Editing is a generic term for updating a file, document, or page.
Questions tagged [editing]
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"Find next" in Vim
To search forward in Vim for cake, I'd type /cake, but the cursor jumps to the first match when I press return. Is there a Vim command analogous to "find next"?
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How to insert text at beginning of a multi-line selection in vi/Vim
In Vim, how do I insert characters at the beginning of each line in a selection?
For instance, I want to comment out a block of code by prepending // at the beginning of each line assuming my language's comment system doesn't allow block…
Jordan Parmer
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vim line numbers - how to have them on by default?
I can :set number from within a file I'm editing but how can I have them always be on by default?
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How do I duplicate a whole line in Emacs?
I saw this same question for VIM and it has been something that I myself wanted to know how to do for Emacs. In ReSharper I use CTRL-D for this action. What is the least number of commands to perform this in Emacs?
Ray
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How to swap files between windows in VIM?
When I work with VIM, I always have multiple windows visible. Sometimes I would like to have an easy way, to swap those windows in places. Is there any Plugin, Macro, etc to make this more easy? BTW, I use MiniBufExplorer.
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Delete from the current cursor position to a given line number in vi editor
How do I delete a block of text from the current cursor row to a given line number in vi?
For example:
49
51 …
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Editable ComboBox with binding to value not in list
I have editable combobox where not always the preferred item is in the drop-down list.
I would like to have the possibility of manually entering text in the textbox which is propagated to the string bound to SelectedValue.
Right now the string…
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Disabling user input for UITextfield in swift
pretty trivial question, I know. But I can not find anything online.
I need to disable the user from being able to edit the text inside of a text field. So that when the click on the text, a keyboard doesn't show up.
Any ideas?
A programmatic…
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Find a line in a file and remove it
I'm looking for a small code snippet that will find a line in file and remove that line (not content but line) but could not find. So for example I have in a file following:
myFile.txt:
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
Need to have a function like this: public void…
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Editing multiple lines of code in Netbeans
Is there a way to select and edit multiple rows of code in netbeans?
Visual Studio allows a similar operation where you press alt and select multiple lines using the dragging motion (left click) of mouse ?
Shashank Shekhar
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More efficient movements editing python files in vim
Given a python file with the following repeated endlessly:
def myFunction(a, b, c):
if a:
print b
elif c:
print 'hello'
I'd like to move around and edit this file using familiar vim movements. For instance, using (, ), [[,…
Astronomer
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How to prevent Sublime Text 2 from swallowing closing brackets, quotes and parentheses?
Sublime has this behaviour which is really annoying sometimes when you have to type in constructions with lots of brackets. When you type ( it adds () and puts the cursor in the middle, all fine, if you however will type ) it will silently swallow…
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What ways are there to edit a function in R?
Let's say we have the following function:
foo <- function(x)
{
line1 <- x
line2 <- 0
line3 <- line1 + line2
return(line3)
}
And that we want to change the second line to be:
line2 <- 2
How would you do that?
One way is to…
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Commenting out a set of lines in a shell script
I was wondering if there is a way to comment out a set of lines in a shell script.
How could I do that? We can use /* */ in other programming languages.
This is most useful when I am converting/using/modifying another script
and I want to keep the…
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Javascript syntax highlighting in vim
Has anyone else found VIM's syntax highlighting of Javascript sub-optimal? I'm finding that sometimes I need to scroll around in order to get the syntax highlighting adjusted, as sometimes it mysteriously drops all highlighting.
Are there any…
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