UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available

[silvajoao]

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 :)

[siddhant]

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

[xuki]

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

I think I'll pass.

[allenbrunson]

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

[aiurtourist]

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

What's so great about UltraEdit?

[cormullion]

UltraEdit is to Windows what BBEdit is to MacOS.

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

[ojbyrne]

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

[donaq]

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.

[henning]

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

[Ramone]

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

;)

[netcan]

Interesting that there are 3 prices for 3 platforms:

Windows: $59.95

Mac: $79.95 (intro pricing)

Linux: $49.95 (intro pricing)

[jamesaguilar]

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.

[Void_]

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

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

[config_yml]

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?

[wyclif]

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

[vlaube]

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]

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.

[stcredzero]

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]

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?

[satoimo]

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

[mfukar]

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

[wenbert]

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

[macco]

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

[henning]

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.)

[wzdd]

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

[alwillis]

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

[xuki]

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.

[larsberg]

Grab the free version of Visual Studio (Express).

[to]

look up "thegun" editor (windows)

[fascinated]

Whatttt, my mind is blown