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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replace \r\n with newline in notepad++
How do I replace the string "\r\n" with the same characters.
Example:
Hello World.\r\nHello World.
replaced with:
Hello World.
Hello World.
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What Vim features do you use? [closed]
I spend almost all day programming in Vim and I am sure that a lot of you do too. What features do you use that make your day to day coding that much better? One that I use
is gv, which will let ...
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Convert unix line endings to windows
I recently moved back to Windows from Linux. I have some files with CRLFs, some with LFs and some that are mixed. Is there a utility that will help me find all my Unix-touched files and convert them ...
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Turn Off Parenthesis Matching in Sublime Text 2
I have questions about turn off parenthesis matching. Does anyone know how to turn off parenthesis matching?
example:
When I type a (, it will automatically add ), becomes ().
It's pretty nice for ...
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How reverse selected lines order in vim?
For example, if I have four lines as follows:
the first line
the second line
the third line
the fourth line
I want to reverse them to
the fourth line
the third line
the second ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Where's my Open-With gVim context menu option in Windows 7?
I have gVim installed. Under Vista and XP, this offered me an addition to either the object context menu of "Edit with gVim", or an addtion to the "Open With" context menu of "gVim". This would let ...
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Free tool for graphical representations of XML files
I need a tool which displays an XML file in a nice way.
With "nice way" I mean a way on which I can fold and unfold all the nodes.
Is there any free tool that runs on Windows Vista that does this ...
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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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Is there a VI equivalent I can use on Windows XP and later?
I get frustrated using Notepad on my Windows XP machine when I want to do more complicated text manipulation. Having used VI on various versions of UNIX I'd like to get something with its power on my ...
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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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Converting CSV to fixed-width in Notepad++?
is there a way in notepad++ to convert a comma-separated file to fixed width columns? This feature exists in Ultraedit and explained here, but I am happy with my Notepad++ and I don't wanna pay for a ...
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Small, light text editor / note taker with built-in strong encryption?
I've been using a little app called SafeSex to jot down notes securely; however it's not been maintained for ages and lacks polish. However, it does have Blowfish encryption built-in.
My question is: ...
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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 do I delete the next line in vim?
In emacs, whenever I want to delete a few lines of text, I just use C-k until all the text is gone. However, in vim it seems a bit more complex. I know I can do d$ to delete until the end of the ...
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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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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 ...
5
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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.
5
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1answer
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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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delete blank lines from a text file
I am trying to delete all the blank lines in a text file. Is there a quick way to do this?
What I have
line one
line two
What I want
line one
line two
I am using notepad++, so a solution using ...
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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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What is the closest thing to Windows notepad on the Mac?
What is the closest thing to Windows notepad on the Mac?
I'm using Leopard.
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Split a large text file
I have a large text file grouped with separate headers that I need to split into separate files.
For instance the file has headers like this:
--Heading 1--
some text
text
--Heading 2--
more text ...
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How do I convert a column of text to upper case in Excel 2007 without creating a new column?
I know that you can use formulas and convert the data that way, but how can I convert to Upper (or Lower or proper) in place? Is there an easy way built into excel to instruct a non-superuser with?
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Is there any Firefox addon to convert text to UPPERCASE or lowercase
Is there any Firefox addon to convert a bit of selected text (in text fields), to "UPPER CASE", "lower case", "Proper Case", and "Sentence case"?
This is useful when writing email.
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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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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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Windows Text Editor With SCP Support and No Install
Is there a programmer's text editor (line numbers, syntax highlighting) for Windows 7 that offers
Edit in Place via SCP
A non-administrator instalation/runs without instalation
Free is nice, ...
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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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votes
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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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VERY large text files and Snow Leopard
Sometimes I need to work on EXTREMELY large text files. 200-300 megs or more.
My favorite text editor on my MacBook Pro is TextMate. However, TM chokes on very large text files. Even ones around ...
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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 a file if there is no vi, vim, joe, etc?
Is there a way to edit a file if there are no vi, vim, joe, mcedit? In another words is there a way to edit a file using just the shell commands?
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Remote edit with local editor (Linux)
I have a server I can ssh into, and I am also running Ubuntu. How do I edit this remote file using any program I have installed on my local Ubuntu, without copying it to local, editing it, and copying ...
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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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How to perform search and replace in lots of files with Emacs at once?
I'm looking for a solution to how to perform a search and replace in all files in a directory using Emacs.
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“Drag” selected text using the keyboard?
If I select some text in a text input field/area/window, I can drag that text to another position somewhere within the text area using the mouse. Is it possible to do this dragging using the keyboard?
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Remove Byte Order Mark (BOM)
Background
Run SQL files using pgsql that were edited with gVim on Windows.
Problem
The BOM character causes syntax errors with pgsql. I would like to edit files using gVim and, when saved, no ...
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DokuWiki - How to show the edit buttons on section headers
In DokuWiki, is there any plugin compatible with the latest stable release (2009-02-14), that can show the edit buttons on section headers (like Wikipedia or MediaWiki) instead of showing them at the ...
