Reviews of UltraEdit

1. 
   Inray

   Reviewing 17.20.0 (Sep 4, 2011)

   @HeilNizar: There are many editors out there much better than the NotePad++ though 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.
2. 
   HeilNizar

   Reviewing 17.20.0 (Sep 3, 2011)

   Do some people still use anything other than Notepad++?!!!
3. 
   pjafrombbay

   Reviewing 17.20.0 (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
4. 
   Inray

   Reviewing 17.10.0 (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.
5. 
   Hilbert

   Reviewing 16.30.0 (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.
   
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   P.S.: If I'm wrong about UE's filtering capability and it's really 'simple', then someone explain the obvious and I'll gladly correct my statement above. (Incidentally, the problem of filtering damaged files is now becoming a commonplace necessity with the increasing recovery of thousands of files from large crashed HDs. UE or not, I'd like to hear from anyone with a simple and quick solution.)

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?