Reviews of UltraEdit

1. 
   Stephen Bungert

   Reviewing 15.20.0 (Oct 21, 2009)

   I am now forced to use this editor at work in stead of EditPad Pro. UE sucks, it is amazingly slow, there are so many toolbars that the toolbars are almost unusable, start up takes so long I can go make a cup of tea. The syntax highlighting is terrible. maybe if you have never user a better editor you would find this great, but after years of EditPad Pro I can see how bad this programme is... the search and replace is truly awful, like using MS Word. I am very suprised that it is so bad, as I have heard good things about it. At least my company can't make me use it at home!
2. 
   lzvk25

   Reviewing 15.10.0.1025 (Jul 30, 2009)

   I don't know, but this is the only text editor that can edit files using FTP against a MVS Mainframe. There are lots of text editors that can edit through FTP against Unix and Linux, but MVS Mainframes, only UltraEdit.
   BTW, try the new SORT function, this is the very first time I see it implemented the way it should be and it is extremely useful to load really big database tables.
3. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 15.10.0.1018 (Jul 15, 2009)

   I'm going to have to agree with Scatmanjohn Dingledoo on this one. UE does take a couple of seconds to start up but certainly not ten, and I've got a 2.1ghz dualcore. Chances are the slow startup is a viruschecker, malwarechecker or maybe a work drive located on a network share. UE's definitely the best and most full-featured editor out there but it is starting to get a little bloated. Free stuff? I'd probably go for either Notepad2 with codefolding, or else PSPAD. Notepad++ is off my radar on principle, until the author figures out that it's a bug to have http:// links clickable but https:// ones not (and god I hope Mr Caleval shows up here with his, quote, 'masturbatory' comments - had a great laugh at the one he posted on Notepad++ recently).
   
   Another nice editor to try, which starts up pretty much instantaneously: Editplus (www.editplus.com). Based purely on two things: startup time, and linespacing being a little tighter than other editors, that's the one I'm using at the moment. At least until the trial period runs out..
4. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 15.10.0.1018 (Jul 14, 2009)

   Weird. I have a circa-2000 2.1-GHz single-core system, and UltraEdit 15 loads in less than 2 seconds. (It's actually pretty close to 1 second.) This is on subsequent runs, though, NOT the initial launch of UltraEdit. There's something wrong with your installation... I'm not going to be a jerk like most people and laugh at you... What you're seeing is either a bug or caused by something else on your system.
   
   I've had my trouble with UE but I'm sticking with it for the foreseeable future. I've tried all the others and they suck in their own ways. Only UE has everything I want.
   
   Oh and I love dihrtys nickname for me! (Seriously) :)
5. 
   blackz0r

   Reviewing 15.00.0.1047 (Jun 5, 2009)

   Latest version takes over ten seconds to load on a 3GHz machine, which is completely unacceptable. This is most assuredly the best text/code editor available, but the ever-growing bloat costs it a star.

Discuss UltraEdit

1. Jun 6, 2009 - 4:33 PM
   Reverb

   Eaves I have to agree with you. I'm still using 11.20b and it's fast! The search option to list lines containing text which opens a separate window is one of my favorite features! But seriously, ten seconds to load on a 3GHz machine?!?
   Is this thing written in Java?