So, I had to do a Find and Replace on about 140 files (139 to be exact). I decided to scheck out Notepad++’s Find & Replace arsenal. Reason #1 - I already have a copy of it. Reason #2 - it’s free.
As suspected, it does offer you the ability to search within multiple files and to drill down through subfolders. Fantastic! So, one might suspect that you could then, oh, I don’t know, go and make replacements in all of those wonderful search results. Well, you “can” (I’m pretty sure the quotes are appropriate here) but you have to OPEN every one of those files to do it. When testing this last night, I figured “Oh, I must be missing something about how to open all of these. I’ll figure it out tomorrow when I am awake.” I was, of course, not missing anything—a nice change of pace for me.
Turns out there is no easy way to open all of those search results except by clicking on each one. Frankly, I have better things to do.
So I went and searched their forum and someone suggested doing the following, which I did and which I will share with you.
- Download AgentRansack (SACK!!)
- Do your search
- Select all of the files in that result set and do a handy little right-click and “Edit with Notepad++” (Notepad++ can actually handle this—at least it did my 139 files)
- Then do your normal Find & Replace within Notepad++ with all of your open files
You can also “Save All” and “Close All” through Notepad++, which is nice in this case.
One caveat to my situation—I was doing multiple Finds and Replaces but they were all within the same files, so I’m not sure what it would be like if I had to do this two-step process every time.
Bottom line—they both run good searches and both tools are free. Thus, you can strap on a not-so-bulky Sack (Ransack, that is) to Notepad++ and make it your search bitch.
Good luck.
The new James Bond movie, “Quantum Solace” is based LOOSELY on a short story by Ian Flemming. An excerpt from WikiPedia below, explains the details of a story told to Bond during this rather uneventful tale.
Bond makes a remark after dinner when the other guests have left in order to stimulate conversation, about always having thought it would be nice to marry an air hostess. This solicits a careful reply from the elderly Governor of The Bahamas who tells 007 a sad tale about a relationship between a former civil servant he calls Philip Masters, stationed in Bermuda, and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn. After meeting aboard a flight to London the two eventually married but after a time Rhoda became unhappy with her life as a housewife. She then began a long open affair with the eldest son of a rich Bermudan family. As a result Masters’ work deteriorated and he suffered a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was given a break from Bermuda by the governor and sent on an assignment to Washington to negotiate fishing rights with the US. At the same time the governor’s wife had a talk with Rhoda just as her affair ended. Masters returned a few months later and decided to end his marriage, although he and Rhoda continued to appear as a happy couple in public. Masters returned alone to the UK, leaving a penniless Rhoda stranded in Bermuda, an act which he’d been incapable of carrying out merely months earlier
Source
This then leads the Governor to speak of the notion of the “Quantum of Solace”.
…the smallest unit of human compassion that two people can have.
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HGTV has a swank and shiny little quiz to help you determine your design style by clicking on things like dogs, clam shells, and mixed drinks.
I tested at ‘eccentric’. I prefer ‘eclectic” but what’s a few letters amongst friends?
For you, it’s all about the mix. Any style is welcome in your world as long as it compliments something else. You’re drawn to funky interiors and eye-catching color combinations (think red and blue, orange and turquoise, purple and gold). You like contrasting patterns and unconventional architecture. You enjoy furnishings that remind you of your travels mixed with modern pieces and offbeat techniques.
Tech sexy #1
ClearContext
An inbox manager that you can use with a GTD method or not. I had the intention of using it with GTD, but find I get by just fine without the Next Action concept, which I find does not always allay my stress in a multi-step process.
ALOT, if not all, of what this program does can be replicated by slapping Outlook around in some not too difficult ways, but I just don’t have the time and I am attracted by shiny colors.
Top features that I enjoy:
- Instantaneously converting an email into a task (which you can also do by dragging an email to the tasks tab - but this program INCLUDES the attachments in those messages while Outlook would not)
- Filing an email with the click of a button
- Highlighting related items for a message such as “Have I scheduled a follow-up for this?”, “Have I made a task for this?”
And one that I have yet to use but would love to:
- Defer - schedule an email to reappear as new in your inbox at a later date. Fuck yeah.
Tech sexy #2
Case statements in SQL
Here are some articles explaining its greatness:
Oh case, where have you been all my life?
Yes, I’m blockquoting an inner monologue.
It’s not that I want to kill MYself.
Just my WORK self.
I mean, I’m quite enamored with who I am, but frankly, this whole Big Boy Job™ is getting to be a little too much for a Gen Y. Aren’t I supposed to get cookies just for showing up? Talk a big game but not be the one ‘doing’ this big game. I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog gone it… something… something?
Weighing all of the options like “being an adult” or “sucking it up”, it really seems like killing my work self would be where I’m at. I’d like to just go out in a blaze of glory— no harm, no foul. Just pfft… dead and maybe start over somewhere, like Maui.
A memorial would be nice… but I’m not picky.
On this New Year’s Day while pondering some kind of resolution, I have a quote…
“We’re doing all these things to squeeze things together so we can save time. I don’t know about you but I don’t have anymore time. I have less time. But let’s just say we could save up a whole chunk of time and set it aside. You know what we’d do with it? Nothing. Nothing at all. Isn’t it the point—to be able to do nothing at all? But we’re not guaranteed that later on chunk of time. All we have is here and now. And that’s why procrastination feels so right.”
-Ellen Degeneres
