Questions tagged [ultraedit]

UltraEdit is a long-standing, popular code and text editor, with its own macro language, a powerful column-editing mode, custom environments, tag lists, and templates.

UltraEdit is a long-standing, popular code and text editor, with its own macro language, a powerful column-editing mode, custom environments, tag lists, and templates.

The editor has a powerful trans-file Regular Expression search and replace feature, a "projects" feature for grouping related files, and integration with third-party tools that you can add to the environment.

Version 17 brings enhanced file explorer views, tighter integration with the sister application UltraCompare, customized tabs, and search expression highlighting.

See http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit/ultraedit_features.html for a complete features list.

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Regular Expression Using the Dot-Matches-All Mode

Normally the . doesn't match newline unless I specify the engine to do so with the (?s) flag. I tried this regexp on my editor's (UltraEdit v14.10) regexp engine using Perl style regexp mode: (?s).*i The search text contains multiple lines and…
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How to toggle between HEX and normal view (ASCII) in UltraEdit?

How can you go back to the normal ASCII view, instead of the HEX view? I know it is possible, but I forgot where and how. See beneath the situation I want to change.
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UltraEdit Java Editor Setup

Does anyone have some suggestions on how to set up UltraEdit-32 (I'm using version 8.10a) for use as a Java editor? Specifically, I'd like to have the ability to auto-format source code based on a coding style that can be configured. For example,…
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Removing new lines from a text file in Notepad++

I need to replace all the strings that look like this: <\name> for a Tab name can be anything from 3 to 15 characters long I've managed to do it by doing search <\.*> replace with \t Now I need to replace any new lines with a single Tab i.e. remove…
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UltraEdit close matching brace

In most text editors, if you type in a { or " (you get the idea), the editor will automatically enter the opposite character, and put your cursor in between. I noticed that UltraEdit does not do this. Is there any way that I can setup UltraEdit so…
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How can i remove a newline using ultraedit?

I have a very long text file that contains records of data in a two lines format. Is there a way to simply replace all "newlines" characters to a space using IDM UltraEdit? Sample input record (two lines): OPCODE { V { X1; } W {…
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UltraEdit: Deleting all lines under a certain length with \n and or \r

I have a massive text file and want to remove all lines that are less than 6 characters long. I tried the following search string (Regular expressions - Perl) ^.{0,5}\n\r$ -- string not found ^.{0,5}\n\r -- string not found ^.{0,5}$ --…
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Move the beginning of a line at its end for each line in Notepad++ or UltraEdit

I have a question using Notepad++ or UltraEdit to copy the first or two first columns of my file and add them to the end. The problem would be easy if my file had regular columns, but it doesn't. Here is what it looks like: 18,-8 22 30.82,70 2…
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Need regular expression to replace before and after while keeping the numbers in the middle

I have the following: itemid=44'>Red Flower I need it to be this: _ITEMID_START_44_ITEMID_END_ Can this be done with regular expressions? I need to keep the id (44 in the example), and replace everything on the left with _ITEMID_START_and…
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Syntax hightlighting of template-toolkit within Ultraedit

Have anyone succesfully created a "wordfile" that works? I've tried but i can't get it to highlight [% and %]
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Regular expression to replace text

I am very new to regular expressions. I am using UltraEdit, and would like to use regular expressions to make the changes described below. I have some text in the following pattern:
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UltraEdit Current Line Highlight

The line with the cursor in it is highlighted with a pale, aquamarine color. Is there a configuration method to change that color? Is there a configuration method to turn that off?
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How to remove the bracket in strings like "(2003)" using ultraedit and regular expressions?

I am going the remove the bracket for strings like "(1978)", "(2003)" in ultraedit. Actually I know how to locate these strings using a regular expression:\(\d{4}\), but I don't know how to remove the bracket. Any help would be appreciated.
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How to write regular expression in UE to implement this requirement?

Now I have a large C++ project which is made up of about 1400k lines of code. Now I have a requirement: Add one line of code to each class which is derived from CDialog, CWnd or CListCtrl. It's impossible for me to do this manually. I think maybe…
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Can We delete many columns as UltraEdit in Xcode?

in order to delete the follow " NSString *" NSString * todayDate; NSString * conditionStatus; NSString * ftemp; NSString * ctemp; NSString * imageUrl; make it like below once todayDate; conditionStatus; ftemp; ctemp; imageUrl;
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