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vim: select the current indents lines
in vim, how I can selected the lines with the same indent, example
if true:
line 1
line 2
...
line n
if the cursor is over line 2, how I can selected from line 1 to line n?
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How to turn OFF Translucent Selection Rectangle in the Windows Explorer (Windows 7)
This is Windows 7.
In System properties -> Performance options -> Adjust for best performance
It makes what I want only for the Desktop if I go into folder and try to select the files the ...
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wrap selection around … in notepad++
Is there any way to wrap the selected text in ',",),},],> or around any symbol in notepad++?
I have looked around all of the plugins but there is nothing similar to what Textmate or eclipse can do.
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Resizing a selection in Adobe Acrobat X Pro
When working with block selections, you can resize the area by dragging the handles on each of the four corners. However, I can't seem to find a way to resize the area by dragging a single side of the ...
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Windows 7 mouse drag lag
When selecting text or click-and-dragging in any app, the selection/scrollbar/item being dragged always lags a few characters behind the cursor when the cursor is moved quickly. It's a slight issue ...
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Firefox combobox search
There are sometimes comboboxes on web pages (also known as <select> tags) with so many options that it is hard to read them all.
A solution would be a plugin or extension to search big ...
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How can I count the selected items in Outlook?
Outlook 2007 shows the total number of items in a folder on the status bar at the bottom.
When I select a group of e-mails the information on the status bar does not change.
How can I find out how ...
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How to configure SHIFT+LEFT, SHIFT+RIGHT, SHIFT+HOME and SHIFT+END keys in terminal on Mac?
To configure the Home and End keys in terminal on MacBook Air (OS X 10.7.2) I defined in Terminal -> Preferences -> Keyboard:
Key Action
---- ------
Home \033OH
End \033OF
What ...
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Windows XP alt-tab: How to restrict options to certain applications, in certain order and exclude others?
In Windows XP, Alt-tab keypress sequence to select applications, how can I ensure that certain applications always appear, in a certain order, with others always excluded?
Background for asking is ...
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How do I move the selection down one row in Excel 2007?
Is there a way to move a selected range to the next row?
Let's say I have "E9:H9" selected and want the selection to move to "E10:H10". Is there a shortcut for it? The selection should not be ...
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Using the keyboard to select the selected option in Firefox
I am using Firefox 6.0 and Chrome 13.
Using the mouse, you can select an option from an option select fine, in both Chrome and Firefox. Upon going for another selection, the option at the pointer ...
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How do I select the comment block under the cursor in vim?
I’d like to select (or delete, or change, or …) the whole block of commentary under my cursor.
If my cursor is at the beginning of the commentary block (i.e. over the opening comment character), and ...
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Clipboard management like Linux in Windows
In Linux, if I select a text I can paste it in another place with a click of middle mouse button and there is no need to right click and copy or using ctrl+c hotkeys for doing so.
Also the selected ...
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Text Editor to select based lines inbetween user defined characters
I have a text file with over 184 thousand lines.
This is the output from a particular application and is basically the dump of the database in JSON format. I need to select the lines which are between ...
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How to easily copy hyperlinks in web pages
Two related questions that come up for me in Firefox and perhaps elsewhere in Windows 7 when coming across a link like this: How to Select Hyperlink Text in Google Chrome?
While reading html/a web ...
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Excel find cells by formatting?
The countif function has a criteria argument – how do I specify a criteria based on the formatting of cells?
I have a list of math homework questions containing per-page the questions numbers (e.g. ...
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Choosing an Audio Output Device (ASIO)
I’m trying to choose which audio output device to use with my audio player (XMPlay). It has various output plugins, including DirectSound and ASIO (don’t even get me started on the MIDI device ...
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Visio - Select By Custom Property
How would I select all objects on a page with a custom property set to X?
For example, I am trying to select all shapes in a Visio document with the property "Electrical" set to boolean TRUE.
NOTE: ...
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Ctrl+A (select all) does not work in some textboxes throughout Windows XP
I'm having a hard time with my Windows XP. Ctrl+A combination does not select all text in some textboxes throughout whole system. For instance it does not work in start->Run command window nor does it ...
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How to Select Text in Conkeror Web Browser?
In order to copy text to clipboard, I have to select text. I know that M-w copies text and that C-y pastes. But how to select text from the keyboard?
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Is there a way to keep the selection in Windows 2008 Explorer when changing the sort order
I nice feature of Windows Explorer up to Windows Server 2003 at least (I don't have easy access to Vista or Windows 7 to know when this was lost) was that you could select multiple files (or folders) ...
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Gnome 3 locks selection no more left click
Hi i have a problem in my Gnome 3 Fedora 15 installation. I've tried both Mesa and nvidia drivers from rpmfusion and the problem persist, so I suppose it is an issue with the desktop manager.
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Click to select row to end of data in Excel?
In Excel, you can select an entire row by clicking its number at the left edge of the window. But doing so selects the entire row all the way to infinity. If you apply a fill color to a row selected ...
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Is there a way to not select whitespace after a word when double-clicking?
In Windows, it seems the default behavior when double-clicking a word is to select the word, and any whitespace following the word (spaces or tabs). You can see this behavior across all programs, so ...
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Windows 7 mouse multi selection on windows explorer with CTRL and point to select / single click to open
This is something that has annoyed me since I changed to Windows 7.
I haven't done double clicking for a long time now since Windows introduced single click activation (Folder Options > Click items ...
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Word by word selection by mouse in Firefox
In Firefox, selection of the text by mouse occurs character by character. In MS Word selection of the text by mouse occurs word by word. This is much more usable.
Is there any plugin or setting that ...
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Stacked anchor selection in Illustrator
I am working on learning Illustrator and am having trouble solving a particular problem.
So I have a closed shape that I cut on some anchor point. Now I have two anchor points one exactly on top of ...
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Select word that is around cursor with keyboard
it is possible to select a single word with double click on any part of word, is there any possibility to select word that is around cursor just with keyboard?
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How to change the default double click text separators? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
Mac OS X: How to change word separator characters?
Wrapping word configuration in mac
I would like : to cause a different selection when text is double clicked.
Eg ...
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Mac OSX / Xcode, double click the word to select it, selects across dots and other characters [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Wrapping word configuration in mac
I don't know if it's supposed to work like on Windows, but some apps like Chrome, Firefox are doing this as expected and some, like ...
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How do I select columns in tab separated text?
I have a list of items in a text file separated by 1 (one) tab character like this:
item one[tab]item two
Each item doesn't have the same length in characters. So a traditional column selection ...
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How to move selection in Excel?
I know how to create or extend selections, i.e., via F8 or Shift F8. When I have created the desired selection, I would like to move that particular selection a few cells to the right and/or down.
I ...
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How to paste primary selection into Vim?
I use the middle-click, or CTRL-SHIFT-V to paste indented selection into Vim:
<a>
<b>
<c>
</a>
I have tried to
:set nosmartindent
:set nosmarttab
It's used to ...
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How to select all text inside text area of code field on web pages
In all the forums web pages the download links are given inside the [code] braces that looks like text area with white background.
When the download links are in large numbers then there are scroll ...
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Vim - select text highlighted by search?
In vim, I often perform searches to hop to a word or phrase instead of navigating there with h/j/k/l. Then I hit n to hop between occurrences.
Say I've got this text:
Time flies like an arrow; fruit ...
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ctrl left/right not working on firefox
I don't know if this is a site problem or my Firefox but I think I must have touched something.
On some places like while composing an email with Gmail i can't press ctrl left/right to ...
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How do you increase Dragging Speed for Mac OS X Applications?
Greetings! This question regards dragging stuff to parts of a document which are "off the screen". For example:
Dragging a spreadsheet in iWork Numbers to a part of the document that's "off the ...
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How to select a rectangular range in VIM?
Assuming I have a text like
abc121313131abc
abc13153545464abc
abc4325435345abc
abc343535353535353abc
I want to select the abcs in front of the 4 lines.How can I do this?
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What is the best extraction program to use in Windows 7? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best compression applications for Windows?
What is the best extraction program to use in Windows 7?
Do people still prefer winrar or 7zip?
Which or another is best for ...
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How to configure default text selection behavior in Windows XP, 7? (eg. mouse click selects entire word vs. mouse click inserts an active cursor)
I find the mouse click behavior of Windows XP and Windows 7 annoying and intrusive. I don't remember Windows NT being quite this bad, or MacOS 7 - 10 which I used in the nineties.
When I'm using a ...
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How to select non-contiguous files on a Mac?
How can I select non-contiguous files on a Mac? On Windows I would use Ctrl + click, but Finder considers this to be a right click.
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How can I select an html tag's content in Vim?
Is it possible to select an html tag's content in Vim? For example:
<p>I am a silly butterfly</p>
I would like to select "I am a silly butterfly"!
I know that you can use vi" to select ...
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How to select a value from drop down in a cell of MS Excel with keyboard?
Is there any way to select the value from drop down in excel by using only keyboard
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Elan Smart Pad turn off auto select
I have purchased a Asus laptop with a built-in Elan SmartPad, running Windows 7. Options are selected when I leave the pointer over an item without tapping or double clicking pad. How do I turn this ...
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How to Select Hyperlink Text in Google Chrome?
I am running Google Chrome 5. How can I select hyper link text using the mouse with, for example, CTRL or ALT keys?
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Erasing everything that is not selected?
I'm using Photoshop CS4 and was wonder if there is a way to erase/delete everything that is not selected? Instead of the usual scenario of erasing everything that is selected.
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Chrome extension to allow text selection
I've come across a lot of sites that block the right click (context) menu and prevent selection of text by dragging.
I found a Chrome extension, Allow Right Click, which solves the first problem, but ...
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Why the selected text is not replaced with inserted in Word 2003?
I didn't notice what and when happend but from some moment replacing stopped work in Word.
Just imagine that I have a text block:
Some text block
And I select the word text:
Some text block
...
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How to select camera by index when running VLC from cmd?
When I start VLC from cmd how is it possible to select a camera for a DirectShow source by index (for example I have camera "A" and camera "B" so I would say 0 for "A" and 1 for "B")?
I do not know ...
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How can I force Firefox to select the tab to the right on tab close?
I'm using TMP 0.3.8.2 and a host of other extensions on FF 3.6.3 on OSX 10.6. I've tried disabling all other extensions that might interfere with tab settings but it's hard to keep track of everything ...
