UltraEdit is a commercial text editor

Text editor

A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....

 for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 and Mac OS X (Intel) created in 1994 by Ian D. Mead. The editor contains tools for programmers, including macros, configurable syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that display text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature eases writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as both structures and...

, code folding

Code folding

Code folding is a feature of some text editors, source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations...

, file type conversions, project management, regular expression

Regular expression

In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"...

s for search-and-replace, a column-edit mode, remote editing of files via FTP

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...

, interfaces for API

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

s or command lines of choice and more. Files can be browsed and edited in tabs.

Originally called UltraEdit, it was designed to run in Windows 3.1. A version called UltraEdit-32 was later created to run in Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...

 and Windows 95

Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...

. The last 16-bit UltraEdit program was 6.20b.

Beginning with version 11, the Wintertree spell check engine was replaced by GNU Aspell

GNU Aspell

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.

UltraEdit-32 was renamed to UltraEdit in version 14.00.

An installation of UltraEdit takes about 30 MB of disk space. It also supports Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 and hex

Hex editor

A hex editor is a type of computer program that allows a user to manipulate the fundamental binary data that makes up computer files. Note that computer files can be very small to very large...

 editing mode. It does not have complete support for Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

.

HTML editing features include:

• Integration with CSE HTML Validator
  CSE HTML Validator
  CSE HTML Validator is a software program for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and above that was created by Albert Wiersch and is developed and sold electronically by AI Internet Solutions based near Dallas, TX.CSE HTML Validator is designed to help...
  
   for offline HTML, XHTML and CSS checking
• HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular functions and HTML tags
• Customize tags in HTML toolbar or create new tags and buttons
• CSS style builder

UltraEdit is Demoware: It can be evaluated during a 30-day or 45-day trial period, depending on previous usage. After expiration of this period, the application will work only with a regular license key.

UltraEdit also includes UltraCompare Lite.

UEStudio

It is a variant with additional support for IDE editing. It also enhances file handling, file editing, HTML editing over UltraEdit.

IDE features include: Workspace Manager, project builder (interactive and batch),
resource editor, project converter, class viewer, native compiler support, debugger with integrated debugging (via WinDBG

WinDbg

WinDbg is a multipurposed debugger for Microsoft Windows, distributed on the web by Microsoft. It can be used to debug user mode applications, drivers, and the operating system itself in kernel mode...

).

File handling features include: Project Manager, SVN/CVS version control.

File editing features include: Tabbed Output Window for script commands, intelligent auto complete tooltip.

HTML editing features include: Integrated PHP, Ruby support.

Reviews

UltraEdit has been given high ranks and awards by different authorities. STReport Online Magazine commented that "UltraEdit has to be the most professional shareware package we've seen and used." and has been awarded it seven times since 1997. In a review published on PC Magazine

PC Magazine

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, the author said that UltraEdit is the editor's favourite text editor. Softpedia

Softpedia

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once praised since UltraEdit contains plenty of features useful for all types of users and considered it "excellent".