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- I am doing some searching and also some global replaces for items with and without a trademark symbol. However, I am getting inconsistent behavior. When I search with UltraEdit regular expression for items without a trademark using PRODUCT[~™] as search string using Find in Files , sometimes it stil...Replies: 6 Views: 23.8K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 10, 2019
- I have a plain text with five lines in a paragraph. When I use Reformat Paragraph it replaces the first character of some lines with a space. I reformat text a lot. Is there a fix or a workaround? --- original before reformat --- Stubby Piper was small and of a jolly rotundity. But he was not as sma...Replies: 5 Views: 10.9K
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- Last post by rfrank17
May 09, 2019
- Hi, I need to know how UES handles byte order marks. For example, if I open a file from another source which does not contain BOMs, will UES add them? Generally speaking, will UES keep the BOMs as they found them? Can I add or remove them? Thanks, --BrianReplies: 14 Views: 12.8K
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- Last post by Peter
May 06, 2019
- Greetings, I occasionally need to use Windows 10's high-contrast ("classic") theme because of sight impairment, which strips a lot of visual elements from the user interface generally, e.g.: https://i.postimg.cc/mDsRJtBH/ue-xp-hc-png.png So when in high-contrast mode, I'm experiencing an issue I've ...Replies: 2 Views: 6.3K
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- Last post by DV7
May 04, 2019
- When UE inserts the time, it is incorrect. I checked with command line (timedatectl) and it is all correct. How do I fix this? Can anyone help? EigenFunctions Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bitReplies: 5 Views: 86.5K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 04, 2019
- Showing Command Palette with hotkey Ctrl+Shift+P doesn't work in UEStudio, but does in UltraEdit. I can use the command palette by clicking the button in top right of the application, but I would like the hotkey to get it to show. I searched the key mapping, but didn't see anything for the command p...Replies: 3 Views: 75.5K
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- Last post by fgeurts
May 02, 2019
- This seems to be a problem of UltraEdit for Windows of the currently latest releases which are 26.00.0.62 or 26.00.0.72. I have never seen this wrong behavior before. Select some lines whereby first and last line are not selected 'from beginning' or 'to end' of line. Press several times the button f...Replies: 2 Views: 8.5K
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- Last post by Peter
May 02, 2019
- I can use filter/show to display only the lines that I want, but if I try to select all & cut them it seems to grab all of the folded lines as well. I can do a multi-line copy and paste pretty easily, but I haven't figured out a way to do the cut. Thanks.Replies: 2 Views: 7.4K
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Apr 28, 2019
- I have trouble sometimes reading the regular expressions in the box especially with a lot of vertically drawn and minimal characters. Is there a setting for it? I'm using size 11 font right now. I'm using a laptop with a 15.6" display running the native 1920 by 1280 resolution with no rescaling ("10...Replies: 2 Views: 12.3K
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Apr 28, 2019
- I tried really hard to figure out how to do this and I failed. I read all the syntax highlighting documents and I edited several. I probably spent 6 hours and I failed. I'm working with network logs and I want to enhance their readability with some highlighting. The format of a line could be like th...Replies: 2 Views: 7.0K
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Apr 28, 2019
- Should I able to find and replaces angular brackets open and closing into hex value between any tags? Input <p class="para">My <b>name is < Somenath > Chatterjee</b></p> <p class="para">My <b>name is > Somenath < Chatterjee</b></p> <p class="para">My > <b>name is > Somenath Chatterjee</b></p> <p cl...Replies: 4 Views: 7.2K
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Apr 23, 2019
- What are the elements in UltraEdit window with colors defined by Windows and not by UltraEdit theme?First of all I like the option to create own themes and the possibilities are very extensive. By talking about extensiveness I do have some questions: How can I address the not styled areas shown in my screenshot with red arrows? I have searched all options up and down but was not able to add my pre...Replies: 3 Views: 11.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Apr 23, 2019
- I am using UEStudio v19 to edit Windows registry files and use the following wordfile to highlight text. /L6"Reg Files" DisableMLS Nocase Line Comment = ; String Chars = "'% Escape Char = \ File Extensions = REG /Delimiters = ! " %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^{|}~ /Function String = "%^[^(*^)^]$" /Marker Ch...Replies: 2 Views: 6.4K
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Apr 16, 2019
- Is there a setting that would cause the hex editor to use the same font the main editor is using, in the non-hex display section of the file? For example the normal text edit mode of UltraEdit displays the glyph properly: ■ (Black Square, Unicode 25A0) But when the hex edit mode is invoked that g...Replies: 1 Views: 19.9K
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- Last post by Mofi
Apr 13, 2019
- I am working with some exported data, and one of the files contains a notes field, and users have been cutting and pasting emails via the user interface and saving them to that field. The notes field in a given record may thus contain multiple paragraphs (to, from, subject, body, signatures at the b...Replies: 1 Views: 13.4K
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Apr 13, 2019
- Hi! I have a JSON formatted file, but its file extension is .config and not .json. How do I view a .config file in the JSON manager? If I rename the file to *.json, then the JSON manager recognizes it and I see the tree view and so on.Replies: 10 Views: 20.3K
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Apr 08, 2019
- Hi, I can't get UltraEdit to start maximized under Windows 10. The window icon on the top right shows as maximized (the two squares) but it's not. There is a space of a few pixels wide on the sides and bottom. When I minimize the window and then maximize it again it is fully maximized. I tried all ...Replies: 2 Views: 12.8K
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Apr 05, 2019
- Just upgraded to UE v22 from v20 and noticed right off the bat the new changes to the FTP Browser window. When I select File - FTP/Telnet and then Browse to open up a new FTP session, I'm presented with 4 windows tiled. I don't want that and I would like to have the old look of 2 windows side-by-sid...Replies: 3 Views: 8.9K
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Apr 04, 2019
- The "delete all line" type commands do not seem to work for me. They run and initially appears that worked but the lines are actually not deleted from the file. The file I am working with has approximately 60000 lines (10 MB) and I am either hiding or bookmarking approximately 126 lines in the file ...Replies: 5 Views: 7.4K
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- Last post by chapmx
Apr 04, 2019
- How does one force UES to use relative paths for files, and store only the relative paths into the .pui file? This would allow me to have a complete project tree on one computer in a different location that I have on another computer. For example, I have an SSD in my main development system that has...Replies: 7 Views: 10.0K
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Apr 04, 2019
- I have an SQL file which has data like this: (1, orange), (2, blue), (3, green), (4, yellow), And there is a second file which has data like this: Green Blue Yellow Yellow green Blue Blue Orange Green I am looking for a script which could replace the data in my second file to the numbers in the SQL ...Replies: 5 Views: 8.7K
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- Last post by mdn4289
Apr 01, 2019
- I just got a new computer and decided to upgrade my UltraEdit -- which I've been using since version 3.0 -- to UEStudio while I was at it. I was very unhappy to see that the right-click menu integration that I've come to know and love has broken. I suspect it is due to a Windows 10 change, but I'm n...Replies: 3 Views: 12.3K
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- Last post by Mofi
Mar 30, 2019
- Is it possible to create a script to count repetitive numbers and report the sum of each group? For example: 250 250 250 300 300 90 800 800 800 Should create this report 3: 250 2: 300 1: 90 3: 800 The numbers are line by line in the file. I'll edit out the string XXXX-MM-320 to just the number. But ...Replies: 3 Views: 7.8K
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- Last post by Peter
Mar 29, 2019
- How can I avoid pasting 2 line breaks instead of 1 with text copied with Citrix viewer to clipboard?When I copy some text from other applications (e.g. connected to some Windows machine through Citrix) to UltraEdit for MAC, single line breaks are transformed to double line breaks. I see some configuration options in UltraEdit documentation, but I think that these options are not available in Ultra...Replies: 7 Views: 101.8K
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Mar 29, 2019
- Hi, Can UltraEdit be used to get total number of lines for multiple files? This is very useful to get statistic info about a project, such as Visual C++ project. Thanks.Replies: 4 Views: 57.3K
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- Last post by alanchen
Mar 29, 2019
- UltraEdit 26 added that help dialogue that pops up at the bottom, I've looked through all the options and can't find where to turn the dang thing off. It sometimes won't go away no matter how I click it... and it doesn't have a corner X to close it. It loves to pop up right over top some code I'm tr...Replies: 2 Views: 4.7K
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- Last post by wcgrnway
Mar 27, 2019
- What I want to find in the file content: ' eat at joe ' But I additionally want these results omitted: ' eat at joe s diner because it ' So my results would only contain text such as: ' eat at joe street cafe on the... ' Basically how do I add a NOT qualifier (or equivalent) to my UltraFinder file c...Replies: 2 Views: 4.6K
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- Last post by johnwayne_dad
Mar 26, 2019
- I started to create a tag list, and it seems that the entries in the list are strictly sorted by name. Is there a way to define a personal sorting of the entries? BTW: This string in the German help file seems to be outdated: "Standarddatei für Tags ist die taglist .txt- Datei"Replies: 2 Views: 4.2K
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- Last post by Peter
Mar 25, 2019
- Got involved with a project using golang, found the wordfile but go isn't listed like PHP/Ruby. How do I get it to compile/debug?Replies: 5 Views: 64.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Mar 25, 2019
- A window titled "Cannot save file" with text "File/Device may be ReadOnly, or open for write by another application. Use 'Save as' to save as a different name." keeps popping up. I have many unsaved files open. Which one is the problem file? UltraEdit should show the name of the file.Replies: 2 Views: 7.4K
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- Last post by maxcred
Mar 21, 2019
- Hi, I'm trying to highlight lines that start with a specific character (colon) preceded by 4 spaces and lines that start with -- . My wordfile is: /L20"FANUC TPL" Line Comment = -- Line Comment Alt = ! String Chars = " Nocase File Extensions = KL LS And files that I would to highli ght are for examp...Replies: 4 Views: 9.2K
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- Last post by Pano89
Mar 21, 2019
- It seems the existing markdown function list is really not helpful, as it groups h1s, h2s, h3s together rather than nesting h2s under h1s, h3s under h2s etc. # First heading Some text ## Sub-heading 2nd level Some text ### Sub-heading 3rd level Some text # Second heading Some text # Third heading So...Replies: 2 Views: 40.9K
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- Last post by StaticGhost
Mar 19, 2019
- It seems I have done this before; I must have. I am at a line in a text file. A line other than the first line. My cursor is at the first column of that line. I would like to "select" from that line all the way to bottom of the file. How do I do that? I have situations where don't need the wrappers ...Replies: 4 Views: 58.8K
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- Last post by Mofi
Mar 18, 2019
- I'm trying to write a script that can handle folder names. I'll explain. I have a lot of HTML files that were saved and are connected with their folders. And I need to process them in a manner that their style files are called by their folders, like this: Current call: <link media="all" href="index....Replies: 10 Views: 8.9K
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- Last post by Gabarito
Mar 16, 2019
- My text files only use characters from the code page Windows-1252. Yet, upon opening, UltraEdit sometimes indicates that a text file is UTF-8 encoded. Why might UltraEdit make this incorrect assumption?Replies: 1 Views: 6.3K
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- Last post by Mofi
Mar 08, 2019
- Hi everyone, I'm currently trying out a trial of UltraEdit and come in from a background of Coda on Mac and Dreamweaver on Windows. From both editors I have (admittedly probably a bad habit) of left clicking and holding, then selecting a piece of code by dragging left. On both of the aforementioned ...Replies: 1 Views: 3.9K
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- Last post by carsheepdonkey
Mar 01, 2019
- Recently, I got a system crash and all UltraEdit configurations had gone to the space. 😨 I could restore many settings using " Import settings " and also " Backup/restore user customizations " features under Advanced menu. But the list of Favorite strings (some with Regular Expression strings) of Fi...Replies: 2 Views: 5.4K
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- Last post by Gabarito
Feb 26, 2019
- Just got myself a new ThinkPad X1, same specifications as my other workstation. Installed UltraEdit and imported the settings and templates. All works well except for the dockable tabs. They are, after I imported my settings, loaded as my other workstation configuration. Template list, script list a...Replies: 1 Views: 10.2K
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- Last post by acos21
Feb 21, 2019
- 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...Replies: 0 Views: 3.4K
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- Last post by hugov
Feb 20, 2019
- Hi, I use Windows 10 Home Korean and UEStudio version 18.20.0.18. I read these two articles below thoroughly: UltraEdit script does not run How to create a script from a post in the forum? But I am still having a trouble in executing the script below. UltraEdit.activeDocument.write("Hello World"); H...Replies: 10 Views: 7.0K
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- Last post by layperson
Feb 20, 2019
- I have been having a go at creating a macro that will select the next/previous block of consecutive non-blank lines (working in a similar way for UNIX/DOS files). This is what I have so far: Select down InsertMode ColumnModeOff HexOff PerlReOn StartSelect Find RegExp Select "(\r\n|\n)*..*(?=(\r\n\r\...Replies: 2 Views: 5.2K
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- Last post by StaticGhost
Feb 19, 2019
- 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...Replies: 3 Views: 6.0K
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- Last post by billeKoek
Feb 16, 2019
- How to remove or move a separator in a toolbar? I can add separator by dragging and dropping Separator from category Miscellaneous to a toolbar. I am new to UltraEdit versions above 18. The documentation is no-existent on this particular subject. Additional information: Windows 7 OS; UltraEdit 25.20...Replies: 2 Views: 32.7K
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- Last post by jskent
Feb 15, 2019
- Hi. I have about 1,000 long lines of HTML look like the one below. 5351 "aCombinationOption" : [{"id": 87116473 ,"price":0,"stockQuantity":509,"regOrder":0,"optionName1":"1. ABC ","optionName2":null,"optionName3":null,"optionName4":null,"optionName5":null,"todayDispatch":false},{"id": 87116474 ,"pr...Replies: 9 Views: 87.1K
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- Last post by fleggy
Feb 06, 2019
- The subject says it all. What's wrong with UE that these characters appear when loading a file, but one is no longer able to type them? They are all stored as 0x1A in a DOS/ANSI Latin I file.Replies: 5 Views: 6.9K
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- Last post by Mofi
Feb 04, 2019
- Hi, I have spent a good 3 days to find out a way to do this and started to have a headache. lol I want to add space before capital letters using a Perl regex or JavaScript. (I prefer Perl.) For example, A bcde F ghi J klmno P qrstuvw X yz ---> A bcde F ghi J klmno P qrstuvw X yz. How can I do this?...Replies: 4 Views: 50.3K
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- Last post by layperson
Jan 30, 2019
- I just updated to UEX 18 on Ubuntu 18.10 Linux and the issue with OPEN file always returning to my HOME directory and not the PROJECT directory is a PITA! Is there a way to fix this? Thanks! John Script BASIC open source project manager / lead developer.Replies: 1 Views: 8.3K
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Jan 30, 2019
- Hello, everyone! I'm a long time user of Notepad++, but I'm testing UE and I like it so far... I have one question: What I would like to do with UE is: 1. Create a blank file. 2. Write something. 3. Close UE without saving and no prompt about saving the file. 4. When I open UE again, all unsaved fil...Replies: 7 Views: 21.3K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jan 25, 2019
- Hi, block selection behaves well, except for strings inside ( ) and some cases of multi-line strings Do you think my settings are flawed, or is it working that way at your place, too? Switch to SQL language highlighting. PLSQL wordfile settings: /Open Brace Strings = "(" /Close Brace Strings = ")" s...Replies: 4 Views: 7.0K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jan 24, 2019
- In a file that contains this line: S[]=Fabcdx; S[]; Using Perl syntax. Find pattern: \ [ ( \ ] .+? \ [ ) Replace pattern: [1 \1 2 Or: \ [1 \1 2 should give: S[1]=Fabcdx; S[2]; But the result is: S[1 ]; The hex is: 53 58 31 0A 5D 38 0D 0A Is this a bug? Or is my regular expression at fault?Replies: 4 Views: 4.5K
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Jan 23, 2019