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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 for large text files
CudaText editor can open/edit big files, up to avail memory size (better use x64 version).
Default max size is 1Gb. To allow max file size of 2Gb, call "Options / Settings-user" and write such option ...
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less-like pager with filter feature?
Well, this is a little embarrassing.
I suggested this feature to Mark Nudelman, the maintainer of the less command. His response:
Is there something in this request that isn't already handled
by ...
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Open Source speech-to-text software for audio files in English
This is going to sound somewhat weird, but you can upload it to Youtube (assuming its not copyrighted material) and have it add its auto CC, and download that file.
Far from perfect, but a possible ...
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Converter that converts EML files to plain text
I took a kinda-working script from here and modified it to fit your needs.
You have to install Python 2.7 for the script to run. When installing Python make sure to select Add python.exe to Path.
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Convert text to be written with symbols (lines, underlines for copyright in code files)
You can use this online application: bigtext.org. There is an input where you can write text and then choose a style for the text.
Hope it helps.
UPDATE (November 2019): bigtext.org is offline. You ...
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Software to modify text in a clipboard with hotkey
I created the following AutoHotKey script
^g::
send, {ctrl down}c{ctrl up}
SendInput, <a href="{ctrl down}v{ctrl up}"><img src="{ctrl down}v{ctrl up}" title="source: imgur.com" /></...
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Text editor that takes more than 10 gb
There is a chance, that Sublime is suitable for your task, but with several prerequisites:
You should disable plugins such as syntax highlighting, bracket matcher or git gutter, i.e. any plugin that ...
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Gantt diagram generator from textual representation
I don't see any reason why https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid.cli wouldn't work in your case. MIT licensed, it should allow you to save this into gantt.txt
gantt
title A Gantt Diagram
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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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Text editor in which you can drag and drop text between tabs
SynWrite is editor which fits. It is open source, free, it supports many tabs and split to 2-3-4-6 groups of tabs. You can drag text block from one tab to other tab.
It is replacement for Notepad++ ...
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Software to remove formatting on the clipboard automatically
I think PureText mostly fits the bill. It does not replace the default paste functions but I quickly got used to using it's default of Win+V. Gave me the freedom to keep Ctrl+V should I want to retain ...
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Lightweight "USB stick runnable" JavaScript/plain text editor for Mac?
First: generally speaking (which is to say, in a majority of cases), applications in OS X are just files with a .app extension*. You can move app files wherever you want, and double click on one to ...
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Diff text files and print the resultant comparison two-pane with differences highlighted
I feel to suggest you DiffMerge.
It runs (even) on Windows and, similarly to WinMerge and Devart Code Compare, has a nice GUI.
Comparing it to WinMerge, I personally think DiffMerge is better at ...
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Extracting plain text from EPUB
The best known (and IMO most full featured) eBook converter is Calibre.
This page says that
calibre supports the conversion of many input formats to many output
formats. It can convert every ...
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Is there a text editor which displays column numbers and/or displays text in a grid to quickly glance column numbers?
CudaText editor has features for it:
option "ruler_show": True in user.json - this shows horizontal ruler on the top
menu item "View - Toggle ruler"
option "margin_string": "30 40 50" in user.json - ...
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Video editor that works from plain-text files
AviSynth seems to be the tool that directly answers your needs on Windows. This is a completely script-based editing approach, with quite powerful instruments (built-in or as plug-ins) for reading, ...
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"MailMerge" for CSV + Markdown
I was looking for something similar, and since I could not find it, I wrote a small python script following the principles outlined by rd_nielsen.
https://gist.github.com/frederik-elwert/...
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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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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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Software to text-search a LARGE set of files (ebooks)
The open source DocFetcher has indexed over 10.000 epub books for me. The indexing process is quick, and conducting a full-text search across all of those books (after indexing) takes only a few ...
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Software to delete lines in a text file
GnuWin is able to do it, e.g. sed. At the command line, type
for %f in ("*.txt") do C:\...\sed -i "1,3!d" "%f"
The for command is part of the Windows command line. %f defines a variable to hold the ...
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File path text creator
Windows has the built-in command tree. It does not exactly look like your output, but the idea is the same.
C:\Users\thomas.weller\example>echo x > file1
C:\Users\thomas.weller\example>echo ...
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Text editor in which you can drag and drop text between tabs
CudaText editor fits too.
It is free, open source, runs on Windows.
It can drag-drop block of selected text to another "group", if you activate "2 groups", "3 groups". It can stay (by option) the ...
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Write an article/web-document with mathematical formulas; Android/Windows
The trick that you can use is to edit your text on your phone in "plain text" using one of the mark up languages that includes support for mathematical mark-up examples include ReStructuredText and ...
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