First off, a couple of updates to some of the editor’s backend functionality. UE 2022.2 brings the editor up to par with the latest standards on markdown-formatting. You can now utilize footnote syntax and tasklist-style checkboxes in UltraEdit markdown fields and live preview.

FTP/FTPS/SFTP have been updated to the latest protocols and technologies. Apart from improving performance overall, this fixes many unwanted behaviors present in older versions.

CSS syntax highlighting and support have been updated thanks to a new wordfile. Confidently use the latest browser specific keywords and properties. Syntax highlighting for classes and attribute identifiers also refreshed.

Quality of life improvements

A major consideration in every 2022 release, quality of life improvements also make its way to 2022.2.

First seen on UE Mac, you can now select and launch URLs straight from the editor via Ctrl + Shift + Click.
File tab switching performance for large sets of files was improved significantly.
NEW Option to disable auto-recover prompts after system or application failure (files will be recovered without asking the user)

Bonus: New Monokai Theme

Other notable quality improvements

NEW Column mode navigation: skip text delimited by spaces (Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow)
NEW Perl highlighting shows all text as comment following “\qq”
Fixed files added to project root instead of group folder
Fixed Word file changes not reflected until file save
Fixed command line flags return incorrect path error
Fixed reindent selection doesn’t work with unordered list
Fixed status bar flickers when typing with wrapped lines
Fixed search behavior in infinite column mode
Fixed Perl regex “\K” not finding all matches
Adjustment for quick find Ul to prevent hidden or partially visible window

UltraEdit 2022.1

All-new navigation features inside the command palette, WebView2 integration, better SFTP security, and more…

HTML browser and live preview powered by new rendering engine

UE 2022.1 comes with the integration of WebView2, a Chromium-powered rendering engine that significantly upgrades browser view and live preview. This replaces the Internet Explorer-based control to render HTML used in older versions of UltraEdit.

This means you can use and enjoy newer web technologies available in the modern web ecosystem (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) — and simultaneously see it all from the editor.

2-factor authentication (2FA) for SFTP connections

You can now connect to SFTP servers that require Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTP), or more commonly known as two-factor authentication (2FA).

We significantly refactored FTP code to provide a favorable experience when working with 2FA connections. This extended to all FTP dialogs, the FTP explorer, reloaded FTP files, and beyond.

To activate, access the new interactive login option by going to the Advanced tab in the account manager. With this set and with 2FA configured on the server, you’ll be prompted to enter your TOTP from an external authentication system. Once authenticated, UltraEdit’s connection manager limits all data and commands to the single connection to avoid multiple authentication prompts.

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Syntax highlighting maintained when selecting
Support for block comments opened with same characters as line comments
Support for arbitrary string pairs (square brackets, backticks, etc.)
Added support for Perl quote-like string operators, e.g.: qq(STRING)
Improved XML code highlighting with embedded CDATA sections
Addressed syntax highlighting issues with word-wrapped lines

Code highlighting routines have been re-engineered in UE 2022.1 for better and faster syntax highlighting. Code highlighting computations have been separated from the rendering computations of text on the screen.

This simplifies the process and has eliminated many bugs, making code highlighting reliable, faster, and more consistent—particularly useful if you use languages with highly specialized syntax and rules. However it also helps for key languages like Perl, PHP, JavaScript, and more.

This will lay the groundwork for regexp-based keyword highlighting that is currently under development.

Reimagined navigation with new command palette shorthand

Being able to quickly jump around text and code can save you loads of time— so we’ve added a new nifty way to navigate projects. This feature was added to have the option of avoiding unnecessary interactions with the mouse.

Now you can find, open, and navigate files by typing queries into the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P).

This new functionality will search through all previously opened files in your history. (The recently opened file list can only have up to 32 entries). This means that with Quick Open Previous, you no longer need to leave the editor and manually find a specific file if it has been previously opened even once. In a similar fashion, if you know the file directory you can use Quick file open instead.

Quick open previously opened file:

\ + file name or part of file path / name

Quick file open*:

source file path / directory address

GoTo line, column, bookmark:

: + line number / bookmark number or name

* wildcards (*) supported

Other notable updates…

HTML Tidy UI and commands list overhaul

Add/remove and rename output windowsa

Rename unsaved files

Copy 4+ GB data to clipboard (beyond Windows limit)

Fixes:

Smarter positioning of child windows when opening off screen or on disconnected display
Improved parsing of URL formats for right-click open
Improved Reformat Paragraph with huge selections
Optimized “Save selection as” with GBs of selected data
Removed 160 byte limit on application title bar
Addressed file locking issues when saving FTP files
Addressed “Server signature does not match” issue with SFTP
Improved selection while in column mode
Addressed issue with duplicate characters in SSH log
Added missing “To uppercase” command to key mapping
Added file path and name to non-DOS line terminator prompt
Addressed tool performance issue with “Show DOS box” enabled
Further theming improvements

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