UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/mac-text-editor.html

by kahseng • 16 years ago

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fascinated• 16 years ago

Whatttt, my mind is blown

aiurtourist• 16 years ago

For the uninformed Vim/Emacs die-hards like me...

What's so great about UltraEdit?

cormullion• 16 years ago

UltraEdit is to Windows what BBEdit is to MacOS.

I know, that doesn't add much to the conversation. :)

ojbyrne• 16 years ago

Indeed, as a long-time Emacs user (and vi before that), it was hard to read past "world's best text editor."

henning2• 16 years ago

Its main selling point is that it's better than Notepad.

donaq• 16 years ago

As a Vim die-hard who had ultra-edit as default text editor in my Windows box at work before I installed vim, I can only reply "nothing". It is significantly far from being the best text editor in the world.

Ramone• 16 years ago

Well... God chose Ultraedit: http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html

;)

xuki2• 16 years ago

Just tried it, doesn't have the Mac look, drag control is laggy on my iMac.

I think I'll pass.

allenbrunson• 16 years ago

it does sort of look like it is aimed at windows diehards who are forced to use macs for some reason, doesn't it.

tjogin• 16 years ago

I think it looks like the creators of Ultra Edit don't think developing software for Mac is in any way different than for Windows; that Mac users don't expect other things from software than Windows users do.

Void_• 16 years ago

> The world's best text editor is now available for Mac!

Now this just shows guys never knew how to use Vim. Pass.

siddhant• 16 years ago

Isnt $80 a bit too much? Since TextMate sells for $53, and editors which are better than both are basically free. :)

wyclif• 16 years ago

Nothing to do with the quality of the app, but "IDM Computer Solutions, Inc." is a company name fail.

jamesaguilar• 16 years ago

Is there a SLIME equivalent for this editor? When I'm programming C++, there's not really any editor on Linux that's much better than a code formatter. But when I'm working in more civilized languages, I find I want more than just a text editor. That's the thing I love about emacs. For all its wonky glyph rendering and inability to deal with fonts in a rational manner, it's still one of the most truly extensible and modable editors available anywhere.

wenbert2• 16 years ago

ultraedit is the only text editor i could find that can open a 500mb ASCII file without problems.

xuki2• 16 years ago

I think everyone is talking in Mac context here. It's more laggy than Textmate when I open a 500-line-file. Unfortunately I don't have 500MB ASCII file to test.

jerguismi• 16 years ago

Textmate freezes when I try to open any big file, like 50MB. Sucks. Otherwise great.

alwillis• 16 years ago

I suspect that BBEdit (http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/) wouldn't have a problem with a 500mb file.

tzs• 16 years ago

BBEdit beach balled for about 30 minutes on my 7 million line, 500 meg test file, before I gave up and killed it.

henning2• 16 years ago

When do you need to actually open and edit a 500 mb ascii file instead of just processing it with one of the many Unix command line tools that can handle a 500 mb file just fine? (I realize it hypothetically does happen, the question refers to frequency.)

mikeryan• 16 years ago

when you are on windows?

wenbert2• 16 years ago

XYZ files from Multibeam surveys. Windows user. Sometimes I need to look at the contents of the file - EG: remove x number of "headers" from the ASCII file.

macco• 16 years ago

What ist with vim and Emacs? Did you try them? I loaded files bigger than 1 GB with them - but this was on Windows.

to• 16 years ago

look up "thegun" editor (windows)

wzdd• 16 years ago

I just tried a 1.1 gig file with MacVim and didn't have any issues.

larsberg2• 16 years ago

Grab the free version of Visual Studio (Express).

vlaube3• 16 years ago

I liked UltraEdit back in my Windows days, but this story kind of put me off: http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html

ryan-allen• 16 years ago

So, he's a god botherer, don't judge him for that.

Judge him like a proper 'hacker' would, and that's by the quality of his products and his code.

Matz is Mormon (and he's Japanese, seriously what's with that!), and Jamis Buck is also a well known programmer who is very religious.

I'm not into god myself, but we're programmers and let's judge each other on our works, not our beliefs.

apakatt• 16 years ago

Well said!

Don't let good technology go to waste just because of the "weirdness" of the people behind it. It reminds me of the people who thought it horrible to use ReiserFS after what happened.

edwtjo2• 16 years ago

Firstly, I agree with you BUT this is not about judging the quality of the code, it is about giving money, since this isn't open source. The question is why you would directly give money to someone which you know have a disagreeable outlook, I wouldn't give money to a known pedophile or racist either. If she would've been an open source contributor I wouldn't care.

netcan• 16 years ago

Interesting that there are 3 prices for 3 platforms:

Windows: $59.95

Mac: $79.95 (intro pricing)

Linux: $49.95 (intro pricing)

silvajoao• 16 years ago

Why I would take vim or emacs any day:

- versions available for many platforms. Your editing skills on Linux are easily transferrable to Windows or Mac, and others.

- Free, and Open Source.

- Insanely extensible, with a rich collection of extensions and plugins already available.

- Large user base, that keeps improving the editor to support new languages (most times before you know about it!), port it to new platforms, and provide more plugins.

I guess there is a market for "easier" and more intuitive editors, but anyone who seriously plans a career in software/web development (or anything else that involves heavy text editing) will profit greatly (on the long term) from learning well one of these editors.

Vim never lets me down :)

config_yml• 16 years ago

UltraEdit for Mac seems to prove that the mac feel has nothing to do with beeing all cocoa. This feels like a windows app written with mac frameworks. Courier default font, really?

satoimo• 16 years ago

Who is this app meant for? Windows converts who haven't discovered Textmate, Sublime, or BBEdit?

mfukar2• 16 years ago

Well, it's passing as a 'Notepad Replacement' in its Product page..

stcredzero2• 16 years ago

The largest file I have to hand is the hacked Gawker database. (~75MB) Let's see how SubEthaEdit does with it concatenated with itself 6 times? (450MB)

Hmm, it never seems to open a window from that, though it remains responsive. (I can still open other files.)

Good old gedit can read the 450MB file handily, after a few seconds delay.

Aquamacs (Aqua emacs) asks me if I'm sure I want to open the file, then when I press Ok, it tells me it's too large to open a few seconds later.

If you just want to open a very large file with a GUI text editor, just continue to use your editor of choice, then download gedit for the very large files. It's small, respectably multi-platform, and free in both senses.

EDIT: Downmodded for reporting facts! Nice one, HN!

ique• 16 years ago

I don't think you're being downvoted for reporting facts. The article was about an editor that you're not even mentioning. And on top of that, what you're talking about is very obscure. Why would I ever want to open a 450mb file in a text-editor?

What tipped you off to start talking about large files in a thread about UltraEdit?

EDIT: Just saw the thread about large files further down. Maybe you meant to make a reply?

stcredzero2• 16 years ago

UltraEdit is discussed below as the only text editor that can open 500MB files.

larsberg2• 16 years ago

Back when I was working on the VS editor team, we had to worry about things like users opening multiple-gigabyte XML files in the editor, expecting text to immediately display, and for the little scroll nubbie to immediately size to the correct proportional size (the size of the nub is proportional to the number of lines displayed in the window versus the overall number of lines in the file, with some thresholding). And be able to start clicking immediately on the scroll bar, expand/collapse regions, etc.

It's a hard problem that requires pretty serious engineering, especially when your user expectations are that you should be at least as fast as emacs and vim, but also support all of your other features.

And yes, people open large files all the time. Log files; autogenerated "component configuration" babble; registry text dumps; debugging diagnostic output...

UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available

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