Software update: UltraEdit 2023.0

IDM Computer Solutions released version 2023.0 of UltraEdit at the end of April and a first update has just been released. This multifunctional text editor can handle plain ascii text, but hexadecimal files and html files are no problem either. The program also has features such as macros, vertical block selection, syntax highlighting, a built-in FTP client and spell checker in various languages. The program is primarily developed for Windows, but there are also versions for it Linux and Mac. The changelog for both releases looks like this:

UltraEdit version 2023.0.0.48

• PowerShell: “Run selection” command improvements with selected and pasted content
• PowerShell: Cannot press Ctrl+C to cancel running PowerShell script
• PowerShell: Added commands to command palette
• PowerShell: Handling escaped quotes
• Remove line comment should only remove the comment at the beginning of the line
• Focus jumps to wrong pane while typing after using F-10 to switch active pane
• Result from sum selection involving negative numbers is wrong
• Function definition isn’t returned in function list
• Crash after “an unnamed file contains an incorrect path” error
• Crash when scrolling in certain ASP files Selection issues with long lines and unlimited column mode
• Perl regular expression is highlighted incorrectly Valid C# function not included in function list

UltraEdit version 2023.0

• 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+)