I don't like SSIS graphics interface.
Is it possible to program Emacs so that I can create SSIS packages from Emacs?
If yes, where should I start?
The SSIS fileformat is just xml files so you could in theory edit the files directly and use one of the emacs XML modes. That said the files are pretty complex and I think it would be much more trouble than it's worth.
Shame as I'd also like to be able to create SSIS packages in plain text.
I don't know the SSIS format, but someone else said it was XML.
You can edit XML within emacs using an XML mode. SGML mode is builtin and works fine. There are other XML modes.
If you want schema-specific editing, you can do that too, except it requires you to jump through some hoops. See
Schema-sensitive editing in emacs, based on W3C XML Schema?
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Is there a code editor that will allow copying of syntax highlighting to an Office Document for Windows?
I want to be able to copy code into a Word doc or EMail and preserve the Formatting when explaing code changes.
I will need support for multiple languages including C, C++, TCL, Javascript, Basic, and couple others.
The ability to include the line numbers for reference purposes would be a nice additional feature. I had one customer that required all code to be submitted with line numbers in a Word or PDF document.
I used Notepad++ in the past. It has a plug-in called NppExport and I think it has everything you need. The catch is that you have to write/open your source files with Notepad++, then export them to rtf, open the rtf and copy the pretty-formatted text to your doc file.
Here is the link to Notepad++ and to a good article to get you started with NppExport plugin.
Visual Studio (2010 Professional) "works fine" for copying code and formatting/coloring to MS Word (2010) and Outlook (2010)*. It supports at least C/C++/C#, and JavaScript code. It might support TCL/BASIC (it does support VB/VB.NET), but I do not use those languages. And, of course, VS is a full-blown IDE.
Visual Studio 2010 Express is free (as in beer). But as my company pays for my copy, I can only hope the copy'n'paste support works in Express as well ;-) In any case, it might be worth a try.
I am not sure if line-numbers can be exported via copy'n'paste, but I sort of doubt it. It's not a use-case I've run into.
Personally, I'd recommend doing the review via a SCM/code-review process and not manually, which just sounds like a nightmare. There are additional advantages of using tooling designed for this purpose including history management and talking about what really is, or could be (in relation to what was), and not a copy of what might have been.
Happy coding.
*After pasting into Microsoft Word, disable the "Add space after every paragraph" option to remove what appears to be blank lines from the pasted code.
Eclipse will do fine if you install the language support for all the wanted languages.
I have a file with extension .xml.
But it doesn't necessarily contain XML. It may also contain HTML and JavaScript. Now I would like to either have Eclipse decide inteligently/heuristically which syntax highlighting would be appropriate or to switch it myself.
Any ideas?
Eclipse associates files with an editor. You can let eclipse decide which editor to use (e.g. defaults per file extension) or select the editor by yourself. I guess you might already know that or have at least experienced it.
Syntax highlighting isn't always set seperately but instead part of some editor (together with stuff like keyboard shortcuts). So what you are going to need is an editor that behaves the way you want it to. I do not know if there is an editor like this available but one options is writing an eclipse plug-in and implementing such an editor.
Fortunately there are great editors for each of XML, javascript, HTML, etc that are all open source. I guess you might be able to use some of their code. Ideally as a client of their API / Objects or if it won't work out just by reusing code.
short answer: not possible. use PHPStorm instead :)
Often I need to read big XML files (> 100 MB) which have a fairly simple structure. I would like to use emacs, but it does not support big files very well. I am thinking maybe I can use a java application which can do SAX or StAX parsing for me and provide me with all necessary operations (e.g. search). What is the "right way" to communicate between emacs and an external java application?
You can try disable font-lock-mode for that particular buffer. I have opened much bigger files than that using emacs. I noticed slow down only when lines in the file are bigger than my screen and they start to wrap. Letting them go out of the screen and disabling font-lock accelerates performence.
I don't think there is a single "right way", but here are some ideas:
make your Java app present the XML document as a bunch of threaded articles in groups; have it speak NNTP and use Gnus, or come up with your own protocol and write a Gnus backend for it (see the Web-browsing backends for inspiration)
think of the XML document as a Lisp program (S-expressions, XML elements, what is the difference?) and write a Swank backend that communicates with SLIME in Emacs, then use SLIME commands to make queries
write a FUSE driver so you can mount your XML document as a file system and use Dired to explore it.
I'm looking for a lightweight text editor for web.config files which has colour syntax highlighting (like in visual studio).
Any suggestions?
You can use Notepad++. When you work with web.config select XML language to get color syntax highlighting. It looks like this.
Well obviously you can use any editor (e.g. EditPlus or Notepad++) but if you're looking for a light weight editor client that "knows" what a web.config is have a look at ASPhere
http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/12/07/free-utility-web-config-editor-with-a-great-ui.aspx
I use ASPhere. It's great!
About ASPhere ...
ASPhere is a freeware utility
primarily intended for creating and
modifying configuration files for
ASP.NET. But they are not only
web.config files ASPhere can work
with, you can use it for viewing and
editing normal XML files and plain
text files as well.
http://www.asphere.cz/en/index.html
I use Notepad2 for that and many other editing purposes. Freeware, totally usable, quick and light - all you can ask for. Highly recommended.
Marc
in the notepad++
Settings -> Style Configuration -> in the left Listbox select XML -> at bottom the "User ext.:" textbox set "config".
Done
The Scintilla SciTE is ultra lightweight, and does XML syntax coloring.
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.
The download page says:
A single file executable called Sc1 (530K) does not need any DLL or properties files as these are linked into the executable.
I've been using an application called "WinMerge" lately for document comparisons, but one of the requirements of my teams script files (for auditing purposes) is that when we release a revision of a script we highlight the changes in red (RTF format I believe, it's through Lotus Notes) To that end, is there any software that can automatically highlight changes for me or is the best I'm going to get a list of differences and be expected to manually highlight all changes?
Assuming an HTML+CSS solution meets your needs, this article from Linux Journal shows a shell script that reads diff output and writes an HTML document with colored text highlighting the differences.
On Windows, it would probably work as-is under bash as provided in the MSYS environment from the MinGW folk or in bash from Cygwin. The script itself isn't too large, I would imagine it could be ported to Perl with only a moderate effort.
Since converting HTML to RTF turns out not to have a trivial solution that I've found, you might have better luck porting the script to directly output RTF.
If an HTML report is acceptable, Beyond Compare can generate a comparison report that highlights differences. You can use the built-in stylesheets or a custom internal one to style the differences in red (the default is a light red color already).
It doesn't seem to be able to generate RTF, but perhaps there is a simple conversion between html/css and rtf.