Questions tagged [text-editors]
A text editor is a program that allows for editing of plain text files.
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What is the frequency of action of a continuous press of `CTRL + Z`
I would like to know the frequency of performed actions when I long-press the keyboard shortcut CTRL + Z (a.k.a. Undo).
To be specifically clear, when I write a large chunk of text or code in my text ...
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What is the most humane way to edit text files inside 'windowsservercore' Docker image?
Sometimes it becomes handy when you can make few config file changes inside the container, and then running some commands to try things before hardcoding all things into Dockerfile. Is the ancient MS-...
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Gedit Plugins 'grayed out' when clicked to activate (Windows 10)
I have installed Gedit 2.30.1 (32 bit) on Windows 10.
Problem: When I add any external plugin to gedit, I can see the plugin listed in the preferences option, but it gets grayed out when clicked.
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Compare two versions of text
Sometimes I need to compare two versions of short text, and looking for the most efficient way to do it
I know I could save them to Word documents and compare them, that's the baseline, I'd like to ...
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Text Editor Anywhere not working on Windows 10
I've been using http://www.listary.com/text-editor-anywhere for ages.
But it broke on Windows 10 (10.0.18362.418).
I’ve set the shortcut shift-win-A to invoke it. Using this shortcut displays the ...
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Replaced text in multiple documents in notepad++. How do i undo them all?
I used the 'replace All in All opened documents option' to replace them all at once and saved all documents with ctrl + shift + s
I still have notepad++ open since the change occurred and it has not ...
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How do I remove lines of text before this character?
Let's say I have this little text file, for example reasons.
[email protected]:948
[email protected]:11111===
[email protected]:123
How would I remove all the text ...
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How do I add/alter the shortcuts in the Rich Text Editor (RTE) of AEM?
I have been using Adobe Experience Manager to create a large number of content pages. I manually click to edit the paragraph formatting options when I want a Header1 / Header2 / etc.
How do I go ...
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Does VS2019 or a similar program have *horizontal* rulers?
I've started using vertical rulers in VS2019 to help keep my lines from running longer than 80 columns. I've noticed that sometimes my functions start to run long as well, and was wondering: is there ...
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unwanted code hints (prettify.css) in vscode
where are these coming from
I have disabled all extensions. I am pretty sure that there is no prettify.css or base.css among my project files and yet I am still getting these code hints. How can I get ...
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Microsoft Excel- How to convert an text file without line breaks, no common separator please advise
I have a notepad with huge content but without any line breaks, and no common separator like commma, colon or even tab :(.. please advise, I need to split find a particular text which appears ...
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Atom is always opening developer console.How could i disable it
I installed atom text editor and compeleted a project.But now,i cant open my project.Its always opening chrome dev tools/debugging console in atom.I uninstalled it and install is again.But its not ...
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How to use capital Commands in Vim/Emacs/Spacemacs?
I am frankly just 3 days old in the emacs-vim old .
I need to execute some commands
S-M-; (executable-find "git") RET
But cant figure out how to use those capitalized commands.
My keybindings are ...
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Need help to convert a pattern in a .txt file to something else
So guys,
3076482 FinalDesir [email protected] 174.5.141.202 aedcbbf6570e664723318f5e57658625:KHG5CzJ3EO/mVta?<ZR*4b%9ucb?sa
For example I have this line ^
I want to convert it into
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Writing in a 2gb txt file
So I have a 2 gb .txt file and I want to add a character before every existing line.
How can I do it from linux or windows?
I opened it with programs like glogg but it's read only :(
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How can I quickly browse text files in a directory (e.g. by pressing left and right arrow keys)?
I'm working on a job that involves ~80,000 text files in a folder, and I want to be able to quickly browse through them (for example, by pressing the left and right arrow keys on my keyboard, or even ...
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When I press the space bar it deletes the letters after it [duplicate]
How do I change the settings to where I can press the space bar and it put a space after the letter instead of deleting the letters after it. For example, when I have a sentence like " I hav to go." ...
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How do I centre text vertically in a line in Word?
In the current Word for Office 365, I would like to vertically align the words in a line, This image demonstrates that on the top the line is obviously above the centre:
I would like there to be ...
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How can I get a WSL window with full colour support in Windows GUI Emacs?
How can I get WSL [Windows Sub-system for Linux] to run in a window on Windows GUI Emacs?
The only way I can do it so far is to enter a subshell in either emacs shell or term cmd by entering the wsl ...
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How to replace newline with space except when it's the only character in a row
I have some text like:
from her patient
scrutiny
and judicious criticism.
J.K.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
April, 1919.
And want to leave it like:
from her patient scrutiny and ...
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How can i edit HTML files in bulk?
I have a website with 35000 pages, I am trying to edit them in bulk using Notepad++ via find in files options but unable to do complete its always going on Not responding so is there any other way to ...
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How to disable colored lines in Sublime Text 3 gutter?
After my Sublime Text 3 received an update some time ago, it started to show weird colored lines in the gutter area:
How do I get rid of them?
FYI I already have "show_git_status": false in my user ...
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Sublime Text 3 not opening on macOS Mojave
I'm on a macOS Mojave.
For some strange reason, Sublime Text 3 is not opening. When I try to open it, it closes right away, before the window even shows up. It was working yesterday, but now it's not ...
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Replacing last 6 digits from a number with 6 random digits
I am looking to replace the last 6 digits from a number with 6 random numbers. How do I do that in Notepad++ or TextCrawler Pro?
I have a bunch of text files and I want to make the software scan for ...
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How to remove lines that not containing any uppercase letters or lowercase letters or numbers notepad++
I want to keep only lines that contain
at least 1 uppercase letter
at least 1 lowercase letter
at least 1 number
Example:
:soTest.@1rTr
:$TEST%.TER12TB&
:-G5O6D$G%R@RS
:sbg^45re$55
:@65RR$#...
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Vim: Just discovered `ci"` - can I append?
I've recently found out the command ci" to replace "text inside quotes". I want to instead append the text in the quotes (to get, say, "text inside quotes with some more"), without deleting the ...
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Is there a text editor which displays column numbers and/or displays text in a grid to quickly glance column numbers?
I basically need a text editor which displays text in a grid, so that I can know the exact column numbers of the text. The numerical simulation software I am using, TOUGH+ (written in FORTRAN), has a ...
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Sane way to edit with Excel formulas?
Is there any sane way to work with large and complicated Excel formulas?
For a simple =IF(A1>B2);C3;C4 or something similar, just having it chained behind each other is OK, but if we are getting ...
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Protect a file with a password, but transparently integrated in Windows's UI
I know there are several solutions to:
encrypt a file: zipping/RARing/7zip-ing with password each time we save, unzipping/unraring/un7ziping and entering password each time we want to open the file
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How do I jump or goto a line in Kakoune?
In vim I can do this with colon followed by the line number, e.g. :5. How do I do this in Kakoune?
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Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word
If I have a nested bulleted list in Word, such as:
When I paste it into Notepad or any other plain text document, the bullets lose their indents:
How can I make the plain text version automatically ...
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Visual Studio 2017 no longer lets me triple click
I've used VS for over a year and I've always been able to triple click to select an entire line. Recently, something got screwed up and it no longer selects the line. It's driving me absolutely insane,...
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How to Type TAB in Notepad++ when 'Replace by Space' is Enabled?
With the 'Replace by Space' option enabled in Notepad++ (Preferences > Language > Replace by Space), is there is a key combination which inserts a tab character without it being replaced by ...
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Intellij Color Scheme HTML TEXT background color
I'm currently using a custom color scheme and i was able to find everything else to fix except one thing.
Image below is an example of it in the work. I've looked everywhere for hours and was not ...
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Open recently closed file in Notepad++ using keyboard shortcut
Is it possible to reopen mistakenly closed file in Notepad++ using keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + T). Most web browsers have this feature, if you close a tab by mistake.
Can we do that in NPP too?...
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How to activate the splitter in Notepad++?
The Notepad++ v7.6.2 release notes reveal a new feature:
Add new feature: double click splitter resets panes to equal size.
How does one enable the splitter to begin with?
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regular expression help needed
I have a text of 8XX lines that look like this:
id="**02_item2_02" duration="29" style="**joe"
id="02_item3_01" duration="35.5" style="joseph"
The text between id=" and style=" is never the same.
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Microsoft Word: Text Colour Palette results in GREY-tints (Windows 10)
I have a software problem using Windows 10 and Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (64 bit).
In Microsoft Word the TEXT COLOUR PALETTE doesn't work correctly (in ribbon, tab Start):
If I unfold ...
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How to delete same lines in Notepad++?
I want to find out if there are any extra files between a long list of files that I generated. Because I`m weak at explaining stuff with words, I'd rather illustrate.
This is an illustration of the ...
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`.TXT` file association to Notepad++ "stopped working"
I recently formatted and then reinstalled everything, but oddly now, Windows 7 refuses to let me set Notepad++ as the default .TXT editor.
I try to set the "open with" file as usual:
right click ...
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Where to find the "bulma snippets" for Sublime Text 3?
In the "Laravel 5.7 From Scratch" video tutorial one sometimes can see usage of something like macros for bulma in Sublime Text editor.
An example would be the lesson "Create New Project Tasks", ...
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How to delete all text except for what's inside quotation marks?
I want to remove all text except for what's between quotation marks.
How would I go about doing that?
Example:
Bran could hear the wind in the trees, the clatter of their hooves on the ironwood ...
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How can I set a specific background color on Sublime Text?
Note, I don't want to change or set another Color Scheme. I just want to specify the precise color (R,G,B in Hex) I want for the background (or any part of the sublime window). Is that possible? I ...
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¢tRÂà³Ab.Ÿân TXT files: how to switch from weird characters back to normal?
So, I have on a flash drive a txt file generated in Cyrillic (my own work, own pen drive), a few years old. Now I needed to open it, only to see this kind of mess:
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I wonder why is this happening and ...
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In VSCode how do you select a whole word with - in it?
IE: say I double click "LAYOUT:MENU-TRADE": I want to select the entire constant. Or at least the entire MENU-TRADE part.
In atom I can accomplish this by removing - as an ignored character. How is ...
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How to modify the spaces in a text file to tabulate it with Excel "Text Import Wizard"?
I have a text file with 6 columns of values, separated by spaces. However, those spaces do not have consistent patterns. So is there a quicker way to tabulate it?
You can see below that sometimes ...
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Storing a decimal number in a text file with just 1 byte
I want to store the number 97 in a text file. In hexadecimal it is 0x61 and it should take 8 bits or 1 byte of storage. But when I enter 97 in a text file, it takes 2 bytes of storage (as it stores ...
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Visual Studio 2015 keeps getting standard file association for txt files
On my System running Windows 10 Professional, I am using Visual Studio 2015, which is the standard program associated to Text-Files, i.e all files with a suffix .txt, which means all files of this ...
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Atom.io | How to edit CSON file
I am trying to edit my language-php/grammars/php.cson file in order to resolve an issue with syntax highlighting. However, I cannot seem to find this on my Windows installation of Atom.io ...
It is ...
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Merge files line by line
For the sake of example I have two files:
FileA.txt
1.
2.
3.
FileB.txt
ABC
DEF
GHI
And I want to merge in order to obtain:
Output.txt
1.ABC
2.DEF
3.GHI
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