large file
- Find skips valid matches for search string
- JSON manager hangs/crashes when trying to work with very large files (30GB+)


UltraEdit 29.2.0.52 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.2.0.48 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.2.0.46 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.2.0.44 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.2.0.34 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.1.0.124 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.1.0.123 (64-bit)
Interactive login for SFTP (2FA support):
- Connect to servers that require two-factor authentication (2FA) or time-based one-time passwords (TOTP)
- New "Interactive login" account option (Advanced tab)
- Single persistent connection used for 2FA accounts to prevent multiple 2FA prompts
- Connection stays alive during file editing to avoid further 2FA prompts

Chrome (Edgium) rendering for browser view / live preview:
- Upgrades HTML / Markdown preview to modern rendering engine
- Requires WebView2 browser component from Microsoft (included in Win 11, available on Win 10)
- Fallback to older browser control for legacy rendering on systems not supporting

WebView2:
Command palette expansions:
Quick open any previously opened file:
- Type then begin typing part of file path or name to filter results; ex: myFile.js
- Select path and press Enter to open
- Clear one or all paths from history

Quick open any file:
- Begin typing file path and command palette will offer auto-completing matches
- Select a matching folder to add it to the path
- Select a matching file to open it
- Supports letter drives, UNC, and relative paths
- Wildcard support for opening multiple files at once; ex: C:prjclass*.cpp

Go-to shorthand:
- Type : then line number / column number to jump to location; ex: :300,25
- Type :b2 to jump to second bookmark, or :bMyBook to jump to bookmark named "MyBook"
- Type :p then page break number to jump to page break; ex: :p5

Templates now included in command palette:
Syntax highlighting parser overhaul (Code highlighting data abstracted from editor, improving performance and resolving issues):
- Syntax highlighting maintained when selecting
- Support for block comments opened with same characters as line comments
- Support for arbitrary string pairs (square brackets, backticks, etc.)
- Added support for Perl quote-like string operators like qq(STRING)
- Improved XML code highlighting with embedded CDATA sections
- Addressed issues related to complex embedded code highlighting and longer wrapped lines

HTML Tidy overhaul:
- Updated HTML Tidy library to latest version
- New HTML Tidy UI with dozens of additional options
- New command and associated key mapping to run HTML Tidy
- Output window improvements and additions
- Add and remove any number of output windows
- Rename output window tabs
- Select and copy partial or whole lines in output window
- Other notable user experience improvements
- Ability to rename unsaved file tab
- User tools automatically import embedded icon from external executable
- Re-engineered user clipboards now support selections of >4 GB (exceeding Windows clipboard limitations)
- "Add file to project" now uses regular File Open dialog
- Reformat JSON now automatically applies code highlighting
- Size column is now right-aligned in all FTP file lists
- Other notable quality improvements
- Addressed issue with child windows opening off screen when last positioned on disconnected monitor
- Addressed issues parsing URL formats for right-click open
- Addressed Reformat Paragraph issues with large selections of text
- Addressed issue with "Save selection as" and GB of selected data
- Addressed file lock issue when saving FTP file
- Removed 160 byte limit on application title bar
- Improved selection while in column mode
- Addressed "Server signature does not match" issue with SFTP
- Addressed issue with duplicated characters in SSH log
- Added missing "To uppercase" command to key mapping
- Added file path and name to non-DOS line terminator prompt
- Addressed tool performance issue with "Show DOS box" enabled
- Further theming improvements


UltraEdit 29.1.0.112 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.1.0.100 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.1.0.90 (64-bit)
Interactive login for SFTP (2FA support):
- Connect to servers that require two-factor authentication (2FA) or time-based one-time passwords (TOTP)
- New "Interactive login" account option (Advanced tab)
- Single persistent connection used for 2FA accounts to prevent multiple 2FA prompts
- Connection stays alive during file editing to avoid further 2FA prompts

Chrome (Edgium) rendering for browser view / live preview:
- Upgrades HTML / Markdown preview to modern rendering engine
- Requires WebView2 browser component from Microsoft (included in Win 11, available on Win 10)
- Fallback to older browser control for legacy rendering on systems not supporting WebView2

Command palette expansions:
Quick open any previously opened file:
- Type then begin typing part of file path or name to filter results; ex: myFile.js
- Select path and press Enter to open
- Clear one or all paths from history

Quick open any file:
- Begin typing file path and command palette will offer auto-completing matches
- Select a matching folder to add it to the path
- Select a matching file to open it
- Supports letter drives, UNC, and relative paths
- Wildcard support for opening multiple files at once; ex: C:prjclass*.cpp

Go-to shorthand:
- Type : then line number / column number to jump to location; ex: :300,25
- Type :b2 to jump to second bookmark, or :bMyBook to jump to bookmark named "MyBook"
- Type :p then page break number to jump to page break; ex: :p5
- Templates now included in command palette
- Syntax highlighting parser overhaul (Code highlighting data abstracted from editor,
proving performance and resolving issues):
- Syntax highlighting maintained when selecting
- Support for block comments opened with same characters as line comments
- Support for arbitrary string pairs (square brackets, backticks, etc.)
- Added support for Perl quote-like string operators like qq(STRING)
- Improved XML code highlighting with embedded CDATA sections
- Addressed issues related to complex embedded code highlighting and longer wrapped lines

HTML Tidy overhaul:
- Updated HTML Tidy library to latest version
- New HTML Tidy UI with dozens of additional options
- New command and associated key mapping to run HTML Tidy

Output window improvements and additions:
- Add and remove any number of output windows
- Rename output window tabs
- Select and copy partial or whole lines in output window

Other notable user experience improvements:
- Ability to rename unsaved file tab
- User tools automatically import embedded icon from external executable
- Re-engineered user clipboards now support selections of >4 GB (exceeding Windows clipboard limitations)
- "Add file to project" now uses regular File Open dialog
- Reformat JSON now automatically applies code highlighting
- Size column is now right-aligned in all FTP file lists

Other notable quality improvements:
- Addressed issue with child windows opening off screen when last positioned on disconnected monitor
- Addressed issues parsing URL formats for right-click open
- Addressed Reformat Paragraph issues with large selections of text
- Addressed issue with "Save selection as" and GB of selected data
- Addressed file lock issue when saving FTP file
- Removed 160 byte limit on application title bar
- Improved selection while in column mode
- Addressed "Server signature does not match" issue with SFTP
- Addressed issue with duplicated characters in SSH log
- Added missing "To uppercase" command to key mapping
- Added file path and name to non-DOS line terminator prompt
- Addressed tool performance issue with "Show DOS box" enabled
- Further theming improvements


UltraEdit 29.0.0.102 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.0.0.94 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 29.0.0.70 (64-bit)
Improved startup speed and performance:
- Various optimizations to startup routines
- Startup speed reduced by up to 50%
- File view / explorer window improvements:
- Existing file view tabs split out into separate dockable windows
- File explorer
- Project
- File lists (favorites, recents, etc.)
- Open files
- New ribbon / menu toggles and key mappings for new windows

Command palette enhancements:
- Command palette now fully resizable
- More responsive and cleaner user interface

Macro improvements:
- Greatly improved macro playback speed
- Reduced screen updates to improve performance
- Comment support (use # to create a comment line ignored by macro parser)
- GetValue supports 64-bit integers
- SaveAs now uses default save directory in all cases
- Addressed issue with duplicated key mappings
- Addressed focus issue with GetValue prompt

Column mode enhancements:
- Improved performance for column editing in large files
- New option for "Insert/Fill Column" to ignore last line if empty
- Find String List (List lines containing string) improvements
- Greatly improved performance, especially in large files
- New option to automatically refresh results
- Double-clicking result highlights match in file
- Added F5 keyboard shortcut to refresh results

Favorite files improvements:
- Redesigned interface to show columns
- Sort favorite files by name or path
- Addressed issue with "+All open files" button

User tool improvements:
- Tool output now displayed in real-time
- Run tools on remote (FTP) files
- Tool runtime input via %modify% now uses active clipboard
- Addressed issue with shifting key mappings when adding or removing tools
- Tool tooltips in ribbon now display name
- Improved scaling for custom tool icons in toolbar
- Perl regular expression improvements
- Perl regexp searches now case sensitive
- Dot (.) no longer matches new line
- Added support for Perl regexp DEFINE feature
- Improved memory handling to support more complex regexps

Live preview improvements:
- Greatly improved DOM navigation via double-click in browser window
- Improved selection of text in browser window
- Settings dialog and user interface improvements
- Settings dialog is fully resizable - text and options flow and wrap as dialog is resized
- INI path selectable with new "Open" button for fast access to its folder in Application Layout » Advanced
- Improved usability of Settings search
- Improved settings for default file open directory in File Handling » Load
- Various UI tweaks and fixes throughout settings
- Smarter F3 (Find Next): Manual selection in source now searches for selection instead of previous regexp
- New option to disable automatic expansion of nodes in XML Manager
- New option to create new file when all other files are closed
- Themed main application area when all files are closed
- Improved file change detection for network files
- FTP improvements for stability and usability
- Auto-complete display improvements for non-Latin characters
- Improved caret positioning with proportional characters and fonts
- Better error reporting for JSON manager
- Ctrl Left Arrow now stops at beginning of file


UltraEdit 28.20.0.92 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.90 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.70 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.44 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.28 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.26 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.16 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.20.0.12 (64-bit)
Interactive Find in Files:
- New option for "Interactive results" in Find in Files dialog
- Provides "live" view of all search results in a single edit tab
- Expand and collapse search results as needed
- Modify matched files directly in results
- Perform mass replaces in one or all results
- Save each result individually, or all at once

Scroll through file tabs with the mouse wheel:
- Set in file tabs context menu
- Set in Settings » Application layout » File tabs » Miscellaneous

- Added ability to remove items from "Recently opened" / "Recently closed" lists in File View
- Added key mapping support for "Go to Previous / Next Position"
- Added "Yes and make active" option to File Change Detection prompt
- Changed split window behavior to show same view in both splits
- Added IntelliTips automatic scanning of external "include" folder configured in Settings » Auto-complete » IntelliTips » Parser
- Added three new dark color themes (Studio Dark, One Dark, Predawn)
- Added Pieces integration
- Improved support for Perl regular expressions negative lookbehind
- Addressed selection issues with binary data / nonprintable characters in text mode
- Other minor improvements


UltraEdit 28.10.0.154 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.10.0.98 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.10.0.26 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.10.0.18 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.10.0.0 (64-bit)
IntelliTips improvements:
- Implemented threading for improved performance when parsing source files
- Eliminated slowness when typing in IntelliTips-parsed file
- Updated and modernized parser engine
- Added support for dozens of additional languages

Improved performance:
- Faster loading of multiple files
- Improved file tab handling with many files open
- Faster project load

- Updated Ctags (to universal-ctags) for more robust and modern symbol parsing
- Improved auto-complete to be more user friendly and less obtrusive
- Find in Files improvements when searching files with corrupt / incorrect encodings
- Improved storage and handling of settings and customizations data
- Smarter handling of auto-recovered unsaved files with Save State enabled
- Renamed update exe to prevent erroneous launch from Windows Temp File cleanup
- Miscellaneous improvements to increase application performance and reliability


UltraEdit 28.0.0.114 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.98 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.86 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.66 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.48 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.46 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 28.0.0.34 (64-bit)
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


UltraEdit 27.10.0.164 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.10.0.148 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.10.0.108 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.10.0.76 (64-bit)
File properties:
- Dockable window displays information about active file
- File attributes, encoding, line/character statistics, etc.
- Copy one or all file properties to clipboard
- Collapsible information sections
 
Image preview for HTML / web files:
- Hover over image reference in source to see preview in tooltip
- Supported in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl
- Supports BMP, GIF, JPE/JPG/JPEG, PNG, and TIFF image formats
- See original image size and color mode
 
- UAC administrator override prompt for modifying and saving system files
- Unlimited line length – no forced wrap
- Unlimited line length option added in Settings » Editor display » Miscellaneous
- Set max columns before wrap to values greater than 20,000
 
Hide / show unchanged lines (View » Hide/show drop down):
- Combine multiple files
- Accessible via Edit tab » File (Insert group) » Insert multiple files
- Select one or more files from multiple locations
- Set order of inserted files
- Option to add new line if missing from inserted file(s)
- Line terminators automatically normalized if "On paste convert line endings" set in Settings » File handling » Conversions

Jump to function definition:
- Ctrl + Right-click on function call in source to jump to its definition
- Function must be listed in function list

- Eliminated view shift when selecting all (Ctrl + A)
- Manually set syntax highlighting type now remembered between sessions
- Syntax highlighting preserved for HTML / XML matching tag highlights
- Improved performance for JavaScript Lint
- Added Unicode BOM indicator to encoding value in status bar
- Improved display when toggling full screen mode
- Window framework update to improve performance and display
- Improved handling of literal caret (^) in templates
- Improvements for inserting files of different encodings and line terminator formats
- Various other minor improvements


UltraEdit 27.0.0.94 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.82 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.72 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.68 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.54 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.30 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.24 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 27.0.0.22 (64-bit)
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
- No file size limitations

New options in file tabs context menu to sort file tabs by:
- Name
- Location
- File extension
- Date

Dialog overhaul to modernize settings and configs:
- 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
- New option in function list context menu to avoid automatically expanding function
- Support for horizontal scrolling via Shift + Mouse wheel


UltraEdit 26.20.0.68 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.20.0.66 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.20.0.62 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.20.0.58 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.20.0.1 (64-bit)
- 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


UltraEdit 26.10.0.72 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.10.0.38 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.10.0.30 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.10.0.14 (64-bit)
- Various other fixes and improvements

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


UltraEdit 26.0.0.74 (32-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.0.0.72 (32-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.0.0.62 (32-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.0.0.48 (32-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.0.0.34 (32-bit)
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UltraEdit 26.0.0.24 (64-bit)
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 palet

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 reformatting tools

Re-engineered code folding:
- Open – and fold – huge source files (up to 500 MB)
- Faster parsing of huge files with foldable code
- Much more accurate and better performing folding

Macro performance overhaul:
- In many cases, macros complete in 1/3rd of the time of previous versions – in some cases, even faster!
- Improved macro performance and stability for huge files

Highlight all occurrences of string on double-click (no Shift required):
- Configure under Advanced » Settings » Search » Advanced

Hints bar:
- See tips and hints contextualized to the work you're doing
- Scroll through all hints
- Hints are designed to be automatic and unobtrusive

Modernized key mapping:
- Ability to re-map Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab (provides browser-like tab switching)
- Replace in Files re-mapped to Ctrl + Shift + R
- Quick record macro re-mapped to Ctrl + Shift + Q
- ESC dismisses "Highlight all" highlighting
- New "Expand all" / "Collapse all" options in function list context menu
- Status bar shows total number of lines in file
- Various user interface, framework, and window improvements


UltraEdit 25.20.0.166 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.20.0.156 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.20.0.72 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.20.0.68 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.20.0.64 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.20.0.60 (64-bit)
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


UltraEdit 25.10.0.62 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.10.0.50 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.10.0.48 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.10.0.16 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.10.0.12 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.10.0.10 (64-bit)

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
- Faster brace / tag matching in source with very long lines
- "Filter on selection" switches to "Clear filter" when toggled on


UltraEdit 25.00.0.82 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.00.0.68 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.00.0.58 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 25.00.0.53 (64-bit)
- 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


UltraEdit 24.20.0.62 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.61 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.51 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.44 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.40 (64-bit)

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


UltraEdit 24.20.0.35 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.30 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.20.0.27 (64-bit)
- 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


UltraEdit 24.10.0.35 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.10.0.32 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.10.0.24 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.10.0.23 (64-bit)
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


UltraEdit 24.00.0.76 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.00.0.72 (64-bit)

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

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, 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

"Join line(s)" feature (Edit tab):
Option to preserve leading spaces in Advanced » Settings » Editor » Advanced:
Compare in UC Pro externally detected changes from file change detection prompt:
New context menu for "Lists" tab in file view:
- Add folders/files
- Show names only
- Rename file
- Remove file from list

"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:


UltraEdit 24.00.0.56 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.00.0.53 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.00.0.49 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.00.0.45 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 24.00.0.43 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 23.20.0.43 (64-bit)
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UltraEdit 23.20.0.41 (64-bit)
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