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Answering my own question here... It looks like the best thing to do is to have UES invoke a script which calls gmake, with the "grab standard error/output" options enabled, as well as "easy capture method". Then, have the script filter the lines with errors into another file, which is then typed to...

Hey all; I'm trying to build from within UEStudio, and I'm not having much luck. Our build process is pretty complex, but as its' base, it ends up calling the GNU make utility gmake. Unfortunately, with the default UEStudio configuration, every call to gmake results in the error: *** create_child_pr...

Using UES v11.20.0.1010 (last hotfix version of UES v11.20) the format strings $Y c -$m-$d-$H-$M-$n$e and $Y m -$m-$d-$H-$M-$n$e work too. Hi Mofi! Thanks for the writeup. My previous tests were with UE Portable 17, and now I'm trying UEStudio 11 (11.20) installed, so differences could be due to th...

When I changed this to the string you had displayed: $Y(c,m)-$m(c,m)-$d(c,m)-$n.$e the backups quit working. The c and the m you have in parenthesis are modifiers, and only one can exist at a time. Hmm. That was copied from the UE install. Of course, I can't run the UE install anymore (demo expired...

Hi all; I spent a month evaluating UE Portable 17. I liked it, but Rhapdog and others urged me to look at UEStudio instead, since I'm looking for an editor for C++ coding work. I confirmed with IDM that I could install it on two different computers (non-concurrently), so that alleviates much of my n...

I wondered if SPF was going to be mentioned. I did a lot of the things mentioned using ISFP on files 31 years ago on an IBM mainframe, 20 years ago on a VMS comm computer You have my sympathies :D While I'm a big Xedit fan, I never took to SPF, although I had co-workers who adored it. I remember in...

There is also the advanced find option List Lines Containing String . Oh, I know that one well. I use it all the time. Of course if you edit them and finally want them back in the large file, the lines must be copied back into the large file replacing the lines there. If the lines are from a cohere...

Ah, yes. Well, as I have always used the editors only for computer programming, I have never used these features in such a way as you describe. I see where it can definitely be useful, however. I'd go so far as to say it's essential. Back in the 1990s, Kedit had folds, but no regular expressions. O...

Second, you need to change your mindset. That will be required to update to any modern editor or IDE. The way Kedit had to work back in its day is completely different from how modern editors work, simply because of the hardware limitations of the day. ALL, MORE, LESS, RANGE were all implemented be...

Can you guys give me a quick hand on Kedit equivalent commands? I am totally new to UES and am a bit confused. (By the way, I think you guys are probably "spring chickens" compared to me, since I worked on my first computer in 1957). Yeah, you've got me there. Mind, given that I still have 8 days l...

Seriously, we should all write in a feature request that there be made available both macro and script commands to pause/resume display updates. This is actually one reason I use PHP as a scripting language that I execute against a file, configured as a UE tool, where it prompts me for the PHP scri...

The display updates during script and macro execution is a problem and makes them slower. But there are no commands to disable/enable the display updates. That's the reason why I try to write scripts in a manner to avoid display updates as much as possible by doing as much as possible with core obj...

There is the scripting command UltraEdit.activeDocument.cancelSelect(); which discards current selection without changing the caret position. Ah, that did it (thought it's Cancel, not cancel; UE was fussy about that). But looking through the PDF file, it's not listed as a Document Object command. I...

Errors detected by Javascript interpreter on execution are captured by UltraEdit and printed to the output window. But UltraEdit does not automatically open the output window on error during script execution because with scripts it is also possible to control the appearance and contents of the outp...

The beautiful thing about using JavaScript as the scripting language is that there are so many resources to help you learn and that you can use for reference.  Also, there are a plethora of ready-made scripts for download that you can pretty much just plug into whatever.  If you need to know how to...