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The main feature of Sublime Text 2 that makes it my editor of choice for programming (and anything else really) is multi-selection search and edit. It's like search-and-replace-on-steroids. Once you get used to, it's really hard to go back to not using it.
I did some research myself and couldn't find a single other editor that offers it as powerfully. Some even let you create several cursors but lack the searching bit (just found out that Notepad++ does that).
So I'd like to ask for this community's help: do you know of another programming editor that provide multi-selection search and editing in a similar level as Sublime does?
Cloud9 IDE does this.
Disclaimer: I work there.
vim seems to have support for that via plugins. See a related question on SO: Multiple selections in VIM
More recently jetBrains began adding "Sublime Text style multi selection" to their line of IDEs. I know IntelliJ and Pycharm already have it.
gedit 3 has a plugin which looks similar: http://codetree.com.au/projects/imitation/
After switching from Sublime Text 2 to gedit, I've written a plugin that's much closer to Sublime's version of multiple cursors than imitation. I've tested the plugin on versions 3.4 and 3.12. You can find it here:
https://github.com/jessecrossen/Gedit-MultiCursor
I don't think it's 100% perfect yet, so I'd be really glad to hear of any edge cases people run across so I can continue to improve it. I've also implemented something like gedit's Command-R functionality with this plugin.
Those were pretty much the only two features I missed from Sublime, but then again I don't tend to use the deep features of any editor, so as to preserve my independence ;). The quick-open functionality is not as good as Sublime's "Goto Anything", but on the other hand you get usable integration with remote file systems mounted on FUSE, gvfs or similar, whereas Sublime tends to be slow because it's recursively indexing every file.
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Are there any IDE's or editors that support Mercury besides emacs?
Distributed with Mercury is a syntax highlighting file for vim.
This is the only official editor support. See the vim directory in the compiler's source distribution.
People say that prolog-mode for Emacs also supports Mercury, I tried this and discovered that it didn't handle Mercury specific syntax at all, and therefore was no better than using any other emacs mode.
Personally I use vim with syntax highlighting.
Codeblocks could probably be made to work with Mercury. It doesn't directly support syntax highlighting for this language but you can create a custom lexer for it. Getting codeblocks' build system to work with the mmc compiler is just a matter of tweaking the 'advanced options' under Compiler and debugger settings.
We have recently released a simple plugin for eclipse to help editing Mercury files and using along Java projects. Please take a look at it if you have Mercury under Linux and meets your requirements. Any feedback is welcome. :)
You can find it here: http://kai.mercury.mind-era.com
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I use a lot of illustrations, diagrams and equations to document C++ and python codes, and a way to do this is to inline them with doxygen. The problem is that, when coding, they are not directly available in the code (unless I use ascii-art for this purpose).
Is there an automatic, quick and fast way to, while coding, view the generated documentation? E.g., I could have a separate Eclipse tab with the rendered documented code (HTML), while coding in another tab... and the documentation rendering tab would be updating automatically as I change the code and the documentation.
Is this possible? Is there a tool, plug-in for Eclipse or add-on for Visual Studio enabling this?
Frankly, I use a second monitor (or second computer) to view such documentation just to keep them out of the way - I want to see them alongside my Visual Studio screen not taking up space that could be occupied by code.
I publish the generated Doxygen documentation to an internal web server so if you have an HTML viewer plugin you could just point it to that. (I usually have a browser open alongside).
You could setup your Doxygen project to be generating directly into the web server directory so there's no copying time to get it renewed.
One tip, if you have a large code base and Doxygen takes an annoyingly long time is to have a special setup file just pointing at the code you're working on, to quickly regenerate the relevant couple of pages. You could have a python script observing the directory and re-running Doxygen if files change.
Try my LP tool - http://code.google.com/p/nano-lp - it supports OpenOffice/LibreOffice, so you can write LP programs in WYSIWYG manner. By the way, if you decide to use markup language instead of OpenOffice, NanoLP supports several of them.
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Is there any simple SQL editor in Eclipse? Or do I need to find a simple SQL editor plugin for Eclipse?
By simple I mean, the editor does NOT connect to any DB, does syntax highlighting and preferably formatting sql is a bonus.
for reference to add sql syntax highlighting / coloring to eclipse
you can install Data tools platform extender sdk from "install new software", under Database Development
or enter site location directly
http://download.eclipse.org/datatools/updates
This Eclipse SQL Editor seems very lightweight. It only does syntax highlighting and provides an outline view. As of now the author is planning to eventually add code folding and completion, but those two features are still on the todo list.
Use Toad eclipse-extension (community edition), you will get almost everything you want in an SQL editor. Search for 'toad' in eclipse market place. It has very good Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL support.
Take a look at Installation instructions and screenshots.
Alternatively, there is DBeaver (very good in my experience and support almost all DB's) which is built on eclipse platform and available as standalone and eclipse plugin.
The eclipse SQLExplorer plugin seems light enough, and comes with a basic SQL editor (but no "format" option):
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The official DTP DataTool Project is much complete, but have also its own editor:
QuantumDB is also a lightweight option that I really liked.
http://quantum.sourceforge.net/
Just found DBeaver : http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/
looks good, plenty of features, support mssql (which I need in the moment :) ... I'll give it a try ...
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This weekend I installed Windows 7 (brilliant!) and there I found this genious tool called Problem Steps Recorder. Apparently a tool that came with the beta bug reporting tool thingy.
I am currently trying to document some application usages for other developers. (In this exact case, how to get Showplan XML Statistics in SQL Profiler and some basic usage of Database Engine Tuning Advisor). And I was thinking that a tool like that Problem Steps Recorder with be perfect for this! Only problem is that it is only in windows 7 (?) and the output is an mht file which also contains some general bug issue text etc...
Anyways, does anyone know if this tool is available in a more general version? Or if there are some free and smooth alternatives which does kind of the same thing for Vista (and other windows versions if possible)?
Maybe Wink is your answer.
I'm looking for a better capture tool for both user documentation and reporting bugs. The best "steps recorder" that I've seen is bundled with Testuff. Their Test Runner app lets you select a region to record (video). It captures every mouse click and logs every key press along side the video playback. Of course, it's designed only for reporting bugs to a development team.
I'm still using SnagIt (cheap, not free) for capturing screens and adding annotations. I also have Camtasia, but that's definitely not "free" as you requested :)
I just stumbled upon 'Imago recorder', available via various software / download sites. It's not pretty but it does the trick and it's free.
It's currentyl available here
Additional option you should definitely pay attention to is StepsToReproduce. There are several options for recording (screen/window/region) and nice powerful annotation tools. And it's also free!
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iMacros is a very nice tool which allows to authomatically fill HTML forms and extract content, includes cycles and many other features. The problem is that it is quite tricky to make it extracting content properly. For example, I have failed to extract all London-to-Tokio flight prices for all the dates between 1/10/08 to 1/12/08 to find a cheapest one from expedia. Sometimes it just crashes. Does anyone know any good alternative?
Bah, I installed it but never really used it: I am happy enough with Greasemonkey.
Chickenfoot can make it more edible...
Searching for URLs, I found also DéjàClick and Selenium IDE but I don't really know them.
There are lot of other tools for Web automation, most of them professional (read "payware"...).
Alternatively, for just data extraction, I would use cURL or wget and a good HTML parser...
I have heard good things about Selenium IDE also and my limited testing indicates it is pretty capable, and works in Firefox and IE.
For most any macro based testing tool, you will need to do some programming if you need to support multiple, repeatable test cases.
That said, in your example you mention running an Expedia macro... presumably to scrape results. You will want to make sure that you don't hammer Expedia's servers, and/or expect to be booted once they discover you are (effectively) a bot.
I agree imacros is quite unreliable. They crash quite easily if you using complex algorithm or running it continously. The trick is to close it and open it again after loops. It will decrease the number of crash you will find, though not completely.