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Sorry, but I do not think that any UEStudio user can help on this issue. Developers like me use usually the client versions of Windows and not the server versions. There is also not posted which DLL is missing on Windows Server 2022 which exists on Windows 10 and Windows 11 clients by default. There...

The Syntax Highlighting help page describes for Indentation : If an indent string occurs anywhere on a line it will be used for indenting (except when it occurs in quoted/commented text) . The three occurrences of Case in the three strings in second example should be ignored for indentation. But tha...

Please report issues with the built-in update/upgrade feature to UltraEdit support by email. No user can fix that. Open in your favorite web browser the page Download UltraEdit for Windows . Here can be downloaded the EXE installers of latest UltraEdit for Windows. Click at the bottom on the link to...

Some hints first: The version information in the About window can be selected with a pointing device (mouse) and copied into the clipboard as text with Ctrl+C for pasting it as text with Ctrl+V into another application. dir/s/b *.java > FileList.txt That command line is of invalid syntax. It works n...

Please read the statement at top of every forum page. This is a user to user forum. Feature requests must be sent by email to support of UltraEdit, Inc. BTW: Setting the text cursor to beginning of second line, pressing Ctrl+Shift+End to select everything to end of file and doing the sort on the sel...

The Aspell dictionaries are compiled and cannot be edited in a text editor. The custom dictionaries can be edited in UltraEdit. See the topic: Storage location of custom dictionaries

1 - How to have spell checking underlining wrong words, using syntax highlight, for previous incorrect typed words? I noticed on enabling/disabling spell as you type by hotkey that it is necessary to scroll up/down to get the display of the text with/without red dashed lines for unknown/misspelled ...

You have most likely not checked the option Match case which is very important here as otherwise [A-Z] and [a-z] matches the same set of characters: all ASCII letters independent on case. A better Perl regular search expression would be ^[ A - Z ][^ \r\n A - Z ]+? \K (?= [ A - Z ] ) and \r\n as repl...

The link of 64-bit English UltraEdit on the downloads page is: https://downloads.ultraedit.com/main/ue/win/ue_english_64.exe ?_gl=1*1blulr8*_gcl_au*NjU2NDkzNzc4LjE3MTY4MTQ4OTk.*_ga*MTgzMTcxOTMyNi4xNzA3ODk2NTUy*_ga_QNXHVTPWNS*MTcxODYxMjA0MS4xOTYuMS4xNzE4NjEyMDUzLjQ4LjAuMA.. If this link is copied int...

64-bit UltraEdit for Windows 2024.1.0.32 is public available for download and also 64-bit UEStudio 2024.1.0.32 .

Windows Spell Checking API UltraEdit for Windows ≥ v25.00 and UEStudio ≥ v18.00 use on Windows 8.1 and newer Windows versions like Windows 10 or Windows 11 the Windows Spell Checking API . The Windows Spell Checking API is not available on Windows with a version lower than 8.1 like Windows 8 or Win...

New variants like app and part or Roman numerals in lower case or figures with an upper case letter require of course further enhancements of the script to support these variants too. I am wondering myself why you could not make these enhancements by yourself as that was easy to do. I ran the script...

Open the Manage Themes dialog window by clicking in ribbon mode on eight tab Layout in first group Look and feel on second item Themes , in toolbar/menu mode with contemporary menus in eight menu Layout in third submenu Themes on first menu item Manage themes , in toolbar/menu mode with traditional ...

There is no possibility with UltraEdit for Windows v2024.0.0.35 (and also v22.20.0.49 as verified by me too) to get CR CR LF displayed in text edit mode with enabled showing of line endings with ± as placeholder for a carriage return as used for the Mac line ending type (just carriage return) and ge...

There is an automatic backup built-in which creates a backup of the user configuration on startup of UltraEdit depending on version of UltraEdit. UltraEdit 2024.0.0.35 creates automatically on startup %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\Backup\ue_settings_backup.uec . But that is not a complete backup of a...

UltraEdit/UEStudio v2024.0 introduced a new feature as written in changes.txt respectively changes_ues.txt : Honor Windows setting to hide cursor (mouse pointer) while typing I was not aware of this Windows setting before reading this information and having the same problem as you. My solution on Wi...

I received today an email from UltraEdit support with the information that this issue is fixed in the private user verification build (UVB) 2024.1.0.14 of 64-bit English UltraEdit. The email contained a link for me to download the installer executable of this private build and the request for testin...

I could find out with free Windows Sysinternals (Microsoft) tool Process Monitor that there is a delay of about 2.175 seconds on exiting 64-bit UltraEdit v2024.0.0.35 on Windows 11 23H2 between closing the file %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\autorec\ %COMPUTERNAME% @ %USERNAME% (file with data for the...

That modification can be done with a Perl regular expression using backreferences with the search expression ( drop materialized view ) ( .* \r ? \n / \r ? \n ) (?! drop table ) and the replace expression \1 \2 drop table \2 .* matches any character except newline characters like carriage return or ...

I post here a newsletter from Ben Schwenk sent on 2024-06-19 by email to all subscribers of the UltraEdit newsletter. [hr] Hello UltraEdit community! If you have an up-to-date license for UltraEdit or any of our other titles, I wanted to update you with some good news. We recently completed an extra...

UltraEdit macros are usually recorded and not often written from scratch. There is no debugging interface available at all. There can be used the macro command ExitMacro inside a macro and run the macro on a saved file. It can be seen how the macro changed the active file, what is selected and where...

A floating window is usually always opened within the screen area even on being last time opened on a different screen than the currently available screen. But if the screen area is still defined in the Windows display settings for usage of two or more screens although there is only one screen plugg...

The syntax highlighting wordfile javascript.uew as installed with UltraEdit for Windows v2023.2.0.27 has as first line: /L9"JavaScript" JSCRIPT_LANG Line Comment = // Block Comment On = /* Block Comment Off = */ Escape Char = \ String Chars = '" File Extensions = JS TS There are defined only ' (apos...

I have no MAC and don't use UltraEdit for MAC. I cannot really help on this issue. But I suggest looking on the file attributes on remote opened file stored temporary on local disk which becomes suddenly and unexpected write protected. I cannot tell you were UltraEdit for Windows stores the file loc...

I don't have a Mac and therefore do not use UltraEdit for Mac but according to How to restore position of File Tree View in UltraEdit on Mac? open the directory ~/Library/Application Support/ UltraEdit being by default hidden containing all the settings files and copy them all with all subdirectorie...

That was asked also by a customer two days ago during the webinar presenting the new features of UltraEdit for Windows/UEStudio v2023.2 which I viewed too. The answer was a problem with signing all files if I remember correct. It is also typical that UltraEdit, Inc. first makes the installer files f...

DOS in the status bar means the active file has (mainly) carriage return + line-feed as line ending. This is typical for MS-DOS and Windows text files. Unix in the status bar means the active file has (mainly) just line-feed as line ending. This is typical for Unix/Linux text files and since Max OS...

I will not write one more solution. I lost my motivation on this project. Improve the code by yourself to your requirements. Hint: The script must split up each file name into a list of words and compare the two words lists and if the number of matching words is greater or equal X then the file name...

Here is a once more extended script code which handles also the last test case by sorting first the full file names list according to length of names of the files from shortest to longest. function SortFileNamesByLength (sFullFileName1, sFullFileName2) {    var sNameFile1 = GetNameOfFile(sFullFileNa...

UltraEdit does not check the validity of any file which is syntax highlighted according to the definition in the applied wordfile. It just syntax highlights the file. A JSON file can have just a line-feed as line endings as that is the default for all text files on Unix/Linux and Mac since Mac OS X ...

The second solution can be enhanced with a more smart file name comparison to find duplicate files by similarities in file name. There must be additionally added the three functions GetFileExt, GetFileName and GetNameOfFile to the script file containing already the function GetListOfFiles and the ma...

I have understood now better what you really want. I can offer two solutions for getting a list of duplicate file names which UltraCompare and UltraFinder can also output. The first one does nothing in memory of the JavaScript core engine which makes it possible finding duplicate file names even in ...

For the first task use GetListOfFiles(0,"D:\\","one file.jpg",true); or if the file extension should not matter GetListOfFiles(0,"D:\\","one file.*",true); For the second task use: GetListOfFiles(0,"D:\\","*first file*.*",true); The Windows file IO functions called by UltraEdit accessing the file sy...

UE/UES always try to add a folder/file with a relative path to a project file whereby the base directory path is either the directory path of the project file or the explicitly configured project directory. In most cases this is best. There can be used following steps for adding files and folders wi...

How can I set the standard links such as TXT? Clicking in UltraEdit on Advanced - Settings or Configuration - File associations and clicking next on button System File Associations opens the Windows 11 Settings window Apps > Default apps . There must be typed in the edit field below Set a default f...

It is interesting what other users of UltraEdit see what I did not recognize. There are not displayed anymore pixels of a selected empty line with a different background color since UltraEdit for Windows version 2022.1 released at end of July 2022 with the syntax highlighting parser overhaul which o...

There was just two hours ago the webinar Power Up with PowerShell: Exploring the new integrated terminal in UltraEdit 2023.0 which you obviously missed. You can click at any time on ribbon tab Layout on item Terminal opening the PowerShell Terminal . In that window can be typed PowerShell commands (...

@tsmith35 Many years ago I bought a big box of Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 with a CD and two books which is still used by me for image editing. PSP8 offers three color reduction methods: similar colors usually best for photos, ordered dither which is just for a palette with standard colors, and error dif...

I don't like the Bootstrap icons because of not containing the abbreviation of the application. A symbol with arrows, a ball pen or a pencil symbol has no relation to a specific application. I favor the round icons with UE , UES , UF , UC , UFTP with the additional black border. The black border is ...

Windows uses by default always the first icon with icon index 0 found in the resources of an executable for the icon in the title bar of the main application window as also for file associations of file types with an executable and for shortcuts of an executable. But there is now the stylish round i...

The currently latest version of UltraEdit for Windows is 2023. 1 .0. 19 which contains in several files (uedit32.exe or uedit64.exe, ueres.dll, ue32ctmn.dll, ue64ctmn.dll) the yellow UE in a black square with rounded edges as well as the stylish UE symbol of UE for Windows version 2022 (version 29)....

Every UE/UES script must be added separately to the Scripts list with the Scripts dialog window with using the button Add or using in context menu of the Script list view the menu item Add script . The scripts storage location can be any directory for each script. The fully qualified file name of ea...

The steps for decoding base64 encoded data of a binary file with UltraEdit are: Open Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Editor - Hex mode and check the configuration setting Allow editing of text files with hex 00's without converting them to spaces . Create a new file and make sure the encoding...

Please read the Wikipedia article about Email . Emails can be sent only with 7-bit ASCII characters although many programs involved in transfer of an email support now also 8-bit clean. There is originally no support for letters other than A-Za-Z or other characters with a code point value greater 1...

It is a well-known issue (for me) that help for users of UltraEdit for Linux is a bit poor, especially in comparison to help for users of UltraEdit for Windows. There is the UltraEdit Wiki . It is mainly based on help of UltraEdit for Windows. There are some information specific for UEX in this help...

It is indeed a bug. I could reproduce the issue, analyzed it further with various versions of UltraEdit and sent an issue report by email to UltraEdit support as it can be seen below. It looks like a regular expression find upwards using one of the two legacy regular expression engines is done rarel...

I cannot answer any questions posted in this topic as I am just a user of UltraEdit and UEStudio and not an employee of UltraEdit, Inc. knowing the reasons for the application icon change. I sent following email to UltraEdit support on 2023-04-24 after installation of the release candidates of UE/UE...

Hi Fleggy, I don't know which version of the Boost library collection (there are multiple libraries) is issued by UltraEdit and which functions are used by UltraEdit from which of the Boost libraries with which flags and and parameters. I have not installed ever Notepad++ nor do I know anything its ...

I saved the UEStudio v2022.2.0.52 main application icon resource with Resource Hacker into the attached file UEStudio.ico . Note: Which icon is used by default by Windows for associated file types, for the icons of shortcut files, in the title bar of main application window, in Windows taskbar for t...

File associations are registered under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes for all users of a machine and under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes for the current user. Windows combines these two registry keys with current user file associations taking precendence over the local machine file assocat...

There are two possible solutions to replace the character Z by a space after the first 122 characters in a line. The first solution uses the replace in column feature. if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)  // Is any file opened? {    // Define environment for this script.    UltraEdit.insertMode();   ...

Open the file %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\ ue.ini with Windows Notepad while UltraEdit is not running, delete the sections [PageSetup] and [Print Settings] and [PrintFont] , save the file and exit Windows Notepad. The settings are set to default on next start of UltraEdit.

Here is the simple script for the task. Please read the comments. if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)  // Is any file opened? {    // Define the two arrays with the strings to find and the appropriate replace strings.    // Please note that the character \ in a find/replace string must be escaped wit...

I use only UltraEdit for Windows and cannot really help for that reason. However, I want to give a perhaps valuable advice. The main difference between free and paid software is that the company offering paid software offers also support which is included by the payment for the license. It could be ...

The hotkey Ctrl + Shift + S is assigned by default to the command Insert char "ß" . It is possible to assign a hotkey to a macro or script which is assigned already to a built-in command. But there should be displayed the message prompt: Defined key is used for another command. Do you want to to ass...

There can be enabled at Advanced - Settings or Configuration - FTP the configuration setting Show FTP log in output window . There must be next opened the Output Window which has now the tab FTP Log in addition to FTP Transfers . I don't know what "Type Mismatch" means. I can publish here some infor...

Search with the Unix or Perl regular expression engine of UltraEdit for " * \ [ [\d \ -, ]+ \ ] " without the double quotes used here just to let you see that the search expression starts with a space character and use an empty replace string. There can be used also the UltraEdit regular expression ...

UltraEdit for Windows v24.00.0.42 to v26.00.0.72 have a bug regarding to characters with a code point value greater 127 decimal in a Windows-1252 encoded wordfile, i.e. non-ASCII characters in an one byte per character encoded wordfile. I reported this issue as detected by me. It was fixed with v26....

The script below produces the wanted output for the input sample and saves the active file on modification as new file. Please read the comments in the script (strings after // ) for the description of the script. I assume that a COBOL programmer understands at least the comments. if (UltraEdit.docu...

I use only UltraEdit for Windows. However, I suppose that UCX and UEX store the user configuration in a hidden directory of the user`s home directory. Look if there are /home/ username /.idm/ucx respectively ~ /.idm/ucx and /home/ username /.idm/uex respectively ~ /.idm/uex . If there is the hidden ...

I suggest taking a look at Saving Markdown file as HTML? especially on the last post. I recommend not re-inventing the wheel and code your own Markdown to HTML converter with JavaScript. That does not make sense in my opinion. There are a lot of such tools already available. If you like the look in ...

That is nothing a user of UltraEdit can fix. Please report this issue by email to UltraEdit support so that UltraEdit, Inc. gets knowledge about this issue and an UltraEdit developer looks into it and fixes the issue in a future version of UltraEdit.

I don't use UltraEdit for Mac. I don't know for that reason if UltraEdit for Mac supports a hierarchical (grouped) function list and also the usage of the Perl regular expression engine instead of the UltraEdit regular expression engine for searching for strings to show in the function list view. Pe...

There are several possibilities to do that. Here are described two possibilities. There can be executed a Perl regular expression Replace all with the search expression ^ (?! <RX ) .* (?: \r\n|$ ) and use as replace string either just \r\n to just change the lines not starting with <RX to an empty l...

You have not yet posted which version of UltraEdit is used by you on which platform with which user interface mode. I suppose therefore that there is used currently latest UltraEdit v2022.2.0.34 on Windows and developed and tested the macro solution with that version of UltraEdit on Windows. The mac...

That is a feature introduced with UltraEdit for Windows version 2022. 1 as it can be read at the moment on the page UltraEdit latest changes having in the list: Syntax highlighting parser overhaul (Code highlighting data abstracted from editor, improving performance and resolving issues) Syntax high...

The working directory must be configured with just %p without the double quotes. Everything else looks correct. Background information: There is called the Windows kernel library function CreateProcess with function parameter lpCurrentDirectory being a long pointer to the string with the directory p...

A Perl regular expression search with (?<! <W ) •water searches for •water and uses a negative lookbehind to verify if there is not " <W " preceding found •water for a positive match.

I disabled temporarily UltraCompare Professional and ran from UltraEdit for Windows v2022.1.0.112 a simple text comparison resulting in starting UltraCompare Lite to do the text comparison. I could see the issue you reported with the Click to unlock features... item appearing on the left side of the...

My instructions on how to update the tag list file replicate what UltraEdit itself does on creating the directory %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit and all the subdirectories and files (for a new user or on first start and exit after first installation). You can see that by renaming the application data ...

Tag List You are right, inserting HTML tags from the Tag List view is not working correct on active file is a Unicode file encoded with UTF-16 LE. It works fine for ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files which I suggest to use on writing HTML files. I have just reported this issue to UltraEdit support with t...

Automatically close XML/HTML tags An UltraEdit user can type the start tag of an HTML element and UltraEdit inserts automatically the appropriate closing tag if that feature is enabled in configuration as by default. That is the most efficient method to write text in HTML embedded in basic tags lik...

The problem of not working script is caused by a bug in UltraEdit for Windows v2022.1.0.90 to currently latest v2022.1.0.112. Former versions of UltraEdit for Windows do not have this issue. I reported this issue to UltraEdit support by email and got the reply that the issue could be reproduced and ...

I updated once again the script attached to my last but one post in the ZIP file and it works now as expected, but not with UltraEdit for Windows version 2022.0.0.* to 2022.1.0.108 (a not public published user verification build). All versions of UltraEdit from 2022.0.0.70 (first public released 202...

The issue with the macro command HideShowCollapseAll not working as expected in macro executed on file load could be reproduced by UltraEdit support on doing the steps and using the files of my report and is added to the issue database for investigation by an UltraEdit developer. That is not anymore...

Yes, it should be possible to fold (collapse) everything already on opening a G-code file by using a macro executed on each file load, but that is not working anymore since UltraEdit for Windows v25.10 as I could find out with testing the solution described below. There must be created a macro with ...

I created four versions of a syntax highlighting wordfile for G-code based on what I read on Wikipedia page about G-code and tested them on a file with the G-code posted by you combined with the example G-code on Wikipedia page. Please extract the attached ZIP file and copy the four * .uew files int...

HTML is very special for syntax highlighting. The wordfile html.uew should be not used as template to create a wordfile for any other language than HTML. So you better delete the wordfile created by making a copy of html.uew . Are lines starting with a semicolon comment lines G-code syntax or does t...

That should be no problem. There is needed first a syntax highlighting wordfile for G-code. The page User-submitted wordfiles for UltraEdit/UEStudio contains Mills G-Codes and and Lumonics Gcode . Which one is more suitable must be find out by yourself. I don't know it. Use the more suitable one by ...

Tun off font style italic for comments or use a fixed-pitch font as required according to help (documentation) on using bold and italic styles. A bit more information. A fixed-width (non-proportional) font is a font which has all characters with same width in each style which means in regular style ...

Here is a very quick coded UltraEdit script for this task. There must be opened first the DXF file to modify. Next create a new file, copy and paste the script code below into the new file, save it with file name AddBuildingNumber .js and click on ribbon/menu Advanced on the command Play script on u...

I don't know anything about the syntax of Teradata SQL. So it could be that some decisions made on fixing the syntax highlighting wordfile are not good. The attached ZIP file contains now the two wordfiles TeradataSQL.uew and TeraDataUtil.uew with following corrections and improvements. Added /Delim...

Please request by email to UltraCompare (UltraEdit) support the feature for an option to ignore a timestamp difference of one second. I have done that many years ago but no such option exists in UltraCompare v2022.20.0.26. Total Commander always ignores a timestamp difference of one second caused by...

That is very simple. There is first run a Perl regular expression replace all from top of the file with search expression ^ ( \ [ url= .+? \ ] ) ( .+? ) ( \ [ /url \ ] ) and replace expression \2 \1 \3 to change the lines to: Mudanças Climáticas[url=https://clubeceticismo.com.br/viewtopic.php?f=18&t...

Okay, now I understood the task. Here is the entire code for the UltraEdit/UEStudio script which makes the url updates in all the index.html files and creates the batch file to move the files up into parent folder with new name and change the folder names, too. The last two lines are commented and c...

I am now completely confused about the task. Please compress into a 7-Zip, RAR or ZIP archive file one HTML file with its subdirectory containing the other files without these other files in the subdirectory, i.e. the file Renamed 1.html and the directory Renamed 1 or whatever are the file and folde...

There is no UltraEdit scripting command to rename an opened file. UltraEdit has a command to rename an opened file, but this command is not available as scripting command. The task can be done with a batch file (worst choice), a VBScript script (better) or a PowerShell script (best choice). It is po...

It looks like a bug existing according to my tests since UltraEdit for Windows v28.10.0.0. The script is executed before the opening of the file finished. I found that out by doing the same as you with the difference that the script file contains the line: UltraEdit.outputWindow.write("Number of fil...

There are indeed improvements in UltraEdit for Windows v2022.0 regarding to code folding and reindent selection as there is supported now multiple close fold strings in a line. But those improvements are of no help for SQL code folding as described above. It is not possible to define matching open/c...

You are the first user reporting this issue in the user to user forums. So it was not a known issue in the forums user community, but it is definitely a reproducible issue with UltraEdit for Windows v2022.0.0.102. Please report this issue by email to UltraEdit support. I will do that also to increas...

Okay, I could reproduce the issue with UltraEdit for Windows v26.20 and can tell you the solution. Open the file %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\uedit 64 u .ini with Windows Notepad while no instance of UltraEdit is running. Search for the line with Sort Delimiter = which has two horizontal tabs after ...

The beta testers of UltraEdit v2022.0 and UEStudio v2022.0 got an email with information about fixes and improvements in release candidate with the following item: Improved File Change Detection for network (specifically samba) files I suppose this improvement is according to the issue discussed her...

I have to mention first that I have neither UltraEdit Portable nor UltraCompare Portable and so could not test my solution with these two applications. I tested my solution with the non-portable versions UltraEdit and UltraCompare Professional. UltraEdit detects the availability of UltraCompare Prof...

I cannot reproduce with UltraEdit for Windows v28.20.0.92 the behavior of current selection of text being lost on execution of the dummy script independent on user interface mode and independent on how the execution of the script is triggered by me. Here is script code to get the either the current ...

I cannot reproduce such an issue with UltraEdit for Windows v28.20.0.92 using the default settings of UltraEdit. I opened a text file on a network drive with drive letter X: in UltraEdit. Then I opened the same file in UEStudio, made a modification and saved it. There was immediately shown the dialo...

The macro code for removal of line numbers at beginning of all lines using an UltraEdit regular expression replace all is: InsertMode ColumnModeOff HexOff Top UltraEditReOn Find MatchCase RegExp "%[0-9]+ +" Replace All "" The plus after the space character can be removed to delete just the first spa...

I recommend to use the function GetListOfFiles in a script like: // Include the function GetListOfFiles() here without the code demonstrating the usage. // Replace the initial directory path in the function parameter list with // real path of the directory containing the files to modify by the scrip...

if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.encoding != 1200)  // Is the active file not UTF-16 LE encoded? {                                               // That works for ANSI and UTF-8 encoded files    UltraEdit.activeDocument.ASCIIToUnicode();   // despite the string ASCII in function name. } // It does not ...

1. Reformatting lines in addition to re-indenting the lines The command Reindent selection is just for reindenting the lines within a selection. It does not reformat the lines by inserting line breaks, removing or adding spaces around brackets, etc. UltraEdit has built-in the support for the third-...

There is written on the help page Syntax Highlighting in chapter about Indentation : Any number of words may be specified in quotes (each word/string must be in a separate set of quotes "").  If an indent string occurs anywhere on a line it will be used for indenting ( except when it occurs in quote...

It looks like the file is a CSV file using unusually a colon as value separator with two completely useless empty data columns at end of each row. The date/time values are formatted wrong as the time contains also colons and therefore the entire date/time value must be enclosed in " to be formatted ...

Yes, I agree. It is more handy if the last search string is selected automatically on setting input focus to the search box. I have the search box in my toolbar, but just for seeing the last search string to know it on pressing F3 (find next) or Ctrl+F3 (find previous). I don't use the search box fo...

There is selected by default by UltraEdit for Windows up to version 22.20.0.49 the entire last search string on clicking with primary (left) pointing device (mouse) button on the search box in the toolbar to set the input focus to the toolbar. That makes it possible to immediately enter a new search...

Yes, the single Perl regular expression replace as posted by Fleggy makes a fantastic job on inserting the missing double quotes around the attribute values with UltraEdit for Windows v28.20.0.70 and with UEStudio v21.10.0.24. It must be just avoided to run it a second time on same file as also my m...

That is of course possible. I suppose you are using toolbar/menu mode and not the ribbon mode as you wrote toolbar and not ribbon . Right click on any currently visible toolbar and click in context menu on item Customize... You have two options now. You modify one of the predefined toolbars or you a...

In the future please post which user interface mode is used by you, the ribbon mode or the toolbar/menu mode. That would help me to guide you to the appropriate items. You have to open the Workspace Manager view by clicking on ribbon tab Layout on checkbox item Workspace manager or in menu View on m...

In a JavaScript string must be escaped each backslash of a Perl regular expression search or replace string executed by the Perl regular expression engine of UltraEdit and not by the JavaScript interpreter itself with one more backslash. So the last line in the function DeleteEmptyLines must be: Ult...

A user/project tool used to run a Windows console application (DOS is definitely the wrong term here) is by design for a non-interactive execution of one or more console applications with capturing the outputs written to standard output and standard error streams and display the output in an edit wi...

Please  read the sticky topic Quick Find versus Find and how to customize the usage of both (Ctrl+F behavior) of the forum Find/Replace/Regular Expressions . You are right regarding to input focus issue after running a Replace with configuration setting Set focus to edit window after any Find operat...

There is an improvement regarding to navigation with keys through the text differences in multiples different files as found out by a folder compare with UltraCompare Professional for Windows v21.10.0.46. The following key sequence works now after running a folder compare which finds two or more tex...

Examples make everything easier to understand. So let´s say the active CSV file contains following lines: field value 1,field value 2,long third field value field value 1,,long third field value ,field value 2,long third field value ,,long third field value field value 1,field value 2,"long third fi...

.+ means any character except newline characters (like carriage return and line-feed to mention most common newline characters) one or more times on using the Unix or the Perl compatible regular expression engine. So there is a problem with overlapping character set definition as the character " is...

The ribbon interface was introduced with UltraEdit for Windows v23.00 in February 2016 together with the alternative interface toolbar/menu mode with contemporary menus . For long time users of UltraEdit like me was introduced with v23.20 the toolbar/menu mode with traditional menus in July 2016. So...

The abbreviation STCD is explained at bottom of the power tip Sync files and folders with UltraCompare and means S ame T imestamp, C ontent D ifferent.

There is used in UltraEdit for Windows < v23.20 an internal function for sorting lines which takes horizontal tabs and the configured tab stop value into account. So the sort with the settings to sort according to columns 33 to 36 works with these versions of Windows. UltraEdit for Windows v23.20 in...

The counting behavior you want to have can be achieved with using the Perl regular expression search string \< 3 \> (?= (?: .+\< 3 \> ) {7} ) which searches for a single digit 3 with a look-ahead  for a positive match only if there are seven more single digit 3 in the line. A look-ahead searches for...

UltraEdit is used to write an UltraEdit script using JavaScript core interpreter. Debugging is usually not necessary for me, but can be down with using var_dump ( variable ) (not available in UE v15.00.0.1047), or UltraEdit . outputWindow . write ( " string without or with variable value(s) " ) on w...

Okay, the requirements for the coding of the script are quite clear now for me. I thought the $ was just used as a placeholder in the code template to mark the end of the lines with trailing whitespaces, but that character is really in the file with very important meaning. I think, it should be no p...

The color and font style settings in the wordfiles itself are no longer used by UltraEdit since v20.00 introducing the themes feature. So it would be good to delete them for faster processing the wordfiles by UltraEdit on startup. Please take a look on The ultimate macros to manage wordfiles and the...

Okay, let's start a new user to user discussion about startup time of UltraEdit in addition to UltraEdit is getting very slow on startup because of a start time of 1 to 3 seconds is typical for UltraEdit v28.10. I suggest first opening the file changes.txt in program files folder of UltraEdit and se...

That is a very good explanation how to more efficiently process all the differences in all different files of a folder comparison using keyboard instead of the pointing device as most likely used by the vast majority of UltraCompare users. But currently latest UltraCompare v21.10.0.18 does not suppo...

UltraEdit macros do not support variables. The string/value entered by the user is written into active file at current position of the caret. For that reason many of my macros using GetString or GetValue move the caret first to top of the file, then call one of the two macro commands, use next comma...

The simple method is clicking in status bar at bottom of the encoding selector and select instead of ANSI code page 1252 (ANSI -Latin I) (or whatever ANSI code page is default according to country configured for your user account) one of the OEM code pages 437 (OEM - United States) or 850 (OEM - Mul...

Right click on any file tab to open the context menu, open the submenu File Tabs and make sure the option Sort File Tabs is not enabled by clicking on this menu item if this option is currently enabled.

I have no access to a device with SSH and so my suggestions below are just general hints according to little information read by me on several web pages just now. The help contains indeed: Terminal Type This option is used to specify the terminal type set on the remote server (an Environment variabl...

I wrote an UltraEdit script for this task which can be executed only on active file. I think, it is not possible to use Replace in Files for this task to process all HTML files in a folder without opening one after the other in UltraEdit. The script below can be extended with GetListOfFiles to proce...

No, that is not possible. There are enough tools like PuTTY and script interpreters like Python or PowerShell which support that. There is really no need to enhance a text editor for scripted execution of commands via SSH on a different device in my opinion. Well, it is of course possible to configu...

Here is version 1 of the wordfile AVRco.uew . Duplicate words are removed and the remaining words are sorted. The function strings are rewritten for Perl syntax. Please let me know if you want more improvements.

The  used font is not a fixed-pitch font. A fixed-pitch font is a font available in the styles normal, bold and italic and the characters have in all three styles the same width. The used font is most likely available only for style normal. So the Windows text rendering engine must emulate bold styl...

A Perl regular expression replace all with search string ^ [^\t]*? \t \K ( (?! [\t'] ) [^\t]+ ) and replace string ' \1 ' could be used on file being a TSV file (tab-separated values file). No field value for second data column and field values in second data column starting with ' are ignored by th...

There are projects and workspaces. Projects have files and/or folders added in the Project Settings dialog window which are listed in several windows like on tab Project in File View . Workspaces are projects without having project files added in Project Settings dialog window. The project files/fol...

The script code to renumber the DIV identifiers: if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)  // Is any file opened? {   // Define environment for this script.   UltraEdit.insertMode();   if (typeof(UltraEdit.columnModeOff) == "function") UltraEdit.columnModeOff();   else if (typeof(UltraEdit.activeDocument....

The HTML file must be modified already by using a script. So why are the DIV elements not reordered with the script which would make it unnecessary to assign a decrementing number as identifier to each DIV element and let the browser reorder them on display? Do you know that an id name must begin wi...

There is no command to select a column in entire file.  The column mode is usually used (by programmers using UltraEdit) just with a small rectangular selection created by first enabling column mode with Alt+C and then pressing and holding left mouse button while moving mouse pointer (cursor) or pre...

Drop-down menu text (disabled) is the correct item to change the text color of disabled menu items up to UltraEdit for Windows v22.20, except for theme Classic which does not allow setting the styles for application window. But as I found out today this color setting has no effect anymore on text c...

I reported the issue with no strings found with option Highlight all items found checked on Unicode file as follows to IDM support by email and received a reply that the issue could be reproduced and was added into the issue database for investigation by a developer of UltraEdit. [hr] Forum member O...

Ovg , the search expression [[: ^ ascii:]] works to find non-ASCII characters, although this expression is not really correct. Correct would be the syntax [ ^ [: ascii:]] as it can be seen for example on Boost documentation page for Perl Regular Expression Syntax , which is the library used by Ultr...

Yes, you are right. It is not possible with UltraEdit v27.10.0.164 to sort lines numeric according to number at beginning of the lines according to key 1 and on identical numbers alphabetic according to the strings defined by key 2. If a string of a key cannot be successfully converted to a number, ...

The following UltraEdit script can be used to sort the words on every (selected) line in a not too large file without sorting the lines in the file. if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)  // Is any file opened? {    // Define environment for this script.    UltraEdit.insertMode();    if (typeof(UltraEd...

The Sort feature sorts always entire lines in selected block or entire file. It does never sort words (space/tab separated strings) within a line. An UltraEdit script would be required for such a words sort within each line. An example demonstrating numeric and column based sorts. The file contains ...

UltraEdit is a text editor. It cannot process binary data stored in a *.xls or *.xlsx file. It can process data stored in a comma-separated values file with using a comma , or a semicolon ; or a vertical bar (pipe) | or a horizontal tab character as separator and having usually the file extensions ....

The command String at every increment in menu Insert (toolbar/menu mode with traditional menus) or on tab Edit in popup menu of Insert item (ribbon mode) or in submenu Insert item in menu Edit (toolbar/menu mode with contemporary menus) is not the command Insert/fill columns in contemporary menu Edi...

Here is a customized script which I think fulfills all your requirements. The strings assigned to the variables g_sListFile and g_sFolderDefault must be defined by you. The variables g_sFolderReplace and sLogFileName can be defined with a non-empty string to avoid the prompt for the base folder path...

There is no direct access to resources of operating system. But it is possible to get the user name string from the environment variable USERNAME on having configured a user tool for this task. One solution is configuring a user tool with following settings. Tab Command: Menu item name: GetUserName ...

The backslashes in the full qualified file name used in a Perl regular expression replace string must be all escaped with one more backslash to be interpreted as backslash character by the Perl regular expression function. There is no need for the file name functions GetFilePath and GetNameOfFile on...

An UltraEdit macro or UltraEdit script is used for such a task in general. A macro could be created by simply recording the replaces done once manually. A script must be really coded. In general it is most efficient that the file to modify with a series of finds and replaces is not opened at all in ...

It is still possible to use a different application than UltraCompare for comparing files in UEStudio 20.10. The file %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UEStudio\uestudio.ini is no longer used by UES v20.10. If uestudio.ini still exists from an older installation of UEStudio, it can be deleted if there is no plan t...

KarstenG , I want to let you know an important fact on this issue detected by me on writing the issue report for IDM support. The issue does not occur with file name specified with full path on command line. In this case the file specified on command line is always really the active file after star...

There have been lots of changes between UltraCompare v15.xx and v20.20.0. 3 6 . Build 3 6 is important for this issue as it can be read on UltraCompare hotfix information page with following information for this hotfix version: Addressed issue with status bar I recommend to do following: In ribbon m...

Thanks for the additional information regarding to used version of UltraEdit and the configuration settings. I could reproduce the issue with 32-bit UltraEdit v27.10.0.148 with your configuration and having opened the same files as you on exit with active file being the file bbb.txt on exit. UltraEd...

The word to search for help does not need to be selected manually on not using key F1 to open the user added "help" . UltraEdit selects it automatically before opening the help/webpage on clicking on the appropriate item in menu Help (question mark popup window in ribbon mode) or the appropriate sym...

Which version of UltraEdit do you use? The currently latest version for Windows is 27.10.0.148. What is configured at Advanced - Settings or Configuration - File handling - Session options ? What is configured at Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Application layout - Miscellaneous for: Files se...

On using ribbon mode click on ribbon tab Extras on item Einstellungen sichern directly on the graphic symbol or next on first popup menu item Sichern oder Wiederherstellen von Benutzerkonfigurationen on having clicked on the text below the icon. On using Modus Symbolleiste/Menü with Moderne Menüs op...

The macro commands  XMLCompressDocument and XMLFormatDocument are fully implemented in UltraEdit for Windows v27.10.0.148 and UEStudio v20.10.0.52 as also the UltraEdit document scripting commands xmlCompressDocument and xmlFormatDocument .

The Edit/Create Macro dialog window contains at bottom of Command   list the two undocumented commands XMLCompressDocument and XMLFormatDocument in addition to documented command XMLConvertToCRLF . The two undocumented commands are not (yet) supported by UltraEdit macro editor/creator/recorder. I th...

See also Wrong result with a find using option match whole word in rare cases with longer word across a block boundary (fixed) . UltraEdit and UEStudio do not load an entire file into memory for processing. Large files are processed in blocks. A Perl regular expression is always run on currently loa...

It is possible to select a large block with using a Find and hold key Shift on clicking on button Next , i.e. use the Find Select feature The selection can be in this case even several hundred MB or even some GB. The Find Select feature is also available for UltraEdit macros. But it is not possible ...

The suggested improvements for the commands and strings for user interface are implemented all in German UltraEdit for Windows v27.00.0.54 and UEStudio v20.00.0.36. They could be implemented even in a former version of UE v27.00, but that could not be verified by me due to missing German version for...

The improvements on user interface (ribbon tabs, menus, etc.) are  implemented all in German UE v27.00.0.54 and UES v20.00.0.36. They could be implemented even in a former version of UE v27.00, but that could not be verified by me due to missing German version for verification. I use usually the Eng...

The help page update according to my suggestion was done with German UltraEdit for Windows v27.00.0.82 and UEStudio v20.00.0.48. But I could see one formatting and two small grammar mistakes on the German help page for the document map after its revision. I reported the three remaining errors as wel...

I see the same issue on my customized toolbar used in toolbar/menu mode with traditional menus. It looks like the developers of UltraEdit added the icons for the commands introduced with UltraEdit for Windows v27.10 in the middle of the icons collection resulting in lots of commands are associated n...

Run a Perl regular expression find with search string [^\x00-\xFF]+ to find one or more characters with a code value NOT in range 0 to 255 (decimal, 00 to FF hexadecimal), i.e. exclude ASCII and Latin-1 characters. It would be also possible to use [^\x00-\x7F]+ (not in range 0 to 127 decimal) to exc...

It is also possible to define a hotkey or chord at Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Key mappings for User help  1 to User help  6 to execute the help/website search by key. There is also the command Google in key mappings configuration dialog to run a Google search by key without having added ...

There is installed with UltraEdit for Windows v27.00.0.94 and UEStudio v20.00.0.50 an updated javascript.uew and also an updated css.uew for syntax highlighting of JavaScript code and CSS definitions. The syntax highlighting wordfile javascript.uew contains the improved function strings definition a...

There is one more use case of an anonymous function with a parameter not found with the regular expressions above. $('.reset-store').click(function(e) { e.preventDefault(); return window.location.reload(); }); I modified the function string block to the following block to recognize also this anonymo...

You have done a good job. I played around about two hours two avoid the false positive function parameter listings for arrow functions with no parameters, but gave it up finally and decided to split up the arrow function searching into two groups, one for arrow functions without parameters and one f...

UltraEdit filters out all results of the regular expression finds which have as result an empty string because of listing multiple empty strings in function list view is not really helpful for any programmer. That would be just confusing in my opinion, at least I would be really confused on seeing e...

What is the problem is a good question. I created with 32-bit UltraEdit for Windows v27.00.0.72 a new ASCII file with the three lines posted by you and clicked on item Sort on ribbon tab Edit and the order of lines changed to Mary , Paul , Peter as expected by me. Next I changed the sort options usi...

Thanks for the screenshots. They were really helpful to understand the wanted feature. There is no built-in command in currently latest UltraEdit for Windows v27.00.0.54 for this type of HTML element selecting as far as I know. I suggest to read my post Highlight matching HTML tag explaining what to...

I would have used in this case the search expression: <video muted="1" preload="auto" [^>]+? src=" ( [^\t\r\n."]+? ) \.mp4" [^>]*? ></video> The matching replace string would be: <img src=" \1 .jpg"> [^>]+? ... searches non-greedy for any character including newline characters which can exist within...

Yes, on using UltraEdit v25.20.0.88 and running this replace (or find) in single step mode, i.e. with first searching for next occurrence, viewing the found and selected text and then replace it, the displayed selection is wrong after the first two replaces. However, running from top of file Replace...

Here is an UltraEdit script to create or update a table of contents for a Markdown file according to your specifications. if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0) // Is any file opened? {    // There must be at least one string in this array.    // The strings can be all just "-" for a flat list.    // Se...