UltraEdit-32 (& UltraEdit) User’s Manual for UltraEdit/UltraEdit-32 Version 10.00 Rev. 16 Copyright © 2003 IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. UltraEdit/UltraEdit-32, v10.00 Online User’s Manual This manual, as well as the software described herein, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this book. The copyrighted software that accompanies this manual is licensed to the End User for use only in strict accordance with the End User License Agreement, which the Licensee should read carefully before commencing use of the software. This manual may be printed solely for the use of registered users. Except as permitted above and by such license, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of IDM Computer Solutions, Inc. 1 CHAPTER 1 TEXT INPUT AND CURSOR MOVEMENT 20 Insert/Overstrike Modes 20 Inserting Special Characters 20 Drag and Drop Editing 20 Drag and Drop Files 21 Cursor Movement 21 Cursor Arrows 21 Home and End 21 Page Up and Page Down 21 Scrolling 22 Vertical Scrolling 22 Horizontal Scrolling 22 Text Selection/Highlighting 22 Blocking Text 22 Unicode and UTF-8 Support 23 CHAPTER 2 FILE MANAGEMENT 24 File Menu Commands 25 Creating Files 27 New command 27 Opening Files 27 Open command 27 File Open Dialog Box 27 File Name 27 List Files of Type 27 Drives 27 Directories 27 Read Only 27 Network 27 Quick Open command 28 Closing Files 28 Close command 28 Close All Files command 28 FTP 29 FTP Accounts 29 Domain or IP Address 29 Name 29 2 Password 29 Save Password 29 User Account 29 Secure (SFTP – SSH2) 29 Initial Directory 30 Local Copy Directory 30 FTP/Proxy Port 30 Proxy/Firewall Settings 30 Use Proxy 30 Proxy Server 30 FTP Accounts – Advanced 30 Cache password for session if not saved 30 Domain or IP Address 30 Passive Transfers 31 Server Type 31 Full Path Leading Character 31 Path/Node Separator Character 31 Open from FTP 31 Refresh 32 Create Dir 32 Permissions 32 Rename 32 Delete 32 Transfer Type 32 Show Log 32 Save As to FTP 33 Refresh 33 Create Dir 33 Permissions 33 Rename 33 Delete 33 Revert to Saved 33 Saving Files 34 Save command 34 Save As command 34 Save All command 34 Save Selection As command 34 Case Sensitive File Names 34 Make Copy/Backup 34 Rename File 34 Compare Files 35 Differences in color 35 Differences Side-by-Side 35 Ignore Blanks 35 Only Show Lines That Differ 35 Saving/Printing Output 35 Advanced Sort and Options 36 Sort Order 36 Remove Duplicates 36 Ignore Case 36 3 Sort Columns 36 File Conversion 37 UNIX/MAC to DOS 37 DOS to MAC 37 DOS to UNIX 37 ASCII to EBCDIC 37 ANSI to OEM 37 ASCII to Unicode 37 UTF-8 to Unicode 38 Unicode to ASCII 38 UTF-8 to ASCII 38 ASCII to UTF-8 38 Unicode/UTF-8 to UTF-8 38 Unicode/ASCII/UTF-8 to UTF-8 38 Insert File 38 Delete Active File command 39 Send Mail command 39 Large file handling 39 Insert String at Every Increment 39 Start Point 39 End Point 39 Print command 40 Print All Files command 40 Print Preview command 40 Print Preview Toolbar 40 Print 40 Next Page 40 Prev Page 40 One Page / Two Page 40 Zoom In 41 Zoom Out 41 Close 41 Page Setup 41 Page Margins 42 Page Break Character 42 Wrap Text When Printing 42 Print Line Numbers 43 Print 2 Pages on 1 Sheet 43 Print Syntax Highlighting 43 Print Setup 43 Print Setup Dialog Box 43 Printer 43 Orientation 43 4 Paper Size 43 Paper Source 43 Options 43 Network 43 Favorite Files 44 Open 44 Close 44 Add File 44 Add Active File 44 +All Open Files 44 Add Directory 44 Remove File 44 Recent Files 44 Recent Projects/Workspaces 45 Exit command 45 CHAPTER 3 EDIT FEATURES 46 Edit Menu Commands 46 Undo command 47 Redo command 47 Cut command 47 Copy command 47 Paste command 48 Clipboards (Normal, 1-9) 48 Select All command 48 Select Line command 48 Select Range 48 Delete 48 Delete Line 48 Delete to End of Line 48 Delete to Start of Line 49 Insert Date/Time 49 Hex Mode Editing (Please see Hex Editing section) 49 5 Spelling Checker 49 Read Only Command 49 Word Wrap Command 49 Comment Add/Remove 49 Insert Color 50 Working with “Wide Files” 50 Right Mouse Button Commands 50 CHAPTER 4 HEX EDITING FEATURES 51 Hex Mode Editing 51 Hex/EBCDIC Mode Editing 52 Hex Insert/Delete 52 Hex Mode Detection 52 Hex Mode – Line Terminators 52 Hex Copy Selected View 53 CHAPTER 5 SEARCH FEATURES 54 Search Menu Commands 55 Find command 55 Special Character Summary 56 Search Direction 56 List Lines Containing String 56 Match Case 56 Match Whole Word Only 56 Regular Expressions 56 ASCII 57 Find In Files command 57 Search In 57 Files Listed 57 Open Files 57 Project Files 57 Match Case 57 Match Whole Word Only 57 Search Subdirectories 58 Results to Edit Window 58 Unicode Search 58 Regular Expressions 58 6 Find Next command 58 Find Previous command 58 Continue Search at End of File (General Configuration Page) 58 Replace command 59 Special Character Summary 59 Regular Expressions 59 Find Next 59 Replace 59 Replace All 60 Replace in Current File 60 Replace All Within the Selected Text 60 Replace All in All the Open Files 60 Match Case 60 Preserve Case 60 ASCII 61 Replace In Files command 61 Match Case 61 Preserve Case 61 Match Whole Word Only 62 List Changed Files 62 Search Subdirectories 62 Unicode Search 62 Regular Expressions 62 Match Brace 62 Goto Line/Page 63 Setting and Moving to Bookmarks 63 Word Count 63 Function List 64 CTAGS Support 64 What is Ctags? 64 Ctags EXE 64 Ctags Configuration within UltraEdit 64 Creating the Tag File 65 Finding a Symbol/Tag 65 Back/Forward 65 Incremental Search 66 CHAPTER 6 PROJECT FEATURES 67 Project Menu Commands 67 7 New Project command 67 Workspace 68 Project 68 Open Project command 68 Close Project command 68 Files/Settings 68 Filter 69 Open 69 Close 69 Update 69 New Group 69 Add File 69 Add Active File 69 All Open Files 69 Add Folder 69 Remove Item 69 Optional Wordfile 70 Optional CTAG File 70 Create CTAG File on Project Load 70 CHAPTER 7 DISPLAY FEATURES 71 View Menu Commands 72 View as (Highlighting File Type) 73 Toolbar command 73 Toolbar 73 Status Bar command 73 Status Bar 73 Status Bar Contents (from left to right) 73 Insert/Overstrike Modes 74 Open File Tabs 75 Using File Tabs 75 File Tree View 76 Open Files 76 Project Files/Drive 76 Common 76 Function List 76 Macro List 77 Tag List 77 Tag List Modify 77 Creating Custom Tag Lists 78 [TagList] 78 8 [Group List] 78 [Tag Group] 78 Adding Individual Tag Lists 79 [Tag Group - HTML - Special Characters] 79 Replacing the Default Tag List with Any Available Tag List 79 Output Window 79 Set HEX/Column Mode Font 80 Set Font 80 Choose Font dialog box 80 Mirror Display Font 80 Set Printer Font 80 OEM Character Set 81 Reset Fonts (Default) 81 Increase/Decrease Font Size 81 Set Colors 81 Show Spaces/Tabs 81 Set Column Markers 82 Show Column Marker 1/2 82 No Scroll Left Side of Marker 1 82 Display Ruler 82 Display Line Numbers 82 Line Spacing 83 ASCII Table 83 Character 83 Decimal # 83 Hexadecimal # 83 Name # 83 Ctrl Character # 83 Hide/Show Lines 84 Hiding Lines 84 Un-Hiding Lines 84 Saving the Hidden Lines 84 Full Screen Mode 84 9 CHAPTER 8 FORMAT FEATURES 85 Format Menu Commands 85 Reformat Paragraph command 86 Paragraph Formatting 86 Convert CR/LF’s to Wrap 87 Convert Wrap to CR/LF’s 87 CR/LF fix: 88 UNIX/MAC to DOS(File Menu>Conversions) 88 Tabs to Spaces 88 Spaces to Tabs (Leading) 88 Spaces to Tabs (All) 88 Trim Trailing Spaces 89 OEM to ANSI 89 ANSI to OEM 89 Capitalize 89 Invert Case 89 To Lower Case 89 To Upper Case 89 Add Indents 90 Remove Indents 90 Insert Page Break 90 CSE HTML Validator 90 HTML Tidy 90 Reindent File 91 CHAPTER 9 COLUMN/BLOCK EDITING FEATURES 92 Column Menu Commands 92 What is Column/Block Editing? 92 Column Mode 93 10 Insert/Fill Columns 93 Delete Columns 93 Cut Columns command 93 Insert Number 94 Sum Columns/Selection 94 Convert to Fixed Column 94 Scan 94 Scan First Line Only 94 Keep Delimiter with Fixed Columns 94 Separator Character 95 Field Widths 95 Convert 95 Convert to Character Delimited 95 Separator Character 95 Field Widths 95 Convert 95 Left Justify 95 Center Justify 96 Right Justify 96 CHAPTER 10 MACRO FEATURES 97 Macro Menu Commands 97 Load 98 Load and Append to Existing 98 Save All 98 Set Auto Load 98 Edit Macro 98 Commands 99 Parameters 99 Creating a New Macro 99 Modifying an Existing Macro 99 Set Macro for File Load/Save 99 Macro Filename 99 Macro Name to Execute on Load 100 # of Times 100 Macro Name to Execute on Save 100 # of Times 100 11 Macro Definition Dialog 100 Delete All 100 Delete Macro/Modify Hot Key 101 Templates and Macros - Which One Do I Use? 101 Templates 101 Macros 101 Record 101 Notes for Recording Macros 101 Stop Recording 102 Quick Record 102 Playback 103 Playback Multiple Times 103 Warn on Exit if Macro Not Saved 103 CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED FEATURES 104 Advanced Menu Commands 104 Display/Modify Templates command 105 Special Strings 105 Time 105 Date 106 Insert Templates command 107 DOS Command 107 Run Windows Program 109 Alternate Capture Method 110 Tools Configuration/Use 110 Command Line 110 Working Directory 111 Menu Item Name 111 Windows Program Checkbox 111 Save all files first 112 Save Active File 112 Command Output (DOS Commands ONLY) 112 Command List Box 112 Requirements 113 Advanced 113 Bitmap/Icon 113 Replace Selected Text With: 113 12 CHAPTER 12 CONFIGURATION FEATURES 114 General Configuration Page 115 General Application Items 115 File Handling Items 115 Load/Save/Conversions 116 Display 116 Editing 116 Find 116 Advanced/Problem Solving 116 These items should normally only be used if advised to by our technical support either directly or indirectly.