Hello,
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
TIA
On September 28, 2004 11:16 pm, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
If you are using KDE, click the K menu and select "Find Files". It allows searches of file names, types, attributes and contents. Quite thorough. If you're not using KDE, you should be.
Oh come on.... I was in the mood for another battle of the text editors.
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:19, Trevor Smith wrote:
On September 28, 2004 11:16 pm, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
If you are using KDE, click the K menu and select "Find Files". It allows searches of file names, types, attributes and contents. Quite thorough. If you're not using KDE, you should be.
-- Trevor Smith // trevor@haligonian.com
heheh...GNOME blows KDE away! there. not text editors but surely a battle. :)
=G
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:22, Andrew Walsh wrote:
Oh come on.... I was in the mood for another battle of the text editors.
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:19, Trevor Smith wrote:
On September 28, 2004 11:16 pm, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
If you are using KDE, click the K menu and select "Find Files". It allows searches of file names, types, attributes and contents. Quite thorough. If you're not using KDE, you should be.
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:19, Trevor Smith wrote:
On September 28, 2004 11:16 pm, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
If you are using KDE, click the K menu and select "Find Files". It allows searches of file names, types, attributes and contents. Quite thorough. If you're not using KDE, you should be.
I just started using kde a few days ago. Looks like I may be 'stuck' with it as switchdesk won't let me go back to gnome.
I found what you mentioned above and its will do exactly what I want. When it locates a file(s) with a word or phrase and I double click, Kwrite opens and allows me to edit the file.
Thanks!!
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:16:02PM -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
The generic way to check for a word of phrase in files it grep (think: "General Regular Expression Pattern matching").
See the man pages for grep, egrep, fgrep. The three differ in useful ways. I tend to just use egrep and the simple regular expressions.
From the man page
"In addition, two variant programs egrep and fgrep are available. Egrep is the same as grep -E. Fgrep is the same as grep -F." .... " Grep understands two different versions of regular expression syntax:“basic” and “extended.” In GNU grep, there is no difference in avail- able functionality using either syntax. In other implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful."
One advantage of a separate tool for searching is that the choice of editor is not constrained and the search tool can be be optimized or special purposed.
Others have pointed out other desktop solutions, like KDE...
And then there is still the kitchen sink tool. emacs/xemacs.
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:16, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if there is a text editor equivalent to TextPad for Windows.
What I'm looking for is the ability to search for a word or phrase in a directory of files.
Asbestos Suit on Command line rules !!! ;) All hail the great commands: awk, sed, grep Bow before the great scripts: perl, tcl and python (the evil one) Lie prostrate before the ancients: sh, csh
Trolling for flames
Emacs rules all ... everything else is for @$$3$ .... Ye ah ha ha ha ....
Sorry could not resist ... Send me away (you men in the little white suits, to the funny farm ... )
TIA
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