Advanced Editing with UltraEdit What You Might Not Like About UltraEdit Andrew Gorrie
Despite the good things I have said about UltraEdit, there are a number of features lacking. Most Microsoft applications use "wizards" for many common functions. Unfortunately, UltraEdit does not offer them.
It also lacks automatic features like MS Word provides. Instead, UltraEdit's Spell Checking, Formatting and Corrections must all be invoked manually. Actually, though, most text editors behave this way.
Like Microsoft Word, UltraEdit has a large tool bar and has a number of very large menus. A first-time user can be overwhelmed by the complexity of this setup, and use the wrong command on a document. But the Undo feature is on hand, so with patience any attentive user can be successful with Ultraedit.
I found that Ultraedit's internal window framing can be a problem. UltraEdit has a tabbed Window layout, somewhat like Windows 3.1. This feature can be good and bad. It can help organize windows by tiling, minimizing or maximizing them as needed. But this feature can be a real pain if a lot of documents are open and are tiled. Individual documents, for lack of a better expression, can get lost in a forest of windows. Of course, I have had that happen in Word as well.
