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Win7 regedit falsely reports successful merge
I'm trying to hijack notepad with the hack described at http://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/notepad2-Replacement.html.
I created a registry file to do this, but it won't work. The confusing thing is ...
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Strange permission changes when saving file on a Samba partition from a Windows editor
I'm trying to figure out why a specific behavior is exibited when perms change on a file being saved from a Windows editor on a SAMBA-mounted Unix partition.
Situation:
We have a file on Unix, with ...
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1answer
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Replacing Italic with markdown formatting or em tags
I have content in google docs that is being converted to HTML. The main trick is that there are a number of italic sections which I would like to add <em> tags or markdown asterisks.
I tried ...
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4answers
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Scrutiny all visible or invisible characters of a text file
Is there any software that can be used to scrutinize all visible or invisible characters in a text file (characters like BOM, direction mark, line feed ...)?
Showing the Unicode name of characters ...
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1answer
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Is thery any light weight text editor like notepad++ but with text colors [closed]
I use notepad ++ in windows 7 but i can't color the text.
Is there any lightweight editor like notepadd++ where i can also color the text as well
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2answers
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Mass text manipulation?
I have a text file of a couple of hundred thousand words. E.g.:
word1
word2
etc
I want to know what program I can use to easily:
Add "FRONT" to the front of the text, and
Add "BACK" to the end of ...
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0answers
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Rich text editor cross-platform
I'm about to write a thesis and I need to work on it on various devices: a MacBook Pro, a laptop with Windows 7 and an iPad. The problem is to find a way to keep in sync everything. I though of many ...
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4answers
232 views
Opening a big file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a rather large log file on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. It's a couple gigabytes, but notepad, wordpad, ...
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4answers
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What is a Windows text editor that will make it easy for me to have four text files open onscreen at once?
When brainstorming / planning I like to have four text files open onscreen at once: One for notes/stream of consciousness, one for action items to follow up on, one for a rough outline, etc.... What ...
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2answers
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Need a simple APP or Software or Tool for auto typing
I'm looking for an application which can do something as follows -
In a notepad or any editor, if I go on hitting any keystrokes, it shall go on typing only predefined text in an application.
For ...
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2answers
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Open unknown filetypes in text editor?
Is there a way to open files with unknown extensions, or no extension, in a text editor by default?
I'm mostly interested in doing this on Windows 7, but it would be nice to know how in Mac/Linux ...
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0answers
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Which Text Editor supports multiple monitors? [closed]
I am using HIPPO Edit and Notepad++ as my text editors. Both of these doesn't provide support for multiple monitors. Is there any text editors which support Multiple monitors?
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1answer
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Are there any Windows text editors that display fonts smoothly the way Adobe applications do?
When I type text into an Adobe application on Windows - Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign (although not Fireworks) - the text is rendered smoothly and the font appears without any sign of jagged edges.
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3answers
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command line text editor like “edit” for windows x64 [duplicate]
is there any command line editor like the old edit for windows x64?.
I exclude VIM because i don't like the mode behavior. I would like a editor were i could write just as i write in any application. ...
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2answers
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How do I select columns in tab separated text?
I have a list of items in a text file separated by 1 (one) tab character like this:
item one[tab]item two
Each item doesn't have the same length in characters. So a traditional column selection ...
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3answers
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What is the edit command for 64-bit Windows 7?
I am using Windows 7 64-bit. I could not find a command that enables me to write a text file in the command prompt. Is there a command for this on Windows 7 x64? I tried edit but it is not supported ...
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5answers
199 views
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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2answers
595 views
Text editor on Windows to delete large block of copyright text in multiple source files?
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The author of a Java open source project I am using has changed the copyright notice in every file in the project.
As a result, I can no longer diff between the ...
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6answers
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Notepad with line numbers
I'm looking for a text editor with as few features as notepad, but with the addition of line numbers.
Does anyone know of such an application.
Edit
I've used Notepad++ and Notepad2 in the past and ...
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3answers
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Some pretty fixed width font for Windows? [closed]
With Mac, I like the font of Menlo for text editors. With PC, it's hard for me to find some pretty fixed with font, and I don't like the Courier font that I have to use for emEditor.
Could you ...
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2answers
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What is the alternative to Komodo IDE, and Komodo Edit on Windows? [closed]
What is the alternative editor that I could use instead of Komodo IDE / Komodo Edit?