UltraEditor – The powerful editor for unix ftp/sftp mass editor

UltraEdit is a powerful text editor. It has a highly customizable interface, handles huge files very quickly, remembers search strings in a drop-down list, and uses a built-in FTP client to open and save files on remote systems.

UltraEdit has been clearly designed with three groups in mind: programmers, web developers, and writers. That’s precisely what I personally need from a text editor—precise handling of programming code, precise handling of XML, HTML, PHP, jscript and other web related formats, and above all else faultless, word processor-like handling of raw research, correspondence, content and everything else related to the creation of text files for any purpose.

Syntax highlighting is flawless (not unusual for editors in this top class mind you), maintaining professional code formatting, entering tags and the remarkable column-mode editing function all work at the highest standard. Out of the box (or download) UltraEdit is preconfigured for C/C++, Visual Basic, HTML and Java syntax highlighting, but you can freely add syntax highlighting for lots of other languages. Writers will like the speed of the spell checking dictionary as well as the snappy typing response and advanced Find & Replace functions. In particular, you can find something or perform and find & replace not just in the active file but also in any file that’s currently loaded in the editor.

UltraEdit is a disk-based editing program which means that it only copies enough of a file into RAM as it needs. That means the size of file that you can load into UltraEdit is limited only by the size of your hard drive.

Our favorite is UltraEdit version 14.2 ($49.95 direct).