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- Hi, Is there a way to perform spell check by invoking UltraEdit from the command line? If yes, how to do so? ThanksReplies: 1 Views: 19
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- Last post by Mofi
9:55 - Today
- I use 2 editors all day long. My other editor has a feature where on the key word "function", it adds a virtually line before each function. As I get older, I like to see the line breaks. Currently, I add //-------------, which is very old school, can this be done virtually in the syntax file or s...Replies: 1 Views: 68
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16:16 - 1 day ago
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <report version="1.0" kind="exception"> <system description="macOS Version 14.4 (Build 23E214)"/> <stack> <frame level="0" function="0x00000001018338ac" offset="0" address="0x1018338ac"/> <frame level="1" function="_sigtramp" offset="0" address="0x7...Replies: 1 Views: 83
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18:08 - 1 day ago
- I have 1000+ html pages with the following structure (along with the code line numbers, and the title is different in each page): 5 <title>This is a title</title> 10 <body><div id="postarea"> 11 <table> So, I would like to find all the pages that line 10 is followed by line 11 (there are pages t...Replies: 2 Views: 119
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18:02 - 1 day ago
- When checking for updates, my UE and UltraCompare installations state that "No update available at this time" even though newer versions are available for download on the UE website. Why is that?Replies: 5 Views: 11.9K
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- Last post by Mofi
7:12 - 21 days ago
- Hi all! Some time ago, an update to UE started messing with my templates. Yes, I know, I should have reported it straight away, but I had other things that were more urgent at the time. By now, I am so annoyed by this, that I figure it is time to get this sorted out. I have a lot of self-created tem...Replies: 3 Views: 8.6K
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6:44 - Mar 01
- Hello! I'm new of UE. I write code in C . When I write: #ifdef ABC if (var1 == 1) { var2 = 0; } #endif I get a "function" in function list (tagged with "if"). Immagine.png I see in my c_cplusplus.uew file: /TGFindStr = "(?!if|else|while)(?:\w+\s+)*(\w+)\s*\((?:[^{;}]*)\)[\t\r\n]*\{" How...Replies: 1 Views: 2.2K
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- Last post by Mofi
18:34 - Feb 29
- Hi everyone! I'm new to this discussion board and excited to be here. I'm currently using UltraEdit as my text editor and working with a MySQL 8 database. While UltraEdit is a fantastic tool, I'm curious if there are newer language options available beyond 5.1. Could anyone point me in the direction...Replies: 1 Views: 37.8K
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18:19 - Feb 23
- I think these three things are called fold items: code_folding_item.png Is there a way to collapse and or expand all of them at once? Thanks!Replies: 1 Views: 1.7K
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- Last post by fgeurts
2:29 - Feb 23
- Hello, I have been searching for an answer to this issue. I have found similar questions but not this exact thing. By default there is in UltraEdit an "Open Last-Closed Tab" bar at the top that displays open files with tabs. I was working away one night and accidentally made this bar disappear. I ha...Replies: 2 Views: 1.8K
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- Last post by jadelantern
13:38 - Feb 21
- Pardon me for opening a new topic, but I could not find anything in the forums regarding using SSL/TLS (TLS v1.2). New company policy states that all file transfers must be encrypted. We currently use clear-text FTP with UltraEdit and UltraCompare. I am using a Unisys OS 2200 host. Unisys does not s...Replies: 5 Views: 30.5K
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- Last post by mr_nelson
0:05 - Feb 21
- Hello, I receive various text files with various encoding. I have older systems which can only accept files with no code page or Windows-1252. I have had good success using UE to manually open CSV files and save them as ANSI/ASCII with DOS Terminators. Doing this, the few accented characters I so...Replies: 3 Views: 8.5K
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- Last post by Mofi
11:07 - Feb 18
- I'm using 2023.1.0.23 64-bit on windows server 2022 I'm trying to get windows speech to text to work I did ensure that I didn't have any misconfiguration with that - it seems to work in Notepad and other apps However, in UltraEdit, it's not working I can use Notepad, but it would be lovely to use my...Replies: 0 Views: 1.5K
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- Last post by DigitalSorceress
14:21 - Feb 11
- [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.Replies: 32 Views: 43.2K
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14:16 - Feb 11
- I created a macro and set it to load on startup. I no longer needed the first macro because I incorporated it into a second macro, so I deleted the first macro. However, now I get a macro load error on startup. How can I remove the reference to the first macro on startup (UE version 28.10)?Replies: 2 Views: 9.8K
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- Last post by jmpaxton
18:28 - Feb 09
- It seems that JavaScript syntax highlighting in UltraEdit does not disregard apostrophes in template strings defined with ` (grave accent). In the example (attachment), the code under string_a is highlighted properly. The code highlighting under string_b is confused as it seems to be waiting for a ...Replies: 1 Views: 8.0K
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- Last post by Mofi
7:06 - Feb 07
- I am an All Access user and need to move everything to a new PC. I know how to back the settings for UltraEdit and restore it to the new machine, but what about the other applications? Do I have to do the backup/restore for each one individually or is there a way to do one backup/restore for all th...Replies: 13 Views: 9.8K
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- Last post by johnmsch
4:07 - Feb 02
- Is there an option to deactivate the keyboard shortcut which switches the clipboard? Thank you.Replies: 4 Views: 2.2K
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- Last post by Giomach
0:07 - Feb 01
- How can I configure the wordfile to highlight a word that is surrounded by other characters? Example: %VARIABLE% [VARIABLE] Relase: 2023.2.0.27 64-bitReplies: 2 Views: 2.6K
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- Last post by Mofi
6:36 - Jan 31
- I am trying to write a regular expression to find dates with the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:ss . I tried the following expression, but UE returns You have entered an invalid regular expression . I tried both Unix and Perl options with the same result. What am I missing? qr/^(?:[1-9]\d{3}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0...Replies: 3 Views: 82.9K
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- Last post by fleggy
23:26 - Jan 29
- I am working with a large text file, and need to insert a line break after every character in the text. Unlike other text tools I have tried, UltraEdit is able to handle the large amount of text really quickly (pretty much everything else I have tried times out). I can use (Perl) regex to find each ...Replies: 4 Views: 2.2K
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- Last post by tiro_j
17:22 - Jan 24
- I have a file that I need to change about 1000 lines out of (that are unfortunately not all in sequence due to how the file is set up) where I need to paste a string of characters to a certain column on those line. Unfortunately each line (while starting with the same characters) is different, so I ...Replies: 5 Views: 2.7K
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- Last post by fleggy
21:03 - Jan 23
- Hello I use UltraEdit to open remote CSS files. After opening a file, I do a change, open the web browser and check if it works, and switch back to the file and so on. The file is write protected after just very few changes (and saving the file). Please see screenshot. So I need to click the gray wr...Replies: 2 Views: 2.0K
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- Last post by patXpat
13:05 - Jan 20
- If you double click a word or check Highlight all items found in Find , all the words are highlighted. How can I highlight two separate words?Replies: 2 Views: 6.1K
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- Last post by Mofi
18:23 - Jan 18
- Hello, I have downloaded and installed the latest version of UltraEdit (2023.2.0.27, german, 64bit) from the website. Since then, strangely enough, I can no longer enter 'ß' . All other characters work. I had to reinstall the previous version (2023.1.0.23) to be able to use all characters again. Has...Replies: 1 Views: 3.1K
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- Last post by fschulze.1960
19:53 - Jan 13
- Hello I use UE v2022.0.0.19 on a MAC OS Sonoma. There I have done all configuration in UE and added FTP accounts. Now I want to use UE on a MACBook Sonoma. To avoid to do all the configuration work and setting up all FTP accounts again, I want to export everything from MAC computer and import it on ...Replies: 2 Views: 1.8K
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13:38 - Jan 06
- I know this has been brought up in times past, but I am just wondering how others are dealing with the apparent lack of snippet support. Personally, I have gone through and converted my snippets from PrimalScript into US's Template List and have the tab visible on the side of my editor. My issue is ...Replies: 9 Views: 22.3K
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- Last post by ousidestuff
21:55 - Jan 04
- I'm trying to write a script that could find all files inside a folder and its subfolders. " GetListOfFiles.js ", written by Mofi, already do that. But how to modify it to find only files with exactly same name? Like this: d:\folder1\one file.jpg d:\folder2\one file.jpg d:\folder3\one file.jpg Exten...Replies: 10 Views: 4.5K
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- Last post by Gabarito
Dec 16, 2023
- I uncovered a seeming deficiency in the way that UltraEdit does that, at least for the .json I was using. The .json wasn't working as it should, so I looked at it in UE (latest version in Windows). It seemed perfectly fine based on what I knew should be in the file, color coding included. When I loo...Replies: 3 Views: 4.4K
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Dec 16, 2023
- Hi, How to exchange/flip the two panes/frames in UltraCompare? 20231214_094719.jpg I can't find a button to do that! RegardsReplies: 3 Views: 4.4K
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- Last post by Mofi
Dec 15, 2023
- Creating a new project file, when I add a folder it comes in as a relative path. This is distracting and I'd like to see the absolute path. I used Add Folder and tried both entering the path directly and navigating to it. This screenshot shows what's displayed when I enter for the user name "exampl...Replies: 3 Views: 12.0K
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Dec 14, 2023
- Hi all, Is it possible to change the size of the 'Auto-complete' window so that the information is displayed completely? Many thanks for your help. Best regards RamonReplies: 1 Views: 12.1K
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- Last post by Mofi
Dec 12, 2023
- Hello everyone. This is Tristan—marketing manager for UltraEdit. As some of you may have noticed, the UltraEdit website has been given a refresh in early 2023. Apart from aesthetic reasons, this was executed because we wanted to streamline the website experience from downloading free trials, gettin...Replies: 6 Views: 12.0K
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- Last post by DigitalSorceress
Dec 11, 2023
- Is there a setting somewhere to indicate which Powershell version to use? The default is 5.1, I have 7.3.x scripts. Also, how can I change the font of the terminal? My $profile is using oh-my-posh for the powerline prompt with the powerlevel10k_rainbow theme. For that to display correctly I would...Replies: 2 Views: 5.8K
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- Last post by Mofi
Dec 08, 2023
- I want to print a small text file with UltraEdit v2023.1.0.23 on my new Windows 11 system and it does not print the first line of the file. When I look at it in Print Preview, the first line does not display as well. However, if I zoom in using Preview and then zoom back out, the first line magicall...Replies: 5 Views: 12.5K
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Dec 01, 2023
- Hello, is it actually possible to change the color (dark red) of the dashed line in the spell checker? Sometimes not easily recognizable with a dark background. I have already tried everything. Can anyone help? Greetings FrankReplies: 2 Views: 4.2K
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- Last post by fschulze.1960
Nov 30, 2023
- When I use UltraEdit to edit files on our network over a (Cisco) VPN, the files take 20-30 seconds each to load. Once loaded, the UE goes "not responding" for periods of up to a minute frequently. Sometimes even clicking a menu will take a long time. The files are not large (2 to 3K). Notepad opens ...Replies: 13 Views: 17.5K
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- Last post by petertiang71
Nov 29, 2023
- Hello everyone, How can I set the standard links such as TXT etc.? There is only opened the Windows 11 settings window Apps – Default apps after opening in UltraEdit Settings and clicking in the tree pane on File associations and next on button System File Association . But the UltraEdit program doe...Replies: 6 Views: 5.7K
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- Last post by Angelchc
Nov 21, 2023
- I have the UltraEdit Professional Text/HEX Editor (x64) Version 22.20.0.49 configured to SFTP/SSH a known Linux host on two different laptops both running Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Version 10.0.19045. One of the laptops successfully connects as expected for Browse SFTP, etc. but the other cra...Replies: 5 Views: 8.1K
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- Last post by chonkofsky
Nov 09, 2023
- Hello all, I have customized my UC ribbon quite a bit, is there a Backup Settings option like there is in UE so we don't have to create ribbon / UI screenshots and manually recreate the customizations after a system reload?Replies: 1 Views: 10.6K
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- Last post by Mofi
Nov 07, 2023
- Hi UE fans I go Layout Tab > Output Group > Output Window - Output Window - Check to show the output window. Low and behold I see two tabs numbered 1 and 2. What are these? 100000000 thank yous for any reply! 2023-10-15 19h47m10s93 Output Window.jpgReplies: 2 Views: 5.5K
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- Last post by slouw
Oct 15, 2023
- Greeting UE Fans I am interested in what exactly the " Active Script " is in the context of the screenshots below. Q01 The Active File is the file being worked on i.e. the text file visible in the editor at any current time correct? See below. 2023-10-15 12h16m17s89 Q01 Active File.jpg Here is what ...Replies: 2 Views: 5.3K
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- Last post by slouw
Oct 15, 2023
- Starting with v2023.0.0.41 my color group for highlighting dates: /C15"Dates" ** 2024-01 2024-02 2024-03 2024-04 2024-05 2024-06 2024-07 is not being recognized anymore. How can I resolve this? Reverting to an older version works, but with the currently latest version it doesn't anymore.Replies: 5 Views: 11.3K
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- Last post by slouw
Oct 12, 2023
- I have UltraEdit for Mac (Version 2022.0.0.19). In the File View window (at the left), when I enter the first few letters (characters) of a file, it is not taking me there. So for example, if I type the characters "man", I want it to jump in the list to the file: management_dictionary.htmlReplies: 0 Views: 7.8K
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- Last post by JaapJ
Oct 10, 2023
- In UltraEdit for Mac (Version 2022.0.0.19) I can't get it to remember the last directory or files I was working on. Also it is not remembering the directories I have in UltraEdit Preferences > Folders > Default Open Folder. When I reopen the app, it's putting me on the Root directory of my hard disk...Replies: 0 Views: 2.4K
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- Last post by JaapJ
Oct 10, 2023
- I recently upgraded to the latest version from version 14 (yes, I know). One thing I miss is that in version 14, when I was selecting multiple lines, the blank lines would show that they were being selected. In the new version, they don't. (See below). Is there any way to change this behavior? Old v...Replies: 1 Views: 9.5K
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- Last post by Mofi
Oct 06, 2023
- I am having an issue with the Find and Replace functions in UE. I had been using a version of UE that we installed a couple years ago or so. Hadn't been any issues until recently when there were problems getting the Find and Replace dialog box to appear, and sometimes even the small Quick Find box...Replies: 2 Views: 8.3K
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- Last post by MLinMO
Oct 04, 2023
- Hello, I see a "Set Font dialog" mentioned in the UltraCompare Help Index, but I can't see how to activate it from menu or ribbon. The default font does not make a good job of displaying combining diacritic characters. In UltraEdit I use the Consolas font without any problems. Thank you.Replies: 9 Views: 10.5K
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- Last post by Giomach
Sep 27, 2023
- I love, love, love the PowerShell terminal integration in UE. In my case, the integration is running PowerShell 5.x. This works flawlessly and will cover most of my needs. If you absolutely need or want to use PowerShell 7's new features, or are a stubborn old mule like myself, I was able to get PS7...Replies: 4 Views: 27.2K
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- Last post by miller.davidl
Sep 21, 2023
- Hi all. I'm using UltraEdit version 25.20.0.166. I would like to extract special text from the lines of a file. For this purpose I tried to use JavaScript code by following these steps: I created a JavaScript file - extractText.js . Then launched UltraEdit and in menu selected the Advanced . Selecte...Replies: 3 Views: 9.8K
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- Last post by Mofi
Sep 18, 2023