UltraEdit. UltraEdit is a text editor and hex editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It was initially developed in 1994 by Ian D. Mead, the founder of IDM Computer Solutions Inc., and was acquired by Idera Inc. in August 2021. UltraEdit is designed for users who focus on different types of software engineering. It is trialware. 

Some HTML editing features include:
 Integration with CSE HTML Validator for offline HTML, XHTML, and CSS checking
 HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular functions and tags
 Customize tags in the HTML toolbar or create new tags and buttons

History 
Originally named MEDIT, UltraEdit was first designed to run on Windows 3.1. A version called UltraEdit-32 was later created to run on Windows NT and Windows 95. The last 16-bit UltraEdit program version was 6.20b. UltraEdit-32 was later renamed to UltraEdit in version 14.00. Version 22.2 was the first native 64-bit version of the text editor. Starting with 2022.0 (the successor of 28.20), versioning had become based on the year it was released in.

Key features

 Facilitates the opening and editing of large files, up to 4GB and greater in size
 Native 64-bit architecture
 Multi-caret editing and multi-select
 Document map navigation
 Column (block) mode editing
 Regular expression find and replace
 Find/Replace in Files
 Extensible code highlighting, with 'wordfiles' already available for many languages
 Code folding and hierarchical function listing
 Beautify and reformat source code
 XML editing features, such as XML tree view, reformatting, and validation
 Auto-closing XML and HTML tags
 Smart templates for code completion
 Editor themes
 Integrated FTP, SSH, and Telnet clients
 Hex editing
 Log file polling
 File/data sorting
 File encryption and decryption
 Project management
 Bookmarking
 Automation via macros and scripts
 Integrated file compare

UltraCompare 
File, Folder, Excel, PDF, Zip, Rar, Jar Compare. 

Features include: Compare, Merge, Sync, UltraEdit integration, Source Control Integration, handles large files

UEStudio 
It is a variant with additional support for IDE editing. It also enhances file handling, file editing, and HTML editing over UltraEdit.

IDE features include: Workspace Manager, project builder (interactive and batch),
resource editor, project converter, class viewer, native compiler support, and debugger with integrated debugging (via WinDBG).

File handling features include: Project Manager, Git/SVN/CVS version control.

File editing features include: Tabbed Output Window for script commands, an intelligent auto-complete tooltip.

HTML editing features include: Integrated PHP, and Ruby support.

UltraFinder 
UltraFinder is a file finder application under UltraEdit's suite of developer tools. It provides a quick and lightweight Windows search utility that finds any file, word, text string, pattern, and duplicate files on the user's computer.

UF runs searches on hard drives, shared and network volumes, removable drives, and remote FTP/SFTP servers.

Features: 
Search capability of 2,000,000+ files in minutes, duplicate identification.
Integration with main UltraEdit text editor.

Searches: Files, PC, Network, Servers

UltraFTP 
UltraFTP is a program that gives the website owner and server administrator a GUI to manage the files on the servers.

FTP client features: Commercially supported, 64-bit FTP client, Native Unicode, fast upload/download, multi connections.

Past reception 
In a review published on June 4, 2004 PC Magazine, the author said that UltraEdit v10.0 is the editor's favorite text editor. In a review published on July 9, 2006, Softpedia wrote UltraEdit contains many useful features and that it considered the program "excellent".

CNET/Download.com says about UltraEdit: "With its clear layout and powerful project and work-space features, it can handle complex and sophisticated software-development projects. But despite its vast range of features, UltraEdit never feels overwhelming. It's flexible and easy to customize, and the polished user interface provides easy access to the most important options..."

See also 
 List of text editors
 Comparison of text editors
 Comparison of file comparison tools

References

External links 
 

Hex editors
Windows text editors
MacOS text editors
Linux text editors
Proprietary commercial software for Linux