UltraEdit Text Editor

this editor is exceptional at loading files which are gigabytes in size. nothing else I've ever used comes close.

UltraEdit was a pure joy to use. back in the windows 3.1 days I could edit files larger than main memory. It was my first encounter with the now ubiquitous tabbed interface. It would hex edit, select rectangular sections, mouse beyond the end of a line, automate with macros. I am sure it did even more that I cannot remember. I should probably go buy a copy just to pay back idm for all the cracked copies that I used back in the 90s.

How about Sublime Text? That’s mostly my use case. Opening giant files that VSCode can’t, Ctrl-F a regex expression, selecting all matches, and pasting them into a new buffer. Like a visual interactive grep. Sublime handles big files pretty well but I’ve still managed to make it chug on occasion.

I started using UEStudio (nee UltraEdit) close to two decades ago. Although I haven't upgraded it in many years because I just don't like the cartoonish UI that it now has, it's awesome for hex editing and the ability to select by rows & columns. I mainly use Sublime Text now as a day-to-day text editor, even though it doesn't even have the ability to easily print something (at least not on Windows)