Google Docs has a "feature" that sometimes converts four spaces to one tab.
Copying and pasting text does not solve this problem, because the spaces in that text are converted to tabs automatically.
Is there a way to turn this off?
No way to turn of that I know of. So annoying.
You can work-around using normal copy-paste, then a search-and-replace.
Copy-Paste you content into the Google Doc
In a text-editor, enter a tab character then cut it to your clipboard
Back in Google Docs, highlight the content you wish to fix
Hit Ctrl + H to open Find and replace dialogue
Paste the tab character into the Find field
Insert 4 space characters into the Replace with field
Click Replace all
The approach that caused me the least headaches was to replace all spaces by another character (say underscore) in the original text, copy/paste it, then replace the underscore using find+replace. This was in Google slides.
i use cmd+shift+v (edit -> paste without formatting) to paste.
The spaces are not converted to tabs.
I did find one solution: there is a Chrome plugin called "Drive Notepad" which edits google drive files and has an option "Tabs: hard"
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In cell E1 it says You-Gov but in the formula bar it says YouGov.
If I copy/paste values it stays the same, the formatting is General. Using =CODE(MID($E$1,4,1)) I get a value of 173.
Any idea what is happening?
What you have got here is called the "Soft Hyphen". It's purpose is to let the system know where a word may be broken, if needed, for display purposes.
"The HTML standard states that a hyphen character should be displayed at the end of the line where the break occurs if a line is broken at a soft hyphen. On the other hand, nothing is displayed if the line is not broken at a soft hyphen."
And that is exactly what is happening in Excel. It may appear in-cell but the formula-bar will only show the Soft Hyphen when the word it's used in is actually broken in the editor itself. To test this out, try to squeeze Excel and it's formula bar to a very narrow pane. You'll notice the Soft Hyphen will appear on-and-off depending if it's needed to be shown. It's rather funny that MS even mentioned the Soft Hyphen in their docs but it won't show in the matrix, probably for the same reason.
To solve your issue:
Press Ctrl+F
Select 'Replace'
Search for: Hold Alt and type 0173 on the numpad.
Replace with: - A normal hyphen.
Here is a fun little demonstration from here full of "shy" hyphens. Resize the window to make them visible one by one:
MargaretAreYouGrievingOverGoldengroveUnleavingLeavesLikeTheThingsOfManYouWithYourFreshThoughtsCareForCanYouAhAsTheHeartGrowsOlderItWillComeToSuchSightsColderByAndByNorSpareASighThoughWorldsOfWanwoodLeafmealLieAndYetYouWillWeepAndKnowWhyNowNoMatterChildTheNameSorrowsSpringsAreTheSameNorMouthHadNoNorMindExpressedWhatHeartHeardOfGhostGuessedItIsTheBlightManWasBornForItIsMargaretYouMournFor
I am completely new to Sublime text 3 and at the moment only want to use it to work with normal text files (no source code), containing a lot of URLs.
At first, I tried Sublime Text 2 which would be pretty good for what I want because with "plain text" syntax it automatically highlights links in red. For ST3 I tried for hours to get this to work, but for every syntax I tried there are some characters (like " and ') that screw up my document (e.g. highlight half of it because there is a single ' somewhere in it).
All I would like is a different color for URLs. How can I do this? And how can I set this to be the default, so that it stays that way when I restart ST3?
I have big data at excel, and some cells contains html codes. These cells have line breaks in them. I tried to replace line breaks (Alt+010, \n) but excel said there is no char like this.
When I copied cell to notepad, there is no line break.
When I copied from notepad to phpmyadmin sql area or textpad, I see line breaks again.
There are notepad, textpad and phpmyadmin sql area screenshots below. How can I remove these invisible line breaks?
This could be a problem with Carriage Return + Line Feed. When you press Alt+Enter in Excel it only incerts a Line Feed. But if you somehow get both Carriage Return + Line Feed in a cell that could leed to additional problems. See this page for solutions:
https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2013/12/03/remove-carriage-returns-excel/
Did you try to remove any unnecessary tab within the code? Also check for some trivial things like e.g string max length in your mysql database or editor's miscellaneous settings.
EDIT. oh, I forgot. It may be also caused by your language settings, check for default database's regional coding preset and if Turkish is currently supported.
Line breaks - do you mean the line breaks you could introduce in Excel with ALT+ENTER?
Then you could use Search / Replace option in Excel without need to copy your content to another tool:
Open it and introduce in Search for CTRL+J (you will receive a point displayed in the search field).
In Replace you could introduce what you want (nothing, a space, a semicolon, ...).
Select Replace all.
EDIT:
I've tested it by copying html from textpad to one cell using clipboard. With this the method described by me is not working.
But there is another solution: Open replace command, for "search string" introduce ALT-Key (keep it pressed), then introduce by using the numeric key pad (on the right side of a "standard" keyboard) the tree digits 0 1 0 and finally release ALT-Key (you will see a point displayed in the search field). Choose as replacement string what you want and choose replace all.
Function =clean() helped me. Find/replace with ALT+J worked to replace, but did not fully deleted all the invisible characters in the string, so the cell was still misbehaving with text in columns. The =clean() function finally removed all the invisible characters left there.
I have 6 huge text files, and i need to filter them by deleting all the lines that doesn't contains the string: 53=S.
For 5 of them, i managed to filter the files with notepad++ as follow:
Find --> Mark --> Bookmark Lines --> Mark All --> Search --> Bookmarks -- > Remove Unbookmarked Lines
However, the application collapsed for a specific file each time i tried it. I tried it in two PCs with the same result.
Anyone know how can i remove the irrelevant lines with Sublimes or any other tool?
You could try a regular expression replace in notepad++.
Using notepad++, press ctrl+h or bring up the search>replace window.
In the 'find what' text box enter ^(?m)^(?:(?!53=S).)*$
and leave the 'replace with' text box empty
Make sure the search mode is set to 'Regular Expression' and then hit 'Replace All'
This should remove any line that doesn'tcontain the string 53=S
There is a notepad++ plugin called LineFilter (not LineFilter2), which provides a menu with entries like
delete all lines containing the selection
delete all lines not containig the selection
it opens a new tab with the result. That worked on large files. I liked it a lot.
The plugin is available from Notepad++ Plugin Central.
If you have grep available, then grep should do the trick, too.
Below is a screenshot of me entering visual block mode and pressing "w" to select by word:
How can I select every word in the rows I have selected? Meaning I want the full word in the rows highlighted instead of it getting cut off as shown in the screenshot.
edit: What I want to be able to do is delete a column of words of varying length. In the example screenshot I want to delete the words between the tags, But it could be any column of words.
There are a bunch of plugins for multiple selection, look them up on vim.org.
But I must remind you that visually selecting text is more often than not an unnecessary step. Why don't you explain what you actually want to achieve instead of your failed attempts? Maybe there's a better way...
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:'<,'>norm dit
seems to be the simplest way to achieve your goal without selecting every word:
and :,+7norm dit would be even better because you don't select anything.
The highlight modes can only select blocks (by cursor, by line, or by rectangular block). You can use a plugin such as vim-multiple-cursors to do what you are trying to do.
The only place where Vim allows a non-rectangular, "jagged edge" visual selection is at the end of the lines, i.e. by extending the blockwise selection with $. Therefore, you'd need to (temporarily) get rid of the trailing </th> (or include it in the selection, but operate in such a way that they are kept intact).
You shouldn't need a selection to work with the text. For example, to delete the text inside the tags, you can use a substitution:
:%s#<th>\zs.*\ze</th>##
You can't. You can only select rectangular blocks in block select mode. Maybe a plugin solves this?