• On-Disk Text Editing – Supports editing large files over 4GB in size, using minimal RAM
• Configurable tab options (multiple tab values, using spaces instead of tabs, etc.)
• Tab/word wrapping options by file type/extension
• Insert/overwrite mode with caret and status bar indication
• paragraph alignment
  • Left, Center, Right, Fill (for fixed-spaced fonts)
  • Change paragraph format (clean and beautify text)
  • Line spacing support for single, 1.5 and double spacing
• Drag and drop editing.
• Join lines (with optional whitespace consolidation)
• Double-click (Shift modifier optional) to highlight all occurrences of the selected word
• Line feed indicator (optional) in margin
  • Saved changes are marked in green
  • Unsaved changes marked in red
  • Configurable colors (set in editor theme)
• Automatic indentation of wrapped lines
• Support for extremely long lines (up to 20,000 characters before wrapping is added)
• Home key positions first non-space, then first character
• IntelliMouse scrolling support
• Native Unicode/UTF-8 editing support
• Save selection as separate file
• Restore to Saved (Refresh Active File)
• Favorites list (store up to 50 favorites)
• List of recently opened/closed files
  • Configure the number of files to display (up to 32)
  • Hold down the Ctrl key and click multiple items in the list to open them at once
  • Open all recent files at once
• Save state
  • Close UltraEdit without being prompted to save anything, then continue where you left off – unsaved changes will be restored
  • Works with local files, network files, FTP files, and even unsaved "edit" files.
  • Prefer save prompts? Disable this feature in Advanced » Settings » File Handling » Session Options
• Make a copy/backup of the active file
• Rename active file
• Delete active file
• Make text bigger or smaller with Ctrl + mouse scroll wheel
• Highlighting the active line and active column
• Optionally display spaces, tabs, and line breaks
• Toggle line numbering and column ruler
• Set UltraEdit to "Always on Top" so it always stays on top of other windows
• Full screen mode to maximize editing space
• Column Mode (Alt + C) to select columns/blocks
• Fast column mode (hold Alt and drag the mouse to select a block)
• Editor Themes
  • Manage Themes dialog box for creating and modifying themes:
    • Skin for the entire application (dockable panels, menus, toolbars, file tabs, status bar, etc.)
    • Set editor colors
    • Set syntax highlighting colors
  • Switch themes with one click
  • Choose from several pre-made themes or create your own
  • When adding a new language for syntax highlighting, UltraEdit will automatically select the default theme colors for the new language
  • Import, export and share your themes with others
• Multi-tab editing and multi-selection
  • Use Ctrl + Click to position multiple carets for editing in multiple locations at once
  • Use Ctrl + Double Click or Ctrl + Click and Drag to make multiple non-contiguous selections for editing
  • Press Ctrl + Alt + Z to remove the last cursor/selection you set
  • Ctrl + click the caret or selection to remove it from the set
  • Select several adjacent lines, then press Ctrl and click beyond the end of the line to quickly end the line
  • Cut, copy and paste multiple non-continuous lines or selections at once
• Tips bar
  • See tips and tricks tailored to your job
  • Scroll through all tips
  • The tips are designed to be automatic and unobtrusive
• Printing functionality includes:
  • Print preview
  • Print line numbers
  • Print command does not print hidden lines
  • Headers/footers (with alignment commands), margins and page breaks
  • Printing Color Syntax Highlighting
  • Print 2 pages on one sheet in landscape or portrait mode
  • Separate font selection for display and printer (supports all installed fonts, including True Type fonts)
  • Print all open files
• Multi-level undo and redo for almost every editor function
• Solid Cut/Copy/Paste:
  • Copy highlighted syntax source as HTML or RTF
  • Paste HTML or raw RTF source
  • Cut/copy and append to existing data on clipboard
  • Copy full path and file name
  • Multiple (up to 9) user clipboards in addition to Windows clipboard
  • Option to convert file from ANSI to UTF-8 when pasting Unicode/UTF-8 content
• Text selection functions:
  • Select entire file, select line or select word
  • Select user-defined text range
  • permanent selection
  • Triple click to select line
  • Click on the line number in the margin to select the line
• Text removal features:
  • uncheck
  • Delete from current caret position to beginning or end of line
  • Remove all bookmarks
  • Remove all hidden lines
  • Remove all blank and/or white lines
• Move active line up or down
• Duplicate active line
• Spell check
  • Windows 8 and later versions use the native Windows spell checker with support for all installed languages (Windows).
  • Windows 7 uses the third-party Aspell spell checker (limited support for UTF-8 and non-Latin languages)
  • Spell check only comments, only strings, only both, or everything
• Interactive spell check as you type
• Word wrap (enable or disable):
  • wrap around the edge of the window
  • wrap by user defined column number
  • absolute wrapping (wrapping inside words)
• Open file tabs
  • File tabs provide quick access and easy switching between all your open files
  • Sort file tabs (open files) by:
    • Name
    • File extension
    • Location
    • Date modified
  • Two styles: docked or fixed
  • File tabs with multiple lines or single line with tab overflow options
  • Dockable file tabs can be docked or floated outside the app
  • Drag file tabs to multiply split the window (horizontally or vertically).
  • Set file tabs to automatically hide and expand on mouseover
  • Close tab button optionally available on the active file tab or at the end of the tab row
  • Middle click to close file tab
  • Double click on an empty area of the file tab to open a new/empty file
  • Close tabs left/right
  • File Tab Background Coloring Based on File Extension
  • File status icons (new, saved, unsaved, read-only, etc.) in the files tab
  • Drag and drop a file tab outside the app to open it in a new instance of UltraEdit
  • Rename unsaved file tab
• Integrated file browser (tabbed interface) includes:
  • File Explorer (select multiple files to open) with system file icons and file information
  • Optional split view for local, network and remote/FTP files
  • Explorer includes (optionally) the Windows Explorer right-click context menu
  • Right-click on a folder and select "Open Files" to view, filter, and sort all files in that folder
  • Open File List (close/save/sort/print selected files)
  • Project File List (Open Selected Files)
  • "Lists" tab containing user favorites and file groups/lists created by the user
  • Filter File View and File Explorer
  • Find the file in the "open files" tab.
  • Access to FTP/SFTP account in file tree view
  • Right click to compare from explorer view
  • Drag and drop files from file view to open them in EU
  • Drag and drop file cards into the file view to add them to a project or lists/favorites
• Multi-line search and replace dialogs for all searches (Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files)
• Unlimited number of bookmarks
  • Click margin to toggle tab
  • Set unlimited bookmarks in a file... even multi-GB files with hundreds of thousands of bookmarks
  • Dynamically named tabs include line number, column number, text from file, and file path
  • Bookmark browser with the ability to sort by any parameter
  • Go to next/previous tab
  • Clear all bookmarks
  • Remove all bookmarks
• Count words in the entire file or in the selected text if there is a selection (including line count)
• Insert lines, page breaks, or even the entire file at the current cursor position
• Insert a string on each increment (ideal for formatting database records and inserting hard returns)
• Insert date/time (F7) into active text file at current position
• Enlarge/reduce text by increasing/decreasing font size (Ctrl + mouse wheel)
• Complete help file/manual with indexed and searchable content
• Context Help (press F1 to access the help topic for the current command/location)
• There are tons of power tips at your disposal to help you maximize your performance

• Quick search (similar to search in web browsers)
  • Press Ctrl + F and type your search string to quickly move to the next occurrence and highlight all matches
  • Press Ctrl+F a second time to open the regular Find dialog box
  • Press Enter to go to the next match or Ctrl + Enter to go to the previous match
  • Input turns red when no matches are found
  • Contains next/previous buttons and a "..." button to expand the regular Find dialog
  • Replaces and replaces incremental search
• Find, Find Next, Find Previous, Replace and Replace All
  • Select the text between the cursor and find the target by holding Shift
  • Discreet notification when search ends at other end of file
  • Find and Replace (optional) will look through all open files
  • Save, name and edit your favorite searches and replace strings/regular expressions for later use
  • The "In" search option includes the selected text by default if you select 2 or more lines
• Full regular expression support for Find/Replace (Perl syntax, Unix syntax, and UltraEdit/legacy syntax), including tagged regular expression support
• Regular expressions in brief / regular expression builder
• The Preserve Case option allows you to preserve the case of letters in a word when replacing
• F3 will search and highlight the next occurrence of the string if the search window is closed
• Hide all lines or show all lines containing the search string
• Find/Replace in Column ; automatically positions columns from start and end position of selected text
• "List of lines containing string" option to open lines with matches in Find string list
  • Double-click an entry to go to the row with the match highlighted
  • Copy results to clipboard
  • Create new file based on results
  • Bookmark or remove all lines
  • Optionally show line numbers and match highlighting
  • Automatic or manual refresh
• Bookmark matching lines from Find
  • Allows you to quickly and easily delete, cut or copy all lines containing a search string
  • Clear search bookmarks while keeping manually set bookmarks
• Highlight all found occurrences of the string
• Count the number of occurrences of a string
• Find in files/Replace in files:
  • Specify multiple directory paths to search
  • Interactive Replace in Files feature lets you optionally perform incremental file-by-file replacements, skipping files or directories you want to leave alone
  • Find or Replace String in Multiple Files by Directory, All Open Files, Project Files or Favorites
  • Optionally open matching files
  • Full regular expression support, including a regular expression guide/builder
  • Specify file extensions to search for when searching/replacing in files
  • User configurable ignore directories/files options
  • Send results to output window and double click (or new file and right click) the result to open and go to the result
  • Separate threads for Find/Replace in files (lets you continue working while searching for files)
  • Option to match files that do not contain a search string
  • Optionally, set Find in files to automatically detect the encoding of each file being searched, use the active file's encoding, or select which encoding to use
  • Use an empty search string to create a list of all files matching the directory/name specification
  • Replace in files option includes option to show changed files and number of changes
  • Customize the output format of file search/replace results
• "Filter by selection" to display only lines containing the selected text
• Find matching curly braces (Ctrl + B) and automatic bracket highlighting
• When the cursor is next to an opening or closing bracket, the editor highlights the matching bracket
• Quick search box/dropdown menu (with recent search history) on the toolbar for quick access to search
• Search dialogs can optionally default to displaying a word below the caret
• Configurable special character (default is "^") for matching tabs, line breaks, etc. when searching/replacing:
  • ^t matches a tab character
  • ^p corresponds to DOS/Windows line terminators (CR/LF or hexadecimal 0D 0A)
  • ^n corresponds to Unix line terminators (LF or hexadecimal 0A)
  • ^r matches Mac (classic) terminators (CR or hex 0D)
• The Back/Forward buttons on the main toolbar take you to the previous place where you were editing, scrolling or jumping to a marker etc. and work across multiple files
• Incremental search
• All Find/Replace dialogs support Unicode

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