Re: Go To Specific Line (Text Editor)

[Boyd, Christopher]

There is a also a great and free program called TextWrangler, that has
many advanced features for searching, replacing and restructuring data.
It can also handle absurdly large text files without blinking an eye.


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Siraj Ur-rehman
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Go To Specific Line

You can Bookmark in TextPad which is very nice tool when you have a very
long syntax and its helping me a lot.

Siraj

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Snider-Lotz, Tom
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Go To Specific Line

I like Mark's suggestion about descriptive tags that you can search for.
If you prefer line numbers, one option is to use Notepad or some other
text editor (e.g., TextPad has a "go to line #" function) as your syntax
editor.  Syntax files are simply text files with a SPS extension.

A full-powered text editor like TextPad has many other capabilities that
the syntax editor lacks.

  -- Tom

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Justin Black
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:19 PM
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Subject: Go To Specific Line


Does anyone know if there's a "Go To Specific Line" function in the
Syntax Editor window (v13 or v14) analagous to CTRL+G in Notepad?  So,
say I have a syntax file with 10,000 lines, and I want to "jump" to line
3500...

Many thanks,

--Justin

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[Snider-Lotz, Tom]

To drift off topic slightly, one important feature possessed by TextPad and likely by others, but missing from the syntax editor, is the ability to limit search & replace to a block of selected text.  As far as I've discovered, the syntax editor insists on replacing every instance in the file.

 

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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion on behalf of Boyd, Christopher
Sent: Mon 19-Jun-06 5:53 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Go To Specific Line (Text Editor)

There is a also a great and free program called TextWrangler, that has
many advanced features for searching, replacing and restructuring data.
It can also handle absurdly large text files without blinking an eye.


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Siraj Ur-rehman
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:09 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Go To Specific Line

You can Bookmark in TextPad which is very nice tool when you have a very
long syntax and its helping me a lot.

Siraj

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Snider-Lotz, Tom
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:56 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Go To Specific Line

I like Mark's suggestion about descriptive tags that you can search for.
If you prefer line numbers, one option is to use Notepad or some other
text editor (e.g., TextPad has a "go to line #" function) as your syntax
editor.  Syntax files are simply text files with a SPS extension.

A full-powered text editor like TextPad has many other capabilities that
the syntax editor lacks.

  -- Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
Justin Black
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:19 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Go To Specific Line


Does anyone know if there's a "Go To Specific Line" function in the
Syntax Editor window (v13 or v14) analagous to CTRL+G in Notepad?  So,
say I have a syntax file with 10,000 lines, and I want to "jump" to line
3500...

Many thanks,

--Justin

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