We know a thing or two about big projects…
Summer is starting to wind down and as we come back from vacations and holidays, the big projects come back into focus. For many, Fall is the season when big deadlines loom and big projects need to show significant progress. If, like us, you’re heading back into a busy stretch, make sure your tools are ready for big projects, big ideas…and big files!
Cracking a big, ubiquitous format: EDI
UltraEdit has always thrived in niches other editors and IDEs overlook – large files, column/CSV formats, JSON/XML, hex. Now one of our big new projects is EDI – a mission-critical but under-served data format across many industries. Thanks to some helpful conversations with EDI users, our upcoming UltraEdit 2025.1 release introduces initial EDI support, with more to come in parsing, validation, and reformatting. We’d love to continue the conversation with those of you who work with this format!
Your big projects need smart help (not hype)
AI is everywhere, but not always useful. With 2025.1 UltraEdit’s Pieces plugin expands to include AI context access for the active file, folder, and open project so you can get analysis and summaries from your preferred LLM. Future releases will build on this as we aim for AI-powered capabilities that solve real-world problems instead of chasing gimmicks.
Keeping you covered when it comes to big files (like we always have)
This week I received an email from a customer in a Business Analytics graduate program who found himself facing a 40GB data file – beyond the limits of any of his existing tools. A search for a solution led him to UltraEdit, and he found, as so many of you have, that UltraEdit’s unparalleled large file handling allowed him to edit and process the file with ease.
We live for stories like this. UltraEdit thrives on providing gap-filling performance for edge cases, and we love to hear how our users are pushing our tool beyond limits we ever thought possible. This is why our “official” UltraEdit t-shirt reads “The text editor that eats large files for lunch”. Big files aren’t an edge case for us, they’re what we do best.
Gear up for big projects (with a big offer)
And finally, this September get an instant $30 credit on any UltraEdit Enterprise purchase, which will include all these exciting updates in 2025.1. Don’t tackle your BIG Fall projects without the right set of tools – make sure UltraEdit is one of them!
Have anything to tell me? Send me a note – I’d love to hear what’s on your mind.
Ben Schwenk,
UltraEdit general manager
Wow! In 1999, A colleague introduced me to UltraEdit as his EDI “editor of choice”. Shortly thereafter, I purchased a license (and eventually a lifetime license) and have used UltraEdit professionally for EDI ever since.
Along the way, I found some X12 and EDIFACT word files that I customized for my needs (particularly adding colors and code folding at various segments).
Editing large files, extremely effective search and replace, FTP access, and column editing were all essential for effective EDI management. Translation was always another product, but for editing and managing those “issue” EDI files, UltraEdit was a Godsend.
A couple of years ago, I moved to a company that does not use EDI, but I still rely on UltraEdit as my editor. I’m interested to see in what direction you go with EDI.
Glad to see EDI as a focus, even though it’s a couple of decades later! 😉
Minor typo in a sentence.
” open project so you can get analysis and summaries form your preferred LLM. Future releases will ”
The word “form” maybe should be “from”.
I make this mistake frequently.
charles.
Thank you! We fixed it.
Ben,
Please don’t ask me if I want to save an empty file.
I sometimes will temporarily open a new tab if I need to transfer some code from one tab to others.
When I’m done, the file in my temporary tab is empty.
I would like to just close it without being asked if I want to save it.
I’m betting you have heard this before. Maybe a setting to bypass the “Want to Save” question ?
Christopher
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Hi Christopher, thanks for the comment. UltraEdit doesn’t currently have a setting to bypass this, but I understand your request and will forward it to our product team.