UltraEdit
20.00.0.9
UltraEdit
20.00.0.9Mac version of the Windows text editor.
Overview
UltraEdit is the world's best text editor, now available for Mac. UltraEdit for Mac is a native Mac application based on the popular Windows text editor, UltraEdit! UE Mac offers a myriad of tools that make it ideal for anything from basic text editing, to a full-fledged development in languages such as C, Objective C, Javascript, XML, PHP, Perl, Python, and others. UltraEdit for Mac includes your favorite UltraEdit features such as Find in Files, Replace in Files, native FTP/FTPS, macros, scripting, column/block mode, and a lot more.
What's new in UltraEdit
Version 20.00.0.9:
Markdown support:
- Preview Markdown files (via live preview - see below)
- Preview uses GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) library for rendering
- Select different styles for Markdown rendering (or add your own)
- Special Markdown syntax highlighting (with new MARKDOWN_LANG) language marker
- Support for embedded HTML highlighting
Live HTML preview:
- Split window with code view and browser view
- Code changes (saved and unsaved) are automatically updated in browser view
Quick find:
- Supersedes incremental search
- Press Cmd + F to open; begin typing to highlight matches
- Press Enter to move to the next search string
- Number of matches shown in status bar
Smart Templates:
- Redesigned "Modify Templates" dialog
- Ability to add user-defined variables with selectable parameters
- Template "Auto-suggestion" (suggests template that matches what you type)
- Ability to insert templates via auto-complete dialog
- New "Languages" template group to store templates based on syntax highlighting languages
- New template behavior configuration options in Preferences » Editor » Templates
JSON manager:
- Provides tree-style view of JSON data (based upon .json file extension)
- Copy, cut, paste, and duplicate JSON objects and keys
- See table of key / value data for selected object
- Expand / collapse all nodes
- Drag-and-drop JSON objects / keys to move them
- Format, compress, and re-parse active JSON file
- New wordfile and special syntax highlighting support for JSON
Automatic auto-completion of closing HTML/XML tags:
- Configurable in Preferences » Editor » HTML
- Set whether to close on same line or on new line
Brace auto-completion:
- Brace pairs defined in wordfile are auto-closed when opening brace is typed
- If no braces in wordfile, or if file is not syntax highlighted, "()", "{}", and "[]" are used as defaults
- Pressing Enter will reposition close brace on separate line while maintaining proper indent levels
- Pressing Backspace immediately following auto-completion will remove both opening and closing brace
- Typing close brace skips over auto-completed close brace without inserting second brace
- Can be disabled for non-highlighted (plain text) files
- Can be disabled for comments and strings
- Configurable in Preferences » Editor » Auto-complete
String auto-completion:
- Can be disabled for non-highlighted (plain text) files
- Can be disabled for comments
- Configurable in Preferences » Editor » Auto-complete
Added config option to create "Run as root" UE shortcut on desktop:
- Enable in Preferences » File handling » Misc.
- Added feature to right-click on file path in text file to open it
Optimized for Catalina (macOS 10.15):
- Full dark mode support
- New privacy and security features
- Various improvements and fixes
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a) nice dark themed UI (available in CudaText, Sublime, not many others),
b) nice Ribbon toolbars UI (available in ???? on mac)
c) lot lot of menu items (Sublime has much less of menuitems, but has much more plugins, IMO plugins are better than built-in menuitems)
CudaText also has several dark themes, and lot of plugins (less than Sublime of coz). One downside of CudaText is not stable UI (only on mac it's not stable).
So other editors, CudaText + Sublime Text, are my choice.
Let them compete. Competition keeps everybody honest, as it were. In the meantime, though TextWrangler is no longer supported (the last version still works however), you can use BBEdit for free if you don't need the paid features. And even that is half the price of UltraEdit—and Coda. Even Sublime is more expensive. Price aside, though, I suspect only a hard core coder could tell the difference between these apps. And none of these reviews are helpful in that regard—interface niceties notwithstanding.
If I were thinking of laying out $90 for this program I think I'd look elsewhere for a decent review. Unfortunately, for some reason, text editors don't get a lot of love, except for BBEdit, of course, which I've been using on and off for twenty years.
For years, I (and many others) begged Ian to create a Mac version of UltraEdit, and at long last, his company finally did.
Unfortunately, its launch was timed well after that of TextMate and Sublime Text, which in the mean time had become great editors on their own.
So while there are no beaches today, there was once a huge opportunity for UltraEdit on the mac. Alas, that day passed long before its arrival.