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- 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: 20.4K
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Apr 08, 2019
- At work I use a dual monitor display setup. When I use a single instance of UltraEdit it opens on the left desktop and covers about 80% of the screen, which is what I want. When I open a second instance of UltraEdit it always opens with a small window about the size of an index card in the center of...Replies: 10 Views: 6.1K
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Nov 22, 2018
- Hi I have a CSV file that changes daily for export to a different system. Trying to figure out how to drop the "day" from the first instance it appears in a line, but not the second. CSV example: Item#,date1,sold,date2,PO# ItemA,12/18/2017,375,1/22/2018,77954 ItemB,12/18/2017,60,1/22/2018,77954 Ite...Replies: 12 Views: 4.9K
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Jan 08, 2018
- Hi, I am using UE 16.30 and just upgraded to a large display. All windows are crisp and nice, except for UltraEdit where the fonts in the main window and also the menus labels and icons are soft and blurry. I am attaching a partial screenshot showing how crisp the fonts are in Sublime vs the blurry ...Replies: 9 Views: 4.5K
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Dec 10, 2017
- Hello! Does anyone know if you can delete leading spaces from the column select/cursor position, rather than the start of the line? What I would like to do is: use column mode, select a no-width column somewhere in my text over several lines, then delete all spaces to the right from the cursor/selec...Replies: 5 Views: 7.3K
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Sep 28, 2017
- Hi, I have this kind of file (with indenting tabs): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <products> <product> <product_id>62455</product_id> <model>76171570018</model> <image><![CDATA[http://s7d9.scene7.com/is/image/JCPenney/DP0929201617164410M?wid=2000&hei=2000&op_sharpen=1]]></image> <price>69.9...Replies: 8 Views: 7.8K
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Aug 28, 2017
- Hello I cannot select the No Highlighting option from the dropdown on the bottom bar or from the Coding tab. Anyone have any ideas? It just reverts to the previously selected option.Replies: 6 Views: 2.8K
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Aug 19, 2017
- How do you create new custom language templates? I use ColdFusion (CFML) and noticed that there's no dedicated smart template list. I tried to make one by cloning the empty (default) "batch-tpl.xml" language template (to "cfml-tpl.xml" and "coldfusion-tpl.xml", restarted UE and still don't see it in...Replies: 12 Views: 4.1K
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Jul 24, 2017
- I have a similar struggle to new C++14 single quotation marks in binary literals with IDL (Interactive Data Language) which is a data analysis language. It allows strings to be delimited with ' or " but also uses the " to represent an octal integer. So "aaa18" is a string but "18" is an invalid octa...Replies: 2 Views: 1.5K
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Jul 18, 2017
- I have file names of the form: FIlename_XXX.log where XXX is a version number. I want to to have a script which when invoked will save the file with a new filename by incrementing the version number. For example file Filename_003.log would be saved as Filename_004.log . If the filename have no 3 dig...Replies: 4 Views: 1.7K
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Jun 23, 2017
- My office still uses UltraEdit v21.20.0.1004. 1) I was doing a compare of two files and wanted to alter the settings in UltraCompare Lite. When I clicked on Help it went the IDM website but the page was not found, so no help. I suppose that when the site was recently updated the help page was moved ...Replies: 2 Views: 11.7K
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May 26, 2017
- I have a bunch of COBOL programs that I would like to bulk edit. Specifically replacing any COBOL reserved words with their upper case equivalents, and any non-reserved words with lower case equivalents. I have the list of reserved words. Can UltraEdit do that?Replies: 3 Views: 1.5K
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May 23, 2017
- Hello to all UltraEdit for Windows v24.00 and UEStudio v17.00 users! I want to inform you about updates made on the standard wordfiles installed with UltraEdit for Windows v24.00 and UEStudio v17.00 and which need a manual copying by the user for being really used after an upgrade from a previous ve...Replies: 2 Views: 2.4K
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Apr 06, 2017
- I have two separate instances of UltraEdit set up with different options. My "regular" UE session uses a modified Slate theme. My "special" UE session was initially set up to use a modified Sterling theme. I decided to try a different theme. I downloaded all of the other themes on the IDM resources ...Replies: 4 Views: 1.7K
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Feb 27, 2017
- I work with large log files. They have some records that are longer than the viewing window of UltraEdit. I use the " Format >>> Wrap to line ends " menu function to get those long records to wrap so that I can view the entire record in the window. In the past it worked with no problem, by that I me...Replies: 3 Views: 3.0K
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Feb 27, 2017
- Somehow, when I'm using Ctrl+F to find, UltraEdit has several times now increased the font size massively on every single open file. I can see the font size increase rapidly over a second or two. It's not and instantaneous change - I can see them all growing - but it happens very fast. I can fix thi...Replies: 6 Views: 4.8K
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Feb 11, 2017
- Hello, Does UE have something similar to EMacs table mode in order to generate text based tables? Example: +-----------------+--------------------------------+-----------------+ | Command | Description | Key Binding | +-----------------+--------------------------------+-----------------+ | forward-c...Replies: 9 Views: 3.1K
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Jan 09, 2017
- im sorry if this has been asked before but i cannot find it anywhere. i'd like to change the general background color of the text editor window of a theme to a specific value. i have located the theme xml files but none of the names look right and stabbing in the dark is taking forever. This change ...Replies: 5 Views: 2.7K
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Jan 05, 2017
- I'm working on a new theme and I've been trying to match up the Manage Themes menu options to the XML in the theme file. While the Editor settings and the Syntax file settings are easy, the Application settings have proven to be more of an issue. There are 105 entries on the Drop Down menu when the ...Replies: 3 Views: 14.7K
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Dec 29, 2016
- Hi All - I'm having an issue with code folding in BASH that I've been unsuccessful at fixing. It's not a show stopper, but REALLY REALLY annoying... With a few thousand lines of code it becomes difficult to use. Hopefully someone here has already solved this. There are a few commands in BASH that us...Replies: 3 Views: 4.0K
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Dec 21, 2016
- My work computer's hard drive crashed and the sys-admins had to do a complete rebuild and load because they got less than 12% of the data off of the dying drive. While setting UE back up to the way I thought I had it I experienced a problem. Mid-session UltraEdit suddenly syntax highlighted my unsav...Replies: 1 Views: 1.5K
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Nov 19, 2016
- I'm using UEStudio to edit files via FTP folders. I open the site in the workspace, edit, and it saves the file on my computer and uploads to the server. I need to save the file I opened via the workspace before I edit it because I also have the backup site open in a file compare between my local an...Replies: 1 Views: 6.3K
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Sep 14, 2016
- Line folding does a marvelous job, but my preference is to collapse only the primary, first level sets of matches. In order to do that, when a file is loaded, I expand all folds then go through it to collapse only the primary folds one-at-a-time. Some of the files are around 5,000 lines handling a l...Replies: 2 Views: 1.4K
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Jul 01, 2016
- For SSH console, the text selection is like as the block selection in column mode. It's uncomfortable when I need to copy very long line of text such as SSH key. Because it will split a line into multiple lines as same as the console appearance. Could you please provide the text selection for normal...Replies: 1 Views: 7.1K
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Jun 15, 2016
- I'd like to add a key mapping for moving a line up or down. I see the Move Line Up / Down options under the Edit menu. But when I go to the key mapping configuration, these aren't in the list of commands. Is there anything I can do to set this up? I'm on version 15. Thanks,Replies: 2 Views: 2.2K
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May 25, 2016
- While working on a project I wanted to have two different colors of comments so I could quickly locate code blocks that were commented out on a short term basis. Since the language involved is Interactive Data Language (IDL, but not to be confused with some other languages called IDL) and IDL does n...Replies: 3 Views: 1.7K
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May 19, 2016
- Hi I'm hoping someone can suggest a fix for my code folding problem (though I wonder if what I want is possible). Please refer to the first image below. As you will see, there is no code folding option against the FUNCTION or PROCEDURE lines. This is is what I would like if it's possible. I have the...Replies: 6 Views: 2.0K
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Mar 16, 2016
- I use laptop on multiple docking stations with different size of external display monitors. When I switch my laptop to a docking station with lower display resolution (from 4K monitor to 1600x1200 monitor), UE automatically increase the font size from 10 to 15. My comments/suggestions are: 1. When y...Replies: 13 Views: 11.4K
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Mar 14, 2016
- Hi All, I'm wondering if UE supports a way similar to using a URL like this one: "file:///C:/MyFolder/myfile.txt" to open files. I see that if I right-click a URL having "http://..." the top of the context menu has a command to open the URL. Thanks in advance! - FredReplies: 3 Views: 2.8K
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Mar 07, 2016
- Today I had to change a line in a remote file, something I do daily. This time I ran into a problem: sometime in the previous 24 hours the Configuration Management shop had changed permissions to read/execute for all of the files in the directory. So when I went to save the modified file back to the...Replies: 1 Views: 10.9K
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Mar 05, 2016
- What are these things known as in UE? See red box. This is bulleted text pasted in from Word. I can see and understand the tabs (in grey) these are not what I am asking about. Is there a bullet point feature in UE? http://content.screencast.com/users/slouw/folders/Snagit/media/63948a72-60d3-4923-9ab...Replies: 4 Views: 2.8K
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Mar 02, 2016
- In the interest of not starting an unrelated thread, I work with huge files from time to time as well. Today, unfortunately, I encountered a problem which I did not know how to get around, and it forced me to use another editor to achieve what I needed. That's unfortunate. I otherwise love using Ult...Replies: 3 Views: 2.3K
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Feb 16, 2016
- Copying text "AB CD 12 34" and pasting it as binary. When will this feature be available? I think I remember asking for this 10 years ago. Seriously, last time I checked, there was only one other tool that did this.Replies: 9 Views: 7.0K
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Jan 26, 2016
- Hi, I have activated FTP backups in "Advanced --> Configuration --> File Handling", but it only creates the a folder structure. No FTP files appears to be backed up. Locally edited files are backed up as expected. Only FTP causes me headaches. Remote server = Ubuntu 12.04 OS = Windows 10 (Upgraded f...Replies: 2 Views: 28.2K
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Dec 08, 2015