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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Geany is based on Scintilla like Notepad++.
By holding down the Control and Shift keys.
Column mode editing (rectangular selections)
There is basic support for column mode editing. To use it, create ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Emacs, of course. The concept is called rectangles and works cursor-based, similar to normal marks (you never required mouse involvement!).
So the idea is that you mark a region as usual (C-SPC and ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Vim does rectangular selection out of the box. GUI vim is available in repositories of many distros (e.g. gvim in Ubuntu and Arch).
In vim language, this operation is called 'visual block selection' ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
CudaText is a free and open source GUI text editor, in the same vein of SublimeText that runs on Linux, macOS, *BSD, Solaris, and Windows.
It has column selections you can access by pressing Alt key ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
You can use this Snap to install Notepad++.
There is also open source reimplementation of Notepad++ called Notepad Next
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
At the risk of stating the obvious, Notepad++ is an option. Though it doesn't seem to be an officially supported platform, Notepad++ is widely used on Wine, and issues that prevent it from working get ...
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Free SVG editor better than Inkscape
Is there something better than Inkscape?
It depends what you mean by better. If your main issue with Inkscape is that "it's not intuitive to use and [you] waste time to do simple things", ...
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free chat app with end-to-end encryption operating on Android and iPhone
Signal is another example of such app, which is commonly used.
encrypts communication end-to-end
it's free
has Android and iPhone support
group chats are supported
etc.
No web app (which Telegram ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Sublime Text is a cross-platform good text editor with lots of functionalities as well, including column selection and edit.
I've used it in both Windows and Fedora quite fine. Although it has "...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
jEdit is cross-platform; that's why I started to use it. It's released under GPL 2.0.
"Rectangle select" mode can be found on the Edit menu, or with <alt>+\
As with other editors ...
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Free software for automatically drawing UML from Python source code
I found links to several python-specific open-source alternatives for UML generation from source code here. The Communnity version is still free, open-sourced, and full-featured.
The one that has been ...
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Highlight mouse cursor when clicking
As mentioned in comments of this question, PowerToys (free and open-source) has a Mouse highlighter feature.
It is available only for Windows 10 (and not 7) though.
Note: those click highlights aren'...
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Tool to validate the integrity of my data files
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) bundles an array of tools for identifying and validating files, as well as extracting technical metadata. Basically, it generates an XML file, with the outputs ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Kate
In Kate toggle Ctrl + Shift + B
To go back to the default selection mode you have to press Ctrl + Shift + B again.
Source : How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, ...
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Are there specific tools for drawing UML diagrams?
One classic tool I've used is Dia Diagramming Tool, I can't vouch for it's relative usefulness compared to other suggestions but it is functional, fit for purpose and free.
Another tool you might not ...
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free chat app with end-to-end encryption operating on Android and iPhone
Whatsapp will do all of this and more. And it is free.
Screenshot of website
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Free tools to generate HTML from a picture
There are some AI attempts at this like this Screeshot to code AI model that you can run with Python locally. After testing it I can't really say its 97% accuracy from description is, ironically, ...
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Gratis and GUI program to create separate compressed file archives (e.g., .zip or .7z) for each selected file/directory
PeaZip has the functionality you are looking for.
Here is more information about this feature https://peazip.github.io/how-to-zip-files-separate-archives.html
Specifically there is written:
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To-Do-List Planner with sub-tasks
Here is an overview of the popular free kanban tools. Complete with a comparison of their features side by side.
Hope it helps, since finding the right tool comes to personal preference as much as a ...
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Is there an application for smartphone to upstream to YouTube and Facebook simultaneously for free?
I'm not sure that this question is still relevant. The Streamster app allows streaming to 2 targets (e.g. YouTube and Facebook) for free
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Linux text editor with integrated diff
Adding to @ivanivan's answer, when I opened Meld (version 3.22.0) I found out that there is an option in the welcome screen called Blank comparison:
It turns out that this does what the question is ...
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Deep-learning gratis TTS for English on Desktop (Linux)
I found something: CoquiTTS (web demo)
import sys
def gen(model_name: str, text: str, out_file: str) -> None:
from TTS.api import TTS # pip install TTS
tts = TTS(model_name=model_name, ...
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Free Screenrecording Software for Windows with Area Selection and User-Input Visualization
Open Broadcast Studio (OBS Studio) covers all the points.
It is a free, stand-alone download that works on Windows 10.
It runs on Windows 10 (current version does not work on W7)
Confirmed from the ...
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Free file-sharing site with clean download with just a simple link
Mediafire allows one click download link for one day. Here are some screenshots.
Login
Download your file
Open the list of download links
Copy your download link
If you're downloading via ...
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Free file-sharing site with clean download with just a simple link
I have just checked https://transfer.sh/ and https://www.file.io/ by uploading a file, copying the download link and accessing it without my cookies and via Tor. To be precise, they both redirect ...
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Basic GIS Mapping product recommendations -- freeware for a beginner, not looking to become an expert
Since you already have some familiarity with Python you might also want to take a look at Folium which adds Python/Jupyter and add leaflet.js library for visualisations.
An example (from the site):
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Basic GIS Mapping product recommendations -- freeware for a beginner, not looking to become an expert
QGIS is the default go-to Open Source and free GIS application.
It runs on all major desktop operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, along with third party companion apps for mobile operating ...
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Which free program(s) for Windows can show how much time you spent today on each application?
I have to keep track of different tasks for different clients and sometimes forget to manually log the start and end times. I use ActivityWatch to automatically keep track of software and web sites ...
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Raw PDF structure viewer
You can use cpdf -output-json [-output-json-content-streams] in.pdf -o out.json. qpdf has similar functionality but without the ability to parse the content streams. You can alter the JSON file, then ...
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