Questions tagged [editor]
Please use a more specific tag if possible. For example, [text-editor], [sound-editor] or [video-editor].
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How to edit ISO Images (Including Bootable ISOs)
I am looking for tools for Ubuntu that can be used to EDIT ISO Images. Including ISO images that are bootable like Ubuntu and Windows ISOs. Not only edit but save the edited ISO and can still boot ...
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Is there Split Pane support in Gedit?
I know some other text editors like Notepad++ enable split pane to edit to files side by side. Is there any way I can add this functionality to Gedit?
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How do I make Geany my default editor on Ubuntu?
I actually want to change the default text editor on my Ubuntu 12.04 from nano to Geany. When I used this code:
update-alternatives --config editor
.. I don't see Geany in the list.
So to add Geany,...
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Recommendation for Regex editor?
I asked for recommendations for Regex editors on stackoverflow a while ago.
Following is one of the replies:
What is "good" depends on what is most
useful to you. For me, though, these
are the ...
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How to copy paste contents in the vi editor
I tried using Ctrl + V for pasting contents in a vi editor document, but Ctrl + V is not interpreted as a paste.
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How to change visudo editor from nano to vim? [duplicate]
When I use visudo, it always opens it with nano editor. How to change the editor to vim?
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ubuntu terminal is not working properly in vi editor
Recently I installed ubuntu in my laptop for using c programming. but when I open the terminal and typed vi test.c, It open it but it will not work properly. when i pressed backspace it will not work ...
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What are some good GUI binary viewers/editors?
What are some GUI applications that will let me view and edit binary files (executables, images, etc.).
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Text editor with syntax highlighting, theme support and code folding
I like Notepad++ under Windows. I was wondering if there are some similar ones for Ubuntu? Or just the powerful and convenient one in your opinion.
Features that I like are:
syntax highlighting for ...
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Unable to run gedit as a different user
I login as user 'foo' and if I am able to run gedit and edit files in my Ubuntu 12.04 machine with a DISPLAY setting as :0
If I "su - bar" and then try to edit files, I get a no protocol specified ...
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PDF editor to change font size
I have some e-books in PDF and Kindle, but the font is too small to read on it. I want to make fonts larger in PDF files so that the pictures and other stuff in it is unchanged (therefore I cannot use ...
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crontab -e. Added entries but no /etc/crontab
I did edit /etc/crontab using corntab -e.
I have only one entry
After save contab is not created despite the message.
To be honest I have no idea what to do. I simply want to create a simple daily ...
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How to switch the editor in mc (midnight commander) from nano to mcedit?
Using ubuntu 10.10 the editor in mc (midnight commander) is nano. How can i switch to the internal mc editor (mcedit)?
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Emacs 25 on Ubuntu 16.10?
Is there any way of installing Emacs 25 or 25.1 on Ubuntu 16.10 without having to compile from source?
I want a stable install of Emacs and do not wish to install an unstable or nightly build.
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Lightweight table editor
I am looking for something like Sublime Text for tables. That is, when it encounters something with table delimited values (for example), the columns should be displayed aligned.
Excel, Calligra ...
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Bind Ctrl+Right to nextword in nano (as it is in all other apps)
And likewise Ctrl+Left to prevword. I read the man page of nanorc and found
bind key function menu
So the line bind ^Left prevword main would be what I want, the problem is that nano only accepts ...
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Subtitle editor for 16.04
I normally get English subs for certain movies. I want to translate them to my regional language. Is there any subtitle editor for 16.04 using which I can open an .srt file and edit it to replace ...
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Repair Vim editor
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I have some troubles with Vim editor. First I was using the normal version preinstalled with Ubuntu, then I installed VI Improved from Ubuntu Software Center, with some ...
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How do I stop XML Copy Editor from crashing when opening a file? [closed]
I tried installing XML Copy Editor, and whenever I try to open an XML file in it, it crashes. It seems like it just shuts off, as though I clicked close, because it doesn't generate and error log. How ...
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Adwords Editor 11.6
I am having trouble installing the latest (must have) version 11.6 of Google Adwords editor. Worked fine till the previews version. But now we need to have the new version in order to work with it and ...
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