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UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available
- fascinated 16y agoWhatttt, my mind is blown
- aiurtourist 16y agoFor the uninformed Vim/Emacs die-hards like me... What's so great about UltraEdit?
- cormullion 16y agoUltraEdit is to Windows what BBEdit is to MacOS. I know, that doesn't add much to the conversation. :)
- ojbyrne 16y agoIndeed, as a long-time Emacs user (and vi before that), it was hard to read past "world's best text editor."
- henning 16y agoIts main selling point is that it's better than Notepad.
- donaq 16y agoAs 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 16y agoWell... God chose Ultraedit: http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html ;)
- xuki 16y agoJust tried it, doesn't have the Mac look, drag control is laggy on my iMac. I think I'll pass.
- allenbrunson 16y agoit does sort of look like it is aimed at windows diehards who are forced to use macs for some reason, doesn't it.
- tjogin 16y agoI 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_ 16y 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 16y agoIsnt $80 a bit too much? Since TextMate sells for $53, and editors which are better than both are basically free. :)
- wyclif 16y agoNothing to do with the quality of the app, but "IDM Computer Solutions, Inc." is a company name fail.
- jamesaguilar 16y agoIs 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.
- wenbert 16y agoultraedit is the only text editor i could find that can open a 500mb ASCII file without problems.
- xuki 16y agoI 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 16y agoTextmate freezes when I try to open any big file, like 50MB. Sucks. Otherwise great.
- alwillis 16y agoI suspect that BBEdit (http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/ http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/) wouldn't have a problem with a 500mb file.
- tzs 16y agoBBEdit beach balled for about 30 minutes on my 7 million line, 500 meg test file, before I gave up and killed it.
- henning 16y agoWhen 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 16y agowhen you are on windows?
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- vlaube 16y agoI liked UltraEdit back in my Windows days, but this story kind of put me off: http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html
- ryan-allen 16y agoSo, 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 16y agoWell 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.
- edwtjo 16y agoFirstly, 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.
- vlaube 16y agoThis. But I should probably thank him, because after reading that I searched and found an editor that suited me better and was Open Source. :)
- spacemanaki 16y agoI only skimmed that "IDM story" page but found nothing which would make it appropriate to compare giving money to them with giving money to a pedophile or a racist. Did I miss something?
- mitchdev 16y agoI don't mean to be blunt, but this app is ugly as hell.
- netcan 16y agoInteresting that there are 3 prices for 3 platforms: Windows: $59.95 Mac: $79.95 (intro pricing) Linux: $49.95 (intro pricing)
- silvajoao 16y agoWhy 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 16y agoUltraEdit 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 16y agoWho is this app meant for? Windows converts who haven't discovered Textmate, Sublime, or BBEdit?
- mfukar 16y agoWell, it's passing as a 'Notepad Replacement' in its Product page..
- stcredzero 16y agoThe 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 16y agoI 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?
- stcredzero 16y agoUltraEdit is discussed below as the only text editor that can open 500MB files.
- larsberg 16y agoBack 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...