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- 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: 8.4K
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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: 13.9K
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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: 6.2K
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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: 5.7K
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- Last post by slouw
Oct 15, 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: 2.5K
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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: 9.9K
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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: 8.7K
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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: 10.7K
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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: 29.6K
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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: 10.1K
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- Last post by Mofi
Sep 18, 2023
- Hi all, I want to replace all 0000 at the beginning of every line in the actual file with two letters AB with a script. 00000012345678 . . . 00000001234567 . . . 00000000123456 . . . 00000012345678 . . . My code: UltraEdit.activeDocument.top(); UltraEdit.activeDocument.findReplace.replaceAll=true; U...Replies: 2 Views: 4.8K
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- Last post by netkid_
Sep 15, 2023
- I am working on a big AutoHotKey 2 macro script, and debugging it. I would like to use UEStudio's line and block commenting features for this (very time-saving). I have a new Ribbon Group and put these function buttons in there, but when I select a line or block in the AutoHotKey 2 macro, they stubb...Replies: 2 Views: 11.3K
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- Last post by kconover
Sep 12, 2023
- Hi, I'm using currently latest version 2023.1.0.19 of UltraEdit and I can't find the menu items to make the following happen. Requirements: When opening a new file or file tab, the display of the file tabs should always be oldest on the left, newest on the right. The file tabs should never be sorted...Replies: 4 Views: 7.5K
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- Last post by suaroman
Sep 06, 2023
- Hello! I would like to delete or replace anything between two specific lines in multiple files. For example: Anything from line 10 to line 20. Thanks a lot!Replies: 4 Views: 7.2K
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- Last post by Sweet_Ivy
Aug 30, 2023
- I am overwhelmed by the number of options in the configuration screens. I often hunt around for a long time to find where to set a particular option. I guess the arrangement makes sense to some people, but not for me. It seems to have grown over the years. Anyway, I came up with a solution. I typed ...Replies: 6 Views: 56.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Aug 28, 2023
- Where do you set the directory where scripts are located? Or do I need to add each existing script one at a time? The reason I ask is either after the last update or the previous one my scripts disappeared from the "All Scripts" popup window. Also ( see attached image ), whether adding a new script ...Replies: 2 Views: 5.1K
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- Last post by spaceBAR
Aug 17, 2023
- I see in UltraEdit that line height & vertical space is too large. Can it not be made automatically like Sublime text and Visual Studio Code where there are normal line heights as in the attached picture? Thank you so much for reply my message.Replies: 6 Views: 10.6K
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- Last post by Mofi
Aug 17, 2023
- Good day, I've been using UltraEdit since I first started working in code back in 2007. I remember having used macros before but it has been a long time. I have a set of find and replace actions that I do to clean up a file generated by a website. This seemed like a prime opportunity to use a macro....Replies: 2 Views: 14.3K
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- Last post by nroberts_SR
Aug 16, 2023
- In case anyone has the same problem, I post my solution to renumbering tokens in a text using regex and script. The job is to renumber Token-IDs given as "TokenId="<n>"". The solution ist quite simple. First replace all "<n>" to "X", then replace the "X" one by one with a number incremented on each ...Replies: 0 Views: 2.3K
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- Last post by Bernd Timmermann
Aug 11, 2023
- I use Shift+TAB to move multiple lines of code backwards. It continually crashes. Can anyone help?Replies: 4 Views: 4.5K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jul 17, 2023
- I did the Google Takeout. It generated an archive of all messages in a single file with an .mbox extension. This file must be opened with a Thunderbird type email client. If I open this file with a text editor, I find the accented letters in an unknown code page. As an example, I give the correspond...Replies: 4 Views: 4.4K
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- Last post by Gabarito
Jul 16, 2023
- Is it possible to get UC to ignore small differences in time between 2 files? I sometimes come a cross directories where one file might be time stamped 09:13:00 and it's comparable file in another directory 09:12:59. I can have hundreds of files with a 1 sec difference like this that show up as diff...Replies: 3 Views: 36.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jul 16, 2023
- I am a prior user of ultraedit (from way, way back), but I can't really figure much out without going through endless menus and submenus. Is there a good source of information related to the functionality available in UEX and walkthroughs of the various menus? Questions I've had to answer for myself...Replies: 2 Views: 266.1K
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- Last post by decuser
Jul 11, 2023
- I'm looking for a Perl regular expression to find a 10-digit number with optional spaces or other characters inside it. The regex should find these examples: 1234567890 123-456-7890 123/456-7890 123.456.7890 123 456 7890 This UltraEdit regex works: [0-9][~0-9]++[0-9][~0-9]++[0-9][~0-9]++[0-9][~0-9]+...Replies: 6 Views: 4.6K
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- Last post by mikerain
Jul 05, 2023
- If the cursor is at the end of this line: 0123456789 ... and I search for UltraEdit regular expression [0-9] (any digit), and click Previous , it should find the digit 9 . Instead it skips the digit 9 and finds the digit 8 . UltraEdit for Windows v14.00 does not do that, but UltraEdit 2023.0.0.50 do...Replies: 2 Views: 2.5K
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Jul 05, 2023
- Using latest 2023.0 UC I'd like to be able to exclude all files / folders older than a certain date/time. I make incremental backups spanning multiple media targets and as I know they are on older media, I want to exclude those already saved. Anyone know how I can achieve this? Is it even possible i...Replies: 2 Views: 3.8K
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- Last post by rtfm_uk
Jun 29, 2023
- I don't understand the difference between Recently Opened Files and Recently Closed Files and why one file shows up in one list and not the other list. Is there an option to just see Recent Files like the older versions of UltraEdit? For example, I opened a file C:\temp\ClipBoard.txt and used it and...Replies: 4 Views: 7.9K
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- Last post by Raymond.Pietrzak
Jun 22, 2023
- I want to use REGEX to modify text strings that identify photos to produce HTML code to display the photos. Some of the identifying strings contain apostrophes and need to be escaped in the HTML code with \. I have REGEX search and replace functions that work in EditPad and also on the regex101.com ...Replies: 6 Views: 4.0K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jun 16, 2023
- Hello, I am a super novice user with UltraEdit and currently am on Version UltraEdit Text/Hex Editor (x64) Version 24.20.0.51 I have files where I need to search a specific column for a value and replace it with another value. I could use a macro but I would like to have a script for this as I am al...Replies: 4 Views: 4.2K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jun 09, 2023
- How can I actually determine the start and end line of a selection? I am a bit stumped greetings FrankReplies: 2 Views: 2.7K
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- Last post by fschulze.1960
Jun 04, 2023
- Is there any way to turn off the highlights that are left over from the find facility "Highlight all items found"? Editing the text after the find has resulted in the situation with the yellow mess all over the place as shown. Many thanks as always for any help.Replies: 7 Views: 15.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Jun 04, 2023
- This sticky topic is created for building a collection of often needed finds or replaces in current file, all open files, or all files in a directory or even folder tree. Every post with a general find or replace which might be useful for others is welcome on this topic. Please give each post an ind...Replies: 12 Views: 51.2K
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- Last post by mikereekie
Jun 02, 2023
- Hello community, I have updated to 64-bit UltraEdit 2023.0.0.41. There should now be a new JS engine integrated. But: let , padEnd ... still do not go? 😢 Can I read somewhere what exactly has been added? Greetings FrankReplies: 5 Views: 3.6K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 28, 2023
- Hello, I have a problem that I could not figure out and I am really stressing with it. I have multiple CSV files of data for a lot of stocks in the same format like the following: DATE TIME_M EX SYM_ROOT SYM_SUFFIX SIZE PRICE TR_CORR TR_SEQNUM TR_ID TR...Replies: 5 Views: 12.6K
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- Last post by 22bob22
May 24, 2023
- Hi there, I just love UE but I'm a "casual user", I mean... just use it to replace Notepad (I know you got A LOT OF features but sadly I don't how yet how to use them). I always use bookmarks with mouse click on the "line number" column but I did something that removed that option... WHERE and HOW c...Replies: 2 Views: 21.5K
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- Last post by m.pierangeli
May 23, 2023
- My normal printing of UE reports have gone greatly misformatted. Lines appear broken, missing, misformatted and totally crazy. Even the Print Preview option has all my reports misformatted. I have checked all my Win10 printer drivers, settings, etc. = no problems. Other program printing = no proble...Replies: 1 Views: 7.3K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 22, 2023
- Recently I've been finding out that UE is not saving my bookmarks between opens and closes. I have checked, and I DO have Save Bookmarks checked in the configuration settings. I am using what I think is the very latest version, 24.10.0.35, 64-bit. I saw " Addressed issues with bookmarks " in the las...Replies: 7 Views: 13.1K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 18, 2023
- I created a script with name bottom.js with just one line: UltraEdit.activeDocument.bottom(); I start it from command line with: uedit64 d:\temp\test.txt /s="d:\temp\bottom.js" The file opens at the first line. The caret goes to the bottom of the file when I run the script from the ribbon Advanced b...Replies: 2 Views: 3.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 17, 2023
- Hello, I need a script to replace in the active document many strings and each string has a different replacement string. For example: Find: " wbrp01.i " replace: " {us/wb/wbrp01.i} " Find: " {gprun.i " replace: " {us/bbi/gprun.i " Find: " {mfdtitle.i} " replace: " {us/mf/mfdtitle.i} "Replies: 1 Views: 2.6K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 16, 2023
- When I use my private key that works everywhere else in UEStudio or UltraEdit, I get a "Type Mismatch" error. What does this mean? How do I fix it?Replies: 2 Views: 56.4K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 11, 2023
- Hi, I need the opinion of you experts: I have now made the update to UE2023. Unfortunately, I do not like the new appearance of the block comment at all (optics!!!). I have therefore written a small program that creates script and function headers with fixed (adjustable) width ==> see code On execut...Replies: 5 Views: 2.9K
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- Last post by Mofi
May 11, 2023
- Problem description: I launch UEX. I use UEX. I have four text files open. I am doing things like regular expression search and replace. I am editing a markdown editor with the live preview I leave it idle for some time. I go back to it. It is consuming 35% CPU (according to top) I can move the win...Replies: 5 Views: 33.2K
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- Last post by mikereekie
May 06, 2023
- I am using UltraEdit in Windows 11 environment. There was no such problem before, but after the Microsoft IME (Input Method Editor) was updated in Windows 11, when I input Korean in UltraEdit, the second character is not written. (Letters are displayed across 1, 3, 5, 7 like this.) A workaround fo...Replies: 3 Views: 9.4K
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- Last post by elvanpath
May 05, 2023
- Through Google and forum searches, I come across 4K and the answers are usually for Windows. I use Arch Linux, and in the GNU/Linux community we use HiDPI. I have a HiDPI laptop, and am already using "Large Icons". However, the icons are still small, and UltraCompare's icons are double the size. I t...Replies: 2 Views: 34.0K
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- Last post by tzoi516
Apr 28, 2023
- Dear all, I am not necessarily looking for the answer, more the best way forward. We have a bunch of files that I think come from an Adobe system. The files look like containing a thumbnail image as well as some metadata about the image. I can open them in a browser window and see an image. When I o...Replies: 2 Views: 7.6K
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- Last post by Basil Fawlty Jnr
Apr 27, 2023
- When I set up a new paragraph formatting and try to reformat a (long) line according to this setup, the reformatted text shows strange characters inserted at the beginning of the lines. Here is a screenshot of my setting of the reformatting options: UE_reform-01.png The file has only one line (3832 ...Replies: 2 Views: 4.3K
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- Last post by DEnzmann
Apr 25, 2023
- UltraEdit suddenly spell checks entire document not just selected text. How do I fix this? Thanks In advance!Replies: 3 Views: 2.7K
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- Last post by Mofi
Apr 25, 2023
- I created a macro and assigned the hotkey Ctrl + Shift + S . I cannot get this hotkey working. UltraEdit does not complain that this hotkey is already assigned. What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to work?Replies: 2 Views: 3.9K
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- Last post by Raymond.Pietrzak
Apr 24, 2023
- I searched but could not find a solution to split the editor to allow working with two open files next do each other. I found the " IDM Power Tip: Drag-N-Drop Split Pane Editing " but this does not help. In the "Note" it says: " In order to use the vertical/horizontal split window, you need to make ...Replies: 4 Views: 32.3K
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- Last post by DEnzmann
Apr 23, 2023