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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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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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What is the name of the Mac OS X text editor that uses a green and yellow lotus flower icon?
I'm pretty sure there's a Mac text editor out there that uses a green and yellow lotus flower as it's icon but I cannot seem to remember the name. Can anyone help me out?
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Cleaning out Span tags from HTML files
I have a giant number of span tags to clean out of HTM files due to a conversion from RoboHelp to Flare. Here is an example:
<span class="span_1">ANYWORD</span>
A large number of the ...
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Batch transpose a comma separated file
I'd like to reorder a file with a batch from this schema:
Default Web Site;anonymousAuthentication
Default Web Site;windowsAuthentication
Daisy;anonymousAuthentication
Daisy;windowsAuthentication
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Is there way to add Language shortcuts in Mac OS X?
On iOS, I could add a language short cut easily in settings. Like gd stands for "have a good day". Is there a way of doing that on a Mac?
I don't know if this is even possible since OS X doesn't ...
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Do more recent versions of scite crash less often?
Scite is not a bad editor, but the version I have (1.72) crashes on largish ruby files (there's one file that's 65KB it consistently barfs on). Are newer versions any better?
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Command-A doesn't select text in several Mac OS X text edit fields
I'm trying to make my Mac follow behavior I know it must have done in the past where, when one presses ⌘ + A, it will select all the text.
The problem has started recently and I think it might be ...
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How to improve the hotkeys Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right?
I'm just wondering if anyone of you figured out a way to improve these bindings or use them together with other bindings to make go through lines of text faster/easier.
namely the problem i'm facing ...
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Reversed text in Chrome [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the text direction on Windows?
I was typing something in Chrome and all of a sudden, the text reversed. It was now typing Right-to-Left like Arabic instead ...
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How can I switch vim mode quickly?
This question is not the same as In vim, how can I quickly switch between tabs?, but what I want is a bit similar to it, since we are all trying to find shortcuts when editing with vim:)
Now I am in ...
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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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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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Editing files on linux server from windows
I want to edit text files on Linux server from Windows, using text editor like Notepad++ or UltraEdit.
I've managed to do so using WinSCP. It can edit files remotely and offers me to choose local ...
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Replacing text in file at certain width
Is there a program that I can use that will let me replace text at a certain width?
Example: I want to replace 20-26 with 0s.
From: ...
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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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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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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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Emacs check syntax of file before saving
How I can prevent Emacs from saving my buffer when it contains syntax errors ?
It would by especially useful for editing source code.
I'm writing some source code into the buffer, hit C-x C-s and ...
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Is there a way to make Nano support auto-complete and auto-bracket closing?
Does anyone know if there's a way to make nano support auto-complete and auto-bracket closing?
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How do I get vim not to include a trailing newline at the end of a file?
Emacs doesn't do it, but vim's my editor of choice. It's a problem when editing PHP and some other stuff.
So, how do I get vim not to include a trailing newline at the end of a file? I must just be ...
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How to select only bold text
How can you select all of the bold text in a document? I would like to just extract bold text from numerous documents. Is there a script that could be run?
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Select multiple non-consecutive lines of text
In Eclipse 4.2 Workbench, I'd like to select multiple lines of non-consecutive text at the same time.
For example, I want to highlight and copy line 1, 4, and 10 without having to highlight, copy and ...
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AHK script to catch text before it enters editing box and correct spelling errors
Would it be possible to use AutoHotkey (or anything else really) to 'catch' ALL text before it reaches a program's editing box in order to change any spelling mistakes before they got there?
I ...
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Any way to use swype for laptop/desktop
I'd like to be able to use swype on either my phone and have the text transferred to my computer, or swype with my trackpad. The closest I got was andromouse (http://andromouse.com/) , which works ...
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Can I do a cursor movement in the undo buffer in Eclipse?
Is there any chance to enable cursor movement in the undo buffer in Eclipse editor?
I've been using the Nushphere PHP editor and it has a nice feature that you really see what you done last time and ...
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Mac-OSX Text Navigation
In the terminal I'm able to hit option+b to move back a word. In any GUI app I get an integral: ∫ I know most of the emacs motions so moving around would be a lot easier if I could use the ...
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How can I find and replace multiple blocks of text in multiple documents all at once?
I tried searching for this everywhere but couldn't find any solution.
I have 100 html pages with various text to translate. I have also the translated text ready on a word document.
So what I have to ...
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Emacs c-mode can't recognize utf-8?
I need to read one C++ head file which has some Chinese and was encoded using utf-8.
Emacs should recognize this encoding, but it turns out:
Then, I changed it to text-mode, it works:
I also ...
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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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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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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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Test Editing Revert to Standard Formatting
All the time I am editing emails or text documents and I copy and paste text from another source. This changes the the current text formatting styles to that of what was copied and it is always a big ...
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Preserving CDATA Editing Xml File using Microsoft Word 2003
I have an xml file that I need to edit using Microsoft Word 2003. Everything works fine but the CDATA section is lost and is converted to normal html. For example:
<Description>
<
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Visual Studio 2010: Is it possible to force editor to use ANSI rather than UTF-8?
I am having issues with some files in automated processes, specifically with batch files and sql files. Visual Studio seems to create these as UTF-8 rather than ansi and adds some kind of special ...
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Find and Replace using different keywords
Example. I want to find and replace using:
Test1
Test2
Test3
Of course I have to input and click it 3 times in order for me to find and replace using those terms. How do I do it in one shot?
Does ...
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File increasing in size after deleting content
I recently cleaned up some .PHP files of mine with alot of code in them, there was alot of stuff that was not needed so I deleted those lines, in one case it was around 200 lines of code.
The strange ...
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Split lines based on the position of a character
consider this as a sample of a text file:
|60.05.33.14.61|
|03.22.32.23.44.20.45|
|25.17.03.20.24.05.61|
|60.24.40.35.14.25.16.01.03.61|
How can I delete all the initial "|"characters and not the ...
