Information on using a text editor as the main way of working on a computer (besides a web browser): Planning, taking notes that can be efficiently searched, extended web bookmarks, text manipulation for other applications (e.g. input for a spreadsheet program like LibreOffice ‘Calc’), using it as the primary editor for scripts (e.g. Perl), etc.
The short version: Compiler errors of the type “error: stray \342” are not mysterious at all. They can easily be analysed directly, without any guesswork required whatsoever. Triplets or doublets of errors, starting with 342 (octal) or 302 (also octal), …
Using Edit Overflow directly from Geany has turned out to be surprisingly useful. If one is unsure about the spelling of a word, select it and press Ctrl + 2. The word will either 1) Be unchanged (the spelling is correct). …
Although it is often somewhat hidden, most text editors, except for the most basic ones, have a column mode (also known as block mode or visual mode) – to work on rectangular selections of text (including a width of zero). …
Using the package manager in Ubuntu to install Emacs will result in some older version (version 26.3 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa)). One way to get the latest version, currently 27.2 for the stable version, is to compile from …
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UltraEdit for Linux is extremely buggy and corrupts the text documents. The corruption happens with using column mode, possibly worsened by using split windows (I mostly use vertically split). Column mode has always been buggy in UltraEdit, but in the …