Pelibali, On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:21, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:57:00 -0600
. wrote:
But I _always_ recommend jEdit (www.jedit.org). Great editor, tons of plugins to make it do just about anything you want, great feature set. I'm not kidding, I'm not exgerrating, jEdit has changed by coding life(for the better!) !!
tdaniel
Amen, brother!!
Thanks for your recommendation:)
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I'm sorry, now repeating the important 'needed' features, maybe somebody else would have an idea (all of them for plain text files):
- sorting of text (case sens./insens./numeric), and as wished removing duplicated lines,
The "sort" command does this.
- searching in files, and show the filename/line nr. where the string/regexp was found, or only show how many hits were there,
This is grep/egrep possibly followed by a pipe through "wc -l"
(- smooth handling of regexps, mainly \n and \t containing ones; possibility to exchange something in all opened files.)
jEdit handles multi-line searching and replacing (i.e., having newlines embedded in the match pattern and / or the replacement string). It can apply changes to: a) a single file; b) all open files: c) all files in a given directory with or without sub-directory traversal and with a pattern filter on the names of the files processed.
Thanks for your kind attention,
There's a limit to just how many esoteric functions should be built directly into an editor. In addition to my avid use of jEdit, I routinely use Vi (OK, Vim) as well. Between Vi's / Vim's built-in editing abilities (the global command alone is extremely powerful) its ability to filter file content through external commands combined with the everyday (but also very powerful) Unix text processing utilities give you everything you ask for above (and a great deal more).
Pelibali
Randall Schulz