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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by rjbull on April 23, 2009, 04:15 AM »

STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR work irrespectively of a command shell - when you use win32 CreateProcess, you can override those handles at will. Even GUI processes can use stdin/stdout/stderr, not just console processes.

-f0dder (April 16, 2009, 04:15 AM)

OK, but in practice I find editors tend not to enable access to STDIN etc. to user tools.

If you press almost any other key, you lose the marked area and have to start again.

This is a Windows standard so I suspect that is why most windows editors do this. But in Zeus this is configurable.

Another piece of Microsoft stupidity that has to be fixed by the aftermarket...

Dunno if it's stupid, I guess it depends on what you grew up with. Most of the time, with my usage habits, this is a decent enough default. For a serious editor, I prefer also having the option of persistent selection, as well as mark-begin + mark-end.

Good point: I grew up with persistent selections.  From your last sentence, I presume those features must be present in NPP, so I suppose I'd better go and look for them 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I need an app like Filenote for folders

« Last post by rjbull on April 23, 2009, 04:06 AM »

leaving us like all the other girls do   Just kidding

-steeladept (April 22, 2009, 10:21 PM)

You should be reported to Global Moderator Carol Haynes for that!   

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Living Room / Re: How many furries here at DC?

« Last post by rjbull on April 23, 2009, 04:00 AM »

whatever you call robot fandom.

-Shook (April 22, 2009, 02:00 PM)

Charles Stross wrote a humorous science fiction novella Trunk and Disorderly in which cyborgs were "clankies" and unaltered flesh bodies "squishies"...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: set default printer according to ip address

« Last post by rjbull on April 23, 2009, 03:48 AM »

Not sure it helps the OP much...  but there's a program called SDP = Select Default Printer by Edward Brophy, available here (the author's page seems to have disappeared).

What is it?

  SDP is a command line utility for setting which printer/output-device
  is to be used by default under Windows 95, 98 and NT.  It will not run
  under Windows 3.1.

Why did I make it?

  I had to make print outs every morning automatically using task scheduling
  software using NotePad & WordPad using the little know /p command line
  option.  (aside:  NotepPad /p SDP.TXT automatically loads, prints, and
  closes this doc.)  However, if someone sent a fax or something the previous
  day, the print outs would go to the fax instead of the printer.  I needed
  A utility that would make the printer the default output every morning. 
  I created SDP and I set my scheduling software to run it before the morning
  print outs and... guess what?  No more problems.

How do you use it?

  The basic usage is:  SDP.EXE <printer description>
 
  Just type in all or part of the printer's name and/or port and SDP will
  select the first device that it matches.  The printer description is
  CASE SENSITIVE!  Epson is not the same as EPSON to SDP.  You should run
  SDP without parameters to see the case used.  Also do no use quotes or
  chevrons (< >) on the command line, just what it asks for. 

  Example:  SDP.EXE Okidata

  Running SDP without parameters gives you the help screen that shows which
  printers are installed (i.e. selectable) and their complete, case sensitive
  description.  It displays the printer's name and port separated by a comma.
  You can enter this entire description as shown or any part of it.  If
  the printer description was:  HP LaserJet 4P,\\network\hp you could
  enter:  SDP.EXE 4P,\\net and SDP would find it.
 
  SDP can be run from a DOS window, a DOS batch file, the Run command on the
  Start Menu or you can create a shortcut with the <printer description>
  after the program's name.  From a DOS batch file, it's a good idea to use
  the START command with the /w wait option.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Volume buttons (and others) pressed on keyboard are displayed on scree

« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2009, 10:07 AM »

The OP *might* like Skynergy's HotKeyz

-rjbull (April 22, 2009, 04:49 AM)

Mmm I do not see it in its description...

-Coeluh (April 22, 2009, 08:22 AM)

Try looking at the screenshot on the HotKeyz Web page!

And I've briefly tried it; feature is there.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Volume buttons (and others) pressed on keyboard are displayed on scree

« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2009, 04:49 AM »

The OP *might* like Skynergy's HotKeyz, a donationware general-purpose hotkey program that has what I think the OP might mean built in.  HotKeyz's author has posted on DC, but sorry, I can't remember his DC UserID.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Replace Hourglass with Quote from text file

« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2009, 04:35 AM »

Reminds me of an old tagline.  "Windows loading.  Come back tomorrow." 

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Living Room / Re: How many furries here at DC?

« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2009, 04:34 AM »

The queen of furry fandom is Kay Shapero.  Furry conventions (ConFurence), furry fiction, furry folk music, recommended reading, the lot!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to capture a DOS screen with Screenshot Captor

« Last post by rjbull on April 20, 2009, 07:25 AM »

Have you thought of trying one of the DOS screen capture programs, like Screen Thief, two versions available here?  Not sure if they'll capture a screen graphic as well as a DOS text screen, but it might be worth trying.

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What's the Best? / Re: Anti-Virus Package

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2009, 04:08 AM »

does anyone know of a reasonable anti-virus that's also free for commercial use ?

-tomos (April 15, 2009, 06:36 AM)

Maybe ClamWin?  But it scans files only, and doesn't have a real-time scanner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2009, 04:01 AM »

Zeus has all these feature: http://www.zeusedit.com
[...]
I am not exactly sure what you mean by a redirection filter?

When the editor runs an external tool it will put in it's own hook to capture the output. If you redirect this output there will be nothing for the editor to capture.

-Jussi Jumppanen (April 14, 2009, 01:30 AM)

I use lots of DOS and Windows console-mode ports of Unix command-line tools, like sed, awk, tr, comm, etc.  These normally work by taking input from STDIN and sending transformed (filtered, I suppose) output to STDOUT.  Many editors allow you to define user tools, but they often invoke them by means other than a command shell.  If there's no command shell, there's (as I understand it) no access to STDIN/STDOUT and the redirection process, so one can't use tools that operate as filters, at least not at all easily.  By contrast, consider TED Notepad.  It presumably uses a hidden command shell, because you can define STDIN/STDOUT filters as user tools, mark a block of text, hit the hotkey for that tool, and have the transformed text over-write the existing block.  Very convenient.

If you press almost any other key, you lose the marked area and have to start again.

This is a Windows standard so I suspect that is why most windows editors do this. But in Zeus this is configurable.

Another piece of Microsoft stupidity that has to be fixed by the aftermarket...

Compare this with WordStar-style editors.

FWIW Zeus has a WordStar keyboard emulation mode.

I was aware of this, but I should make it clear I'm not a coder, other than AWK scripts and batch files.  The latest version of Zeus is a 10 Mb download - not that out of the way nowadays, but many competent editors are much smaller and presumably faster loading - and costs $USD 69.95.  I'm sure one gets what one pays for, but it might be too much for me.  On the other hand, if I'd bought it first, maybe I wouldn't be on this quest   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2009, 03:45 AM »

There's an editor I have not heard of before coming up on BDJ in a few days - HippoEDIT

-mwb1100 (April 13, 2009, 12:22 AM)

The code-folding screenshot, and even the outliner-like features on the Web site, are very reminiscent of Notepad++.  Is that just convergent evolution?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by rjbull on April 16, 2009, 03:37 AM »

If you buy it for yourself, and use it for yourself, even if it's on the job, I think (hope) that's still considered personal use. I use EmEditor on my home PC and my laptop, which I also use for work, and that was my assumption based on the license.

-broken85 (April 13, 2009, 04:07 PM)

Here's what's in the Help file for EmEditor 8.04:

You must obtain a license for each computer you install the software on. Therefore, a license is needed for each terminal computer on a network, including remote terminal computers. If this software is for personal usage and not installed on corporate computers, you can install up to 5 computers for your use only.
If this software is installed on a portable drive such as a USB drive, one portable drive equals to one computer as described above

Which I read to mean that I have to treat it as a single-installation license because I use it at work, even though I paid my own money.

Quoting Eóin:

But the specifics are usually a bit ambiguous in most cases.

You never typed a truer word...

Hmmm, time to contact Emurasoft.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by rjbull on April 13, 2009, 03:48 PM »

Speaking up for EmEditor again

Its licensing is not per-installation, but per-user.

-broken85 (April 12, 2009, 04:45 PM)

I read it as per-installation.  Will have to take another look.

Since I bought a License for EmEditor back in version 5 or 6, and it's still good in version 8, it's quite generous

They're already talking about version 9 


[edit]
Ah, I see the confusion over the license.  EmEditor Web site says:

You must obtain a license for each computer you install the software on. Therefore, a license is needed for each terminal computer on a network, including remote terminal computers. If this software is for personal usage and not installed on corporate computers, you can install up to 5 computers for your use only.
If this software is installed on a portable drive such as a USB drive, one portable drive equals to one computer as described above.

I mostly use software at work, so read the license as per-installation for my purposes.  It isn't clear whether buying a license primarily for work, but with one's own money, also confers a right for personal use at home.
[/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro +1

« Last post by rjbull on April 12, 2009, 03:39 PM »

EditpadPro +1
Pros: (first answering rjbull's requirements...)

Bookmarks - either 10 per file or 10 per project. Sorry, no "Next bookmark" hotkey.

-widgewunner (April 11, 2009, 11:46 PM)

That's quite important.  How am I supposed to remember which hotkey is assigned to which bookmark?  I wouldn't mind if "next bookmark" could be a macro rather than a native feature.  10 bookmarks per file is a bit meagre (same in Boxer), though in practice I'd try to minimise the number.

Flexible tools integration with configurable stdin/stdout/stderr I/O. (is this what you mean by Filters?)

EditPad Pro actually has what I mean by filters    it's on the Web site.

Portable - can be installed on memory stick with all config in INI file.
Generous license to the user allows installation on multiple computers.

I noticed that.  EmEditor is cheaper, Boxer more expensive, and both of them are single-installation licenses.  Both of them can be made portable, but I'd (much) rather have EditPad Pro's more generous approach.

Text "snippets" - hard to describe but easy to get dependent upon.

That's not unique, but appears to be particularly well implemented.

No scripting language support.

I'm not a coder, and don't really want to have to learn Java or whatever...  I'd like it to have its own simple macro language, with editable files.  I understand it currently uses all-but-impenetrable INI files, which is a pity.


Actually, I regret not purchasing an EditPad Pro license when it was on Bits du Jour...  but I have a reminder running in case it turns up a second time   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win Patrol Plus (Bits Du Jour- Fri) Chameleon Startup Manager, Startup Organ

« Last post by rjbull on April 09, 2009, 09:09 AM »

New release by Nir Sofer - WhatInStartup
Announced on DC here


[Edit]
Oops    didn't notice it was mentioned above.
[/Edit]

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General Software Discussion / NirSofT - WhatInStartup - lists all applications loaded automatically

« Last post by rjbull on April 09, 2009, 09:05 AM »

New Nir Sofer utility - WhatInStartup - displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up

WhatInStartup

Description
This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and more.
It allows you to easily disable or delete unwanted programs that runs in your Windows startup. You can use it on your currently running instance of Windows, as well as you can use it on external instance of Windows in another drive.
WhatInStartup also supports a special "Permanent Disabling" feature - If a program that you previously disabled added itself again to the startup list of Windows, WhatInStartup will automatically detect the change and disable it again.

System Requirements
This utility works on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7.

[...]

Permanent Disabling is a special feature of WhatInStartup that allows you to Permanently enforce the disabling of programs in Windows startup.

[...]

Using WhatInStartup On External Drive [...]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: MouseLocater - automatic highlight cursor when mouse is moved again

« Last post by rjbull on April 07, 2009, 05:11 AM »

I haven't tried this, but there's Sonar:

Sonar 4 (677Kb)
This package provides an expanded ring around the mouse pointer for users who have difficulty locating the pointer. Unlike the Windows XP version, this package places a permanent ring around the pointer. This version introduces the option to vary the colour of the Sonar ring.
June 2008 - Added the use of ALT+s to show / hide the ring when required, version now 4.1

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bookmarks, I am frustrated

« Last post by rjbull on April 02, 2009, 04:54 AM »

I am interested in sharing my bookmarks and saved pages across my networked computers.

-kartal (April 01, 2009, 01:53 PM)

For what little it may be worth, you can save pages, or parts of pages, in Evernote, and export them again as MHT files.  Not as seamless or all-encompassing as you may want, but at least  it's a format most people will be able to read.  At least that's true of Evernote 2 series; I haven't tried the Web-based version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Someone MUST make a new PowerMarks program.

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2009, 10:34 AM »

I'd be delighted if I could simply right-click to tell Linkman which browser to use to open a stored link.  That seems to me considerably less cumbersome than having to go into Settings-->Launch URLs each time I want to use a browser other than the one I've specified as "open with."

-cyberdiva (April 01, 2009, 09:59 AM)

LinkStash has a series of hotkeys to open in current/new window with a series of browsers - so I could open the same page in IE, Firefox and Opera at the same time by hitting different hotkeys.

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General Software Discussion / Re: When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2009, 04:49 AM »

I think it was a BSOD - full screen.  Wasn't your average message box, anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2009, 04:39 AM »

A few weeks ago, trying to run EmEditor portable from a USB, saved a simple macro, clicked EmEditor's macro button and <<POW>>.  XP said a hardware problem; could be, I don't know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bookmarks, I am frustrated

« Last post by rjbull on April 01, 2009, 04:35 AM »

Btw does it have a firefox addon? I was looking for a convenient solution as well.

-kartal (March 31, 2009, 03:56 PM)

Yes, on the right-click menu in Firefox.  It also has a kind of "macro" capability that allows it to send keystrokes to a program, so you can do the equivalent of Ctrl-S.  That allows LWA to save material from a wider range of programs that aren't already included in its list, like K-Meleon.  The list of supported applications includes most popular browsers, several e-mail clients and news readers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bookmarks, I am frustrated

« Last post by rjbull on March 31, 2009, 03:11 PM »

And it is not very cheap application either at least for my wallet.

-kartal (March 31, 2009, 02:54 PM)

kartal, you just missed the March 2009 DC discount, 30% on LWA! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyNote NF (New Features) - a "successor" to Tranglos Keynote

« Last post by rjbull on March 30, 2009, 04:04 PM »

Keynote never quite clicked for me, but I would have persevered if it had had Boolean search.