IDM UltraEdit v16.10.0.1036 serial key or number

Best text editor out there, other products just don't have the same overall functionality in depth, we can all have our favorites but once you've paid your money and learnt the interface nothing comes close, Tip: Buy the
Unlimited upgrades option and never pay again

sn0wflake reviewed v22.0.46.0 on Mar 27, 2015

Used to be the ultra best editor before it became bloatware and free alternatives appeared like Notepad++.

I'd have to disagree with -1, I'm also a lifetime license user of UE, and started using about 15 years ago. The start up time on my system is under 3 seconds and loading large files is still on par with other editors.

I've tried other editors recently myself, such as EmEditor and Sublime Text etc, but they all seam to be lacking in the areas I use daily, such as simple to use templates, good macro control, embedded compilers using Tools Configuration etc.

Yes the start-up time on others editors may be faster but once you've waited a tiny bit longer, it's much more productive when editing, and with loads more features.

Having heard the tribal rivalries of other people favorite editors being better, once I've tried them, I just can't help coming back to the best, it may be expensive but you get what you pay for in life.

-1 reviewed v21.20.2014 on Aug 31, 2014

I have a lifetime license for UE. I love UE's features and its design. I've tried all the other text editors, including all the freebies that people rave about simply because they are freebies. None of them cut the turd.

The problem is that UE is a slug. It's aggravatingly sluggish. Not just to launch, but ... to do everything. Even scrolling in a large file is annoyingly slow in UE. It's just not a good user experience.

I also deeply despise the way they make paying users suffer in their attempts to curb piracy. Years ago, they added anti-piracy bloat and made launch times 10x slower. They still have that crap, but now, they also block other applications from having anything to do with the UE window. This means I can't use Actual Window Manager on UE, for one thing.

I'm seriously considering switching to EmEditor, even though that editor lacks some functionality I consider basic (FTP, a favorite file feature, etc.).

UltraEdit v21.20 Changes (2014-06-26)
UltraEdit v21.20 includes over 150 improvements and fixes to the following:

Column mode editing / drag 'n drop
Quick column mode
Hide / show lines and code folding
Folding for block comments in HTML
Scripted find / replace
Perl regular expression find/replace
Find in files with customized output format
Shebang detection for syntax highlighting
Compare files (UC Lite)
Mixed line terminator handling
Open file under caret via context menu
Word wrap
Undo/redo
Hex mode
Themes and user interface
Menu access via key accelerators
OEM and special character input
File and selection sort
CSS color tooltips
Project and workspace reload
Status bar
FTP connectivity and transfer issues
Scrolling via mouse wheel in FTP dialogs
Stability and performance
And more...

http://www.ultraedit.com...dit/latest-changes.html

cyberguy reviewed v21.20.1001 on Jun 28, 2014

I've been using Ultraedit since about version 2 and have a lifetime license.

While the editor has a lot of useful features I can't find on any other editor, I find that those really useful features stopped coming at around version 12. These days it is so horribly bloated and slow to use that I have pretty much stopped updating even though it costs me nothing to do so.

For me this product stopped being a must-have editor at v12. Everything added since then is pretty much pointless fluff for me. Giving it a 3 since this software has stopped being innovative.

Hilbert reviewed v21.00.1033 on Feb 20, 2014

My view of this current UltraEdit 21.00.1033 has not fundamentally altered since my previous review of U/E 20.00 (hereunder), which is that it is now a huge overly bloated text editor that's grown like Topsy and thus somewhat disorganized and confusing to use (especially for the casual user).

This version of U/E adds a few new features such as improved 'Quick Find', 'Multi-caret' editing that allows—as its web site says—'multiple changes in different places in your file at one time'—a dangerous operation unless you're an experience user who is very familiar with what you're doing; and there's also changes to the inbuilt FTP client browser which U/E's site espouses as multi-pane with many improvements. (To me, the FTP section looks uncannily like a clone of FileZilla.)

UltraEdit is aimed at developers and such who spend considerable time editing, and it has an exorbitant price to match of $79.95. I have not had sufficient time to verify that the bugs which were present in v20 are fully ironed out in this version.

One of the major obstacles to using UltraEdit since version 17 is that the program is activated a la Windows which means that you can't move it around on a memory stick and such. Locking the product to a particular machine, is perhaps tolerable for programs such as Windows and Photoshop, but frankly it's quite ridiculous to do so for a text editor (for me, this is not a piracy issue—I've multiple legit earlier versions—but it's often impractical especially in the early stages of fixing/reinstalling a PC before U/E is able to go online to be validated, especially if the program's demo mode has already timed out). Even though I've access to lifetime upgrade licences, I still prefer to use version 16.20 as it's not encumbered with this ergonomically-unfriendly activation nonsense. [It seems, as a concession, U/E can now be installed on three machines, each with their own activation (perhaps activation was causing Ian Mead's sales to fall excessively).]

That said, in fairness to U/E, I should clarify what I said in my earlier review of v20. For the average user I'd still strongly recommend the freeware Notepad++ (or perhaps free RJ TextEd) in preference to U/E, but Notepad++ cannot handle very large text files without crashing (it's a design fault rather than a bug)—but UltraEdit can.

U/E has always been able to edit reasonably large text files of 10s to some hundreds of megabytes but until version 20 it's been a first-class dog at so doing. It was slow and unresponsive even with the large file settings enabled, and with really large files it'd take ages before the scrollbar would free up—and it if didn't then U/E had locked up altogether or crashed! For me, the solution was always the venerable 30+-year-old VEDIT to the rescue, as it would have no trouble with 2GB text files.

That's changed somewhat for the better with U/E v20 onward. I tried U/E 21 on an old mbox (Eudora/MBX) mail file of about 740MB, which is essentially a super-sized text file, and U/E 21 loaded it comparatively quickly and without fault, which is a considerable improvement over earlier versions before v20 (they would have had great difficulty with a file of that size). However, even though U/E loads the file it is almost impossible to slide the scrollbar through such a large file with reasonable granularity/fineness—ergonomically it's hopeless to use and the problem needs to be fixed in future versions.

In summary, for most users use Notepad++--it's free! For diehards and those with special requirements, use UltraEdit—but before you commit to it, I'd strongly recommend you try VEDIT. http://vedit.com/index.html

VEDIT is far from the classiest of editors but it's a true heavy-duty tractor of an editor with a long solid lineage (VEDIT pro64 will even edit 100GB+ file!!!), and it's a similar price to UltraEdit. Moreover, it's not encumbered with that activation nonsense (or it wasn't when I bought my last copy—v 6.1, the current latest version being now v6.23).

Hilbert reviewed v20.00.1037 on Sep 5, 2013

I'm still using 16.20 even though I too have a lifetime license (16.20 was about the last version that wasn't overly bloated). UltraEdit has gone from a must-have-at-any-cost editor to one that's passé. It's slow, buggy and overly convoluted. And most of the other resent criticisms from posters I'd generally agree with.

I too use Notepad++ for many jobs, it's come a long way, and it's free, and you can put it on as many machines as you like. Unless you've a very specific editing requirement such as the need to use a particular u/e wordfile then I'd recommend just using Notepad++.

I'm still running 19.10.0.1012. There is no update, and I thought the next one was going to be 19.20 anyway.

I've been using this for years. I have a lifetime license for it, and they have been responsive to my concerns (yes, UTF-8 can be problematic...). But I know it like the back of my hand. Changing over to something else, paid or free, would be a pain.

Although I am trying to learn some VIM.

TuxmanXP reviewed v20.00.1037 on Sep 4, 2013

Hm, well. At least it has become faster now.

Inray reviewed v17.20.0 on Sep 4, 2011

@HeilNizar: There are many editors out there much better than the NotePad++ though UltraEdit is definitely not one of them.

UE not only is bloated, unreliable, slow and buggy but also suffers from a number of very serious encoding issues especially when using Unicode / UTF8. I've lost days of work in the past due to all these issues.

On the contrary, editors with full Uniscribe support like EmEditor and EditPlus as well as a few others like HippoEdit or AkelPad work great with Unicode, are light in resource usage and disk footprint and perform faster and much more stable than this junk.

Do some people still use anything other than Notepad++?!!!

Inray reviewed v17.10.0 on Aug 5, 2011

UltraEdit used to be my favorite programmers editor for years; but not any more. I cannot stand any more the bloat, the slowness and all those silly bugs.

Hilbert reviewed v16.30.0 on Dec 6, 2010

Like emanresU deriseD I too have a lifetime license for UltraEdit and I've used it for many years (and it's still my default text editor) but I'm not so upbeat about it as him. I find myself agreeing more with ssb, as recent versions of UE are definitely buggy (and it crashes) and there's considerable bloatware not to mention that it now takes considerably longer to load than it once did.

Moreover, it's getting hard to find one's way around UltraEdit and some of the newer features (such as the macro list pop outs are simply annoying and should be turned off by default). With UltraEdit, I've gone from a once devotee who would always load it as the first utility after the O/S installation to running it in parallel with the excellent freeware text editor Notepad++. I'm using Notepad++ more and more now, as frankly it's easier to use than UE.

Several weeks ago I had two somewhat unusual text editing jobs that I thought I could easily solve in UltraEdit (but I gave up and did it another way). The first being a large but damaged (cross-linked) email text file where I wished to remove all non-ISO/IEC 8859-1 text (i.e. the cross-linked gibberish), and the second being to paste a recovered word processing doc into UltraEdit and have it filter everything out EXCEPT printable ASCII. After looking around in the UltraEdit menus for a minute or so, I decided it was too messy and time-consuming, as it would involve me writing macros etc.

Despite its increasing bloat, UltraEdit, still has no simple way of filtering text. Why can't we have a simple feature in 'Find'/'Find and Replace' called 'Character Sets' that would find all non-printing ASCII characters (or vice versa), then display them in say a red color for easy identification and removal? Right, the latest UltraEdit releases have all the bloat without ease of usability.

Despite my criticisms of UltraEdit I do agree with emanresU deriseD that IDM's service is very good--it's both fast and efficient.

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P.S.: If I'm wrong about UE's filtering capability and it's really 'simple', then someone explain the obvious and I'll gladly correct my statement above. (Incidentally, the problem of filtering damaged files is now becoming a commonplace necessity with the increasing recovery of thousands of files from large crashed HDs. UE or not, I'd like to hear from anyone with a simple and quick solution.)

ssb reviewed v16.10.0.1036 on Jul 9, 2010

Buggy bloatware!

ecarlson reviewed v16.00.0.1038 on Apr 13, 2010

A++ for tech support. I reported the Spell as you Type bug in v16.00.0.1037 late yesterday afternoon, they quickly responded that they were able to identify the issue, and they notified me that they released the fix in 16.00.0.1038 this morning. Overnight service!

Boreth reviewed v16.00 on Mar 3, 2010

Boot 1-2 seconds, 20Mb file load less in than that, as many or as few toolbars as you want or need, an interface that can be adapted to my current use of the editor Ofcourse I have to admit that the 12Mb footprint is pushing my system to it's limits but then again maybe not. Bought the lifetime licence for $19.95 ages ago, never looked back.

It's funny how people rate. Someone cares about editing on a mainframe, so they give it a high rating. Someone else has vague notions that it handles syntax highlighting poorly, so he gives it a low rating. Someone inexplicably whines about the toolbars (despite the fact that the toolbars are 100% configurable). Someone else is too poor or cheap to pay for anything, so he throws a tantrum and also gives it a low rating. Yet another person runs a P-16 from 1987, so he complains about the startup speed. I'm not immune to rating based on what I care about, but I still think it's funny.

5 stars for a well-supported and full-featured editor. I don't equate "has features I probably won't ever use" or "is over 2-KB in size" with "bloated". That's just simple-mindedness.

I have a lifetime license for UltraEdit and have been a registered user for a full decade. I've tried all the other editors mentioned by the cheerleaders below, and they all have their own issues and limitations. And none of them can match UltraEdit's feature set or its support.

Inray reviewed v16.00 on Mar 3, 2010

Still bloated and buggy as hell.

Very overbloated text editor, I'll stick with it just for the Column mode and its related stuff: selecting/deleting/copying/aligning a rectangular portion of text, inserting a column of numbers and so on...
I'm guessing why no other editor has such fatures... Hey you folks of the Notepad++ development team... CAN YOU HEAR ME???? =)

I am now forced to use this editor at work in stead of EditPad Pro. UE sucks, it is amazingly slow, there are so many toolbars that the toolbars are almost unusable, start up takes so long I can go make a cup of tea. The syntax highlighting is terrible. maybe if you have never user a better editor you would find this great, but after years of EditPad Pro I can see how bad this programme is... the search and replace is truly awful, like using MS Word. I am very suprised that it is so bad, as I have heard good things about it. At least my company can't make me use it at home!

lzvk25 reviewed v15.10.0.1025 on Jul 30, 2009

I don't know, but this is the only text editor that can edit files using FTP against a MVS Mainframe. There are lots of text editors that can edit through FTP against Unix and Linux, but MVS Mainframes, only UltraEdit.
BTW, try the new SORT function, this is the very first time I see it implemented the way it should be and it is extremely useful to load really big database tables.

dhry reviewed v15.10.0.1018 on Jul 15, 2009

I'm going to have to agree with Scatmanjohn Dingledoo on this one. UE does take a couple of seconds to start up but certainly not ten, and I've got a 2.1ghz dualcore. Chances are the slow startup is a viruschecker, malwarechecker or maybe a work drive located on a network share. UE's definitely the best and most full-featured editor out there but it is starting to get a little bloated. Free stuff? I'd probably go for either Notepad2 with codefolding, or else PSPAD. Notepad++ is off my radar on principle, until the author figures out that it's a bug to have http:// links clickable but https:// ones not (and god I hope Mr Caleval shows up here with his, quote, 'masturbatory' comments - had a great laugh at the one he posted on Notepad++ recently).

Another nice editor to try, which starts up pretty much instantaneously: Editplus (www.editplus.com). Based purely on two things: startup time, and linespacing being a little tighter than other editors, that's the one I'm using at the moment. At least until the trial period runs out..

Weird. I have a circa-2000 2.1-GHz single-core system, and UltraEdit 15 loads in less than 2 seconds. (It's actually pretty close to 1 second.) This is on subsequent runs, though, NOT the initial launch of UltraEdit. There's something wrong with your installation... I'm not going to be a jerk like most people and laugh at you... What you're seeing is either a bug or caused by something else on your system.

I've had my trouble with UE but I'm sticking with it for the foreseeable future. I've tried all the others and they suck in their own ways. Only UE has everything I want.

Oh and I love dihrtys nickname for me! (Seriously) :)

blackz0r reviewed v15.00.0.1047 on Jun 5, 2009

Latest version takes over ten seconds to load on a 3GHz machine, which is completely unacceptable. This is most assuredly the best text/code editor available, but the ever-growing bloat costs it a star.

Well, because Notepad++ is not the "best editor ever". Silly.

slushdot reviewed v15.00.0.1047 on Jun 5, 2009

why bother when you can use the best editor ever, notepad++?

I had UE 14 installed, and then I installed this update... I was 95% sure they'd wipe out my entire toolbar config, and sure enough, they did. No offer to convert the toolbar into the new format. They also wiped out my tool configuration (Advanced > Tool Configuration).

How nice of them.

The user who mentioned that UE locks files even after those files are closed is correct. UE does that, and it can cause serious problems. How many times I've had a file open in UE, closed it, then had locked file problems (sometimes it screws up an uninstall). It's annoying as hell, to understate the problem. And it shouldn't be hard to fix, IF THE PROGRAMMER WERE TO DO HIS JOB! (I am talking about file handles, not folder handles. I know they have an FAQ item on this and it DOES NOT APPLY. It's also a lame cop-out.)

eaves reviewed v15.00 on Apr 3, 2009

Updates for the purpose of having a new version to sell. Change for the purpose of change. Feature bloat.

I look at all the new versions of UltraEdit, and I have yet to see one that provides a reason to upgrade from the copy of version 12 that I have.

Were I starting out anew, I'd probably look at something else for a text editor.

xrmbx reviewed v15.00 on Apr 2, 2009

different look, same old annoying bugs... opening 20 files at the same time via ftp, and the config on a network-drive reads/writes the config a million times, makes it slow... apparently they dont even look at the bugreports/input you send them... well, still using it, but could easily go back to version 7

ssb reviewed v15.00 on Apr 2, 2009

Version 15 comes with updated user interface but the same old crappy editing engine. Great job IDM...

I take back my point regarding file handles... That version still didn't close them properly. I have not tested this version yet, but I'll bet my dominant arm it still hasn't been fixed.

But I still like it. Probably 90% of the reason is simply that I'm used to it and have configured the hell out of it, and don't feel like starting all over with an editor that didn't even exist when UltraEdit was already at version 6.

Queue the freeware and EmEditor recommendations...

Many of the ratings below are overly harsh, but I know where the sentiment is coming from. Consider that this version, 14.20, is the first one in which UltraEdit correctly closes file handles when files are closed. To me, that's a serious--and seriously annoying--bug to linger for year after year.

Regarding the general notion of "bloat" (a favorite term for self-appointed software experts): Some people think that FTP support in a text editor is "bloat". Well, they used to, anyway, when UltraEdit added that feature. But when applications like EditPlus have similar features, well dontcha know, it's no longer "bloat"! Time to start ragging on other points.

These people must enjoy doing things the hard way. I bet their cars also have no stereos, nor heating or A/C. (After all, a car is to get you from one place to the other, not to keep you comfortable or entertained, right?)

zhouzh2 reviewed v14.10 on Aug 27, 2008

UE does support large file handling.
See "IDM Computer Solutions frequently asked questions" below:

Regarding large files, UltraEdit handles files in excess of 4GB. UltraEdit is disk based. This means it only loads small portions of the file at once into memory so it does not use all the memory and stop other applications from running. However, it does make a temporary copy of the file to achieve this and this can take time for large files.

There are several options you can change to optimize the handling of large files. More information is available at our large file handling power tip.

eaves reviewed v14.10 on Jul 2, 2008

I could say that I "was" an UE user, but I still am a UE user. I still use UE version 12. I have no plans to upgrade beyond version 12 because of the gratuitous addition of unneeded features just to sell upgrade licenses every year.

I thought I would never say this but specious bloating has struck UltraEdit.

I have two lifetime licenses to UltraEdit, but I agree with the consensus here: begging for the new codes every year is a major hassle, and they seem to upgrade on a calendar, not on a true feature set, and oh yeah — it's overpriced like far too much shareware these days. I'm amazed at how dev after dev kills their own golden goose with unending price increases. Enjoying EditPlus myself.

templar™ reviewed v14.00b on May 18, 2008

I'm using version 11. That's not perfect but at least it's zippy and has most features i need.

Beyond that version, it just gets crappier. Slower, more clunky and less stable.

And at that price? FORGET IT! They better wake up their idea. I'd pay at most $9 for this thing.

guti reviewed v14.00b on May 17, 2008

I was an UltraEdit user, but some time ago, I migrated to EmEditor.

Almost al things in UE has been said: Useless new features, new bugs, old bugs not fixed, lower speed, problems with big files, ...

UltraEdit is still my secondaty text editor, only to cover still some missing features on EmEditor, but if you are looking for full unicode support, bigger files capacity and speed, EmEditor is your choice.

You can read a small review, plus speed comparinson in spanish here: http://guti.bitacoras.co...ntry=entry080228-151009

What MorningStar doesn't seem to realize is that UE also has an option to load files directly from disk. See File Handling/Temporary Files. So, that complaint is a whole lot of nothing.

But I am not immune to UE's bugs. They are significant and extremely annoying. And I am also tired of the "where's my wordfile?" game each time I install a new version of UE.

What other reviewers neglect to mention is that those other editors have their OWN problems. Yet they talk about them as if they are some sort of panacea.

I've used UltraEdit for more than a decade now, and it has saddened me to see it slide so far. Back in the day, it was the fastest, most useful editor around. But now...

Over the past few years (since about version 10 or 11), I've noticed UE getting buggier. I kept downloading the new versions, hoping that they'd fix the regex bugs, or add better large file support, but instead they keep adding more features, instead of stabilizing the ones that are already there. I can't count the number of times UE has crashed or corrupted large files while applying a complex regex.

In particular, UltraEdit has caused the last few months to be very frustrating for me. I've been using it to edit very large text log files (up to 2Gb each), and for this it has proven itself frustratingly worthless. Each of these files can take 5 minutes or more to even load, and then further minutes to seek to anywhere in the file (eg. by line number)... and this is on a workstation class machine with 4Gb of RAM. Further, when trying to use search and replace with the perl regex engine to make sweeping modifications to the files, UE crashes frequently. But I'm editing huge files, so this would be par for the course, right?

So imagine my surprise when, on a whim, I downloaded and installed EditPad Pro, and it was able to load the same 2Gb files in seconds!! (Ok, so the whole file wasn't loaded in a few seconds; instead the file was progressively loaded over perhaps 20 seconds... which is still miles short of UE's 5+ minutes).

Even more, EditPad was useful immediately (again, unlike UE), even before the file was fully loaded, and was even capable of seeking throughout the (loaded portion of the) file, without further minutes of loading.

(btw I'm no expert or advocate for EditPad; I am only using it as an example of what is possible... and particularly what should be possible for a company with IDM Software's resources.)

Despite all the above, I'm still going to give it 3 stars because IMHO it still passes as a 'Decent' editor... but it sure is a long way from the 'Excellent' editor it used to be.

I have to agree with many users here, UltraEdit 9.20b was that last "nice" version, bloatware started with version 10/11, version 14 is useless compared to freeware solutions like ConTEXT or NotePad++

ssb reviewed v14.00a on Mar 18, 2008

As usual, I have to agree with zridling's review.
UE used to be a pro-class developers editor, famous for its bug-free and ultrafast editing engine.
Unfortunately that's not true any more! It became just another bloated "bug-collection-ware", useless for any serious job.

@why hello there: I can live with bloat, not using some of the features I don't need. The actual problem with Ultraedit is that all "features" I do need and use are either slow, non-existed or buggy as hell.

* NOT RECOMMENDED *

zridling reviewed v14.00a on Mar 18, 2008

What pjafrombbay said: Editors are such a personal thing.
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Used to love this editor, but it suffers from that disease known as feature-dumpitis. And now that it no longer handles large files, I've no use for it in my work (data editing). EmEditor and the recently updated EditPlus are both highly customizable and more powerful than UltraEdit now.

I have a look at Ultra Edit each time a new version comes out thinking "will I -- won't I". I even download a copy occasionally for evaluation. However, when it comes time to fork over my credit card details I think to myself "what's it got (that I need) that EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com/index.html) hasn't got and is it worth the money" -- the answers are generally "nothing" for the first question and "no" for the second question.

Editors are such a personal thing -- I don't care what anyone else uses, but I like what I get used to!

Regards,
Peter

Oh who cares if it has features you don't use, even if those features are buggy? Oooooooo... It has built-in FTP support! BLOAT! BLOAT! GET THE PITFORKS AND TORCHES! BLOOOOOOOAT!!! How about just... NOT USING THOSE FEATURES?

roj reviewed v14.00a on Mar 17, 2008

I completely agree with preinterpost.

I used this back in the day up to versison 9. That was when all the new "features for the sake of features" crept in and that was it for me. Now I use either ConTEXT or PSPad and they do everything a text editor should (true column editing being the exception) without the bloat and myriad new "features" which must always be fixed because "the more complex you make something the easier it breaks".

Two words for this app:

"Jenny Craig"

THREE stars.

lzvk25 reviewed v14.00 on Feb 25, 2008

How curious ? Here we meet again, Mr. zridling. Once again you are trashing a perfectly fine editor while on the other hand you are trying to sell your under-powered EmEditor, conveniently, you do not mention that some features that UltraEdit already are integrated as a default, you are selling them separately. Of course, also the concept of "fight" for a lifetime license, again conveniently you don't mention that it only consists on doing a "cut & paste" every time there is a major version change, I guess that's too much for you.

Used this about 8 or so years ago. Since then it got too bloated/pointless. Either you use a real word processor or a lighter text editor. I highly recomment (free) Notepad++ instead.

I'm not sure what you guys are whining about, especially zridling. I have a lifetime license, and I've called upon it several times now, including just now for version 14. I submitted my details using a brain-dead-easy submission form, and received my new registration information almost immediately. I've never had a problem with this.

As for editing large files--again, WTH are you talking about? I just opened a 7-GB+ ISO file and I'm viewing it just fine in hex mode. And as a test, I just created a ~60-MB text file and it also works fine. And they each opened instantly. Maybe your settings are screwed up, your systems are crap, or you have a chip on your shoulder.

I did find a bug regarding the new "Environment" feature.

The only other thing I've noticed is that this version starts noticeably quicker for me.

ssb reviewed v14.00 on Feb 23, 2008

Just a few minor new "features" but still the same old crappy editing engine. No more large file support, extremely buggy unicode, highlighting and folding.

I wonder what's going wrong with IDM people. They had one of the best selling editing applications and they f***ed it up! Well done, folks!

NOT recommended!

zridling reviewed v14.00 on Feb 22, 2008

Wow, this is too bad. Even though I have a lifetime license (which you have to fight IDM for each version, and they're in no hurry to get it to you), this program now costs twice as much and will not load a large file. Where's the advantage?

A perfect example of WHY shareware sucks. They have to keep on adding useless crap to get the bucks rolling.

tranglos reviewed v13.20a on Jan 5, 2008

UE may have been top of the line at one point, but today its age shows. Completely broken syntax highlighting (try XML!), no "document classes" (groups of settings applied per file type), and nagging usability issues like no Yes to all/No to all buttons when closing editor with many files open and changed. The latest version has a nasty minimization bug too, where UE minimizes to taskbar but does not release focus - you still need Alt+Tab to actually switch to another application.

My rating reflects the one high point: as far as I've been able to test, UE correctly recognizes and supports UTF-8 files with and without signature, and does not add the signature to a file that originally didn't have it (doing so would break builds with some files I have to work with). Apart from EmEditor (which has its own issues), UE is only Windows editor that handles cleanly all UTF-8 and Unicode files. Well, maybe VI does too, didn't check :)

zridling reviewed v13.20a on Dec 6, 2007

Still my second fav next to EmEditor, but no longer opens large files, making it useless for my purposes.

Tarun. reviewed v13.20a on Dec 5, 2007

I used to use this and tolerate the bugs, then I discovered Notepad++. I've no regrets in leaving UltraEdit behind.

ssb reviewed v13.20a on Dec 5, 2007

Still broken Unicode/UTF-8 support, broken code folding, many unfixed bugs.
UE used to be my favorite text editor for many many years, but not any more. In its current form, UE is not an editor, it's a ...bug collection.

No rating better than 1, until IDM rewrite their buggy editing engine from scratch.

I absolutely love this text editor, for at least 7 years now. My fav improvement here -- "- Prompt only once for autosave on new document". In other words, I can completely retire notepad even for quick-jotdowns (copy-pastes) of text I don't even WANT to save longer than 5-15 mins of use. Wonderful.

Oh wait, actually I cannot retire Notepad cuz I cannot right-justify Hebrew text. (Existing Right-justify paragraph feature doesn't change text input direction.)

v13.20

- Find improvements
- Favorites button for Search and Replace
- Find in Files in a separate thread
- Find in Files to optionally pick up word
under cursor
- Search string now displayed in 'Not Found'
dialog box
- Options for auto-reset of find settings in
configuration
- Macro search string no longer added to Find
history
- Persistent Selection
- Allows selection of text without use of shift
key
- Selection persists until:
* Another selection is started
* Selection is cut, deleted, or pasted
- Selection can be extended at a later time
by selecting persistent selection again
- Persistent selection anchor point can be reset
by ctrl-left mouse click
- Option to alphabetize Tabs automatically on
file open
- Visual indication Macro is being recorded on
status bar
- Configurable auto-complete results
- SSH/Telnet now allows ctrl+insert copy and
shift+insert paste
- Autosave when UE window loses focus
- Prompt only once for autosave on new document

gehtnix reviewed v13.20 on Oct 16, 2007

ejanzzen, if you need a simple texteditor that is
somehow similar to windows own notepad, but with
advanced features, then try "TED Notepad".
It is 161 KB only. You will find it here:
http://tinyurl.com/2vo8bw (redirects to fileforum).

Ultraedit is much more than a notepad replacement.
It is a programmers editor with many useful featu-
res, is a hexeditor, can compare files, uses macros
and so on. I rate it 4, as "NoteTab Light 5.5" is
free and does a lot of things that you would expect
from an editor.
I can't give any opinion about UltraEdit being bad
coded or not at THIS place.

ssb reviewed v13.20 on Oct 16, 2007

No better rating than 1, until IDM rewrite from scratch their buggy editing engine.

ejanzzen reviewed v13.10a on Jul 16, 2007

I gave up after v.9.20b ... A texteditor above 10MB is unacceptable. What is this; a small Office Suite?

utomo reviewed v13.10a on Jul 15, 2007

This is a good editors.
but it need to improve, as now mostly user need easier editor. as there is many visual programming tools.
UE need to improve the XML editing, with tree view and other easier ways.

zridling reviewed v13.10a on Jul 13, 2007

I will continue low ratings until UE's power is restored! I also hate that even though you purchase a Lifetime license, you have to hassle them to get the license updated from IDM. The only reason companies do that is to discourage you from buying into that.

To date, the only TRUE, hassle-free lifetime licenses are XYplorer file manager and WinRAR.
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13.10a Changelog:
— Added menu/toolbar icon for Show Spaces/Tabs command
— Added support for column mode to Goto line/col select in a Macro
— Added remember font option in ASCII Table dialog
— Added key mapping support for Show Line Endings
— FTP/SFTP Enhancements
- Updated SFTP component
- FTP file open issue in Explorer view when connecting to MVS server
- Improved support for adding FTP files to projects
- Enhanced upload,download, and open functionality
- Improved handling of file save upon application exit
— Updated SSH/Telnet component
— Improved Syntax highlighting support for code folding, multi-line strings, and function list
— Improved caret positioning/display
Alignment/positioning issue when Show Spaces/Tabs enabled
— Removal of Recent Files menu entries with Clear Histories function
— Scroll thumb positioning for Perl regex find target
— Disable Save All command after saving all open files
— Display of utf8 file following Conversions to ASCII
— Find/Replace and Find in Files/Replace in Files improvements
- Improved support for regular expression find and replaces
- Unexpected prompt when opening Find or Replace dialog
- Improved Handling of "Results to Edit Window" functionality
- Other minor changes
— Issue with Ctrl and/or Alt and any cursor key in key mapping
— Undo issue with Word wrap with auto line indent
— Bookmark edit and save with no file edits
— "Add or Remove Programs" not displaying UE icon
— Unhandled exception when concurrently backspacing from end of file while selecting text with mouse
— Other minor fixes

Ack, yes, I tried opening a 330MB file with this version, and it choked :( I had to kill the process. Note that I feel like 13.00a is also slower on this 330MB file than it used to be :(
If they don't get this fixed quickly, then PSPad will get a boost in user base.
Other things I find better in UltraEdit at this point: supports AStyle, easier to script (partly due to proper documentation), file comparison (although UC light is not really great), and of course code folding.
*EDIT* BTW, it opens quickly for me too on a P4-2.4 with 768MB of RAM, hardly an overkill mahcine.

zridling reviewed v13.10 on Jun 14, 2007

moeb1us, I won't deny that EditPlus is fantastic and has been for many years, but the bloat of UltraEdit comes from its IDE overhead now. I'm giving it a 1 because this version crashes when opening large files, which was THE ONE reason I loved UltraEdit so much. The next version of EmEditor is set to take UltraEdit's place for good as a text editor, since it will not only handle large files (as in very large), but still costs only $40 for EmEditor Pro.

moeb1us reviewed v13.10 on Jun 14, 2007

Why is this software 10+MB for a text editor?

guys EditPlus recently just added code folding.
The reason I ditched editplus for UltraEdit was code folding, anyway during that time UltraEdit kept on getting more bloated with each release, I sent them several emails about there code folding bugs, I even had to send my PHP code and show them exactially how it breaks on their program lol, so yeah 2 more versions later...not fixed, and even more slow loading, @ zridling its probably loading fast for you because you're running a gaming machine to run a sluggish app like this.

Anyway EditPlus 4 life people, it still fast as it ever was.

zridling reviewed v13.00a on Apr 18, 2007

Hmmm, no problems here. Opens instantly, and it all works for me. Are you guys sure you're using 13.00a?

Nadee reviewed v13.00a on Apr 18, 2007

Totally agree with ssb. IDM should consider fixing the existing issues in the software before introducing new features.

We don't want a bloated up piece of software that taken up several minutes to start.

The greatest ever editor loved by many seems to becoming unpopular due to lack of proper planing by its creators.

ssb reviewed v13.00a on Apr 17, 2007

To IDM authors, with all my respect:

First, get a new debugger and someone who knows how to use it!

Prefer beta testers with experience on C++ programming, not ignorant enthusiasts.

Fix the folding bugs
Fix the highlighting bugs
Fix the text rendering issues
Fix the (countless) UTF-8 / Unicode bugs
Fix the slow startup issue
Fix the bugs of builtin SSH or remove it. Currently it only increases startup lag.
Fix the bugs in scripting
Remove that damned IE toolbar. UE is a programmers tool not a kids-only freeware.
Get serious with your products

Listen carefully what your customers say.

Downhill, indeed, and picking up speed.

Quite a few users have slow-startup issues:
http://www.ultraedit.com...le=viewtopic&t=4404

I'm all for piling on new features, but not at the expense of performance. No, the answer is not to stop adding or refining features. The answer is to care about quality and performance, too!

bournex reviewed v13.00 on Mar 19, 2007

Disappointed long-time ultraedit user. Twistpad is my newfound friend... ok, I admit it. It lacks some of the features in ultraedit but it has some pretty darn nice ones of its own. And it's cleaner and lighter!

I used to love UltraEdit, and now I have ~8 second startups too! I've seen mainframes boot faster than this digital turd with no quality control loads.

I paid $50 for lifetime UltraEdit updates a couple years ago. I think it may be time to move on to a different product.

I am sure zridling cannot be including startup times in his judgment that UltraEdit 13.0 is "superfast". That, or something really strange is going on with my system. Each version of this program starts slower than the previous, to the extent that version 13.0 takes 7 full seconds to start on my system, even when started natively (with no file open). Yes, I actually timed it with a stopwatch.

I do not want to leave UltraEdit running all the time, so do not suggest that as some lame workaround. A 7-second startup time is insane for a text editor. Microsoft Word 2002 starts much more quickly than UltraEdit--even the very first time I run it!

As far as bugs go, I have a couple really annoying ones I've been putting up with for a long time. IDM support is very responsive, but they always claim "we cannot reproduce that". This is even the case when other users have reported the same bugs in their forums. Very aggravating.

There is no better-featured or more capable text editor out there. And I am not one of the many idiots who slams software for being "bloated" with no real reason. But 7-second startup times and one unresolved perpetual bug after another is too much for me.

The stupid MSIE toolbar is included in the installer, but there is an option to deselect it, and in fact, it is not installed by default. Still, I think it's ridiculous that they include it--or even have it--at all.

Now go ahead, zridling, take this software review personally, and then attack me personally. After all, it's what you do.

There is no doubt that UltraEdit is an excellent all purpose editor. Whoever says that PSPad is better in terms of functionality is simply lying.
However, at $50 (and not $35 as stipulated in Betanews), it's steep. Besides, for this price, you get updates for *rolls drums* one year! After that, updates can be purchased for $25. UltraEdit can also be purchased with unlimited updates for *rolls drums again* $150!
This is way too much. I agree that UltraEdit is very good, but it doesn't justify an investment anywhere close to $150.