UltraEdit latest changes

• Support for cloud storage services:
  • Google Drive
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • Amazon S3
  • Dropbox
  • Access and edit files from all your cloud storage services
• Application scripting additions:
  • New document properties: dateCreated, dateModified, dateAccessed, fileAttributes, owner, syntaxHighlighting, characters, lines, nonEmptyLines, sLOC, averageLineLength, longestLine, changedLines
  • readText/writeText functions
  • getEnvironmentVariable function
• Updated SSH/Telnet dockable window :
  • Latest encryption standards
  • Support for key agents

Other notable quality improvements

• Honor Windows setting to hide cursor (mouse pointer) while typing
• Allow sorting by clicking on the column headers in the Windows dialog
• Add “Copy” button to Sum Selection dialog for total value
• Sum selection returns incorrect negative value
• Add link to main downloads page in Support menu
• Add ability to run PowerShell script from context menu in Project or FileView
• Add “New script” as default PowerShell template
• Default language for syntax highlighting is changed if new wordfiles are added
• Second instead of first configuration item selected on using Find in Configuration
• Display issues with Manage Themes dialog on Windows 11 at 175% scaling and UHD resolutions
• Clipped labels in Modify Templates/Modify Groups dialogs at 125% scaling
• File extension based font setting is ignored
• URL selection is incorrect in Markdown file
• Default Template fails to appear, after closing and reopening the file
• Renaming a file is not reflected in file lists
• Creating a new template with the same existing template name
• “New script” default template does not appear for all applicable template groups
  
• UI elements not clearly visible after resizing Modify Templates dialog
  

Features and enhancements
• Macro edit/create and settings UI update
• Consolidates global macro settings into a single “Macro settings” dialog
• Improved edit/create macro dialogs
• Individual macro settings now exposed in edit/create dialogs
• Proof of concept plugin framework
• Plugin: Code surround
• Plugin: SQL formatter
• Plugin: JSON to XML
• Plugin: File splitter
• Plugin: Tabs to spaces (leading)
• New community reviewed and approved application icons

Other notable quality improvements
• Files saved without an extension erroneously have CSH extension
• Hang when trying to access Find history
• Alt shortcuts added to macro play dialog
• FTP Browser now uses dockable window font for local/remote panes
• Extension is incorrectly added when file is saved
• Expose current tab stop value in scripting API
• Reproducible hang when inserting comment on last line of file
• Resolved intermittent startup instability
• Brace matching is incorrect in PHP when strings include braces

Features and enhancements

• Enhanced large file mode:
• Brings all large file settings into a common location
• Easily customize large file optimizations
• Enable/disable line numbers, code folding, Intellitips, and more
• New “Replace once” functionality added to Find/Replace dialog
• Improved detection and highlighting of URLs in source files
• Environment variables now supported for default backup directory
• PowerShell terminal font can now be customized
• Other notable quality improvements
• Improved detection of PowerShell scripts
• Addressed crash when loading specific project data
• Selection after spell checking “Change” doesn’t work correctly
• “Right-click”…”Only if Ctrl is pressed” spell check option not working
• Focus is in wrong pane after opening file from FTP and invoking Find dialog
• Display standard deletion confirmation message box when “Remove Script” is selected
• Added setting to specify the number of recent projects shown in list in ribbon/submenu
• Improved C# function detection for function list
• Spaces at beginning of lines are dropped when inserting templates
• Dragging a selection in column mode and dropping it doesn’t work as expected
• Find next (F3) with unlimited columns not working as expected

Features and enhancements

• Application scripting update
• Modern JavaScript support and full browser capabilities
• Legacy JavaScript support by default for full backwards compatibility
• Enable latest JavaScript by adding header to script: // @Engine=WebView2
• Dockable PowerShell terminal
• Dockable window, place anywhere you wish as a floating window or dock in any orientation
• Execute any valid shell commands
• Edit and run PowerShell scripts from the ribbon
• Run selected portions of PowerShell scripts
• Enhanced live preview: Dev Tools & Select/Capture/Print
• Select Inspect from the live preview context menu
• Review DOM and loaded resources
• Select command from live preview context menu
• Capture as text
• Capture as image
• Print rendered page to printer or PDF

• Spell check improvements
• FTP/FTPS/SFTP improvements

• Other notable enhancements and quality improvements
• Caret position is incorrect with certain UTF-8 content
• Comment/Uncomment improvements
• URL highlighting and interaction improvements
• Highlighting incorrect after replace all in selected text
• Inserting multi-line HTML templates positions the closing tag incorrectly
• Incorrect highlighting of inline PHP comments
• Active string isn’t highlighted correctly after quick find
• Crash on startup with specific command line parameters
• Caret jumps to beginning of line when editing with Live Preview enabled
• Enable updated JavaScript support for command line script execution
• Spellcheck checks entire document instead of selection
• Added PHP, Python, Ruby, and PowerShell commands to Coding ribbon
• Crash in command palette with \ root path
• Crash when inserting a template
• Unable to scroll to leftmost tab when single line scrollable tabs are enabled
• FTP: Parsing certain large directories is very slow
• FTP: Issue loading PPK v3 keys
• FTP: Files opened in wrong tab group when using tiled windows mode
• FTP: Extra line added to files opened using ASCII transfer mode
• FTP: Rename Folder navigates into folder instead of renaming with Show Current Directory Only enabled
• FTP: F5 triggers Capitalize command in active file when focus is in FTP pane
• Caret position and auto complete dialog incorrect with Ctrl + Backspace
• Brace matching incorrectly highlights brace inside string
• Macro quick record forces Find Up for find actions
• Crash after sorting file with specific content
• Quick find skips first occurrence in file after search wraps from end to beginning of UTF-16 file
• Find (and subsequent find string selection) works in ANSI file, but not in UTF-16 files
• Find Next skips first occurrence of search string in large file
• Find skips valid matches for search string
• JSON manager hangs/crashes when trying to work with very large files (30GB+)

• Features and enhancements
• Footnote support for markdown live preview
• Tasklist checkbox support for markdown live preview
• New theme: Monokai
• Open URLs with shift+ctrl+click in currently open files
• Updated CSS wordfile
• Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now works for column mode
• Option to automatically recover documents on system or application failure
• FTP/FTPS/SFTP is updated to the latest encryption, hashing, and protocol standards including full TLS 1.3 support
• Telnet/SSH is updated to the latest encryption, hashing and protocol standards
• Other notable quality improvements
• File added erroneously to project root instead of group folder
• Wordfile changes not reflected until files saved
• Command line flags return incorrect path error
• Reindent selection doesn’t work with unordered list
• Statusbar flickers while typing with wrapped lines
• F3 doesn’t work as expected with infinite column mode
• Perl highlighting shows all text as comment following \qq
• Perl regex with \K not finding all matches
• Quick find UI is hidden or partially visible

• Interactive login for SFTP (2FA support)
  • Connect to servers that require two-factor authentication (2FA) or time-based one-time passwords (TOTP)
  • New “Interactive login” account option (Advanced tab)
  • Single persistent connection used for 2FA accounts to prevent multiple 2FA prompts
  • Connection stays alive during file editing to avoid further 2FA prompts
• Chrome (Edgium) rendering for browser view / live preview
  • Upgrades HTML / Markdown preview to modern rendering engine
  • Requires WebView2 browser component from Microsoft (included in Win 11, available on Win 10)
  • Fallback to older browser control for legacy rendering on systems not supporting WebView2
• Command palette expansions
  • Quick open any previously opened file
    • Type \ then begin typing part of file path or name to filter results; ex: \myFile.js
    • Select path and press Enter to open
    • Clear one or all paths from history
  • Quick open any file
    • Begin typing file path and command palette will offer auto-completing matches
    • Select a matching folder to add it to the path
    • Select a matching file to open it
    • Supports letter drives, UNC, and relative paths
    • Wildcard support for opening multiple files at once; ex: C:\prj\class*.cpp
  • Go-to shorthand
    • Type : then line number / column number to jump to location; ex: :300,25
    • Type :b2 to jump to second bookmark, or :bMyBook to jump to bookmark named “MyBook”
    • Type :p then page break number to jump to page break; ex: :p5
  • Templates now included in command palette
• Syntax highlighting parser overhaul (Code highlighting data abstracted from editor, improving performance and resolving issues)
  • Syntax highlighting maintained when selecting
  • Support for block comments opened with same characters as line comments
  • Support for arbitrary string pairs (square brackets, backticks, etc.)
  • Added support for Perl quote-like string operators like qq(STRING)
  • Improved XML code highlighting with embedded CDATA sections
  • Addressed issues related to complex embedded code highlighting and longer wrapped lines
• HTML Tidy overhaul
  • Updated HTML Tidy library to latest version
  • New HTML Tidy UI with dozens of additional options
  • New command and associated key mapping to run HTML Tidy
• Output window improvements and additions
  • Add and remove any number of output windows
  • Rename output window tabs
  • Select and copy partial or whole lines in output window
• Other notable user experience improvements
  • Ability to rename unsaved file tab
  • User tools automatically import embedded icon from external executable
  • Re-engineered user clipboards now support selections of >4 GB (exceeding Windows clipboard limitations)
  • “Add file to project” now uses regular File Open dialog
  • Reformat JSON now automatically applies code highlighting
  • Size column is now right-aligned in all FTP file lists
• Other notable quality improvements
  • Addressed issue with child windows opening off screen when last positioned on disconnected monitor
  • Addressed issues parsing URL formats for right-click open
  • Addressed Reformat Paragraph issues with large selections of text
  • Addressed issue with “Save selection as” and GB of selected data
  • Addressed file lock issue when saving FTP file
  • Removed 160 byte limit on application title bar
  • Improved selection while in column mode
  • Addressed “Server signature does not match” issue with SFTP
  • Addressed issue with duplicated characters in SSH log
  • Added missing “To uppercase” command to key mapping
  • Added file path and name to non-DOS line terminator prompt
  • Addressed tool performance issue with “Show DOS box” enabled
  • Further theming improvements

• Improved startup speed and performance
  • Various optimizations to startup routines
  • Startup speed now up to 50% faster
• File view / explorer window improvements
  • Existing file view tabs split out into separate dockable windows
    • File explorer
    • Project
    • File lists (favorites, recents, etc.)
    • Open files
  • New ribbon / menu toggles and key mappings for new windows
• Command palette enhancements
  • Command palette now fully resizable
  • More responsive and cleaner user interface
• Macro improvements
  • Greatly improved macro playback speed
  • Reduced screen updates to improve performance
  • Comment support (use # to create a comment line ignored by macro parser)
  • GetValue supports 64-bit integers
  • SaveAs now uses default save directory in all cases
  • Addressed issue with duplicated key mappings
  • Addressed focus issue with GetValue prompt
• Column mode enhancements
  • Improved performance for column editing in large files
  • New option for “Insert/Fill Column” to ignore last line if empty
• Find String List (List lines containing string) improvements
  • Greatly improved performance, especially in large files
  • New option to automatically refresh results
  • Double-clicking result highlights match in file
  • Added F5 keyboard shortcut to refresh results
• Favorite files improvements
  • Redesigned interface to show columns
  • Sort favorite files by name or path
  • Addressed issue with “+All open files” button
• User tool improvements
  • Tool output now displayed in real-time
  • Run tools on remote (FTP) files
  • Tool runtime input via %modify% now uses active clipboard
  • Addressed issue with shifting key mappings when adding or removing tools
  • Tool tooltips in ribbon now display name
  • Improved scaling for custom tool icons in toolbar
• Perl regular expression improvements
  • Perl regexp searches now case sensitive
  • Dot (.) no longer matches new line
  • Added support for Perl regexp DEFINE feature
  • Improved memory handling to support more complex regexps
• Live preview improvements
  • Greatly improved DOM navigation via double-click in browser window
  • Improved selection of text in browser window
• Settings dialog and user interface improvements
  • Settings dialog is fully resizable – text and options flow and wrap as dialog is resized
  • INI path selectable with new “Open” button for fast access to its folder in Application Layout » Advanced
  • Improved usability of Settings search
  • Improved settings for default file open directory in File Handling » Load
  • Various UI tweaks and fixes throughout settings
• Smarter F3 (Find Next): Manual selection in source now searches for selection instead of previous regexp
• New option to disable automatic expansion of nodes in XML Manager
• New option to create new file when all other files are closed
• Themed main application area when all files are closed
• Improved file change detection for network files
• FTP improvements for stability and usability
• Auto-complete display improvements for non-Latin characters
• Improved caret positioning with proportional characters and fonts
• Better error reporting for JSON manager
• Ctrl Left Arrow now stops at beginning of file