Vertical column cursor highlighting in text editor? - cursor

I'm looking for a basic text editor or a plugin for an existing editor that can highlight the entire current column or vertical location of the cursor similar to the common option to highlight the entire currently selected row or line.
I think it would be very useful for indented code.
Does anyone know where I can find something like this?


I understand exactly what you're looking for and want it myself. I use Notepad++ (based on Scintilla) but there doesn't seem to be a "highlight current column" option the way they do provide for "highlight current line".
I looked at the plugin architecture and demo plugin package. I whipped up a proof of concept - very basic, surely buggy, that uses the long lines edge column indicator as the "highlight" for current cursor column. Not the best solution since if you're using the edge indicator, you "lose" it.
Source code on GitHub:
https://github.com/vinsworldcom/nppColHighlight


Notepad++
It's based on the Scintilla library which implements exactly that feature you're describing, basically highlighting a rectangular area.
To do so, hold Alt + Left Mouse or Alt + Shift + Arrow Keys to select.


If you still haven't found such an editor, PSPad editor has the feature.
Link: https://www.pspad.com/
Please see the attached screenshot (don't worry about the editor language in my screenshot, English (and several other languages) are also available).
PSPad editor with vertical line showing the current cursor position

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Sublime Text 3 find and replace in multiple files

I want to find and replace code in multiple files.
Does anyone know if the feature "find and replace in multiple files" in Sublime Text 3 is gone?
It used to be a feature for ST2 (shift-command-F), see screenshots ST2 and ST3.
Or is there a other way to do this?

The option is still there, but because you're using a custom theme the bar needs to be taller for you to see the entire contents of the panel.
You can grab the top of the panel and stretch it up so that everything is visible and then back down as far as it will go to make it compact again.
You only have to do this once; Sublime remembers the height of the panel and will use it next time (which is why it uses the incorrect height when you switch to a theme that makes everything in the panel taller).

Multi-select Jetbrains Webstorm

How do I select multiple instances of text? Such as selecting all the "li" tags by highlighting one and pressing a shortcut to select the next instance and so on.
Thanks

Well, you cannot. I think you're talking about the multiple cursors that are present in Sublime Text 2. But, if your text is aligned, then you can change it using the ALT + CLICK and dragging that.
You can vote for this feature as lena mentions.
UPDATE
This feature is now supported in Webstorm 8. If you press the ALT key and click on a different location, you will get a separate cursor there. Before, you could only drag and create cursors in the same line, however, now you can place your cursor wherever you want to.
Keyboard Shortcut
Ctrl then Ctrl+Arrow Up
Please take a look at this video to learn more.

Now you can do it in WebStorm 8 EAP (and later builds) with Select Next Occurrence (Ctrl+G on Mac and Alt+J on Windows) - See more at: http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2014/02/webstorm-8-eap-build-134-1361-multiple-selection

You can use this plugin for a similar effect.
http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7147?pr=idea

Search for words like in chrome

this is how Chrome finds you a word when you search for it:
1) select it in all the places it appears.
2) draw little line in the scroll bar wherever it found the searched word.
I have a canvas with scroll view around it, and I want to perform the same thing on it.
I gues that for enabling the selection i'll have to use only richtextboxes ?!? (hope not).
any third party or idea or anything will be highly appreciated

Without looking directly at the Chormium Project (which is open source and available at Chormium Homepage) I would imaging what is happening on this particular example is something following these steps:
Word Highlighting
Search the page source/content for the keyword using a simple regex
Insert that text into some form of a HTML container (either a span or a div) with a particular id
Use CSS to style that container to indicated the highlighting
Sidebar Highlighting
Use some algorithmic method to vertical position of the highlighted term
Add a indicator to the side bar in a some presentation layer/control that is transparent and below the scroll bar
It may be possible that there exists a 3rd party control that does these things, or it may be possible to leverage your work off of the existing work in the chromium project. However it is most likely not done using a RichTextBoxes nor simple text selection.

Searching for a default "check mark" icon

I am currently searching for an icon that shows a green check mark, such as this:
Basically what I want to do is the following: My C# WPF application contains a ListView with some entries and each of the entry gets validated. Depending on the outcome of the validation, such a green check mark or a red cross should be displayed.
I found a very nice red cross in the class SystemIcons. It is called SystemIcons.Error. The SystemIcons class also provides other icons like "Exclamation", "hand", "Shield", "Question" and various other icons, however there is no such a check mark thing.
Does anyone know whether such a check mark icon exists in some default library? I googled but I could not find anything alike. In case there is no such Icon, I would have to take some image from the web (like I posted here), but that would be the last option since my application should look consistent and I'm pretty sure Microsoft uses lots of those green things in many places of Windows. So there must be some icon I could use, right?
Best wishes,
Christian

If you're using one of the full versions of Visual Studio, you could always check out the Visual Studio Image Library that comes with Visual Studio.
I'm double checking now to make sure it contains something like what you're looking for.

What size icon images do you need?
If 16x16 will do then I'd recommend the silk icon set at famfamfam.com. This set is nice and consistent, and contains a green check mark.

Get path geometry from image

If i have a logo, let's say done as a jpg or even a png. Any suggestion for how I can use that to define a path geometry? It would be really good if any suggestions could be provided for how i can do it in blend.
Thanks

Yes - I just tackled this problem for an LOB application two days ago.
I can't offer advice for Blend (though I've read that it can be done in Expression Designer). However, the best free tool I've found for this is called InkScape (http://www.inkscape.org).
It's opensource, and while it's intended primarily for editing SVG vector-based images, it has two key features that are useful to us WPFers:
It can vectorize (i.e. "trace") raster images like bitmaps and jpegs, albeit not as well as one would hope, and
It can export the vector image as XAML
You'll invariably find that you get better results from loading vector formats (like SVG, EMF, WMF, etc) and saving to XAML, than if you try to convert a bitmap/jpeg... simply because the process of vectorizing a raster image is error prone at best. So if you want to bring a company logo into XAML, try to get hold of the source files used to create the logo (perhaps done in Illustrator?) and import that into InkScape.
If this post is helpful, please be kind and give it a one-up.

Jasema is a terrific tool right for the job.
Also, don't be shy to use Blend - it is somewhat more difficult to use (drawing shapes using pen) but it gets easier pretty fast. Switch on gridlines and optionally snap to them for good results.
What both Jasema and Blend are lacking, is the ability to easily create shapes with a central symmetry (like stars), so I took parts from Jasema and created my own tool (named Radius) that works a bit like a combination of a ruler and compass.

I have a good idea but you're png, bmp, jpg or other non vector file is must be very simple because we need best scan results and only use inkscape.
Step: Drag and drop your file workspace on Inkscape, download free.
Tip: If your image is color white, Top menu item File->Document Properties-> heck Checkerboard Background and if you want uncheck Page border show.
Step: Top menu item Path-> Trace Bitmap-> Mode check what you want property, i usually use color property and if your file is png check Remove Background then click OK, then wait again Ok button is Enable and close window.
Step: Now you have a two layer, top layer vektor file and bottom layer your file. Select vector file and top menu item Edit-> XML Editor-> select svg path and look side column, d name propery in your data path value.
But this method may not always work or may not give the desired results and draw your own shapes with the scape so you can get the path data from the XML editor.
Example, my first tests this like:
and after working on it some more:

I've solved my problem (export an image as XAML) using Microsoft Expression Design 4 (Free Version). I've downloaded from the link
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36180
As input, I had Adobe Ilustrator files.

Adobe Illustrator / CorelDraw is perhaps the best tool out there for these operations that I have used.
Personally, I prefer illustrator for on-screen media. These tracings can be exported into several formats such as EPS, SVG, AI, or even XAML (with this plugin)
Best of Luck !!!!

I have recently been struggling with this myself. I had a set of icons done in data and needed to update them to look nicer.
I tried everything, manually typing them out. drawing in svg, converting svg to xaml.
in the end i found a list of open source icons from google material icons.
I then used this to convert from the svg files to data
https://github.com/BerndK/SvgToXaml
It works well but not for the icons i drew myself.
I decided to place all the icons data i convert into an app i built myself that will give you the data and a preview of the icon. feel free to use and contribute. I will keep updating as much as i can.
https://github.com/sgreaves1/XamlIcons

Convert your image from png to svg in online converter, then drop file into this site http://inloop.github.io/svg2android/ and you will see pathData of your image like below shown in my image.

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