Is their any opinion in Sigil for use it as plain editor?

[Dagr]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

AFAIK NP++ doesn't have Saved S&R. other than creating a macro for each case. Which is why I eventually suggested TextPad.

BR

NP++ kind of saves S&R inputs. Once a S&R is used there's a drop down created in the dialogue window. The inputs are save cross app sessions. True, the macros are a more eloquent solution, and will last through a software update. Making the task of working with the drop down less of a hassle.

While a message window is still open. Returning to the Markdown suggestion. VScode offers Markdown extensions, that by all intents mimic many of the Markdown editors features.

[najgori]

...or make simple program (in python): open file no. 1, read line, change whatever you want, write line in file no. 2. repeat untill the end.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by najgori

...or make simple program (in python): open file no. 1, read line, change whatever you want, write line in file no. 2. repeat untill the end.

If you already know basic Python commands, you might as well create an ad-hoc Sigil plugin. The following minimal plugin.py code demonstrates how to use replace() to replace the with <b>the</b> and re.sub() to replace <i>...</i> with <em>...</em>.

PHP Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys, os, re

# main routine    
def run(bk):
    # iterate over all html files
    for html_id, href in bk.text_iter():
        # read orignal html code from file
        original_html = bk.readfile(html_id)
        # modify html code
        modified_html = original_html.replace('the', '<b>the</b>') 
        modified_html = re.sub(r'(</*)i>', r'\1em>', modified_html )
        if modified_html != original_html:
            # write modified html code to file
            bk.writefile(html_id, modified_html)
            print(os.path.basename(href) + ' updated')
    return 0

def main():
    print('I reached main when I should not have\n')
    return -1

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main()) 


[najgori]

thanx a lot. i'll try.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Dagr

NP++ kind of saves S&R inputs. Once a S&R is used there's a drop down created in the dialogue window. The inputs are save cross app sessions. True, the macros are a more eloquent solution, and will last through a software update. Making the task of working with the drop down less of a hassle.

While a message window is still open. Returning to the Markdown suggestion. VScode offers Markdown extensions, that by all intents mimic many of the Markdown editors features.

NoteTab Pro has extensive saved clips, regexes, etc., libraries. Capidamonte--you guys remember Cap, right?--turned me on to it and my entire Biz has run on the thing ever since.

Hitch

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hitch

NoteTab Pro has extensive saved clips, regexes, etc., libraries. Capidamonte--you guys remember Cap, right?--turned me on to it and my entire Biz has run on the thing ever since.

Hitch

When you buy NoteTab Pro, you also get NoteTab Standard. Just forget the standard version and charge less. I see no use for the standard version over the pro version.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

When you buy NoteTab Pro, you also get NoteTab Standard. Just forget the standard version and charge less. I see no use for the standard version over the pro version.

Wolfie:

Of course you do; Pro is simply standard with more functionality. That's like saying that when you buy Word Professional you "also get" Word Student and Word home. That's silly. NTPro is an excellent, eminently usable HTML/TEXT editor. For what they charge it's dirt cheap.

Hitch

[najgori]

"writing in emacs" sub brought me back here...
refusal to use notepad++ got me thinking about which editor/word processor suits the best to one or personal politics or philosophy.
for example notetab pro is swiss made "excellent, eminently usable".
far manager (and editor) is russian redscare utilitarian.
ultra edit author is christian. does this reflect in way program works?
do you buy/use software that clashes with your own personal philosophy?

[stumped]

Ratuken support the murdering of whales, but I managed to get over my distaste enough to buy a new Kobo.
in general though, i do take note of the ethics of the company/author

[theducks]

How a company treats CUSTOMERS is at the top of my list., but certain, widely recognized as atrocities, would make me red line someone.

Slave labor (not just really low pay/conditions by OUR standards) would be one. (I will avoid further rants to avoid the R&P rule)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by najgori

do you buy/use software that clashes with your own personal philosophy?

I really don't care about the personal philosophy of the program author as long as they do not use the program to proselytize. I know one person who will not use VLC since the program version names are from Terry Pratchett's Discworld and magic is EVIL! BTW, that same person considers the Harry Potter books as evil and destructive to our children's minds.

[KevinH]

This thread appears to be moving a bit off topic to be a Sigil thread. Perhapsmoving the discussion someplace outside the Sigil forum would be best?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by KevinH

This thread appears to be moving a bit off topic to be a Sigil thread. Perhapsmoving the discussion someplace outside the Sigil forum would be best?

Aw, DAAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!

You sure know how to ruin a girl's fun.

Hitch

[exaltedwombat]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I really don't care about the personal philosophy of the program author as long as they do not use the program to proselytize. I know one person who will not use VLC since the program version names are from Terry Pratchett's Discworld and magic is EVIL! BTW, that same person considers the Harry Potter books as evil and destructive to our children's minds.

Wasn't there an online provider that whimsically named its servers 'Satan', 'Beelzebub' etc? Didn't go down well in Middle America.

[stumped]

Demon internet was uk Biggest ISP back in the 1990s. A lot of fundamentalist Christians did not subscribe because of the name, even though they had the best dial up service. And even though the demon referred to something from Linux? Not from hell