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Myles Jordan
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Review - UltraEdit
14.00a (Mar 23, 2008)

I've used UltraEdit for more than a decade now, and it has saddened me to see it slide so far. Back in the day, it was the fastest, most useful editor around. But now...

Over the past few years (since about version 10 or 11), I've noticed UE getting buggier. I kept downloading the new versions, hoping that they'd fix the regex bugs, or add better large file support, but instead they keep adding more features, instead of stabilizing the ones that are already there. I can't count the number of times UE has crashed or corrupted large files while applying a complex regex.

In particular, UltraEdit has caused the last few months to be very frustrating for me. I've been using it to edit very large text log files (up to 2Gb each), and for this it has proven itself frustratingly worthless. Each of these files can take 5 minutes or more to even load, and then further minutes to seek to anywhere in the file (eg. by line number)... and this is on a workstation class machine with 4Gb of RAM. Further, when trying to use search and replace with the perl regex engine to make sweeping modifications to the files, UE crashes frequently. But I'm editing huge files, so this would be par for the course, right?

So imagine my surprise when, on a whim, I downloaded and installed EditPad Pro, and it was able to load the same 2Gb files in seconds!! (Ok, so the whole file wasn't loaded in a few seconds; instead the file was progressively loaded over perhaps 20 seconds... which is still miles short of UE's 5+ minutes).

Even more, EditPad was useful immediately (again, unlike UE), even before the file was fully loaded, and was even capable of seeking throughout the (loaded portion of the) file, without further minutes of loading.

(btw I'm no expert or advocate for EditPad; I am only using it as an example of what is possible... and particularly what should be possible for a company with IDM Software's resources.)

Despite all the above, I'm still going to give it 3 stars because IMHO it still passes as a 'Decent' editor... but it sure is a long way from the 'Excellent' editor it used to be.
Review - UltraEdit
11.20a (Nov 30, 2005)

Changelog, as requested:
* Fixed stuck mouse pointer issue with file tabs
* Fixed delay when issuing keyboard/toolbar commands
* Fixed new line painting corruption issue
* Corrected "style" keywords in the wordfile
* Fixed issue with high CPU usage in conjunction with HTML toolbar
* Windows list will now display correctly on Window menu
* Fixed single click maximize issue
* Fixed issue with config options not being saved
* Fixed issue with multiple embedded asp statements in one HTML line
* Fixed reverse auto brace match lines separated by a soft line wrap
* Corrected labeling of the HTMLImageButton command
* Fixed Goto column number to start at column 1
* Fixed Collapse-all with identical open and close fold strings
* Fixed missing open windows list
* Fixed right click menu configuration crash
Review - Source Insight
3.5.0038 (May 18, 2005)
Comment - Firefox Architect Talks IE, Future Plans
3.5.0038 (Dec 1, 2004 - 12:08 AM)

Well, IE seems to load so quickly because many of its component DLLs are loaded at windows boot time, so IE actually slows down windows loading.

Firefox does not have the same integration, so it does take longer to load, but then it does not slow the windows boot process merely by being installed...