I’m trying to figure out the easiest way to edit text files in the console (PowerShell in my case). I’m using Windows 7 64 bit. It galls me that I can’t just type edit filename.txt to edit a file. That used to work, but that’s all changed. What are my options to view and edit … Read more
MacVim is just Vim. Anything you are used to do in Vim will work exactly the same way in MacVim. MacVim is more integrated in the whole OS than Vim in the Terminal or even GVim in Linux, it follows a lot of Mac OS X’s conventions. If you work mainly with GUI apps (YummyFTP … Read more
Yes, it does. The way to enable this depends on your version of Notepad++. On newer versions you can use: Menu View → Show Symbol → *Show All Characters` or Menu View → Show Symbol → Show White Space and TAB (Thanks to bers’ comment and bkaid’s answers below for these updated locations.) On older versions you can look for: Menu View → Show all characters or … Read more
You can find a Notepad++ plugin called AutoSave for autosaving your files here: https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/tree/main/AutoSave (Used to link to https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins but that’s no longer online, cached version is still available here) It autosaves every minute, but it’s configurable, and allows you to choose to save only the current document or all open documents.
Free read-only viewers: Large Text File Viewer (Windows) – Fully customizable theming (colors, fonts, word wrap, tab size). Supports horizontal and vertical split view. Also support file following and regex search. Very fast, simple, and has small executable size. klogg (Windows, macOS, Linux) – A maintained fork of glogg. Its main feature is regular expression search. It supports … Read more
What about this one simple command which not just finds but clears the nasty BOM? 🙂 I love “find” 🙂 Warning The above will modify binary files which contain those three characters. If you want just to show BOM files, use this one:
I found Atom editor as good free alternative to Sublime text editor. Not able to find a straightforward way to run a program in Atom editor. In my case, I am trying to run a java program. Please let me know if it’s possible? If yes, please describe the steps to follow.