text-editor

This isn't meant as a troll or flamebait or anything like that. I've been using Vim as my console-editor of choice for a couple months now (for editing configuration files while in my terminal), but I don't think I could stand it for my normal, every day work of writing web applications, which I do with a GUI text editor (which one isn't important). I feel like my GUI text editor can do everything I need for my work. It has a decent search/replace with auto-complete histories for both. It has syntax highlighting, line numbering, a tabbed interface, easy copying and pasting, etc. The only thing

Is possible to insert a line break where the cursor is in Vim without entering into insert mode? Here's an example ( [x] means cursor is on x ): if (some_condition) {[ ]return; } Occasionally, I might want to enter some more code. So I'd press i to get into insert mode, press Enter to insert the line break and then delete the extra space. Next, I'd enter normal mode and position the cursor before the closing brace and then do the same thing to get it on its own line. I've been doing this a while, but there's surely a better way to do it? Greg Hewgill For the example you've given, you could use

Is there a way run Emacs from a USB drive? I am a Windows user and I would like to be able use it on any PC without an Emacs install. Yes, the "normal" Emacs distribution for Windows is precompiled and just runs without having to do any install. Just get one of the *.zip files from the usual place , unpack it onto a USB disk, and you can use it directly. (The actual binary is inside the "bin/" directory.) The only thing you may want to do is set it up to look for ".emacs" always on the USB disk instead of on your hard drive; see (info "(emacs) Windows HOME") on how to do that. You can read

Anyone know how to turn off code folding in visual studio 2008? Some of my colleagues love it, but I personally always want to see all the code, and never want code folded out of sight. I'd like a setting that means my copy of Visual Studio never folds #regions or function bodies. Greg Edit: I recommend this other answer Go to the Tools->Options menu. Go to Text Editor->C#->Advanced. Uncheck "Enter outlining mode when files open". That will disable all outlining, including regions, for all c# code files. The accepted answer turns off ALL code folding. If you want to disable #region folding but

I'm trying to update httpd.conf in my Cedar-based Heroku app. I got to my Heroku bash with heroku run bash and found the conf dir under apache. But when I try to open any editor vi, vim, or emacs, I can't find any of these programs. How do you edit conf files on Heroku? I recently turned the original gist into a heroku cli plugin . Just install: heroku plugins:install https://github.com/naaman/heroku-vim And use: heroku vim The heroku vim command will drop you into a bash shell with vim installed on your $PATH . All you have to do is retrain your fingers to type heroku vim instead of heroku

Does anyone know of a text editor on Linux that allows me to see line breaks and carriage returns? Does Vim support this feature? jay.lee :set list in Vim will show whitespace. End of lines show as ' $ ' and carriage returns usually show as ' ^M '. To disagree with the official answer: :set list will not show ^M characters (CRs). Supplying the -b option to vi/vim will work. Or, once vim is loaded, type :e ++ff=unix . Larry K VI shows newlines (LF character, code x0A ) by showing the subsequent text on the next line. Use the -b switch for binary mode. Eg vi -b filename or vim -b filename -- .