Questions tagged [text-editors]
A text editor is a program that allows for editing of plain text files.
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How to automatically reload modified files in Notepad++
How can automatically reload modified files in Notepad++? The confirmation step is annoying, and is completely unnecessary in some situations.
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How do you reuse a visual mode selection?
Often when editing code, I'll select a block in visual mode and do a search and replace over the block. After I make the changes, however, it leaves visual mode. How do you do a new find and replace ...
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How do I edit text files in the Windows command prompt?
On Unix I'd just use vi, but I don't know what the command is on Windows. I am actually trying to edit files over SSH with Windows Server 2008.
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How do I 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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Change default text editor for crontab to vim
I'm using ubuntu 9.10 and the default text editor is nano, which i hate. (doesn't everyone?)
Normally it's not a problem as i just vi or gedit everything but crontab -e is opening with nano. I ...
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It's All Text for Chrome?
I'm a big fan of It's All Text for Firefox, as it's really helpful to be able to quickly open up gvim and write out code, wiki markup, etc in a powerful editor rather than trying to do edits in a ...
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How can I make Sublime Text reload the file being edited?
How can I make Sublime Text (3) re-load the file currently being edited, to take into account changes having been made externally?
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In Notepad++, how do I split long lines in several rows?
I usually use Notepad++ for programming, but recently I started doing some writing in it as well.
Writing usually involves long paragraphs with no line breaks, and currently those are displayed in ...
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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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How do I do multi-line editing in Atom editor?
I've been reading all over and I can't find anything on how to do this in Atom on Windows? And by multi-line editing, I mean being able to expand your cursor across multiple-lines, and being able to ...
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Copy and paste text in midnight commander (MC) via putty in Linux
I use Midnight Commander (MC) editor over putty to edit files
I want to know how to copy text from one file, close it then open another file and paste it?
If it is not possible with Midnight ...
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Repeat last normal mode command, including moves, in Vim
In Vim, with ., I can repeat the last normal mode command; for example:
dd.
deletes a line twice.
But, if I type
5j.
the cursor does't move 10 lines down. How do I repeat the last normal mode ...
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How can I use custom colours in the Microsoft VBA editor?
I'm working on a few projects for work using Excel and VBA, so I have no choice but to use the Microsoft Visual Basic editor. I normally wouldn't mind, but I can't figure out how to set a custom ...
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Opening a text file at a certain line (shortcut)
I would like to define a shortcut key which opens a particular text file at a particular line. My preferred editor is Notepad++, but suggestions involving other editors are welcome.
How to open ...
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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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Multiple cursor selection on a pattern in Visual Studio Code
I am looking for a similar way that I work in Sublime Text:
Find All for a specific regular expression. Then it has multiple-selected the texts I need.
A simple find and replace does not fulfil my ...
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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 get Google Drive to open text files with arbitrary extensions as text files?
I have text files on Google Drive that do not end with the .txt suffix (such as: .r, .bas, .awk...).
I want to view them using the Drive Notepad app, but it does not recognize the files as text.
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How to do an inverse search in Vim? (i.e., get lines not containing pattern)
With grep I can do a grep -v "my search" to get all the lines without "my search".
With sed I can sed '/baz/!s/foo/bar/g' to find replace text on lines with out "baz".
Is ...
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Notepad++ split line after given number of characters
Is there a way in notepad++, to split one line text, to text with given maximum number of characters in one line? I found only undefined line split in lines operations.
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Add select next match in Notepad++ (like Ctrl + D in Sublime Text)
I am searching for a way to use the following functionality in the open source Notepad++.
In SublimeText if you press Ctrl + D (mac: cmd + D I think) this happens:
If there is no selection then the ...
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How to know cursor position index in an editor
I'm working with an HTML file, and I need to know my cursor position index in the overall file.
In Visual Studio, I can see the line number and column number in status bar.
In Notepad++ too, in the ...
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Is there a way to start vim in read only mode
I use /bin/view as it is a safe way to view text files and not have accidental changes persist once I am finished.
/bin/view seams to be lack features that normal vim has. Is there a way to start vim ...
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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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Light text editor for CSV file? [closed]
Could anybody suggest a light (small, fast) text editor that can
handle columnar view of csv files?
save quote character to all fields, even if not 'necessary'
OpenOffice Calc is bit big for my old ...
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How do I record and run multiple find/replace with Sublime Text 2?
How do I record and run multiple find/replace with Sublime Text 2? I tried recording a macro but, as it seems, Sublime won't record find/replace, only text input etc.
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Is there a way in Sublime Text to display find results in a panel at the bottom of the current window?
This is a highly useful feature in other editors eg. Eclipse and Notepad++
You get to see the list of find results printed as all the containing lines with their lines in the buffer, which gives you ...
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Windows-style, terminal based, text editor for linux
Every once in a while, I find myself editing some text file on a remote Linux server. Most of the time, I do my best to avoid this, because I'm used to, and like, the windows way of editing files:
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How can I let TextMate show line numbers when I'm coding C++?
How can I let TextMate show line numbers when I'm coding C++?
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vi/vim alternative to sublimetext's "Expand selection to scope"
Sublime text has a cool feature called "Expand selection to scope" SHIFT+CMD+SPACE which selects the everything within the scope.
It select everything in scope, works perfectly ( ) or [ ] or { } ...
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Search all within opened tabs with Sublime Text 2
Having Sublime Text 2 Text Editor:
Is it possible to search within all the tabs that are open? How?
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Notepad2 or Notepad++ and why? [closed]
Why should I choose one over the other, or should I go another way?
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How can I make vim show the current class and method I'm editing
Does anyone know if it's possible (or know of an existing vim script or plugin) that can create a "status bar" that shows the name of the current class and method (or function) I'm editing?
I'm ...
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Show/Hide 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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How can I view putty log files with color in Notepad++ or other text editors?
I have a putty log file that contains color markup, e.g.:
[0m[33mSome colored error text
[35mSome more colored error text
[0mSome stuff
Is there a way to easily view these log files in color? Bonus ...
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Is there a Linux equivalent of Programmer's Notepad or Notepad++
I've recently switched over to Ubuntu from Windows and love it. One thing I miss is my Programmer's Notepad. I haven't found anything similar yet for Linux. Eclipse is way too big and involved for ...
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Highlight all occurrences of a word in Github's Atom text editor
In Sublime Text, if you double-click a word in file, all occurrences of that word are highlighted on the page, giving at-a-glance orientation of how a variable or other text is used in the file.
Is ...
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Vim delete motions include under the cursor
If you delete backwards in vim, it doesn't delete the character under the cursor. What do you need to do to have it delete, say, back to the last space?
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Vim: edit multiple lines
I was looking for a way to edit multiple line simultaneously.
I found that Ctrl-V + selecting the lines + I should be the solution. The problem is that, for me, after pressing I (in fact Shift-i) I'm ...
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Which are the non-x text editors in Powershell?
Are there some editors like emacs, vi/vim, specifically for power shell, if so which are the best?
I will have to do some work on windows and I need some unix productivity - which means for me
shell ...
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I'm using Bash in "vi mode". What's the hotkey sequence to edit the current command line using an external editor?
In Bash's "Emacs mode" (set -o emacs), I can edit the current command line in my favorite external $EDITOR. All I have to do is press Ctrl+X then Ctrl+E.
But, because I have switched to Bash's "vi ...
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Any text editor that can apply some math to replacement text?
I have big XML file
<obj param="2542">
<obj param="2333">
<obj param="6433">
I need to increase all "param" values by some number. I can match numbers that I need with regexp ...
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What is the easiest way to get a yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss timestamp hotkey on the Mac?
On Windows I use the PSPad editor which has a nice ALT-D timestamp which you can edit the format of, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.
When working outside an editor, e.g. Google Docs, I have Autohotkey ...
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Change default text editor to Sublime Text in Linux Mint
I've installed Sublime Text 3 from the .deb found here: http://www.sublimetext.com/3
Now, how to set it as the default text editor in place of gedit in Mint 16?
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Are there shortcuts for text editors/processors to delete the rest of a line?
The cursor may stay in the middle of the line and there may be necessity to delete whatever stands from the right side of the cursor, but only till the end of current line. I don't know how this ...
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VIM: How do you get the last ex command you used?
I find that sometimes I write a really long ex mode command that do lots of stuff. They are sort of "mini-scripts" that I write in the text editor then I start ex mode and copy them into the ex line ...
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How to remove all the duplicated words on every line using Notepad++?
I'm working on a file containing lines with keywords and some lines contain duplicated keywords.
For example:
dangerous,dangerous,hazardous,perilous
I want to tell Notepad++ that I want to remove ...
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Change vscode close tab behavior to next show left neighbor instead of previously selected tab
Suppose you have 5 open tabs in order from 1-5. If you select tab 1, then select tab 5 and close it (ctrl+w), the editor goes back to tab 1.
I want it to go to tab 4, i.e. the previous neighboring ...
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textwidth=0 and wrapwidth=0 in .vimrc.local not being respected
I have the following lines at the bottom of my .vimrc.local:
set textwidth=0
set wrapmargin=0
However, whenever I open a new file, both these values are set to their defaults (72 and 2, ...
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Delete the word in which the text cursor is
When typing/editing text, how do I delete the word at which the text cursor currently is?
I mean a "system-wide" solution that works in most programs (and is maybe offered by the OS), rather ...
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