WhyPad » Software http://www.whypad.com Tips, tricks, and hacks for life and tech... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tip: Remove Page Breaks from RTF http://www.whypad.com/posts/remove-page-breaks-from-rtf/162/ http://www.whypad.com/posts/remove-page-breaks-from-rtf/162/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 18:43:29 +0000 Byron Bennett http://www.whypad.com/?p=162 This is for an obscure set of readers, I’m sure. But if you ever need to remove the page breaks from a RTF (rich text format) file, here’s how to do it:

  1. Open the RTF file in NotePad (I use NotePad++, which is an absolute must have replacement for anybody doing web dev)
  2. Search for “pagebb\” and replace with nothing (empty string)

I write this down because I keep forgetting what to search for. I will frequently run a Data Dictionary in phpMyAdmin on my web databases so I can have a nice dictionary of my Fields. I click in the report area on my browser, Alt-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy it. Open WordPad or Word and Ctrl-V to paste it. Then Save As an RTF. For some reason, it doesn’t let you just delete those page breaks like you’d think, so I do the steps in this tip to zap them out the hard way.

]]> http://www.whypad.com/posts/remove-page-breaks-from-rtf/162/feed/ 1 In Search of a Better Text Editor: 2 Free Editors Worth Using http://www.whypad.com/posts/in-search-of-a-better-text-editor-2-free-editors-worth-using/53/ http://www.whypad.com/posts/in-search-of-a-better-text-editor-2-free-editors-worth-using/53/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 05:11:31 +0000 Byron Bennett http://www.whypad.com/posts/in-search-of-a-better-text-editor-2-free-editors-worth-using/53/ If you’re still using the ancient Notepad application that comes with Windows or TextEdit for Mac, take 5 minutes and get yourself something that will make smile every time you have to edit a raw text file. Notepad++ On the Windows side, there is a pretty clear winner: Notepad++. Get it here at SourceForge. On the Mac side, I find TextWrangler 2 by BareBones software to work quite well.TextWrangler

The best part…they’re both free!

The following are some of their features that basically kick patooty on their counterparts (old Notepad and TextEdit) that come bundled with their respective OS’s:

  • Code syntax coloring (and folding in Notepad++)
  • Multi-documents open
  • Multi-document view and multiple views of same document – Notepad++ only
  • RegEx search/replace – Notepad ++ only
  • Macro recording/playback – Notepad++
  • Build your own plug-ins – TextWrangler

There’s more, but you get the point. On the Mac side, TextWrangler is the free, little brother to BBEdit, a more fully featured editor by Bare Bones, but with a price.

For my purposes, TextWrangler is fine. But I really love Notepad++. They are worth your time to try out. You’ll never go back to Notepad or TextEdit.

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