Author: Wylie Garvin
Date: 17:45:55 01/31/02
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On January 29, 2002 at 19:40:56, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>http://www.ultraedit.com
>
>Its shareware, but worth it and there is a free evaluation copy.
>This program has a level of usability that is very rare in software, only
>available on windows although a linux version possibly coming.
>
>It doesn't some some of the fancy features you mention, but it does have many
>nice features:
>
>Files in tabbed window, simple but effective
>Open from ftp, save via ftp, handy when working in a distributed environment
>Syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including c/c++, Java, Perl, HTML
>Fully configurable (macros, key mappings, tons of options)
>Spell checker
>Hex Editor
>Multi-file search & replace, with regex
>Sorting of data
>File/Data conversions: DOS/Unix/Mac, Unicode/ASCII/EBCDIC/UTF-8
>etc etc
>
>I switched to UltraEdit a few months back (used to use PFE), haven't looked
>back.
>
>cheers,
>Peter
I am ashamed to admit that I have been cracking each new version of UltraEdit
for several years now without ever registering. ! But it is a great editor,
and I use it for everything all the time. Someday when I am not broke I really
will register it.
The absolute best feature of this editor compared to other editors:
** COLUMN MODE !! **
No other editor I've seen has such a cool feature. I find myself using it all
the time, even when I have two vertically adjacent lines of code that are mostly
the same, and I want to make symmetric edits to them, I use it for that. But it
really shines when you want to edit large tables, or make batch files out of dir
/b output, or things of that nature.
Also, the wordfile of UltraEdit can be customized (for syntax hilighting of
language-specific keywords in different colors). The syntax hilighting has
several features like marker characters and alternate-comment blocks that can be
used to achieve certain hilighting effects.
I write all my assembly code in UltraEdit, so I've created a syntax hilighting
mode for NASM code. The background color of memory operands is blue (for source
operands) or red (for destination operands). I did this by using "," and "]" as
a marker pair and "[" and "]" as another marker pair. It also *refrains* from
hilighting the apparent memory operand of an LEA instruction, the only insn with
such an operand which does not actually access memory. I implemented that by
setting the "alternate block comment" strings to "LEA"/"]". It also hilights
MMX registers and instructions in a different color to help me with instruction
scheduling.
In short--I can actually see what's going on in my assembly code when I view it
in UltraEdit. It's a great editor.
wylie
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