Collection thread: Great feature, thank you Alex!

[Stefan]

I have seen this many times before
but today i could really use this feature: "View > Editor > Changed Lines"


Explanation:
I had an long HTML file where i search&replace an string in many lines.

With "Show Changed Lines" i could spot at easy which lines are modified now (see picture)

Great! Thank you Alex 

[Stefan]

For me an very welcome feature is the "Paste as HTML" f.ex. in the right mouse click context menu.

Explanation:
I often collect informations from the Internet
and it is very nice to just copy not only the content but the formating too.

So i select an part of text from Internet page like
http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Teaching/Lectures/Sem/2000/Katzmayr/tutorial/ra.html

and paste this with "Edit > Paste as HTML" into HippoEDIT into an HTML file.

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Side note:
the next time i use just the global shortcut "Edit > Repeat"
which repeats always the very last command taken,
and which name change here to "Edit > Repeat (Paste as HTML)" to indicate what is does.
As you can see from the screen shot i have assigned Alt+Q as trigger.

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BTW:
in my screen shot you see too that HippoEDIT provide you the last taken clipboard items.


Great! Thank you Alex  
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[Stefan]

"File > Save As Copy..."

is a great new feature!

I use it to make backups of my code.
While editing my code i do now and then an "File > Save As Copy..."
to save an backup of the current state as numbered file (milestone)

The advantage above "File > Save As..." is that
i can immediately work onward with my coding work
without the need to close the backup file (which would be become the new current file) and reload my work file.

Great! Thank you Alex 

[Stefan]

Oh, i have already reported this above in my >first post<

but anyway,

today i found this feature ("View > Editor > Changed Lines") again veeery helpful !

What i had done was to view an long VBScript - then was disturbed by an call - then want to close the VBS again
but was prompted by an question to save the script or not. ? WFT? I don't recall that i had modified the script.

But with ("Navigation > Go to the last change")  (and "View > Editor > Changed Lines" enabled also)
i could easily spot the "problem" ... i just had added an comment 

Pfft, good to own an valid text editor - HippoEDIT rules!  (now 'senile dementia' can go ahead) 
Great! Thank you Alex 

[Stefan]

An another great feature of HippoEDIT for programmers
is the "Changes Area List"

As i just wrote about the feature
("Navigation > Go to the last change")  which just goes to the line which was last modified
and  ("View > Editor > Show Changed Lines") which sets an color marker for each line currently modified
the next big step to go to immense productivity is  ("Navigation > Changes Area List...")

This feature steps back and forward through all changed lines, and...
... it shows an list of last modified lines, so you can see all this lines together
and pick the one you had in mind and then it's just an another click to jump to that line.
And an second to go back where you came from.

Take your code back under control - with the help of HippoEDIT

See this picture for better understanding, or watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFFKu4fVb8



Great! Thank you Alex 

[Stefan]

Today i had the need to replace strings in a few files at once
and i must say HippoEDIT was an great aid for this task!

- I just open the Find & Replace Dialog with Strg+H
- select "Scope: Files" and browse for the folder or
- select "Scope: File Directory" to work on the folder of the current active file

and within a few seconds i was done.

Great! Thank you Alex 

[alex]

One unique feature of the HE, which is not so often used, but which, I think, is very useful in some cases is: Search Only In combo.
It allows you to skip for example commented source code, when you search for some variable or to search only for some term inside string constants. This is mostly impossible to achieve with regular expressions.