My Editor: UltraEdit

[TECK]

There are alot of editors out there. Some of us use Notepad some of use EditPlus, etc. However, I did not see alot of people using UltraEdit. I've been a UtraEdit user for over 3 years.

Give it a try, just to compare it with your actual editor.
This is a screenshot I took from my desktop, while using UltraEdit:



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SOME FEATURES:

UNICODE support
Disk based text editing - up to 2GB file size, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files
100,000 word spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish)
Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex. Multiple wordfiles available for download
FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save. (32-Bit Only)
Project/Workspace support
Configurable keyboard mapping (32-Bit only)
Column/block mode editing
Hexadecimal Editor - allows editing of any binary file, shows binary and ASCII view
Named Templates
Multi-byte Support with Integrated IME Support


Programmer's Features

Syntax highlighting (user configurable):
Pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, PHP and Perl
Special options for FORTRAN and LaTex
Support for up to 20 languages
Multiple wordfiles available for download
Support for ASP
Allows different background colors
Support to highlight words beginning with a specified sub-string
Color sections may be named
Font styles available
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 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 part CTag EXE for tag file generation (links provided)
Auto-Correction of Keywords
Auto-Completion:
When invoked all the keywords from the 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 show these
FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save. (32-Bit Only)
Regular expression searches
Match braces
Hexadecimal Editor - allows editing of any binary file, shows binary and ASCII view
Project/workspace support - allows user to group files and define multiple workspace configurations
Project can have separate wordfile
ASCII table - allows viewing and insertion of ASCII characters
Add/Remove line comments to selected lines
Support of line comments up to 5 characters
Comprehensive macro support, including saving and loading, multiple macros with hot keys
Configurable tool support (Run compiler, etc.)
Function list shows functions in active file (with 6 function strings per language)
Reformatting of existing code to indent/unindent based on language


Database Handling Features

Disk based text editing - up to 2GB file size, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files
Insert string at every increment (ideal for formatting DB records and inserting hard returns)
Column/block editing - allows insertion/removal of columns of data
Insert/fill columns
Insert line numbers
Sum columns/selection


File / File Management Features

File Tree View (32-Bit Version) includes:
List of files on drive (open selected files, file properties)
List of Open files (close/save/tile/print selected files)
List of Project files (open selected files)
Filter for File Tree View
Open multiple files at once from the file open dialog and command line
Option to open file without temp file (with threshold size to allow only large files to use this option)
Close, Close All files
FTP:
FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save. (32-Bit Only)
FTP Open
FTP Save As
Allows multiple selection of files
Supports filenames with spaces
Setting for ASCII / BINARY / PASSIVE transfers
Specific support for VAX / VMS / AIX / OS9000 / BS2000 / Stratus VOS / UNIX servers
File Revert to Saved
Save, Save As, Save All, Save Selection As file
ASCII file compare (saving and or printing of output)
File Sort with ascending, descending, remove duplicate, ignore case - (works on selected region or complete file)
UNIX/MAC file conversions (to/from DOS), EBCDIC file conversions (to/from ASCII), OEM conversions (to/from ANSI)
EBCDIC/HEX combined view without conversion
Auto detect UNIX, MAC and Binary/Hex files when loaded
UNICODE support on all Win32 platforms
Support for UTF-8 and conversions to/from UTF-8
Support for the new WM_UNICHAR message
Edit Unix/MAC files without any conversion required (^n/^r used in find/replace for lf/cr)
Insert file into an existing document at cursor position
Support for rename of files
Reload changed files without files becoming active
Option to automatically reload changed files
Delete Active file
Insert string at every increment
Favorite Files list stores up to 50 user files
Functions strings can recognize multiple lines
Recent Files submenu stores up to 16 files
Recent Projects/Workspace submenu stores up to 8 different projects/workspaces
Send Mail - sends the active file as a MAIL attachment - (selected programs only)
Minimize all
Sort File Tabs
Right click on file and open
Right click URL and open
INI options:
Default file type for new files (DOS, UNIX, MAC)
Show filename only in title (not path)
Make file that changed and is reloaded the active file
Delete existing file before saving
Edit files containing nulls (HEX 00) in text mode
Cache INI file for quicker load/shutdown
Setting for file compare EXE to use in place of UltraEdit's compare
Setting to disable left cursor from going to end of previous line

[Darren Lewis]

Hi nakkid,

I've been trying most of the text editors over the past few months. I've just bought TextPad 4.5. It was the one that I found the most comfortable to use when editing PHP files etc...

It has add-on utilities, clip libraries, dictionaries, macros & syntax definitions, so is very flexible. Loads files very fast too.

UltraEdit was my second choice, but I prefered the look and feel of TextPad personally

[PET]

I'm using Edit Plus. It's nice.

[TECK]

i will give it a try for textpad. thanks for the tip darren.

[TECK]

ok.. i tried TextPad. this is my personal oppinion:
textpad is a solid editor who have pretty much embedded all the commands ultraedit have. however, the only thing that bothered me alot was the key command association.

1. the Find option was associated with Refresh. also the Find command didnt search automatically from the top of the file. (however, there is an option that you can configure the key associations, but not from the top of the file. this is probably the most important option for us, the people at vb.org, to be able to find easy a code segment)
2. highlighting the PHP code was associated with text files, not C++, as usual.
3. scrolling is extremly slow in large files/screens (my finger started to hurt on the wheel )
4. compare files is poor in details.
5. replace in files not available as function.
6. complex options configuration (i got lost in the options )
7. code indicator bar not available (the yellow highlight bar you see in the screenshot).

overall, the program is great.
i'm just doing the difficult guy....

[TECK]

Originally posted by PET
I'm using Edit Plus. It's nice.

i agree. EditPlus is my second choice.

[Aaow AnD wHiTe]

We use Ultraedit too, nakkid!

The only thing we don't like about it is that when you want to search for a text, you can only search for 1 line not a few lines

[TECK]

yes you are right. you can search for multiple lines only in the same document.
also if you do a replace all, you cannot undo it. it will be fixed in v9.1.
lol i sound like i troubleshoot for them..

[Xenon]

I use UltraEdit

[PET]

Today i have try pure NOTEPAD. rulez No colors for php, and more.