GeneralTipsAndTricks

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There are lots of tips and tricks that are general purpose and have applicability in more than one text editor.

TextFlickering - this is great for editors with fast display rates and BufferRings
ToDoMarking - this is a simple tip for finding the areas in a text that need work
KeywordLookup - this is binding a program to perform a keyword lookup on the word under the cursor.
RegexTrim? - use a regular expression to trim off data.
ColumnEditScript? - use column editing to call scripts repeatedly on a set of data. (kinda like xargs)
TemporaryReBinding? - bind a key to a set of keystrokes so you can repeat them easily.
BuildScriptFromData? - use the text [MFA Degree] editor to augment a set of data with a script
ExportEDITORAndVISUAL - on Unix, export EDITOR and VISUAL to be the editor YOU choose.
Edit binary files using a hex dump export/import tool

Feel free to add your own favorites!

Program independent Autocomplete, Autoreplace, Scripting