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How can I filter a file for lines containing a string in Sublime Text 2?
I want to filter a file I'm editing in Sublime Text 2 for lines contain a certain string, if possible including regular expressions.
Consider the following file:
foo bar
baz
qux
quuux baz
When ...
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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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How to convert text to decimal in openoffice calc?
I have a column which contains:
€ 53,28
€ 1.336,0
€ 69,90
€ 296,50
€ 899,00
€ 149,90
€ 697,40
and so on. I want to sum the column up, but for openoffice it is text and not a decimal.
What I did:
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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What features does Emacs have that Vim hasn't?
What features am I missing when I use Vim instead of Emacs?
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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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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?
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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How can I edit Unicode text in Notepad++?
Sometimes I edit English text that includes Unicode characters. For some reason, on my PC, Notepad++ converts Unicode characters to ???'s thereby corrupting the text and losing all that data. I'm ...
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Why is Word 2007 not allowing me to select or edit above text with cursor?
I have a problem selecting or editing text in Word 2007 which is above the cursor's current position. I am unable to select any text or even just click in the upper part of the document text, but I am ...
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Word adding newlines after replaced text?
For a video game, I'm making an ascii map of 1s and 0s which the program makes a 3D labyrinth out of. This is obviously not fun to edit (100x100). To make it easier, I tried setting up Word's ...
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How to write multi lines in one Excel cell?
I want to write multi-lines in one MS Excel cell.
But whenever I press the Enter key, the cell editing ends and the cursor moves to next cell. How can I avoid this?
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Automatic forward-deleting
First and foremost... please forgive my somewhat approximate English. (I'm French.) Oh and my loooooong sentences too (I need lots of words for little meaning when speaking foreign languages... plus ...
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How to change the text direction on Windows?
Sometimes when I'm typing, text orientation changes from LTR to RTL, but I am not able to find any shortcut to change the text direction on Windows.
How can I change the text direction inside a text ...
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Edit one file in two different buffers in emacs
I would like to open the file foo.bar twice (or more) in emacs, so I can edit two different parts of it simultaneously. Is it possible? Probably the better question is, how to do it? Is there a way to ...
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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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How can I justify plain text in Linux?
I'm composing a plain text (.txt) document that has left-and-right justified paragraphs. I manually add spaces, breaking words with hyphens if necessary, until the lines are uniform length. To use an ...
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Beyond-compare wont ignore line-breaks?
I have this comparison :
http://i.stack.imgur.com/bZej7.jpg
I want those line to be treated equal.
but it showes me they are different.
I already applied those settings :
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Adding text to the beginning and end of a number of files?
I have a number of files in a directory hierarchy. For each file, I'd like to add "abcdef" to the beginning, on its own line, and "ghijkl" to the end, on its own line. For example, if the files ...
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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 to split a text file into multiple text files
I have a text file called entry.txt that contains the following:
[ entry1 ]
1239 1240 1242 1391 1392 1394 1486 1487 1489 1600
1601 1603 1657 1658 1660 2075 2076 2078 2322 2323
2325 2740 2741 2743 ...
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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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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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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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Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a very big text file (10 GB). Both Notepad and Notepad++ tell me that the file is too big for them to open. What editor can handle such a large file? It's a log file.
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Notepad++ - Removing the first column in a comma separated file
I have a large CSV file that I need to remove the first column of data. I cannot open it in Excel because Excel converts some of the values in the columns to scientific numbers.
I am using Notepad++, ...
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Looking for software that can translate a book or help write a biography [closed]
I'm looking for a program or add-on that would help translate a book or document easily.
I need something that can split side-by-side, one language (the original) on the left, the translated on the ...
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How can I edit file permissions (e.g. make script files executable) from within Sublime Text 2?
When writing e.g. shell scripts, I want to change their permissions (primarily the executable permission) from within Sublime Text 2.
How can I accomplish that?
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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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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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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 ...
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Viewing Binary Files
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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emacs: how to indent/unindent region of python code by 4 spaces?
I have a region of python code selected in emacs. What are the most efficient ways to indent and unindent every line in it by 4 spaces?
Ideally I'd like something that's not context sensitive (eg. ...
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Get rid of function folding margin on Notepad++
Is it possible to get rid of the function folding margin on Notepad++? It seems like the sort of thing that should be in the prefs but I'm not seeing it anywhere.
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What editor/viewer to use to inspect large text based files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Text Editor for very big file - Windows
Are there any text editors/viewers (preferably on windows but other platforms are also ok) that can handle files of 500 MB or ...
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How to remove blank lines in .txt files
I want to change a text file's format, removing all blank lines. How can I do that?
(2) 5. The function of the condenser is to:
a) vapourise the liquid refrigerant
b) change ...
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How to make cut/copy/paste in GVim on Ubuntu work with Ctrl+X,Ctrl+C,Ctrl+V?
By default, the cut/copy/paste short-cuts in GVim on Ubuntu are:
Cut "+x
Copy "+y
Paste "+gP
I would like to use control key combos in GVim, like I use in Firefox and othe gnome ...
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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 ...
