Questions tagged [text-editing]
Text editing is the process of selecting and preparing text [files].
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How to extract text from a large file, starting at the first occurrence of a string?
I have a large log file I want to review. All the bad stuff starts at the certain occurrence of an error string. I want to then look at the last X lines from that point and see what might have caused ...
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Align columns in text file
I have a file in Unix like below (test.txt):
20130912-02:29:03 BT_TBL CISCUST BT_TBL_CISCUST_003015.dat
20130912-05:00:04 BT_TBL TMVLP BT_TBL_TMVLP_001026.dat
20130912-08:26:20 D_SNODE CPR8S ...
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Removing Trailing Whitespace in .txt file
How do I remove a trailing whitespace on each line in a .txt file in following command? I created script below to remove 1st character in each line but this creates a whitespace at the end of each ...
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How to automatically detect text file charset and convert it to UTF-8
Is there any way to auto-detect character encoding of a text file and convert it to UTF-8? I'm using Windows 7.
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Single column completion?
TL;DR: Is it possible to make emacs use single-column completion?
When using emacs' completion mechanisms and there are multiple
possibilities, then completions are displayed in a separate window,
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Vim, highlight repeated words
When writing a technical document (papers, blueprints...) it's very likely to repeat a keyword, and a lot of time is wasted in trying to replace repetitions with synonyms.
A very helpful tool in this ...
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Is there a way to prevent notepad from inserting new lines when using word wrap?
I remember it wasn't doing this before but now when I am writing a few paragraphs and paste it into a forum post, I notice my lines were broken into new lines where I have to merge them manually.
Is ...
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How to append a CR to end of all .txt files in a directory
Is there an easy way to do this? I'm actually combining about 500 files using copy *.txt myoutputFile.txt. The problem is, that command inserts the new/next file at the current/end position of the ...
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What is a quick way to find the number of lines in a piece of copied text?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for asking this question. But here it is.
Suppose I copy some text from a webpage -
Arsenal F.C. London
Aston Villa F.C. Birmingham
Chelsea F.C. ...
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How can I edit unusual clipboard content?
I'd like to edit application specific clipboard content, with an application specific format. There are clipboard managers that let me edit the plain text content, but I'd like to access clipboard ...
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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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Edit a file through an on-the-fly encryption stream in Unix
Okay this is a weird sort of question. I might get down-voted for being stupid here.
I'd like to be able to edit an encrypted file, but without having to manually decrypt it to a location on the disk....
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Simplest way to erase and replace content of multiples text files
I'm trying to do quite a simple thing. I have 40 text files in which in need to delete everything and replace with the content of a template text-file.
What is the easiest/fastest way?
NB: I don't ...
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Can you edit the contents of an Excel cell without having to double click it?
I have a list of about 10,000 name/addresses that I have to manually cleanse in Excel (fun!). As you can imagine, having to double click to enter almost every cell to edit it is a drag. And it's ...
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How do I get Dash Doc App to respect indentation?
When I expand an abbreviation with Dash Doc App it starts at the cursor location in my text editor (Sublime Text), but then ignores the original placement of the cursor and the next lines begin on the ...
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Is there a paste-replace shortcut?
Hello all :) This is be a petty request, but it is like an itch to me right now for a specific project:
There are shorcuts for copy and paste, but I often find myself moving bits of text between each ...
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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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How do I disable the overselection of text in Windows 7?
Is there a way to disable the overselection of text in Windows 7? Specifically, when I double-click a word Windows will select the word, then any whitespace after it.
word1 word2 word3 wordetc
If I ...
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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 alt/meta/...
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Split text file by whitespace
I have a very large text file with multiple columns of data.
I.e.
1312.4123 asdkofADkofaO213 dakofasdjodas Fri Mar 2013 15:23:11
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..
..
etc.
I wish to split this text file into multiple subsets, ...
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Notepad++ inserting special Unicode characters in UTF-8
What's the best ways to enter special Unicode characters into a Notepad++ document? Do I have to rely on the operating system (Windows)?
Looking for a see-and-click solution.
I can bring up the ASCII ...
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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 ...
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How can I insert a line break over 100 times for a given text string?
I got this very, very, very long text string that consists only of e-mail addresses. It's so long that it goes off my screen several pages to the right. It makes it impossible to read.
It looks ...
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Apply regex to certain occurrences
I have a large file with plain text (no html tags, etc.). What I want to do is to apply regex to whole file on the one hand but on the other I want to choose which changes will be applied.
For ...
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JSON formatted text file makes CPU jump to 100%
I'm editing a JSON formatted text file in Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB of RAM.
The file is approx. 3 MB large so it's not very big. Anyhow this is making both ...
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Is there any way to auto-save all my entered text in Firefox? [closed]
I love the idea that gmail and Stackoverflow record my message so when I come again to that tab or draft I can find all the text that I have typed earlier already filled in.
On Internet not every ...
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Beyond-compare wont ignore line-breaks?
I have this comparison :
I want those line to be treated equal.
but it showes me they are different.
I already applied those settings :
What am I doing wrong ?
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How to replace a list of strings by another list
I have a file which has (many) strings I'd like to replace, so I thought about using a simple command like:
sed 's/string1/string2/g' file1 > out
However, there are too many strings for that ...
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Editing the same file from multiple computers
My friend and I need to view and edit the same file at the same time. We were using Google Docs, but the firewall is now blocking it.
If we connected our computers with a network cable (no hub or ...
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why does an Excel column formatted as number lose its leading zero when the column is formatted as text?
I have to export a spreadsheet to CSV. One of the columns is a zipcode with east coast zipcodes that have a leading zero. When I reformat that column as Text hoping to preserve the leading zero on ...
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How to select non contiguous lines of code in Notepad++?
What key enables the selection of non-consecutive lines in Notepad++?
I have some Matlab code I have edited with Notepad++. I would like to select distinct (non consecutive) blocks of code in order to ...
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Automate vim execution on a file
I would like to be able to specify on bash command line set of keys that will vim execute on given file, just the same as I am doing it when manually editing, for instance, hypothetically:
vim myfile ...
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How to paste Excel data as fixed-width text?
If I copy data in Excel and paste it in a text file, I get tabs between cells. That's not good, I want spaces - and I want the columns to be aligned. How can I achieve this without a lot of effort (...
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Parsing two input files and comparing line existence
I need to take two text files and check to see if a line that exists in File A doesn't exist anywhere in File B.
Each line in File A that does not exist in File B should be copied to an output log.
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Create a term-document matrix from files
I have a set of files from example001.txt to example100.txt. Each file contains a list of keywords from a superset (the superset is available if we want it).
So example001.txt might contain
apple
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Delete first lines from a Unicode html file
I have an HTML file that is in UTF-8 format and I want to remove the first five lines from it.
I've tried using sed but it doesn't work in this case:
sed "1,5d" Result.html>small2
It actually ...
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How can I edit huge RTF files produced by Windows in Linux?
I have tried LibreOffice, and Abiword on Linux Mint 13, and in both cases, on the sorts of RTF files I use (lots of font changes, language changes, color changes, underlining, etc.), the application ...
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Remove lines ending with a specific format in Notepad++
I've got a simple array in Notepad++:
bla.vmt"
bla.vtf"
bla_exponent.vtf"
I want to get rid of the lines ending with .vmt and _exponent.vtf.
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Which command line text editor has the closest keybindings to Notepadd++, Gedit, or Kate (or any modern CUA style editor)?
I'm looking for a text editor that has an amazing common user access (CUA) mode (or can be configured to have it) that resembles closely modern editors like Notepad++, Gedit, Kate, Sublime, etc.
I've ...
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Add text to the beginning of every other line in Notepad++
What I want to do is:
Add <title> to the beginning of lines 1, 3, 5, etc...(hundreds of lines in a notepad++ file)
Add </title> to the end of lines 1, 3, 5, etc...
Then:
Add <link>...
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Batch replace specific line #s in an xml with specific text (lines) from a 2nd xml file in Windows 7
First of, I'm not a Coder or Unix guy, I'm using notepad++ v6.18 on Win7, so I'd ask that you "dumb it down" for me please :)
I've noticed that on the left side of each line within a notepad++ file ...
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Viewing binary files in vim displays gibberish
When I open up a binary file in Vim, it displays a bunch of gibberish. One would expect it to display a bunch of 1s and 0s. Why is this?
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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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Using sed, how to print all lines that match a certain date?
Using sed, how to print all lines where the birthdays are in November or December?
Assuming input file name "datebook" as follows:
Steve Blenheim:238-923-7366:95 Latham Lane, Easton, PA 83755:11/12/...
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Substitute large numbers of files according to style guide
I'd like to do a wholesale reformatting of our tests, and I'm cleaning up some inconsistent capitalization. I'm thinking of using awk to do this, since sed falls a little short, and since I need ...
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How to egrep the first character in second column?
Using egrep, how can I print all lines where last names start with K or k?
Jennifer Cowan:548-834-2348:583 Laurel Ave., Kingsville, TX 83745:10/1/35:58900
Lesley Kirstin:408-456-1234:4 Harvard Square,...
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In Sublime Text 2, how can I indent out to a straight column with multiple cursors on a ragged edge?
Suppose I've got multiple cursors along several lines, like this:
foo|
barr|
foobar|
baz|
How can I automatically push the whitespace at the end of each line out to a flat edge, like this?:
foo |...
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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 of ...
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Replace text when in visual-block mode
Maybe I'm searching the wrong way, but I've failed to find out how to do this.
Here's the scenario: I have a list in a text file where I want to insert the same word on multiple lines, here's an ...
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