UltraEdit 16.30.0

Rated 50/50 by Boreth at Mar 3, 2010

Boot 1-2 seconds, 20Mb file load less in than that, as many or as few toolbars as you want or need, an interface that can be adapted to my current use of the editor Ofcourse I have to admit that the 12Mb footprint is pushing my system to it's limits but then again maybe not. Bought the lifetime licence for $19.95 ages ago, never looked back.

Rated 50/50 by emanresU deriseD at Mar 3, 2010

It's funny how people rate. Someone cares about editing on a mainframe, so they give it a high rating. Someone else has vague notions that it handles syntax highlighting poorly, so he gives it a low rating. Someone inexplicably whines about the toolbars (despite the fact that the toolbars are 100% configurable). Someone else is too poor or cheap to pay for anything, so he throws a tantrum and also gives it a low rating. Yet another person runs a P-16 from 1987, so he complains about the startup speed. I'm not immune to rating based on what I care about, but I still think it's funny. 5 stars for a well-supported and full-featured editor. I don't equate "has features I probably won't ever use" or "is over 2-KB in size" with "bloated". That's just simple-mindedness. I have a lifetime license for UltraEdit and have been a registered user for a full decade. I've tried all the other editors mentioned by the cheerleaders below, and they all have their own issues and limitations. And none of them can match UltraEdit's feature set or its support.

Rated 10/50 by Inray at Mar 3, 2010

Still bloated and buggy as hell.

Rated 40/50 by NotSoSkilledUser at Mar 3, 2010

Very overbloated text editor, I'll stick with it just for the Column mode and its related stuff: selecting/deleting/copying/aligning a rectangular portion of text, inserting a column of numbers and so on... I'm guessing why no other editor has such fatures... Hey you folks of the Notepad++ development team... CAN YOU HEAR ME???? =)

Rated 50/50 by ecarlson at Apr 13, 2010

A++ for tech support. I reported the Spell as you Type bug in v16.00.0.1037 late yesterday afternoon, they quickly responded that they were able to identify the issue, and they notified me that they released the fix in 16.00.0.1038 this morning. Overnight service!

Rated 10/50 by ssb at Jul 9, 2010

Buggy bloatware!

Rated 50/50 by coachgm41 at Nov 11, 2010

Wow, were do I begin. So many features. This tool is very handy especially for those who work on their own websites. The html highlighting is great and the html tools help me remember the format of html tags. None. This is better than every free text editor out there. I would definitely recommend this text editor to anyone who does website work. Its a very nice tool to own and worth every penny.

Rated 10/50 by andysheepleton at Nov 17, 2010

Almost as good as textpad for the short time it works. Short, short life, nags, malware and horrible customer service I Had textpad for years, I then got a new computer and tried Ultraedit. What a mistake it was operable for less than 2 months when it nagged me for a product update. The update rendered my software inoperable without an additional purchase. Pure Crap. I switched back to textpad with absolutely no nags and no problems.The company is a bunch of money grubbing thieves who could do so much more if they made a piece of software that met peoples needs that they could enjoy without the company trying to turn them into a never ending cash machine for IDM

Rated 20/50 by Hilbert at Dec 6, 2010

Like emanresU deriseD I too have a lifetime license for UltraEdit and I've used it for many years (and it's still my default text editor) but I'm not so upbeat about it as him. I find myself agreeing more with ssb, as recent versions of UE are definitely buggy (and it crashes) and there's considerable bloatware not to mention that it now takes considerably longer to load than it once did. Moreover, it's getting hard to find one's way around UltraEdit and some of the newer features (such as the macro list pop outs are simply annoying and should be turned off by default). With UltraEdit, I've gone from a once devotee who would always load it as the first utility after the O/S installation to running it in parallel with the excellent freeware text editor Notepad++. I'm using Notepad++ more and more now, as frankly it's easier to use than UE. Several weeks ago I had two somewhat unusual text editing jobs that I thought I could easily solve in UltraEdit (but I gave up and did it another way). The first being a large but damaged (cross-linked) email text file where I wished to remove all non-ISO/IEC 8859-1 text (i.e. the cross-linked gibberish), and the second being to paste a recovered word processing doc into UltraEdit and have it filter everything out EXCEPT printable ASCII. After looking around in the UltraEdit menus for a minute or so, I decided it was too messy and time-consuming, as it would involve me writing macros etc. Despite its increasing bloat, UltraEdit, still has no simple way of filtering text. Why can't we have a simple feature in 'Find'/'Find and Replace' called 'Character Sets' that would find all non-printing ASCII characters (or vice versa), then display them in say a red color for easy identification and removal? Right, the latest UltraEdit releases have all the bloat without ease of usability. Despite my criticisms of UltraEdit I do agree with emanresU deriseD that IDM's service is very good--it's both fast and efficient. --------- P.

Rated 50/50 by Mukunda_Yuyutsu at Dec 29, 2010

It is fast stable and has a ton of functions. The column selection tool, FTP client, advanced sorting, multiple file search and built in ASCII table are just examples of the huge amount of stuff they have managed to cram into this tool. For really really large files it can take a while to open the file.

Rated 10/50 by Lucien_Sabre at Apr 9, 2011

Abso-fu**ing-lutely none. It stops explorer.exe. o.o On uninstall, it stops explorer.exe...which is what makes Windows work normally. u.u

Rated 50/50 by tipwilson at May 2, 2011

Full featured, often updated and improved Can't think of any right now. I wouldn't think of using another editor.

Rated 10/50 by Inray at Aug 5, 2011

UltraEdit used to be my favorite programmers editor for years; but not any more. I cannot stand any more the bloat, the slowness and all those silly bugs.

Rated 10/50 by pjafrombbay at Sep 2, 2011

Simply: 1. Too big; 2. Too bloaty; and 3. Too expensive. Try something Like: 1. EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com/index.html) or 2. TwistPad (http://www.carthagosoft.net/) Both are full featured, light load on your system and relatively cheap. Regards, Peter

Rated 10/50 by HeilNizar at Sep 3, 2011

Do some people still use anything other than Notepad++?!!!

Rated 10/50 by Inray at Sep 4, 2011

@HeilNizar: There are many editors out there much better than the NotePad++ but UltraEdit is definitely not one of them. UE not only is bloated, unreliable, slow and buggy but also suffers from a number of very serious encoding issues especially when using Unicode / UTF8. I've lost days of work in the past due to all these issues. On the contrary, editors with full Uniscribe support like EmEditor and EditPlus as well as a few others like HippoEdit or AkelPad work great with Unicode, are light in resource usage and disk footprint and perform faster and much more stable than this junk.