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2answers
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I need a text editor to edit/visualize >10GB text files

So as to vizualize, and hopefully edit, a very large text file, more than 10GBytes (a backup dump of whole database), I have tried using vim... it didn't behave very well. I have also tried cat to at ...
0
votes
1answer
31 views

Select line not selecting whitespace

Is there a way to select (or paste) text without trailing/ending whitespace? eg. To copy the whole line I press y, to paste it somewhere else I use p, but it pastes the whole text with the trailing ...
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2answers
104 views

Align columns in ASCII file

I have a text file that looks like his: #c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10 c11 c12 c13 4599 995,274 2523,658 ...
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1answer
139 views

Vim: Making XML text “pretty”

Is there an easy way within vi to make your XML text "pretty"? For example: I want this.. <person> <name>Nick</name> <age>26</age> ...
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4answers
99 views

“Multipass” scripted modification of large file in-place (file-system level)?

I have just came to the problem of having to cut some lines from a large (gigabyte) sized file, and being aware of potential CPU hog trying to read it in memory, I wanted to edit it in-place ...
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2answers
510 views

In emacs (or other editor) how to display the byte offset of the cursor?

The question indicates my preference to use emacs, but the overriding issue is that I want to be able to do a normal text search and somehow see/copy-paste the byte-offset of the matched text. To ...
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1answer
63 views

!fmt for current line only

When I want to format part of text with fmt in vim I usually select parts of interesting lines in Visual Mode, with: Ctrl+V Arrows, and than type !+f+m+t. When there are couple of lines they are ...
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2answers
129 views

What is the connection between a gedit bug and a Unix-&-Linux Q/A href?

While answering a Unix-&-Linux question, I observed that Gedit and two other editors, Leafpad and Medit (I tested 12 editors altogether) exhibit the a certain bug. As it turns out, the bug is ...
7
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2answers
118 views

How does one find and replace text in all open files with jed?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with jed?
2
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2answers
2k views

How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with kate?
2
votes
1answer
241 views

How does one find and replace text in all open files with LibreOffice?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with LibreOffice?
2
votes
2answers
516 views

How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with gedit?
3
votes
1answer
688 views

How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?

How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?