There are a many text editors for every purpose and any taste, so you may be asking yourself why would you want to try this one? Well, as long as you have to deal only with text files of moderate length you will probably never see a reason for that. This text editor was designed specially with needs of handling of large text files in mind - be they log files, database dumps stored as a plain SQL statements, etc. Such files may easily reach many gigabytes in length and if you try to open such file in a regular text editor you will most likely fail or in the best case you will need a lot of memory on a modern computer and a lot of patience on your mind. And this is where the smart editor like this one makes sense - it can open huge text files in a wink of an eye while providing all common functionality of a text editor.

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Search in text file is a basic functionality of any text editor and a support for regular expressions is also very common. The novel aspect here is tracking of recent matching positions. While this may be inconsiderable for short files, where every search finishes in a blink, but it makes a lot of difference when searching through a large file. In common scenario you may look for some pattern and then return back to previous found match. BssEditor tracks recent matching positions and allows you to jump to them instantly just by searching in the opposite direction.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Ctl F	Open search panel
Ctl H	Open search/replace panel
F5	Repeat recent search forwards
F5	Repeat recent search backwards
F6	Replace current match and repeat search forwards
F6	Replace current match and repeat search backwards

Bookmarks allow for a fast navigation between files as well as position within a file. They are also very convenient if you just need to mark some position in a file for a fast return later. Another amazing feature of bookmarks is that they will be continuously adjusted by each file modification like inserting or removing of content.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Ctl 0..9	Set bookmark 0..9
Ctl 0..9	Jump to bookmark 0..9
Ctl B A..Z	Set named bookmark A..Z
Ctl B A..Z	Jump to named bookmark A..Z
Ctl B SPACE	Set / Remove unnamed bookmark
Ctl B	Jump to previous bookmark in the current file
Ctl B	Jump to next bookmark in the current file
Ctl B SPACE	Open bookmark window

Multiple tabs and dedicated windows allow optimal usage of the whole screen space. Do you have placed all windows on the desktop and open all views you needed once you don't have to worry to loose it - just store your workspace for later and your will have it always on you fingertips.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Ctl F1	Open same buffer in a new tab
Ctl F2	Separate current tab to dedicated window
Ctl F1	Reopen workspace
Ctl F2	Move current tab to next window
Alt F1	Lookup window for open views
Alt F2	Show all windows and open views

Macros allow afor a utomate frequently used operations in a sustainable way, simply capture your actions as you type. You can also revert later to captured macros and modify recorded commands by hand.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut	Action
Ctl Alt M	Specify number of repeats for the next operation
Ctl M letter	Start recording macro named letter
Ctl M SPACE	Specify macro name and start recording
Ctl M	Stop recording macro
Ctl M letter	Replay recorded macro with name letter
Ctl M SPACE	Select macro for replay
Within popup window
Ctl ENTER	edit macro
Ctl DELETE	remove macro

Advanced methods bring some useful tools for managing data in text files. For example you may want to convert encoding, filter out duplicated lines or take in focus only lines matching some pattern.

Sort & Remove duplicate lines

By default entire line is compared against others but you can also specify a segment of a line to be compared. The format for segment definition is:
[p|c|f]<start>[-<end>][ [p|c|f]<start>[-<end>]]
where:

p

Specifies segment as a range of letters position in line.

c

Specifies segment as a range of letters columns in line.

f

Specifies segment as a range of fields. You must also specify a field delimiter.

You can also define external tools to extend your toolbox by more complex text processors.
In Parameters and Start directory you can use some placeholders for parameters:

${FilePath}

predefined parameter for full file path

${FileName}

predefined parameter for file name

${FileDir}

predefined parameter for file directory

${Any Other Parameter:default value}

Defines a parameter, which will be asked before the tool execution

There are few modes for external tools:

StartAndForget

External program will be started independently. Current text file will not be saved or released for concurrent modification.

StreamProcessor

External program is a stream processor or filter, which reads input stream and provide produced output to the default output stream

InPlaceFileProcessor

External program will read the current file and substitute the file content in place.