UltraEdit v16.00 Changes (2010-02-25), released on 2010-03-01
Line Change Indicator (optional; enabled in advanced configuration)
- Show unsaved modifications and saved modifications in different colors
- Set custom colors for Line Change Indicator
Re-engineered function list
- Ability to define an unlimited number of function strings
- Add "groups" for each function string, allowing display of functions in tree-style view with child elements (such as parameters, variables, properties, includes, etc.)
- New "Modify Groups" dialog for adding/removing/modifying function strings
- New search box for searching through function list
Find/Replace additions:
- Find/Replace In Selection now maintains selection highlighting for better visual indicator of search area
- Option to Hide/Show all lines containing search target (hidden lines are collapsed and can be expanded with folding nodes in margin)
- New Regular Expression builder
Find/Replace in Files additions:
- Find in Files output in output window now highlights each match of the Find string
- Ability to specify codepage of target files in Find/Replace In Files dialog
- New Regular Expression builder
Scripting additions (see Help for full documentation)
- Ability to include one script in another (relative or absolute paths)
- Added "activeDocumentIdx" property for accessing active document's index
- Added "useEncoding" (boolean) and "encoding" (int) properites for UltraEdit.frinFiles object to specify whether to use encoding settings and set which code page to use (respectively) when doing Find/Replace in Files via scripting
- Added "codePage" property for accessing and setting document code page via scripting
- Added "lineTerminator" property for accessing the active document's line terminator
- Added "commentSelectionAdd()" and "commentSelectionRemove()" methods for new block comment functionality
- Added "delAllHiddenLines()" method
Added better visual indication that a file is read-only
- Read-only file tab includes a "lock" icon
- Read-only files have separate background colors
Quick column mode: hold Alt, then drag the mouse to make a columnar/block selection
Comment/Uncomment Selection to add or remove language-specific block comments from single- or multi-line selection
New option in Edit -> Delete menu to Delete All Hidden Lines
Ability to edit XML node text directly in XML Manager
Ability to specify UTF-8 as default encoding for all new files (in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> New File Creation)
Insert File now converts the inserted file's encoding to match the target file's encoding
Automatic brace matching now highlights/matches both braces
Undo enhancements:
- Undo for replacing selected text with user/project tool output
- Undo for Insert File
