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The limit is really the number of abbreviations you can easily remember. If the abbreviations/hotkeys are sensible and intuitive, the number can be quite high...-johnk (April 17, 2011, 05:56 PM)
Add to lines
These four functions skip over any leading or trailing spaces/tabs.
* Append text
Add text to the end of each line.
* Prepend text
Add text to the start of each line.
Append/prepend text prompt
* Append number
Add an incrementing number to the end of each line.
* Prepend number
Add an incrementing number to the start of each line.
Append/prepend number prompt
Sort lines
These four functions ignore any leading or trailing spaces/tabs.
* Text ascending
Sort lines in an ascending alphabetical order.
* Text descending
Sort lines in a descending alphabetical order.
* Numeric ascending
Sort lines in an ascending order (based on any numbers at the start of each line).
* Numeric descending
Sort lines in a decending order (based on any numbers at the start of each line).
* Reverse
Reverse the order of the selected lines.
Remove
* Blank lines
Remove any blank lines (including lines that only contain spaces/tabs).
These two functions skip over any leading/trailing spaces/tabs.
* Leading characters
Remove characters from the start of each line.
* Trailing characters
Remove characters from the end of each line.
Remove leading/trailing characters prompt
* Duplicate lines
Remove any repeated lines.
* Leading spaces
Trim any spaces/tabs from the start of each line.
* Trailing spaces
Trim any spaces/tabs from the end of each line.
Change case
* Upper
Change the casing to upper case.
* Lower
Change the casing to lower case.
* Title
Change the casing to title case.
* Invert
Change uppercase to lowercase and vise versa.
Clean
* Convert to plain text
Remove any hidden formatting added by Outlook, Word, etc.
* Remove HTML tags
Delete any text contained inside '<' and '/>'.
* Remove BBCode tags
Delete any text contained inside '[' and '/]'.
Other
* Repeat text
Repeat the selected text multiple times.
Repeat text prompt
* Word count
Displays how many words, lines and characters are selected.
Word count
take a look at my other post (mentioning Clippy), Re: IDEA: text-only clipboard without separate hotkey. Don't overlook Text Monkey and Free Data Capture Tool (FDC). I haven't tried the last one; it was originally mentioned on DC by kfitting here, Another tool....III. Example 2
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This example shows how to ignore duplicate records. Duplicate records
are recognized by the defined key, not by the whole line. If you want
to exclude duplicate lines, you must perfom an additional sort
beforehead by using the whole line as key.
I tried running it in Windows 95 compatibility mode and it threw the error "ERROR 043: Line exceeds max length of 32750 bytes."-bhuiraj (April 14, 2011, 06:42 PM)
I'm becoming more and more impressed with Acetext. brilliant app from that guy, as usual.-superboyac (April 14, 2011, 11:59 AM)
Although one qualification for a nodelist listing of your own was always supposed to be the ability to write your own entry.-oblivion (April 08, 2011, 03:56 AM)
I still miss Fidonet. A worldwide, non-state/corporate-controlled, public access network, designed with cost-minimisation built in.
I use The Bat! for email, have it configured for plain text and use the author's initials for quotes.
Fido stayed strong in some parts of Europe for quite a while after it died in the US and UK, I believe, but it was always something that needed a particular "critical mass" to keep it going -- those few of us left in the UK by the end just couldn't compete with the increasingly affordable internet, despite the relative lack of security associated with it.
I'm a registered user of USBSR (with lifetime license) and Crystal Rich give away free licenses from time to time.-rjbull (April 07, 2011, 03:33 PM)
I also have a lifetime licence, and they never offered a free Zentimo license to me!
List Price: $139.95 - wow insane.-mitzevo (April 08, 2011, 11:33 AM)
For some reason I have never tested this one. How is it?-Curt (April 09, 2011, 05:31 PM)
I am not quite sure why I am reluctant, but I guess it has to do with the many "Buy Pro"-links. I don't mind the Pro's price, but I do mind the tactics.
I am not into regex, so for me the best argument for this tool would probably be the FbX similarity, and the (missing) text editing...
because the author is overhauling the regexp engine. You can get the text editing feature in improved form by using the same author's now-separate freeware Text Editor Anywhere:Filebox eXtender was updated in February 2011-Curt (April 07, 2011, 12:13 PM)
as an ex-BBS sysop who had quite a lot to do with distributing and using shareware, I can see both sides of this.-oblivion (April 06, 2011, 06:04 PM)
4DOS has gone free, last I saw, as 4NT took over for the up-to-date people amongst us.
I still miss the power of the 4DOS batch language
my BBS finally turned up its toes and I reluctantly decided that FidoNet just wasn't going to justify the effort of rebuilding it.
That's the position I'm in. I do have the free license for Zentimo 1.0 that they gave away a while back, in case of need.-rjbull (April 06, 2011, 03:15 PM)
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PhraseExpress v8 - Professional Edition - for PC - Type Less, Produce More
Deal Available: Tuesday 12 April, 2011
PhraseExpress lets you organize your frequently used text snippets in categories for easy access using text abbreviations.
Deal Price: $48.98
List Price: $139.95
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PhraseExpress v8 - Professional Edition
Type Less, Produce More
You know "the paragraph" by heart. It's the same boilerplate paragraph that you've been typing over and over for who knows how long. For some folks, it's a disclaimer. For others, it's an email signature. Still, for some others, it's a description of a product or service. No matter what it is, it takes you a long time to type and you know it backwards and forwards. What if you could produce that whole paragraph with just a few keystrokes?
PhraseExpress lets you organize your frequently used text snippets in categories for easy access! Just assign your snippets to abbreviations, then perform your work as usual. When you need to insert that huge paragraph, just type in your abbreviation and PhraseExpress will automatically expand it to insert the paragraph! Imagine how much more productive you can be!
Not only will PhraseExpress help you to finish your work more quickly, you'll also be able to avoid common spelling mistakes! In addition to the integrated system-wide spellchecker, you can also configure PhraseExpress with your most often-committed mispellings, and have the app automatically change your typos to the correct word! Best of all, this works in any Windows application!
A couple of nifty extras make PhraseExpress an absolute must-buy. Using the same handy abbreviation system, you can have PhraseExpress launch programs using text shortcuts! Tired of only being able to copy one item to the Windows Clipboard at a time? PhraseExpress gives you access to clipboard history, letting you pick and choose from anything you've recently copied!
Check it out folks, PhraseExpress is currently ranked #2 in the "Automation Section" of Download.com!
Written by Derek Lee
I note the previous comments with respect to USBSR's licencing, but I think they have a point: a lifetime licence is hard to justify, financially.-oblivion (April 04, 2011, 03:32 PM)
I've bought licenses for in the past that no longer exist or are no longer of any use (copy of DESQview/386, anyone?)
You don't need Zentimo but you already have a USBSR lifetime license? So there's no argument really, is there
I didn't NEED Zentimo but I've bought the upgrade because I'd like that bit of code to survive for a while to come.
I'd put Tomahawk on par with TextMaker for useful features [...] I have a very slight preference for Tomahawk - although not for any good reason I can put my finger on.-40hz (April 05, 2011, 12:20 PM)
occasionally Softmaker puts their 'complete' office suite license on sale for about the same price as Tomahawk. If you want a nice spreadsheet to go with your wordprocessor, grab it when you see it hovering in the $35 range.
Tomahawk series of wordprocessors available from Native Winds LLC.
[...]
their commercial ($36 USD) product Tomahawk Gold [...] At $36 per license it's probably one of the biggest software bargains out there.-40hz (January 08, 2011, 11:15 AM)
Listary 3.0 has finally been released!
Listary focuses on improving your file experience now. The most exciting new
feature is the toolbar added to standard file open/save dialogs. You can get
quick and direct access to your favorite folders through it, and yes, you'll
have the "recently opened file and folder list" like Microsoft Office 2010
in almost all applications! (You can turn off this feature and clear the
recent list easily in the toolbar or "Options > Recent", and everything is
configurable just as before.)
Some other changes:
# Automatically select last opened file in file open/save dialog.
# The leading "/" for commands and favorite folders is no longer needed.
# You can always use the hot key Win + W to let Listary show up in Explorer
or file open/save dialog even if the input focus is not on a list.
# The Favorite feature supports submenu now.
# Some new commands.
Download link: http://www.listary.c...download/Listary.exe
Enjoy it!
P.S. You'll notice that some features (like text editing) are missing in
this new version. They will be either packed into separate applications or
added back in the next version according to user feedback. So please let me
know if you miss some removed features.
Great ALLCHARS do it !!!
[...]
Thanks rjbull-Uriel (April 03, 2011, 12:24 PM)
But, please note the warning:
AllChars works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP and Vista (partly)
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The robust features just keep on coming with XYplorer! Imagine one-click previews of any of your media files, plus multiple (up to 100) level undo/redo for your file operations that persists from session to session. An advanced Recycle Bin that leaves your default Windows Bin in the dust! You can even enable queuing in XYplorer and stack file operation jobs without even waiting for the first few to finish, then continue working as your jobs complete in the background!
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Written by Derek Lee
Selling a lifetime license for a dead product is scam.-wr975 (April 01, 2011, 04:49 AM)
# Complex script support (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, etc.)
[...]
# Built-in character map with support for Unicode symbols and HTML equivalents
if I can figure out how to automate capturing a snippet of HTML residing on the clipboard, processing it thru html2text, then copying it to the clipboard so that I can paste it into a text editor-Nater (March 28, 2011, 09:31 AM)
Which Firefox addon(s) where you thinking of?-Nater (March 24, 2011, 05:49 PM)