As already suggested, you can use autochdir, which will change to the directory of the file you opened, the other option is :cd mydirectory which will change the directory. This can be an absolute or relative path, so :cd .. will move up one level. Or you can use :cd %:h which will also change … Read more
I am using PuTTY and the vi editor. If I select five lines using my mouse and I want to delete those lines, how can I do that? Forget the mouse. To remove 5 lines, either: Go to the first line and type d5d (dd deletes one line, d5d deletes 5 lines) ~or~ Type Shift-v … Read more
Why not use notepad? notepad.exe filename.txt The old edit.com works in PowerShell (at least on my box: Windows 7 Pro x86) but in x64 it doesn’t work due to its 16bit architecture. You can take a look at this easy editor.
Most programs will check the $EDITOR environment variable, so you can set that to the path of TextEdit in your bashrc. Git will use this as well. How to do this: Add the following to your ~/.bashrc file: export EDITOR=”/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit” or just type the following command into your Terminal: echo “export EDITOR=\”/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit\”” >> ~/.bashrc If … Read more
You can do this by using the Style Configurator (Settings Menu): This image shows the php language, but it works for any language you want to map
With Notepad++, you can show end-of-line characters. It shows CR and LF, instead of “\r” and “\n”, but it gets the point across. However, it will still insert the line breaks. But you do get to see the line-ending characters. To use Notepad++ for this, open the View menu, open the Show Symbols slide out, … Read more
Unicode is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it’s a long way down the codepage to ΓΌ, but that’s just peanuts to Unicode. I really doubt there’s any font in the world (monospaced or not) that has “complete” Unicode. The best you … Read more
Multi cursor edit is natively supported in Visual Studio starting from version 2017 Update 8. The following is an extract of the documentation: Ctrl + Alt + click : Add a secondary caret Ctrl + Alt + double-click : Add a secondary word selection Ctrl + Alt + click + drag : Add a secondary … Read more
You can type Ctrl+0 (Ctrl+Zero) to focus on the side bar. Then you’ll be able to move selection among files with arrow keys and to open the selected file hitting Enter, without touching the mouse.
Yeah Regex is cool, but there are other alternative. Select all the lines you want to prefix or suffix Goto menu Selection -> Split into Lines (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + L) This allows you to edit multiple lines at once. Now you can add *Quotes (“) or anything * at start and end of each … Read more