Top "Editor" questions

This tag is for questions about the features and functionality of text editors, source code editors and other programs specifically designed for modifying plain text files used in computer programming.

How to Select Columns in Editors (Atom,Notepad++, Kate, VIM, Sublime, Textpad,etc) and IDEs (NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc)

How to select columns in Editors and IDEs to columnar delete, insert or replace some characters ? Editors: Atom Notepad++ Kate …

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Best Free Text Editor Supporting *More Than* 4GB Files?

I am looking for a text editor that will be able to load a 4+ Gigabyte file into it. Textpad doesn't …

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List of macOS text editors and code editors

I searched for this and found Maudite's question about text editors but they were all for Windows. As you have …

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What are the benefits of learning Vim?

As a programmer I spend a lot of hours at the keyboard and I've been doing it for the last 12 …

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What are the advantages of Sublime Text over Notepad++ and vice-versa?

Lots of friends have suggested me to start using Sublime Text instead of Notepad++, but I've been happy so far …

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What LaTeX Editor do you suggest for Linux?

What LaTeX editor do you suggest? Could you please give me some links?

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Copy text from nano editor to shell

Is it possible to copy text from a file, opened with nano, to the shell? I have a text file, …

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How do I force Sublime Text to indent two spaces per tab?

Is there a way to force Sublime Text 2 to always indent two spaces per tab when working with Ruby files? …

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Select all occurrences of selected word in VSCode

Are there any trick or extension to select all instances of selected word in visual studio code, to facilitate editing …

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Any good, visual HTML5 Editor or IDE?

Well it looks like Dreamweaver CS5 will try to smoother the HTML5 thing for a few more years (weeks actually). …

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