Download UltraEdit 24.20

IDM Computer Solutions has released version 24.20 of UltraEdit. This one multifunctional text editor can handle plain ascii text, but hexadecimal files and html files are no problem either. Furthermore, the program has features such as macros, vertical block selection, syntax highlighting, a built-in ftp client and spell checker in various languages. In version 24.20 Among other things, syntax highlighting for folded code has been added and searches are now much faster than before. The complete changelog looks like this:

UltraEdit v24.20 Changes

• Folded code highlighting
  • Folding control turns solid when section is collapsed
  • Background coloring for first line of folded code
  • Configure colors for the above in theme
• Dramatic performance improvements for Find
  • Blazingly fast, grep-like speed when writing of thousands of search results to the Output Window and Find String List
  • Greatly improved performance and memory management for huge Find in Files results (700,000+ matches)
  • Quicker and more responsive canceling of Find / Replace in Files
  • Greatly improved performance with many strings highlighted via “Highlight all” or Quick Find
  • Addressed issues with mixed line terminators in Find String List causing erroneous line numbers
• Dramatic performance improvements for hidden lines
  • Much faster “Delete all hidden lines”, especially with many lines hidden
  • Much smoother scrolling with large sections of hidden code / text
• Tab delimited sort
  • Sort file based on tab-separated value fields instead of column numbers
  • Optionally specify start and end characters for each field
• Syntax highlighting improvements
  • Syntax highlighting preserved for partially selected keywords
  • Function list no longer shows functions in block comments
  • Unmatched string character in regexp class no longer causes unwanted string highlighting
  • Addressed issue with incorrect syntax highlighting after wrapping lines
• Display improvements
  • Title bar no longer uses black color for text with darker title bar background
  • Improved display and spacing of line number margin (decreased width when line numbers disabled)
  • Restored vertical scroll bar in vertically oriented multi-line file tabs
• Status bar “Bytes selected” now reports “Chars selected” instead (mainly for UTF-8 files)
• SSH/Telnet and FTP now prompt for user name when not set
• Reverted accelerator keys for File Change Detection dialog buttons
• Addressed XML / HTML tag highlighting issues with Asian characters
• Addressed several column mode issues when editing multi-byte (Asian) characters
• Addressed issues with file/folder paths containing Unicode characters in .prj files
• Addressed file change detection prompt with time zone change or daylight savings change
• Addressed word wrap issues with non-Latin characters
• Addressed issues with UltraEdit (legacy) and Unix style regular expressions
• Addressed issue with hex insert in files greater than 4 GB