Hence this application which seems to execute the task of Text Editor along with HTML Editor or even PHP Editor or even the JAVA and HEX Editor. Moreover, this software which can tackle huge files which may be bigger in figure (larger than 50GB) along with that user can even carry the operation to configure the syntax along with the process of highlighting the keywords.
Silent Features of PilotEdit That Can Handle Files size upto 400 GB-:
1. The file size supported by PilotEdit is unlimited
Edit big files of 400GB (40 billion lines).
Compare and merge big files of 100GB (10 billion lines).
Download/upload files larger than 4GB through FTP/SFTP.
Encrypt/decrypt files larger than 4GB.
2. UNICODE files and DOS/UNIX files are fully supported by PilotEdit.
Automatically detect text file encoding.
Change encoding of multiple files from one kind of encoding to another.
PilotEdit will adjust text encoding automatically when you copy/paste between files of different encoding.
3. Self-defined file types and keywords high-lightening
PilotEdit supports more than 20 kinds of file types.
Define your own file types.
Define different TAB and indent for different file types.
For example, a user may input TAB for C/C++ and four blanks for Java by pressing “TAB”.
4. HEX mode
Input, delete, cut, copy and paste in HEX mode.
Find/replace in HEX mode.
Automatically detect file encoding when you change from HEX mode to text mode.
Endless undo/redo in both HEX mode and text mode.
5. Column mode
A char input through keyboard will be inserted into all the selected lines in column mode.
A single-line string pasted will be inserted into all the selected lines in column mode.
Multiple-line text pasted will be inserted into the selected lines line by line in column mode.
6. Endless undo/redo
You may undo/redo even after you switch between text mode and HEX mode.
7. Word wrap
8. Edit FTP files
Open/save as FTP files.
Delete multiple FTP directories and files.
Upload/download multiple FTP directories and files.
9. Multiple-line find/replace
Find/replace multiple-line text.
Find/replace multiple-line text through regular expression.
10. File comparison and merging
Compare two directories.
Compare and merge two files larger than 100GB (10 billion lines).
Edit file directly in the comparison window.
Automatically update comparison result when the file content changes.
Find and replace in the comparison window.
Find previous/next different/identical block
Copy all the different/identical lines to the clipboard. With this feature, we can find lines in the first file but not in the second file.
11. Self-defined string table
Add a pre-defined string by just one click.
Add pre-defined strings before and after the selected text.
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12. Regular expression
Regular expression generator.
Find/replace strings defined by a regular expression.
Find/replace multiple-line text through regular expression.
13. Script file
You may define the frequently used regular expressions in script files and process the regular expressions by executing the script files.
Remove duplicate lines by running PilotEdit script.
14. An excellent encryption software supports 256-bit AES encryption.
Edit an encrypted file transparently.
Encrypt/decrypt multiple directories and files.
Encrypt/decrypt files more than 4G.
Save the active file as an encrypted/non-encrypted file.
Save the active file as an encrypted/non-encrypted FTP file.
15. File group
File group enable you to open multiple files by just one click.
16. Find/replace in multiple directories
Find a string in multiple directories.
Search in zip files.
Replace a string in multiple directories.
17. Sort
Sort lines in a file larger than 1GB.
Sort lines in a file as text or integer number.
Sort lines in a file over one column.
Sort lines in a file over target strings defined by a regular expression.
18. Find/remove duplicate lines
Find duplicate lines in a file larger than 1GB.
Remove duplicate lines in a file.
Compare lines as text or integer number.
Compare lines over one column.
Compare lines over target strings defined by a regular expression.
19. Extract Strings
Copy the target strings matching the regular expression into a clipboard. This function is useful when you need to extract some kind of strings from a text file, for example, Email addresses.
20. Save the selected files as new files with the old directory structure
Copy the selected files together with the directory structure.
21. Text Formatting
Automatically detect start tag and end tag for a text block.
Format selected text.
22. Edit SFTP files
Open/save as SFTP files.
Delete multiple SFTP directories and files.
Upload/download multiple SFTP directories and files.
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PilotEdit supports the following operating systems.
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 2008
Windows 8
PilotEdit supports the following file types.
C, C++ Files
Java Files
HTML Files
XML Files
Oracle SQL Files
UNIX/Linux Shell Files
JSP
TCL/TK Files
BAT files
PilotEdit Script
Javascript Files
PHP
ASP
Assembly
ASP.NET
CSS
Visual Basic
Perl
C#
Python
Ruby
XHTML Files
COBOL
AHK Script
Inno Setup Script
AutoIt Script
Pascal
CSV
Apache Pig Latin Script
VC++ Resource Files
Groovy
REXX
Furthermore in this application apart from handling those larger files this application which is engineered with the advanced aspect of search with the feature to replace operations to the respective text to be replaced in a single or multiple ways of handling files at a time. Hence this application is developed with built-in FTP client which therefore allows the user to open or even edit the file along with the feature to upload the file or even download the respective files directly aspect of the process to/ from an FTP server.
Well the main interface of this application has file which allows then to be edited task or even to search or even to view, compare along with the option to be configured the Windows menus available at the top of the application and individual happens to come across the File Tree Windows appears avail at the left pane of the application and while the application is opened happens to appears at the right side. Though each file is able to launch in the separate tab of the application from which user can perform multiple work on those respected files without closing the previous tab.
Probably when the user get started with text editing in the application happens to come across some useful tools which can then be used to compare Directories utility with that user can then make the feature enabled so that it compares the two folders at once and then check for identical files.
Although when the user gets the search menu which is at the top of the application serve the user with many searching modes of process task with respect to the directories or even the files which then be performed the modes which may be Find, Find Previous one or even Find Next one or even to replace along with the feature of finding the multiple directories as well as files at once. The feature in which the ability to replace the text with respect to the multiple directories as well as files at once therefore reducing the time which usually wasted while searching or updating the text at various levels of debugging those piece of text.
Thus this application PilotEdit Lite which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows platform including Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
Conclusion-: If editing text file is a daily job in your life then Pilot edit could be a good be a good option for you and best part of the Pilot edit is it is free to use.
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