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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a character-wise text difference tool?
Meld shows you changed characters in deep blue:
Changed line are shown in light blue, so you can spot first the line then the character.
Gratis, open source.
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Is there a character-wise text difference tool?
With a couple of lines of python you can do this:
Python is pre-installed on most OS-X and Linux installations, can be installed on the remainder with apt-get and is available for Windows.
Example ...
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Markup compatible notepad
I recommend Boostnote.
Boostnote is an Open source note-taking app for programmers.
It focuses on writing Markdown note and code snippet quickly, can organized in a better way.
You can sync data to ...
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Opening several URLs at once
No one has posted a definitive solution, so I'm posting this in hopes that it might help you.
Try Firefox with the Copy URLs Expert extension.
How to use:
Install Firefox.
Load Firefox.
Install the ...
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Open Source speech-to-text software for audio files in English
OpenAI's Whisper is pretty slow, but has state-of-the-art performance. There currently is no system that has higher accuracy for general purpose transcription.
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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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Combining files program
type *.txt > one_big_file.txt
works for me on Windows 7.
It will show the name of each file in the console, and I can't see how to supress it, but it answers your question - if you want the ...
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Text editor that takes more than 10 gb
From my experience, Emacs (for Windows) and Sublime (both free although there is a paid version for Sublime, but you don't need that) would be your best bet.
I have opened 6GB files with Sublime ...
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Software for writing stories
Word does have a lot of functionalities like the one you are talking about. On the 'home' tab, there is a tool 'replacement' (I bet, I don't have the english version sorry) on the left, where you can ...
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Software for writing stories
Scrivener is one of the best known pieces of software created specifically with writers in mind. It is not free (40 USD at time of writing, though they do promotions). You do get a free trial though.
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Code editor Android app that supports code folding (expand/collapse code lines)
920 Text Editor should fit your needs:
Android version: 6.0.1 (Preferrably supports Android 4+ versions): √ Android 4.0+
Price: Any: √ free :)
Supported syntax coloring: √ syntax highlighting ...
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