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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 02, 2012, 08:32 AM »
oh... and would it be difficult to add to the script that blank lines be removed after the sorting?  :-[ :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 02, 2012, 07:59 AM »
milesahead, thanks for pointing to awk!

however, skwire's quick ahk script actually works, that's so great, thank you, thank you! (you've got email from paypal, skwire).

I would never have thought that the script would be soo short!

I still have some questions / remarks:

- the script seemed to work perfectly, except for the very first item. the very first item always stayed on top (like this: dfbaacbc -> daabbccf).

- for your information, win-1 is a shortcut that by default is registered by windows itself, to switch to the first taskbar application tab. I had to change it (e.g. to win-i).

- I have not yet thoroughly tested the script, but so far it seems to work very nicely. I did a test if any characters (or tabstops) are lost (German keyboard, all keys incl. using modifiers shift and alt-gr), but everything seemed fine.


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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 01, 2012, 06:48 PM »
had the idea of googling for "paragraph sorting".
that has yielded these:
http://www.kahrel.pl...m/indesign/sort.html
http://www.linuxmisc...b7ccbdb46ef0b9ce.htm
http://backreference...orting-by-paragraph/

in general, much of this seems to come close...

just as a side note, I'd spend 30-50 USD on a solution...

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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 01, 2012, 06:31 PM »
hello! cool, so much help! thanks!

thanks for pointing to vim. that's interesting. I couldn't find a script there that does what I described (though I might have missed one), but I might find some more help there if this thread won't yield an answer. Notepad++ plugins might also be a resource, though there are no plugins that can do paragraph sorting either.

Yes, I am actually using AHK for very simple tasks. (I can't code, obviously.) I was thinking of posting my question there, as well, but I remembered this place here as very friendly... that's why I came back here first :-* ;)


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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 01, 2012, 04:36 PM »
(Once again thank you for your comments.)

| Do you really want what you said, and sort the items, or do you just want to find them using the categories as keywords/tags? 

It's about sorting. In the end, I want a category  bunches of e.g. 15 - 30 text items each.

| If the latter, you might look at NoteFrog.  The current version can import files delimited with markers.

Seems similar to Treepad... same problems therefore...

| Noteliner.  It's free, but .NET if that bothers you, and uses its own file format.

Doesn't seem to be able to do what I described, either...

| MemPad. 

dito.

| Ultra Recall , RightNote, AllMyNote.  KeyNote.

dito.dito.dito.dito...  :)

however, in general these are nice recommendations. I did not know of all of these. Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: sorting units of text
« on: July 01, 2012, 03:58 PM »
thanks a lot for your input so far.

however, cleanhaven apparently cannot do what I described. Treepad seems like nice idea, even though this could be implemented even better with a tabbed notepad like e.g. notepad++ and a bunch of auto-loaded text-files. problem is, my method has these advantages:
- having just one plain text file and sorting the items at a later point in time enables you to have items written in the last days in one place, and not scattered around lots of tab-textx resp. tree folders.
- it is possible to type some text and only later categorize it.
- having just one plain text file gives you a maximum of options to choose the text editor that you like best.
- you need not use the mouse/need not navigate
- etc.pp.

:)

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General Software Discussion / sorting units of text
« on: July 01, 2012, 11:56 AM »
Hello,

I usually type all kinds of information into plain text files, categorizing every memo/info/todo with a simple tag like e.g. "car" for car-related stuff, or hou for "house" related stuff etc. I also type current todo items into the same text. the text may look like this:
>>
cat3[tab]blablabla
[tab](..continued blabla

cat2[tab]blabla

cat3[tab]blabla

cat1[tab]blabla....
[tab]continued blabla.....
[tab]continued blabla.......

cat2[tab]blabla
<<

after some time, I have a huge text with unsorted units of text. I would like to sort the entries alphabetically/numerically so that it looks like this:


>>
cat1[tab]blabla

cat2[tab]blabla

cat2...

cat3...

cat3...
<<

After an hour of research, I found the only program capable of doing this was an online service, http://sortmylist.com/
This service has the feature to define blank lines as a separator. (However, they seem to send the info over the
internet, which I object to.)

(even more helpful would be "a new item starts with a linebreak that is directly
followed by up to 7 alphanumeric characters, that are again followed by another tab".
this would not require a blank line between items, or any other manually added separator.)

perhaps the program could simply work as a one-click-program (or one shortcut, like win-Q or so), converting the
current contents of the clipboard. text should not be altered, i.e. special /international characters and tabs etc.
should all be retained.

I think I am problably not the only person who simply types their stuff into a text, with a tag + tab to
at least categorize it a little. I am aware there are programs that will do this, but using plain text and
a lightweitht editor has so many advantages.

-> my question: can anyone please point me to a locally installable program that can do this? I was unable to find one.
Or, does anyone feel this might be a coding idea worth pursuing?

Thanks!

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Hello,

so the idea is that via shortcut or slider or command line, brightness can be changed
and thereby always BOTH the plugged-in AND plugged-out settings are changed of
the current powerplan (or of all powerplans, which would be even better).

Idea is that brightness adjustments become totally independent of plugged-in/out
(and of powerplans in general), thereby ridding users of constant re-adjustments
when frequently plugging in / out / frequently changing brightness due to
circumstances (night/day etc.)

There's no such programs, but I have found several ppl complaining about this.

Thanks for considering!

Matthias

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