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Stew S.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Higher Education

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

11/13/2018

"An extremely powerful, customizable code/text editor"

5/5

What do you like best about UltraEdit?

\* Text editing is extremely strong and make it really easy to do powerful things efficiently. My favorites just in that area are:

\* Column editing

\* Multi-caret selection

\* Quick to record and playback keystroke macros (which you can save)

\* Code templates

\* Split screen

\* Search and replace using regular expressions makes searching a breeze

\* Keys can be mapped to your preferences

\* File handling is very strong, especially very large files, including fixed-format and CSV.

\* Themes plus highlighting by file type makes it much easier to scan through code

\* Built-in sftp editor, with file browser Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UltraEdit?

\* I wish they'd offer a range of themes (aka color schemes) for those of us who don't want a black screen.

\* There are \*so many settings\* that finding the setting you want can be daunting. Now that they've added the ability to search through Settings, it's a lot easier. But some special customizations still require you to directly edit the settings.ini file, which seems archaic in 2018. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering UltraEdit:

When you do the 30-day trial, be sure to look under the hood at the extensive functionality. Also, map the key-strokes to your liking for the major editor functions , so it's comfortable for you from the start. Install syntax highlighting add-ons for your favorite languages/file-types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a professional programmer so a great code editor is required. But I have an IDE for most of my coding.

I use UE mostly for viewing and editing large data files, editing HTML, scanning my source code (when UE's powerful Search features really rule).

I also use it to create small code snippets, again for the power of Search/Replace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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