![]() I tried U/E 21 on an old mbox (Eudora/MBX) mail file of about 740MB, which is essentially a super-sized text file, and U/E 21 loaded it comparatively quickly and without fault, which is a considerable improvement over earlier versions before v20 (they would have had great difficulty with a file of that size). That's changed somewhat for the better with U/E v20 onward. It was slow and unresponsive even with the large file settings enabled, and with really large files it'd take ages before the scrollbar would free up-and it if didn't then U/E had locked up altogether or crashed! For me, the solution was always the venerable 30+-year-old VEDIT to the rescue, as it would have no trouble with 2GB text files. U/E has always been able to edit reasonably large text files of 10s to some hundreds of megabytes but until version 20 it's been a first-class dog at so doing. For the average user I'd still strongly recommend the freeware Notepad++ (or perhaps free RJ TextEd) in preference to U/E, but Notepad++ cannot handle very large text files without crashing (it's a design fault rather than a bug)-but UltraEdit can. That said, in fairness to U/E, I should clarify what I said in my earlier review of v20. Even though I've access to lifetime upgrade licences, I still prefer to use version 16.20 as it's not encumbered with this ergonomically-unfriendly activation nonsense. ![]() Locking the product to a particular machine, is perhaps tolerable for programs such as Windows and Photoshop, but frankly it's quite ridiculous to do so for a text editor (for me, this is not a piracy issue-I've multiple legit earlier versions-but it's often impractical especially in the early stages of fixing/reinstalling a PC before U/E is able to go online to be validated, especially if the program's demo mode has already timed out). One of the major obstacles to using UltraEdit since version 17 is that the program is activated a la Windows which means that you can't move it around on a memory stick and such. I have not had sufficient time to verify that the bugs which were present in v20 are fully ironed out in this version. UltraEdit is aimed at developers and such who spend considerable time editing, and it has an exorbitant price to match of $79.95. (To me, the FTP section looks uncannily like a clone of FileZilla.) This version of U/E adds a few new features such as improved 'Quick Find', 'Multi-caret' editing that allows-as its web site says-'multiple changes in different places in your file at one time'-a dangerous operation unless you're an experience user who is very familiar with what you're doing and there's also changes to the inbuilt FTP client browser which U/E's site espouses as multi-pane with many improvements. ![]() Environment Selector - Provides predefined or user-created editing "environments" that remember the state of all of UltraEdit's dockable windows, toolbars and more for user convenience.My view of this current UltraEdit has not fundamentally altered since my previous review of U/E 20.00 (hereunder), which is that it is now a huge overly bloated text editor that's grown like Topsy and thus somewhat disorganized and confusing to use (especially for the casual user).(32-Bit Only) Includes support for SFTP (SSH2) FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save.Multiple wordfiles available for download Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex.100,000 word spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish).Mulitline find and replace dialogs for all searches (Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files).Disk based text editing and large file handling - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files.Supports 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).UltraEdit is specially designed for inputting and editing text and code, UltraEdit supports configurable syntax highlighting and code structuring for most any programming languages. UltraEdit is the ideal text, HEX, HTML, PHP, Java, javascript, Perl, and Programmer's editor. Replacing Notepad or looking for a powerful text editor? UltraEdit is what you're looking for. Scores of individuals use UltraEdit as a powerful replacement for windows notepad and even more use it as a text editor because of its ability to handle multiple documents at once, large file handling, powerful search/find/replace functionality, spell checking versatility and much more. IDM UltraEdit is used across a diverse range of industries, from professional writers, researchers and journalists to advanced programmers, database managers and web developers.
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