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To make it easier to change the Icon associated with files you can use a portable (just unzip and run) application FileTypesMan @ https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html For instructions, just google* and you'll find "how tos" with screenshots - some file managers (total commander for ...

Let me know how it goes (no security warnings of the modified exe?)

[April 2023] Beta testers may have seen the changed icon for UltraEdit – not a huge fan to be honest, so I extracted the Icons from the UE 2022.2 – the gold gradient circle with black border – which you can download below, you can use this for file associations for example or launchers etc.

This script will insert the current clipboard contents in "column paste" but not in a rectangular block but in a "line by line" basis - this will avoid pasting additional spaces avoiding the need to clean it up. Example, I often have something like this, | caret position <img src='|' <img src='' <im...

Just a quick update in UltraEdit v25.00.0.53, 64 bit, UltraEdit.activeDocument.currentLineNum is now working correctly. Edit: Update script above, newer ( v1.1 ) and original ( v1.0 ) code above - if you have a version of UltraEdit where UltraEdit.activeDocument.currentLineNum is not working correc...

If you have one macro loaded you can record / define a new macro. Once you are done you can save the macros (now you should have two) to a new Macro file via the Macro menu. You can now also set that Macro file to be automatically loaded upon startup of UE. Macro menu, set Auto load and select the M...

If you edit the syntax highlighting wordfile wordfiles\json.uew and add CONFIG to the File Extensions it should automatically interpret it as JSON file? File Extensions = JSON CONFIG

Good to know. I've used \A to add text at the top of files, never failed me but they were all small files - I use \z quite often to append to the end of files, again never failed me but also small files. I do use a variety of external (command line) tools as well, often easier to write / modify a ba...

Can't you just use a perl regular expression using the "\A Match only at beginning of string" zero-width assertion? Find: \A\r?\n Replace: empty

This is a bit of experimental code which would allow you to wrap a selected rectangle of text to be wrapped in the opening and closing characters - [ and ] are hard coded here, if you want to incorporate this in the script above use openchar and closechar for '[' and ']' respectively The problem is ...

This is a variation on a "close brackets" or "close quotes" script / functionality. It can wrap selected text with an opening- and end-characters which you can define yourself. An example below is given for [ ] but it should work with other characters as well such as " ' < { ( It follows these rules...

Even using scripts it remains at best a kludge and not 100% foolproof or without fault. Edit: I dug up some scripts, this is how far I've gotten using scripts: Surround / wrap selected text with quotes, brackets and others characters

I use similar macros for " but also for < { ( [ ' to either wrap the selected text or type the closing character. It works well. But one annoying thing is as soon as you're in column mode and start typing one of these characters you're lost - instead of inserting " or ( in all lines, it stops workin...

Keyboard support for quickly adding selections for successive occurrences of selected strings has been added to UE v23.00.0.56 :P (Windows version)

I'm not sure when exactly but with UE version 22.20.0.36 the UltraEdit.messageBox... no longer seems to be required as the caret is now focused on/in the correct document after switching to it with a script.