text-editor

What's so great about Block Selection Mode?

Longtime Eclipse user here; I recently discovered the "Block Selection Mode" (Alt-Shift-A) that was added into Eclipse 3.5. I tried it out, it's pretty neat--I can select a rectangle of text in my source code instead of selecting things a line at a time like I usually do. Apparently this feature is common in other editors too, under o...

Why not use HTML tags in websites' text editors?

Hi all, I may need to implement this sometime in the future, but I think the trigger for the question now is mainly curiosity. I thought of how to write a text editor to a web site I'll build soon, and saw this site's (and other's) way, so I thought - isn't it a bit too complicated? If tags should be used from the first place, why not le...

Feature request for a text-editor with support for literate programming

This is a feature request for the writers of Visual Studio and any other programmer's editor. Consider a literate program as follows: /* File Name: LiterateProgram.h */ // \begin{comment} #pragma once #include "myHeader.h" /* \end{comment} %\bigskip \begin{lstlisting} % */ class CSomeClass : public CSomeBase { public: float som...

Embedding YouTube videos/playlists to WSIWYG Editor

Coding in ASP.NET/C#/jQuery/Javascript Third Party Editor used: Innova Studio WSIWYG Editor I am embedding youtube videos in the WSIWYG editor with the help of YouTube Embedded Player Parameters My question is, what are the embedding parameters for playlists? Are they both similar? Are there some reference sites we could look at? ...

Text Tool for log file updation

Hello, I'm looking for a text tool ( if not a text tool say it as a log file viewer ...) which updates the log file from where it last stopped , instead refreshing the whole log file from the beginning. -Srinivas ...

How to improve the transfer-code-from-mind-to-file effort?

QUESTION OBSOLETE: This question has been re-asked, in a much more condensed form, on programmers.stackexchange. Please vote to have this question closed. Programmers' trade is essentially to write code. Yes, there is a lot more involved than that, but when you really boil down to it, at the end of the day, programmers will have produce...

notepad++ remove charater 10 to 20 for example

the title says it all, does anyone know a way to remove for example charater 10 to 20 in every new line? For example: original line: <div id="dot"><a id="69149d5ac2-3" href=" Must look like: <div id="dot"><a href=" ...

Eclipse text-editor drag-and-drop mouse click key combination

In the Java source editor in Eclipse, you could select a block of code, pick it with a mouse click and drop the block of code into another area of the code. You can't do that for other text editors like XML, HTML, etc. I had to press a key combination before I could use the mouse to move and drop the selected text. I have a new Eclipse ...

how to search and replace big chunks of text in files, with VS or with another text editor?

Hello, I have a bunch of old .asp files to refactor, and the first thing I have to do is to replace a bulky <table> wich is repeated in every file (it's a menu) with a server side include. the table has no id, but its container has it: <td id="leftColumn" > <table> manually going through the files and replacing the t...

How to create autocompletion feature ?

Hi, I would like to create the autocompletion(intellisense) feature in an editor I'm working on. Basically the keywords preceeding the . (period) to invoke the autocompletion box will be user defined. i've created the editor using visual c#. Now i need to create an autocompletion box. can any one help me to do this ? Thanks in advance ...

linux editor similar to notepad++ for packet captures

I am looking for a very specific functionality which Notepad++ has in a linux text editor: So you have a spiffy packet from tcpdump. Notepad++ allows you to easily strip away the left hex via alt+select and then delete. Some short replace spaces and line returns and you can end up with... (see below the capture) 21:43:31.790123 IP ...

What's a good memory-efficient text viewer for Linux?

I need to browse humongous log files from the command line while connected to a web server. I don't want to open the file and have the entire contents read into memory, hogging up the server's memory. I just need to be able to page through and search the log. I usually use "nano". Is this one all right with memory? ...

Is there a plugin for vim to auto-import python libraries?

In eclipse you can hit Ctrl+Shift+o to automatically import all the libraries you reference in your code. Is there any similar plugin for vim to have this feature with python? ...

downloading a Text Editor problem for visual studio

Hello fellow programmers I’m faced with an usual problem. Currently, I’m working on a site as a hobby and I want to use a text editor. The problem is I do all my work from school. Unfortunately the school uses a drive shield on all their computers. So every time you turn off the computer it wipes the hard drive clean and uses an image o...

how find notepad++ tutor?

Does anyone have any suggestions how to find a tutor to help me improve my notepad++ skills? I'm thinking, telephone and something like Elluminate. I use notepad++ for html, css and php. I would like to learn how to install a patch so I can incorporate find/replace in macros, and would like to get better at using webedit and some othe...

See line breaks and carriage returns in editor

Does anyone know of a text editor on linux that allows me to see line breaks and carriage returns? Does vim support this feature? Thanks. ...

sort rows in 'VI' editor

If i have to sort following rows on the basis of values on left of '='. But the sorting should expand the selection to column after '=' simultaneously. Thtz is we dnt have to sort column after '=' :: 50599=1000000 50454=00000054 50080=00005464 50098=00000875 50661=00000665 50788=10000035 50988=10000006 50994=10000656 570...

jQuery: How to go through all the characters in <p> paragraph?

I've got a paragraph: <p>I want to put a ding in the universe.</p> I want to change the attributes of the characters in the text e.g. to change its color, so after this the paragraph should look like this: <p> <span class="color"> I </span> <span class="color"> w </span><span class="color"> a </span><span class="color"> n </span><span ...

A Linux tool that will display errors as I type, Visual Studio style

I'm looking a tool that will display details of syntax errors in my code as I'm typing it, in the same way that Visual Studio does. I'm currently using Gedit, but am not adverse to acquiring a new text editor. I'm using C++ and HTML/CSS right now, but will be branching out to more languages in the future, so it needs to have support for ...

EDT editor - a modern approach?

I used the EDT editor on VMS very long time ago. Is there modern implementation of this excellent text editor available? If so, are there source codes? Maybe it is circumvented by Emacs and Vim? Thank you ...