Pertains to the processing, import or export of plain characters (either ASCII or Unicode) from any language in written form
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Less not scrolling immediately on long lines
When I press 'j' in a text file with long lines, it won't proceed to
the next line until I've pressed j 'n' times.
So if I have a file:
a
b
c
d
e (long line that displays as 5 lines on screen)
...
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How to calculate a column of sums or test inequalities?
Given
34-2
34-5
34-3
I'm looking to obtain
34-2=28
34-5=29
34-3=31
Or, this would also be helpful:
given:
34-2=5
34-5<=34
34-3=31
I'm looking to obtain
! 34-2=5
34-5<=34
...
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Append line length at end of each line
Given input:
tree
branch
the desired output is
tree 4
branch 6
What is a *nix available command that does this?
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Substitution in text file **without** regular expressions
I need to substitute some text inside a text file with a replacement. Usually I would do something like
sed -i 's/text/replacement/g' path/to/the/file
The problem is that both text and replacement ...
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Strike-through text: Microsoft Lync
Somehow I hit a magic key combination in Microsoft Lync that is sending strike-through text. When I look at the "A" icon (text properties), I don't see an option for strike-through.
How can I ...
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Is there any way to keep text passed to head, tail, less, etc. to be colored?
Is there any way to keep colorization of text passed through pipe | to head, tail, less, etc.?
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Hidden characters inserted after pipe (|) followed by a space
Very often, on my Mac, when I use the pipe (|) character followed by a space character, an invincible character will be inserted in between.
This is especially annoying when using the terminal, as it ...
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Unicode text exceeding boundaries?
I've seen this before on youtube comments and such as well but what is this called and how is it done?
I saw it here ...
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Obtaining a list of words from a GNU aspell dictionary
I downloaded the aspell package for Bengali language dictionary support. From the tarball, I was able to isolate the bn.wl file, which is simply a list of about 100,000 words, one on each line.
The ...
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1answer
80 views
Mobile phone simulator for development [closed]
I have a new software that I developed for mobile phones, to allow the user to receive text for a chance to win prizes, wallpapers, ringtones etc...
I want to know if there's a software that can ...
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convert scanned physics maths pages to text
How to convert this image to text format with maximum accuracy , most OCR are not able to convert ^ and vector and proportional sign.
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VBScript - how to append new line after line specified
I need to edit some configuration file by appending new line to existing file, but not at the end of the file but somewhere in the middle instead (at the end of particular section)
# section 1 ...
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Can I copy some text and paste edited text based on rules?
Ok, so I have a question that I really can't find an answer too on the Internet so far!
How can I copy a piece of text and then when I paste it somewhere else, have it edited based on a rule?
For ...
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Online text folding editor [closed]
I'm looking for an online text editor that makes it easy to collapse (or fold) sections of
code. There are many desktop IDEs that do this, but I have yet to find an online folding editor that works ...
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3answers
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What tool can produce the line count of a text?
I don't want it to delete the rest or anything but just to quickly report the number of lines the text I just entered is included.
Is there a tool that quickly finds "the number of lines in this text ...
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Fix a corrupted text file
I had a plain English .txt file. After sending it via Bluetooth, the content is corrupted and has weird characters like : #šh‘÷ÔÈ
Any tips on what I can do to recover the original text?
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Garbled/Mismatched text in Firefox and Visual Studio 2010
Ok, so this is one of the strangest issues I've run into yet.
Every so often, the text in Firefox gets garbled or bolded in seemingly random locations. Even as I type right now, some of the ...
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Linux, how to search some text in a PDF File
I would like to search some text in a PDF file. For example, where is the word "go to" in my PDF? If you find it, what page is there?
I find this command line :
find /TEMP -name 'manu.pdf' -exec ...
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MySql memory allocation
Anybody knows how MySql allocates memory for "text" and "blob" in case i'm inserting smaller data than the max size of the column ?
For example, What happens when i insert 50K string into a "text" ...
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can i create a tagged pdf with apple pages
I'd like to created a tagged pdf.
Is this possible? Is there another way to create internal structuer of a pages doc suitable for a text extraction system? Could this be done via a custom template ...
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1answer
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In Notepad ++, how do I make it split long lines in several rows?
I usually use Notepad ++ for coding, but recently I started doing some writing in it as well. Writing usually implies long paragraphs with no line breaks, and those are displayed in one row, which is ...
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What program/text editor can i use [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Find and Replace using different keywords
Im trying to find and replace some stuff,
i need to find and replace using the following terms in one file: (actually i need ...
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From the Mac OS X command line, how can I insert a line after a certain marker line?
I have an HTML file. One line is the file is white space followed by this text:
<!-- insert new downloads here -->
How can I insert a line of text after that line in the file, just from the ...
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Microsoft Visio: Changing text orientation to landscape
In Microsoft Visio 2007, is there a way to change the text in the boxes so that it is oriented in landscape vs the defaulted portrait orientation? If so, how do I accomplish this? The box shape I am ...
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119 views
Change Icon of *.dll Back To Original
My idiotic little brother opened a *.dll file with notepad, now it's got that NotePad icon on it. It's a real mess because now I can never distinguish between *.dlls and text files. How do I change ...
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Convert .doc or .rtf to clean HTML on OS X
When I export a file from Word or TextEdit, I get very bloated HTML, full of crazy style tags on every paragraph, so I can't even clean it by hand.
The only information I want preserved is:
...
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Chrome display no text if we continue make it open for 2 3 hours
Chrome unable to display whole text although many refresh does not help so.
I have faced this problem so many times, initially i thought it may be my PC problem, but i have seen this error occurs ...
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votes
1answer
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Extract text from PDF with a right to left language
I'm trying to extract text from a PDF with right to left language, and the text is get is mirrored. This happens in Nitro Reader 2 and Adobe Reader.
How can I do it so that the text extracted will be ...
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2answers
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How to fix vim textwidth during editing?
When editing files that I limit in my .vimrc to tw=80, when I come back to edit them later, the line-lengths end up all over the place. e.g.
lets say for the sake of argument that this line hits 80 ...
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Productivity tool to copy non copyable text from screen in a single step
Is there any tool with functionality of a screen capture and OCR in a single step, which sends the text selected to the clipboard.
If you are familiar with wordweb , what I mean is more like its ...
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3answers
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How do you copy+paste text from the terminal to a web browser, and vice versa?
I was just wondering if there's a simple way to do this, or whether it's completely dependent on the terminal you use. If that's the case, then is there a standard that most terminals go by?
Right ...
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Make PDF tables able to be copied into Excel? (InDesign)
My organisation is publishing data tables, with these two design requirements:
Must be a PDF to preserve our brand style and formatting, for people who want to print the tables themselves to use as ...
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4answers
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Opening a big file [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a rather large log file on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. It's a couple gigabytes, but notepad, wordpad, ...
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Formatted hard drive, forgot to back up a text file. How do I get it back?
I have already had the same problem before. On that occasion, I found a program that could scan my entire hard drive for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of ...
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Formatted HD, forgot to back up a text file. How do I get it back?
I have already had the same problem before. On that ocasion, I found a program that could scan my entire HD for string pieces so I could recover it. Unfortunatelly I don't remember the name of the ...
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Is there a way to save the file listing from a Windows file search to a text file?
Is there a way to save the file listing from a Windows search to a text file?
I have had to search from My Computer over 6 drives for a file spec. I can't believe that there is no way to save the ...
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Where are messages on Windows Mobile stored? [closed]
Where does Windows Mobile 6.0 store text messages that are in Outlook Mobile? I have not been able to find any information on the Web about where physically in the phone's filesystem the mailbox data ...
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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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1answer
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Where is the Text Transform option for curving text in Microsoft Word?
I have looked at the following question: How to curve text in Word 2010?
Following the answer, I inserted a WordArt object. The answer said to look at Text Effects → Transform, but I can't find ...
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getting complement of two text files on unix command line
Can someone recommend a fast unix-based utility (ideally written in C) for getting efficient, streaming intersection/union of tab-delimited text files? For example, allow queries such as "give me the ...
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Sublime Text 2 doesn't support Chinese words on Linux (Ubuntu), anybody know how to solve this?
Sublime Text 2 goes wrong with Chinese words on Linux, neither can type in any Chinese words, nor display it correctly. But it seems that the official site said it has support UTF-8 characters. Am I ...
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1answer
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How to Save a File with a Filename Using a TimeCode in Linux
I'm on a tablet pc (Lenovo X60) so my keyboard is not available all (most) of the time, AND I'm trying out Linux Mint instead of Windows.
The main thing I'm missing is my AutoHotKey :(
I need to ...
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1answer
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In Photoshop, how can I create letters with a gradient?
I am trying to create block letters where it gets darker at the top of the letters like the image below.
What is the best way to create these type of letters in Photoshop? I am currently running ...
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Find the difference between two Excel files [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I compare two Excel documents?
I would like to compare two separate workbook spreadsheets for changes that were made from the original in the second. To give a ...
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2answers
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Are there any text editors that center text?
When I open up a OpenLibreOffice text, the text shows up more to the center of my screen in a nice page metaphor (with the margins showing up nice and well). A nice side effect of this is that my text ...
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1answer
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What's a good way to write paragraphs in HTML, TeX, etc. while maintaining good indent style?
This comes up anywhere you have to mix code and textual content: HTML, TeX, long comments in code, etc. Most editors will do this:
<div class="bla">
<p>
I want to write a long ...
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How to repeat each line of a file, from the Linux command line?
How to make a file like:
one
two
three
...
into:
one one
two two
three three
...
I'm thinking this must be possible with one simple Linux command. If my editor had block selections or macros ...
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Copy files from m3u to destination
I have a playlist, m3u extended, formated like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:213,2 Tåst - (foo bar)
/home/www/Music/Test/test 123 - test.mp3
My problem is, that it seems the line-break is encoded as '\n\r' ...
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2answers
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Filter Entries in a Large Text File Based on Whitelist
Good day. I could really use your help on this one. I have a stats text file in the following format.
ID=1000000
Name=Name1
Field1=Value1
...(Fields 2 to 25)
Field26=Value26
ID=1000001
...
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Is there a tool to measure file difference percentage?
I am looking to compare two text files. Normally, I can just use diff to compare the two files to see the differences. This is great, except that I am more concerned with the percentage difference of ...
