UltraEdit (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

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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