A software program that provides tools for writing computer programming code, as opposed to the word processor, which is designed to facilitate writing prose and displaying typography.
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How to edit writable locations in a document in Pages '09?
The following image shows a region of the sheet it is not possible to write or select. There the cursor is, if i write another letter it will show up on the next page.
How do i enable the document to ...
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Text editing: switch to Override mode
In insert mode, the text in front of the cursor is pushed forward when new text is inserted. For example, if the cursor is at position ^ and the word word3 is typed:
word1 word2
^
The result ...
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TextWrangler: How to do a Find then Replace: How to Specify what text to find and what text to replace
I'm stuck what most would think is one of the basics of editing with TextWrangler - how to do a find/replace!
In Notepad++ on Windows, the Replace is, to me, very straight forward: you select it from ...
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Prevent TextEdit from opening for unknown file types that are plain text
TextEdit is used by the system so it can't be removed, but I have another text editor I use and it causes confusion when text files that don't have a suffix or don't have a suffix which I've already ...
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Selecting a whole line of text, including the newline
Kind of a tricky one to describe. Here goes though. Open up your favourite text editor on OSX (well, Textedit, Coda 2, a Chrome textarea at least). Type a long line of text, followed by a short line. ...
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Text editor application for MountainLion that allows Right click new textfile? [duplicate]
I have searched a lot but could not find a decent application that adds Right Click + New Text File option on my Mac. I found a script NewFileHere But I am looking for a native app which allows me to ...
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Delete key does not work in TextEdit
When I select a piece of text on TextEdit and try to delete it using the delete key the piece of text does not get deleted. But, if I tap my trackpad after hitting the delete key, it does.
I've tried ...
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Dashboard Widget for persistently editing a file
Is there a dashboard widget that one can use to persistently edit a text file?
For example, suppose I want to have my changelog open all the time in a Git repository.
Many thanks.
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Syntax underlining not working in Sublime Text 2
I'm using Sublime Text 2 build 2217 on OSX 10.8.2. Everything else works great, except I can't get underlining to work. Here's an example from my theme file:
<dict>
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Good Text List transformation Software
Let's say I have a list of items like so:
default
cube
page
concave
zoom
linear
fade
none
and I want to change it to the following:
'default' => t('default'),
'cube' => t('cube'),
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Text Editor on iOS that can edit files from any folder in Dropbox
Can anyone recommend an iOS text editor (iPad and iPhone) that can open arbitrary text files from Dropbox?
I've used a few, but they tend to be restricted to a specific subdirectory of my Dropbox ...
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How does Mountain Lion set the default text editor for the “open -t” terminal command?
OSX seem to offer open -t command line shortcut to open arbitrary files in the system default text editor.
Where is this default text editor set?
Can I change it from the command line (if possible) ...
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How do I disable the OS X scrollbar when scrolling in Sublime Text 2 (Mountain Lion)?
The OS X default scrollbar obviously defeats the purpose of Sublime Text 2's minimap (which is a scrollbar by itself).
So I want it to not show up when scrolling.
I believe I've been able to do ...
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How do I setup Python3.3 and Sublime Text 2 correctly on OS X 10.8.2?
I am trying to setup Sublime Text 2 so that the build command correctly runs Python3 / Python3.3 scripts.
I have installed Python 3.3 via the installer obtained from python.org and installed Sublime ...
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Refining a Sublime Text 2 / Transmit workflow
I recently changed code editors from Coda to Sublime Text 2. All in all, I am finding that ST2 fits my web development workflow almost perfectly.
My one friction point is when interacting with an ...
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iOS application that allows search in Word documents?
I have a huge .doc (Microsoft Word) file (several megabytes) and I need to search it on my iPhone. I have tried like 5 different editors and readers to no avail.
Is there any application that allows ...
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Why does BBEdit look bad with retina display?
I downloaded the free trial of BBEdit editor and I tried it on a new MacBook Pro with retina display. Surprisingly the text looks pretty bad, like if it is not focused. I doubt this is normal. Is it a ...
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Is there any hotkey to delete file or catalog in phpStorm editor?
I have OS X Lion and phpStorm editor.
I don't like to remove files using mouse.
Is there any hotkey to do it?
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How to edit any text in chosen editor?
I'm looking for a small app that will let me move any selected text (ie in a text box or another app) into my chosen text editor (in this case Sublime Text 2), and when I save will move it back to ...
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Change highlight colour in Sublime Text 2
How can I change the default highlight colour in Sublime Text 2? I know I have to find a highlight key in one of the theme files but I don't know where these theme files are kept. Are they in the ...
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What simple text editors exist that do not convert files as TextEdit does? [closed]
Is there a simple text editor like Notepad (or Notepad++) on Windows for OS X? TextEdit cannot open all types of files and TextWrangler is not "simple", for my opinion TextWrangler is meant to work ...
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Open as text option for every file, regardless of what OS X thinks of it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to permanently put TextEdit in the Open with… menu list?
Being a programmer, I often work with text files. As you probably know, file extensions are more or ...
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Find multi-line block using grep and/or automator with BBEdit
I have an xml file output from WordPress.
I have BBEdit as my main search tool.
I am on a Mac running 10.7.4
I am trying to find a muli-line block of text that starts with <item> and end with ...
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Textmate 2: how do I style HTML class attribute names?
My Goal/Question
In Textmate 2, how do I style the appearance of class attribute names within HTML elements? E.g. <div class="value">…</div> (value being the target for styling.)
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Chocolat: How to see Build or Run output for C/C++/ObjC?
My Setup:
Chocolat v1.2
OS X 10.7.4
I'm using Chocolat to write C/C++/ObjC code. I have saved the file I am working on with the appropriate file extension (e.g. .c, .m, etc) such that Chocolat ...
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Free programming editor w/ syntax highlighting for iBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 (PowerPC)
I am looking for a free programming editor for my iBook G4.
I was going to to get the lightswitch trial until I looked at the sys requirements (needs Intel CPU).
Can someone please point me to a ...
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Has anyone figured out a keyboard shortcut to globally strikethrough selected text in any OS X app?
We have command + b to bold, command + i to italicise, u to underline, but we don't (as far as I can tell) have a shortcut to strikethrough selected text in any OS X rich editor.
I added a keyboard ...
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Any text editors that are emacs-like in extensibility but Apple-like in visual aesthetic and design? [closed]
Basically I want a text editor that is:
Simple in visual design and uncluttered (like Byword)
Powerful and extensible like emacs (with hooks, etc, so I can customize it to my needs). When I say ...
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Indenting html + javascript/css
Have you encountered an OS X text editor capable of indenting both the line
var x = 2;
and the lines
<it>Item A</it>
<it>Item B</it>
in the following html?
<html>
...
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Go to beginning of text field in Mac.
What's the keyboard combination to use to go to the very beginning of a text field?
Tried Fn+Up and it scrolls the document up but doesn't move the cursor.
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How do I make a terminal alias that edits root owned files in a GUI text editor?
How can I quickly edit root owned files like /etc/hosts and /etc/apache2/httpd.conf in a text editor such as TextEdit which would let me do modern text editor operations, without actually running the ...
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How to change 2 properties in Xcode 4?
I would like to do 2 things in the xCode:
enabling spelling correction in the comments.
unrolling the lines of code/comment, I mean like when I have a long line of code xCode won't break it to 3-4 ...
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Getting Sublime text to use the latest version of Ruby?
I have multiple versions of Ruby installed on my machine. By using RVM, I am able to use Ruby 1.9.2 on the terminal. But whenever, I use Sublime Text, the text editor of my choice, it defaults to ...
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Installing TextWrangler command line tools into /usr/bin
I just installed the text wrangler command line tools and they are placed into /usr/local/bin by default. On Lion this directory appears to be a root only directory, and I don't want to have to run ...
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Where does OS X store unsaved TextEdit documents?
Where does Mac OS X store TextEdit's unsaved documents?
I want to programmatically:
increase/decrease that size
flush the cache
provide configuration option to control the frequency of auto ...
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MATLAB and Objective-C in Sublime Text 2
Is there a way to set Sublime Text 2 (running under OSX) so that it identify MATLAB (.m) files and Objective-C (.m) files automatically? Meaning that ST2 would be able to differentiate between each ...
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Which text editor has better OSX support, TextMate, or Sublime Text 2
I've been using Sublime Text 2 for Windows and Linux because it's simply the best for those platforms. However, when useing OSX I have the option to use TextMake, which is where Sublime Text 2 seems ...
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A file exists in guest Windows XP (under Fusion), can I open the file in an OSX program?
So the text editor on Windows is crap. I realize I could find a fancier text editor that works within Windows but I'm happy with TextMate on my Mac and I'd rather not have two "fancy" text editors ...
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How do I get BBEdit to display the error browser programmatically?
One of the nice features of BBEdit is that it can show a list of errors (e.g. syntax errors in a Ruby program), and clicking on the error will display the line in the source code file.
How can I ...
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Force Terminal to Use Gedit for any Text Editing - not vim
I'm learning to program. While following this mission, I typed git commit, which opened up vim. I don't know or want to know vim (no offense to vim lovers). I'd like to have:
terminal open gedit ...
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How can I edit a .docx file in Dropbox on my iPad?
I have all my papers in a .docx on Dropbox and I'd like to be able to edit them on my iPad. How do I do this? All the free editors I've tried only support reading .docx files and they don't have ...
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Change tabstop in TextEdit.app
How does one change the tabstop in TextEdit.app for Snow Leopard?
The current tabstop is 8 spaces. I would like to change this to 4 spaces.
Is there any way to achieve this?
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Mask editing for Pages
When trying to edit the mask, I am stuck with this blue dot that only rounds the corners of the mask and I can't get rid of it. How do I go about editing the mask borders?
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bind application to file of particular names(rather than suffix)
I want to open all makefiles with TextWrangler. But since makefiles have no suffix so binding a type of file to TextWrangler does not work.
How can I tell Mac to open any file named Makefile with ...
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Is there a Mac text editor that has live display of unique word count?
That is, it shows, while you type, the count of unique words. Not a count of all words.
If the document had the words:
The cat is in the hat which is in Toledo.
It would show a count of 7.
I ...
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What are some good open source text editors on Mac OS X? [closed]
I just recently switched from Windows and I must say that as much as I'm satisfied with the whole OS, I'm disappointed by the text editors so far (I've tried TextMate and BBEdit). So I figured I would ...
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Is there a notepad that lets me change the background image?
I want to put this blackboard as the background of my notepad, so when I type, it'll look like I'm writing on a blackboard.
Do you know a simple text editor that will let me use it as a background ...
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What's your favorite multi - editor on OSX? [closed]
I was wondering if you could post your favorite code editor on OSX.
I'm looking for something lightweight (no netbeans or eclipse) for fast editing multi languages. tag highlighting and code ...
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TextEdit is not working
TextEdit is not working. I have tried reinstalling but every time i am getting
You can't open the application TextEdit because it may be damaged or
incomplete.
message. i dont want to ...
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Changing default app to open a certain extension, but keeping the previous icon?
I use TextWrangler to open code files, such as .php, .ccs, .js, etc.
But it assigns the same icon to every file. How can I get the original icons back to each extension while TextWrangler is still ...
