I would like to insert the current date into an open Kate text document while editing it by using a shortcut key combination. I see several such options for Atom, but I don't find anything for Kate.

I have a problem with the Nano editor. If it ever exits unexpectedly, it leaves behind .save files, which are just versions of the edits I was making. Is there a way to disable this behaviour?

I would like nano to soft-wrap at 80 characters. That is, as I keep typing, the text should flow to the next line beyond 80 characters, without nano insert a \n newline at 80 characters. set softwrap set tabsize 4 set tabstospaces set fill 72 However, this inserts a newline after each line, when tested with cat. How do I softwrap and fill simultaneously?

Ok, I realise that I risk a religious war asking a question about text editors, but here goes. # Requirements - Mostly used for config file edits - Text based not GUI - Available for Raspian flavour of Debian - No learning required for a Windows/Mac GUI user (no vi/vim) - Makes full use of keys found on modern keyboards, i.e. home, end, pgup, pgdn, del - Use keyboard shortcuts found in pretty much all GUI apps, e.g. Undo (Ctrl-Z), Redo (Shift-Ctrl-Z), Select All (Ctrl-A), Cut (Ctrl-X), Copy (Ctrl-C), Paste (Ctrl-V), Expand selection (Shift-Arrow), Skip word (Ctrl-Arrow), Delete selection (Del) etc - **Optional**: mouse support for changing cursor position and selecting text Surely this isn't a big ask in this day and age?

I have a file that unfortunately contains both tabs and spaces. How do I display them so I know if a particular space is actually tab or space?

*[4.13.12-1-ARCH with gnome3 and gdm on Xorg]* I already have set my VISUAL and EDITOR env-vars to vim. Similarly I did try SYSTEMD_EDITOR="vim"; export SYSTEMD_EDITOR in my ~/.bashrc, to no avail. When modifying unit files in Arch (systemd) via $ sudo systemctl edit _unit_ I find myself staring at nano. Life is too short and I want vim by all means. How do I do this ?

As far as I know, sudoedit gives a user permission to edit a file that is owned and writable by root. It makes a copy of that file, the copy is owned by the user, and then it spawns a text editor with the privileges of the user. In this way, it avoids the dangers of running a text editor as root (shell escapes). On the other hand, visudo also makes a copy of the sudoers file. However, that copy is owned by root and it spawns a text editor with root privileges. Also, on a Debian 12 system I tried, you can get a root shell from within visudo: it spawns an instance of nano and via the _Execute_ option in nano you can get a shell escape. For example, if you type cat /etc/shadow to _Execute_, it works. Why does visudo spawn a text editor as root? Why can't it do what sudoedit does (make a copy owned by the user, spawn a text editor as the user)? Wouldn't that be more secure? At least, shouldn't it block shell escapes from within the text editor that it spawns as root? Why doesn't it do that?

I have vim as default editor on my Mac and every time I run commands on Mac terminal, it automatically opens "vim". How can I set up "nano" instead and make sure the terminal will open "nano" every time is needed?

I have a large number of .pdf files with much the same headers and footers that I’d like to remove. Is there a something that can remove everything up to a known string and everything after a different known string leaving a valid .pdf?

Editing /etc/fstab with my text editor makes all the spacing go out of alignment. I could go through the file and insert/delete spaces to line everything up, but I'm looking for a more automated solution. Ideally, there would be an online javascript page that I could put my fstab into, and have it "pretty" align everything. Then I could copy/paste the final result back into the file. Is there a similar or better solution to this available? EDIT: I use Linux on my desktop, and I'm not seeking to join the religion of vi or emacs just to edit my fstab. Emacs might be a better solution for some people, but for some other people it's not a better solution. EDIT2: Here is an example snippet of my fstab using tabs. The columns are not in alignment. proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/disk/by-label/Linux / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/disk/by-label/Home /home ext4 defaults 0 0 I want it to be automatically formatted with spaces and look more like the following. proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/disk/by-label/Linux / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/disk/by-label/Home /home ext4 defaults 0 0

gvim doesn't seem to support it out of the box on my Ubuntu lucid.

On an Ubuntu 12.04 machine I've used the alternatives system to set the **editor** to **vim.basic**. I get the correct editor when root but not when I sudo to root and run crontab, and I'm trying to understand why. A bit more detail. The alternative **editor** is currently set to **vim.basic** by manual mode (output trimmed): % sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim.basic % update-alternatives --display editor editor - manual mode link currently points to /usr/bin/vim.basic /bin/nano - priority 40 slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz /usr/bin/vim.basic - priority 30 slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz slave editor.fr.1.gz: /usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1.gz slave editor.it.1.gz: /usr/share/man/it/man1/vim.1.gz slave editor.pl.1.gz: /usr/share/man/pl/man1/vim.1.gz slave editor.ru.1.gz: /usr/share/man/ru/man1/vim.1.gz Current 'best' version is '/bin/nano'. If I sudo to root and edit crontab the editor is vim.basic: % sudo -i % crontab -e # editor is vim; :help shows # *help.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2010 Jul 20 EDITOR and SHELL as root: # env | grep -i editor EDITOR=vim # echo $0 -bash However as a normal user if I sudo crontab the editor is nano: % sudo crontab -e # GNU nano 2.2.6 EDITOR and SHELL as normal user: % env | grep -i editor EDITOR=vim % echo $0 zsh Now I'm noticing that **nano** has a higher priority (40) than **vim.basic** (30), so I could change the priority of vim.basic. But that defeats the purpose of **manual mode**. **Update** I've noticed that using **sudo -E** gives the correct editor, implying problem is environment related. That is: sudo crontab -e # nano editor is used sudo -E crontab -e # vim editor is used

I am running the editor sam as a standalone application on Linux. I am using this version: git clone https://github.com/9fans/plan9port plan9 So far I have not been able to figure out a way to paste text into the *bitmap* display from an external Linux application. Is there a way to achieve this?

I work in a cluster. I would like to ask if it is possible to open .xlsx files in text editors like nano or vim. Is there any possible way if I have not Microsoft Excel (or any relevant application in my PC) to read the file. If it helps my laptop is Windows and I connect via Mobaxterm to the cluster. $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Rocky Description: Rocky Linux release 9.4 (Blue Onyx) Release: 9.4 Codename: BlueOnyx

Can I modify the character set which is used to recognize a single word for the double click word highlight in Mousepad , the default text editor in Debian xfce4? Eg. I would like to highlight words separated by m letter and the space. Then in the word memory two words would be highligted e and ory. When one double-clicks on e, e will be highlighted, and when one double-clicks ory, ory will be higligted. I mean a way to change the charset that defines separators when one double-clicks words in the editor.

Is there a .vimrc setting to automatically remove trailing whitespace when saving a file? Ideally (to be safe) I would like to only have this functionality for certain files, e.g. *.rb

How can I detect in my neovim ~/.config/nvim/init.lua configuration which operating system distribution nvim is running? I want different Neovim configurations on debian servers as on my fedora linux workstation machines. - vim.loop.os_uname() only detects 'Linux'. - Is there some builtin like the /etc/os-release file?

In bash, using vi mode, if I hit Esc,v, my current command line is opened in the editor specified by $EDITOR and I am able to edit it in full screen before 'saving' the command to be returned to the shell and executed. How can I achieve similar behaviour in zsh? Hitting v in command mode results in a bell an has no apparent effect, despite the EDITOR environment variable being set.

I enjoy using nano as a respite from my usual GTK-based text editor. I like the simplicity of the interface, and using CTRL-K is the fastest way I know of to edit down long textfiles. However, I have one major gripe: whenever I justify text using CTRL-J, the editor prints the smug little message Can now UnJustify! -- yet I have not been able to find a way to unjustify text. Pressing M-U (which a Google search could reveal, M-U not being mentioned at all in the program's help files) simply seems to cause a glitch. The keyboard becomes unresponsive. Am I missing something?

In [Gnome's Text Editor](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor) (gnome-text-editor aka gted from the gnome-text-editor Debian package), I cannot get replacement of starting lines (-) at newlines by *\item*. I escape the item but does not work. OS: Debian latest