A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.
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Make VIM act as Notepad++ on mixed line endings
I've googled all around and found tons of weird solutions to ^M problem, but couldn't find one and simple: how could I just open any file, like in Notepad++ and work on it? I don't want to mess with ...
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Vim Visual Mode - is there a way to change the background color only when in visual mode?
I forgot which mode I am in using VIM so I set this up in my .vimrc so that I easily know I am in Insert mode as the background changes to Yellow
:au InsertEnter * hi Normal term=reverse ...
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“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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Beep when typing backslash in cvim normal mode
I installed the cvim plugin for vim.
Almost all the cvim commands start with '\'.
But I when enter this character in normal mode, all I hear is a beep. Nothing happens. What might be causing this ...
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Save HTML from clipboard as markdown text
I want to be able to highlight a section of a web page and copy it to the clipboard then save it to my local disk as markdown. I need an efficient way to do that.
My current cumbersome method is:
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How does one find and replace text with geany in all files in a directory?
I see this discussion: How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?
I want to find and replace all files in a directory. The method suggested in the answer, is very good to find. ...
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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?
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Using Linux text editor to prepare content for Microsoft Word
I need to prepare a long manuscript that must be submitted in a Microsoft Word document in order to meet the submission criteria. (Please no "Don't use Word" comments.)
I want to use a text editor on ...
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What is the `editor` command in bash?
I was looking for a command that would hopefully open the current user's favourite text editor, because I am writing out some instructions with commands in a blog. I was expecting a command like edit, ...
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Problem when changing the font size in nedit
Whenever I open Nedit, the following error appears ----
Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string ...
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Text editor with indented word wrapping
I've been using Notepad++ in windows for a while and it has a cool feature for word wrapping so that the wrapped text is indented. That is the start of the sentence starts at column 1, but wrapped ...
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vi / vim - how to automatically strip trailing spaces on save?
Is there a .vimrc setting to automatically remove trailing whitespace when saving a file?
Ideally (to be safe) I would like to only have this functionality for certain files, e.g. *.rb
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vi / vim - extra indents when pasting text? [duplicate]
I can copy characters in other apps such as browsers with ctrlc.
I can then press i to enter insert mode in vim and press shiftctrlv to paste the text in.
The problem is that each line gets indented ...
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Can I bridge “backwards” from an ssh connection to my local emacs-server?
I'd very much like to log in to a remote machine with ssh and via the $EDITOR environment variable (or something similar) be able to edit in my local Emacs. In this case, specifically for when I log ...
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vim shortcut to open a file under cursor in an already opened window
In vim you can open a file under the cursor by using the gf command.
One can also easily open that file in a new split window by hitting <c-w> f. This is a really nice and time saving feature. ...
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Modeless vs modal editors
I just started learning Linux and all my previous experience of programming has been using the Windows platform. I came across Vim editor and read that it is modal editor unlike notepad which is ...
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Is it possible to have more than just one backup when editing text files?
Gedit and medit are two text editors that I know of that allow me to save a backup. So, if I create a file called temp.txt the next time I edit it and then save it, I'll have a backup called ...
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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 ...
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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?
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Kate editor: how to jump to modified lines?
Say I'm editing a long document and I have made a number of changes. I want to be able to jump to each changed line. Is there a way to do this?
I know about line modification indicators and I have ...
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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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Comparable editor for gedit with less dependencies?
I want to leave Gnome and install awesome on debian squeeze or wheezy, but I really can't work without gedit. Is there any text editor like gedit capable of editing columns, highlighting nearly any ...
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Console Text Editor with Windows-like keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-z, x, c, v)
Ok, I realise that I risk a religious war asking a question about text editors, but here goes.
Requirements
Mostly used for config file edits
Text based not GUI
Available for Raspian flavour of ...
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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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Latex auto package loading
In Windows, TexWorks loads the missing sty packages itself. In Linux it doesn't: how is this sty loading managed in Linux?
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Can you recommend a GUI text editor for a developer (features needed are inside)?
F-cked up with all IDE bloatware (for my purposes they are all overcomplicated and inconvenient), I came to an idea, that I'd probably better use a good editor than an IDE.
I DON'T need projects, I ...
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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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vim vs. emacs… and no, this is not a flame war
How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each?
[note] This is not meant to be answered by those who "hate one and love another" or those who haven't used both.
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How to display the permissions of a new file in the status line of the Vim editor?
With the following piece of code I get the permissions for an existing file:
augroup Get_file_perm
autocmd!
autocmd BufWinEnter,FileChangedShell * let w:file_perm=getfperm(expand('%:p'))
augroup ...
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How to write a literal dot in ed?
What would be the right way to write a line containing only . to a file in ed?
The only way I came up with is something like this:
a
.
s/^$/./
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How to edit file on remote machine with text editor?
I am on a Windows machine, and I am using NoMachine to connect to a development box. Unfortunately, the box runs on RHEL5, so lots of software is not supported. I want to use Sublime Text. Is there a ...
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IDE or Editor for Front-end development (JavaScript/HTML/CSS)? [closed]
These days APTANA seems to be the IDE of choice for Javascript developers although there is no package for Ubuntu or any other distribution.
How do I install Aptana on Ubuntu? Is it stable?
(if you ...
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Bash/Korn shell script edited on Windows throws error '…^M: not found'
Some background on the issue:
I am new to scripting and wrote a simple Bash script in Windows using Notepad++.
cxStopAllServicesOnSERVER.sh
#usr/bin/bash
cd "/some/path"
echo "Hi. Logs can be found ...
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Get rid of *~ files in KDE editors
All the KDE based editors (Kate, KWrite, Kile, etc.) tend to produce recovery (?) files that are named like the edited file with a tilde at the end. The annoying thing is that these files are left ...
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How to set on executable bit for a particular file automatically
I want that when i make create a particular file, suppose i create it in vim editor, the created file should get executable permission as well when it gets created . I want this as i am creating some ...
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vim automatic substitution
I have the following lines:
'0,
'1,
'2,
'3,
How to put quote before the comma?
I've tried the following so far:
%s/[0-9],/&/g
so & here replaces the matched pattern...
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How do I quit from Vi?
I started Vi on my Ubuntu machine. However I don't know Vi, and now I can not quit. I see the editor and I can write text, at the bottom line there is a label "recording".
How do I quit from Vi?
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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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GUI File editor with large file support
Can anyone recommend a file editor, preferably free, that handles large files as well as EmEditor on Windows?
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I want to modify root files while also being able to create non-root files in a single text editor session.
Catch 22: If I open my text editor without using sudo, I don't have permission to save any changes. If I open it with root privileges, any files I create are owned by root. I want to be able to ...
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Comment all lines in a text file?
In a text file I need to comment out all lines by adding a ";" as first character of each line. What is a good way to do this? I thought of Vim's visual block mode, but I couldn't find a "select all" ...
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TeXstudio: open file at line number n
I am creating a script to produce some .tex files with a lot of lines (a kind of automatic sample).
The script finishes with texstudio /home/$USER/foo.tex where foo.tex is the file created before.
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Cancel auto-fill in emacs
When using emacs (version 24.1 if that makes any difference), I would like to have a way to remove all the automatic line braking inserted by the auto-fill minor mode.
Disabling auto-fill-mode is ...
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Locate and delete all temporary files in user directory
I use vim a lot, and my area has power failure a lot. So the resultant is I get many *.swp files scattered over my PC.
I want an alias of rm command that removes all files with either .swp, ~, ...
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Gedit or an other non-commandline editor with the ability to spell-check two languages at the same time
I'm searching for an editor with the ability to spell-check two languages at the same time (German and English). Gedit can't do it out of the box.
But I want to use Gedit. It should be possible by ...
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Text editor with split screen option
Is there an editor which has the option to "split the screen" into two or more parts, accessing more than one file (possibly with a file tree) without opening more editor windows at once, and how ...
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Is here an editor for linux terminal like there is for MS-DOS?
I know that there is an editor built into MS-DOS, so you can create batch (.bat) files. But is there something like that for Linux Mint 12 terminal?
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Adding intellisense features to emacs for perl programming [closed]
How do I go about adding Intellisense-like features to emacs for perl programming? In particular, I'm looking for:
Auto-complete/suggestions
Syntax highlighting
Indentation
I looked around on ...
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vi/vim, how can I write out a number of lines to a new file
I have a bunch of lines that I want to write out to a different file.
How can I do that?
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ed: set first line as the default current line
I am trying to use ed to edit the first line of a large file, but I have to wait for ed to read all lines. Is there any way I could stop ed from reading the whole file and start editing immediately, ...
