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Different Font styles in Editplus
I would like to have keywords to be appear Bold and variable names,Comments and Strings should be in normal style. is that possible
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Unicode problems in Mini Lyrics
Shri guru granth sahib ji is epic granth for sikhs.
I am working on the project for creating karaoke of guru granth sahib. I am using Mini Lyrics for this for synchronizing speech to text. But this ...
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Automatic text replacement in Ubuntu
So, I'm looking for a software native to gnome that provides automatic text replacement. Something similar to autohotkey would be great, though I really don't care about all that extra autohotkey ...
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Text / log editor with auto-refresh support
I'm looking for a text editor / log manager of some kind that will automatically refresh a file's contents when it changes.
I have a single target log file (e.g. current.log) that is overwritten ...
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Edit a very large textfile [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I've a 3 gigabytes big log file and I have to edit just a few rows.
With Notepad++, I can't edit the file at all. Does ...
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Best LaTeX Editor [closed]
What's the best LaTeX editor you've used, and what would you recommend someone read to understand and become proficient with authoring papers/books in LaTeX?
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Is there a tool for automatically checking English grammar?
I need to run through a document and check that it contains proper English grammar. My toolset for spell-checking for words include ispell and OpenOffice, but they seem only to do spell-checking.
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How to do a search-and-replace in Opera for textarea context?
How do I do a search-and-replace in Opera for a textarea's context? I have a web page with html form and I need to input and edit large text in this form.
Easy example:
Stay on this page, scroll ...
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Dreamweaver Delete Space to Word, Not Word
There's a built in DW keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Del) that deletes up to AND INCLUDING the first word to the right. I used to use the ColdFusion Studio app for coding and it would just remove the space ...
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Eclipse Line Selection
In Eclipse I used to be able to select a line by clicking the line number. I don't know exactly when it stopped working. Is this controlled by a Preference?
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Text files on linux have “<97>” characters
When viewing a particular text file in vim or less on Linux or OS X, all the en dashes show up as highlighted "<97>" characters.
What control-sequence do I need to type in order to substitute the ...
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Vim: Bind <C-Enter>
Using vim for editing latex; how can I bind C-Enter? I tried the following, which does not work:
imap <C-Enter> \\<CR>
and
imap <C-Return> \\<CR>
However, something like:
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Ubuntu vi Acting Strange
I just installed Ubuntu Server 8 and found vi to be acting strangely (compared to vi on Fedora, CentOS and OSX).
When I use the 'a' command to enter text, pressing the arrow keys results in "C", "D", ...
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CKEditor configuration, prefer img tag atrributes over inline style
Looking for a way to disable a feature in CKEditor that messes with attributes height and width on my and converts them into inline styles.
The version of CKEditor is 3.2 and I have access to config ...
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How to rollback the edit version in VIM?
I realized I had deleted something for mistake when I typed :wq,then how can I rollback to the pre-version?Thank you!
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Application to open / edit a very large CSV file (500 MB, 4 million records)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Text Editor for very big file - Windows
What editor/viewer to use to inspect large text based files?
I have a CSV file which has about 4 million rows and is about 500 ...
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How to reverse the order of multiline text sections separated by blank newlines/line breaks?
How to reverse the order of multiline text sections separated by blank newlines/line breaks...
..., with a simple command or application, preferably without programming?
I don't want a sort, but a ...
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Is it possible to view two files simultaneously in Geany?
I tend to be a simple text editor user, but when I want IDE-like features, I've been using Geany. One thing I find bothersome about it, though, is I can see only one file at a time. Sometimes I want ...
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Cygwin - how to edit a read only file?
I'm trying to edit /etc/hosts using Vi in Cygwin but it's read only. Is there a command similar to sudo? How do I edit a read-only file?
Thanks
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How to add a new section to a numbered list in MS Word?
In Word how can I add a section into a numbered list?
I have a large software requirements document that is organized using a numbered list, so I have a few paragraphs as 1, then maybe some ...
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What is a good, simple and free HTML Editor for Windows?
Are there any good, simple and free HTML Editors for windows out there?
Something that a user with no experience can build a simple page.
Edit: I'm looking for something like the old Frontpage ...
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editing software for redundancy checking
I'm looking for an editing program that can check for redundancies (sentences, paragraphs, sections) within a document and between 2 documents. Does this exist? Any advice appreciated.
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Can you insert line breaks into a Rich Text Content Control
I have a rich text content control on a Word 2007 document which is auto-populated from a database query. The control just contains text but ideally I'd like to be able to insert a new line inside the ...
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Is there a fast way to change multiple links in a HTML file?
I have a HTML file containing the code for an image map with over 200 links, like this:
<area shape="RECT" coords="410, 7, 438, 35" href="/ItemDetails.jsp?item=os_landranger_1"/>
The problem ...
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Can't edit Microsoft Word template
I am trying to change an existing Microsoft Word template. It's the 28 line legal pleading template found here: ...
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How can I send myself an email that becomes a text file on my hard drive (or on Dropbox)?
Evernote has a very helpful feature that lets me send an email to a special address and which makes that email into a new note.
I'd like to duplicate that functionality, but without being locked into ...
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Prevent breaking of specified part of paragraph
For example, we have a paragraph:
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
How can i prevent breaking the part "the lazy" ?
I means, that this string will be incorrect in my formatting:
Quick ...
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Getting vi/vim syntax highlighting used by certain user
At work most web-development we do, is done in vi/vim, on a debian-server.
Sometimes we have to alter some files as root, and the syntax-highlighting-model of that user (root) is absolutely awesome. ...
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Is it possible to type a floating “c” letter?
I have a close friend that has a Scottish surname "McGregor". However the "c" in the name needs to be aligned to the top of the "M". I have searched through alt codes but cannot spot it anywhere. Does ...
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What's is the easiest way to append ';' to the end of lines which contain the char ':'?
I have a text file, whose content is like:
body
font-size: 12px
color: blue
td
font-size: 14px
...
I want to append ; to the lines which contain :, so the content will be:
body
...
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How can I use the vim editor to format the text like this?
I have a data.txt file, the data format is something like this:
a|Êó•
a|Êõ∞
a|Ôõ∏
a|Ôùã
aa|Êòå
aa|Êòç
aaa|Êô∂
aamh|Êöò
all I would like to do is convert the following text into this result:
'a' ...
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Disk Based Text Editor to Edit File Larger than Memory
I am using Ubuntu and looking for a good editor to edit a file that is > 4GB. I just need to put content at the end and beginning of the file. I suppose I could use something like
cat "text to add" ...
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How to distinguish between \r\n and \n in VIM
In VIM I can show all the hidden characters in a file via the command ":set invlist". However, end of line sequences are always displayed as $ whether it is a carriage return/line feed or just a line ...
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What is the ^I character and how do I find it with sed?
I usually import data from csv files to MySQL, but my data provider leaves NULL entries as "", so I need to replace "" with "\N". This is easy enough with a script like
for csvfile in *.csv
do
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Free program to scan a directory of text files and replace certain strings
I need a free program that can scan all .xml files in a directory and replace a certain string occurrence.
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Editing docbook
I need to edit a docbook resource with a decent, cross platform WYSIWYG editor, being also able to include latex style formulas, images and svg plots. Then, I need to create pdf, html and import the ...
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UNIX: how to merge 2 text files?
Is there a way to merge 2 text files into one (by appending the content of the second right after the first one) in Unix ?
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Is it possible to change the default text cursor orientation from vertical to horizontal?
In almost any application or Windows component, the text cursor usually appears as a vertical black line -- in Notepad, browser address bar, the Run window.
Is there a setting I can tweak in the ...
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How to do Linux-like file modifications on Windows command line?
I need to do some more or less easy replacements in certain files on Windows machines. This is part of an automated software build process, so to be able to reproduce it on all build mashines I ...
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How to delete each number at the beginning of a line in Notepad or Microsoft Word?
I have a list like this:
1 http://
2 http://
3 http://
4 http://
5 http://
I would like to remove 1,2,3,4,5 without doing this manually for each line. The only tool I am using is notepad in a bare ...
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Typing a column of numbers (1,2,3…)
I am writing a C# program containing these lines:
Console.Writeline("1");
Console.Writeline("2");
[...]
Console.Writeline("26");
Is there a quick way to type the 26 numbers? I'm using Visual ...
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Replacing all white spaces with commas in a 46MB text file
How long should replacing all white spaces with commas take in my 46MB text file using a simple text editor such as textmate on Mac?
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Importing textfile with leading 0's to excel
Have a number of text files which have numbers next to names, tab delimited:
000454 Name1
005005 Name2
000643 Name3
4043 Name4
33643 Name5
I ...
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Detect (from autohotkey) if a text input field is focused
I want to implement a series of hotkeys using Autohotkey (mostly to improve my effectiveness), but I want them to only be active when I'm typing text, and not when I'm navigating or playing. I know ...
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Parsing text files
I encountered a situation tonight where I wanted to parse a text file. I had a very, very long word list that contained English words delimited by lines. I wanted to get rid of every word (or line) ...
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How can I do a batch find replace?
I'm writing a piece of software which requires the creation of a number of nearly identical blocks of code that only vary in a few locations which need to be replaced by a unique value for each ...
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Multiline select in notepad++
In sublime text if I perform a find for an occurrence of a particular word not only is this occurrence found but it also selected and has the cursor at the end of each occurrence so that pushing the ...
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“Overtype” mode in MS Powerpoint 2007?
is there any way to turn on the "Overtyping" feature in Powerpoint 2007 (you press the Insert key and then typing new characters replaces any existing characters to the right side of the insertion ...
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Textmate rails bundle
Normally when working inside a Ruby on Rails view file, I can hit CTRL + SHIFT + . to get open/close tags for rails like so:
<%= selection %>
I'm not sure how, but yesterday this ...
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Exclude some matches with sed
I have a series of files with entries(namespaces in source code) like
FW.WGS.Web.HHH.Controls, FW.WGS.Web.HHH.Email, FW.WGS.Web.HHH.Account, etc and some with entries
FW.WGS.Web.Controls, ...
