Questions tagged [text-editor]
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How to support text editing when the text has to be synchronized with fixed audio?
In my application, we record audio of people speaking, send this to a speech-to-text (STT) service, and present the text to the user for editing.
Simplifying a bit, the STT service returns results in ...
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Integrating TeX into a Java desktop application
Looking to integrate TeX equations in a TeX-agnostic fashion, suitable for either ConTeXt or LaTeX, into a Java-based desktop Markdown editor. The possibilities are numerous, but I'm not sure what ...
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Design decision for a cross-platform text editor that optimized for speed
On designing a cross-platform text editor that optimized for speed - I heard atom.io uses node.js, would it be slow? I heard sublime text uses C++, would it lots of effort to be cross platform and ...
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Writing programs in an unsupported language
Is it possible to write a program in a language unsupported by an editor or IDE, save it, then run it in different IDE or editor that does support the language?
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How the rope data structure works when doing syntax highlighting
I am looking into the Rope Data Structure, used by some text editors like the xi editor.
I get the basics of how it works, and have seen some sample implementations such as here or here. But I am ...
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Re-purposing a text editor for non-coding use
So by day I work in healthcare and by night I code. When I am at work I can't help but think how much time a functional text editor should help my job. I am constantly writing documentation that has ...
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How to statically check you didn't forget to await for an async function
A common bug in JavaScript is to forget the await keyword when calling an async function.
Of course you don't always want to await, sometimes you really want to get a promise. And of course you can't ...
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Algorithm and data structure for text comments
Which data structure are used for commenting text and which algorithms take care for updating the comment position? A commenting feature is present in every good word processor such as Microsoft Word, ...
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What method for storing a text file in memory (c not c++) would allow me to open any format(UTF-8, Binary, etc) and a file of any size?
My first thought here is to use a dynamic array, but I am looking for something better.
Currently I have the text files open into "chunks". Every word or group of spaces makes up a "chunk". Then I ...
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Why should PHP developer use/learn VI editor? [closed]
Why should PHP developer use/learn VI editor ?
I mean there are 10 most amazing editors like PHPStorm, Netbeans which increases developers productivity.
Lets just consider PHPStorm. I never got ...
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How is encoding handled correctly during copy-paste between programs?
Suppose
a program A opens a text file A using encoding A to decode the file, and
a program B opens a text file B using encoding B.
When we copy some text from file B in program B to file A in ...
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Online code editors programming language
When searching for online code editors (out of interest how all the course sites such as Codecademy has been made) I noticed they are all been written in JavaScript.
Why are all those code editors ...
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How to restrict user submitted CSS within <div> [closed]
We are having rich text editor in which we can insert html. if any input contains <style> tag then the css is applied to entire window.
is it possible to restrict that CSS to be applied within &...
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Why are dark color schemes in editors so popular? [closed]
Nowadays, almost everybody is using a dark color scheme in their code editor - dark background with light text. Even most web based editors (e.g on Github) feature dark color schemes.
I honestly don'...
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Best way to quickly explore/grok open source C/C++ projects? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a suggested workflow for quickly being able to download various c/c++ open source projects and then begin intelligently navigate sources.
"Intelligently" means being able to jump ...
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