Hey I want to be able to edit an ini file on my phone. As a standard microsoft operating system, Pocket PC's don't come with basic functionality built in and you have to hunt around for some obscure program every time you need to perform some simple task.
So I downloaded a text editor called writepad which should be able to do the trick, unfortunately writepad's (and the default windows mobile) file chooser dialog is completely worthless and allows you to select from a small number of arbitrary files. It shows directories but you can't even navigate into them (wow. Really?).
So here is the question - is there a simple free text editor out there that allows you to perform super advanced futuristic tasks like editing a plaintext file?
I withdraw my question. I found that total commander did the trick nicely.
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Hello,
Is it possible to write batch files in CE? I would like to create a script to start a sequence of executables. For instance, start bluetooth, checkpoint and then TOMTOM.
Thanks,
Marco
Yes that interests me too
Yes,there was a .cab in Sin-merged Rom 2003se for Himalayas about Dos.
Try check out the post.
PS: Don't use pocket dos.
I find this
MortRunner
"With MortRunner, you can start, close, activate, and hide programs, and even remote control them to a certain degree.
It's more an hacker tool without a nifty interface, which can execute some kind of batch files..."
Here you can d/l the latest beta. There's not much new there, but it might be useful for some...
- Includes a tool to support WM's autorun on storage card insert/remove
- Rotate command
- .mortrun extension only registered when started without parameters (to avoid it's changed to the autorun folder)
(Don't worry about the German forum, the zip includes an English manual)
Mort > Thanks for your work
Is there a way to create a ".mortrun" file to mute/unmute the system sound ?
I'd like to do this to be able to use a shortcut to this file and so voice command mute/unmute via Microsoft Voice Command.
See this thread
DocteurN said:
Is there a way to create a ".mortrun" file to mute/unmute the system sound ?
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No.
I have made a backup of my HTC Wizard registry and I would like to view and print it out from my PC. Does anyone know of an application that would allow me to do that?
Use S-K Tools SSnap Utility.
Just copy it to your PPC and run it. Unselect all the non registry stuff and let it roll.
It will put a .snp (just a plain text file) file in the root of your device. Take that over to the PC and open it in your favorite text editor.
Or, you can jump over to PPC6700Users and grab either the Sprint or Verizon Virgin Registry from the appropriate sticky.
reddog: just open it in Notepad.
To view a live registry, use the remote tools that come with EVC or Visual Studio 2005. But for viewing an exported registry, just notepad. Don't double click on it or you'll have a very weird PC :shock:.
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Thanks for the info folks I will try that.
You can use Registry Workshop. This small tool will let you edit your PPC registry from your PC.
More info: http://www.torchsoft.com/
I’ve received the following question in the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine forums:
“I have a HX4700 with a Garmin CF620 Compact Flash GPSr unit.
This unit uses the Garmin QUE software for navigational purposes.
The active track-log is saved in a single file in the installation directory (program files) and on two occasions I've lost the tracklog and almost got myself in an emergancy situation due to either a battery issue or the necessity to do a hard reset.
My question is if you perhaps know of a 3rd party software that I can use to either in real-time or given time intervals mirror / sync the file to the Ipaq file store or external memory .
I'll even be happy if its a program that I have to run to copy the file to another location, then I can at least assign it to a button, and press it every so often.”
The answer to this question is a big YES, you can do this, without having to use a full system backup. What is more, you can do this with a free (!) and fully automatic tool – I’ve custom-written an nScriptm script which does exactly what you want.
I’ve already elaborated a lot on the possible usages of the excellent nScriptm; please see for example this and this article, along with the links. (Search for “nScriptm” with Ctrl-F if you don’t want to read the entire article. I, however, as usual, recommend reading these articles in their entirety if you want to know how Pocket PC screenshots can be taken and how calls can be (automatically) recorded.)
To solve the problem asked by my reader, as I've already stated, I’ve written an nScriptm script. It’s available here for download. After you edit it to point to the source and the target files (they are \Program Files\source.txt and \SD-MMCard\backup.txt by default; you can, in general, leave the latter filename intact and only change the storage card path), you MUST put it in the \Program Files\ns\ directory (you must create it at first) so that the executable link file, which is available here, can find it. You must do the same with the executable file (ns.exe) of nScriptm available here – that is, put it in \Program Files\ns\.
Note that, along with the source and, possibly, the target filenames, you can also modify the interval of the backup. It’s 120 seconds by default. If you want to set it to another value, just modify the parameter in sleep(120).
You can, of course, put the executable link file, PeriodicallyBackupAFile.lnk, to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs for easy access.
Now, just start the backup tool by executing the latter executable link file and minimize nScriptm. It’ll continue running in the background and backing up your file.
Other alternatives
Note that you can also do the same with the excellent SKScheMa, which is another product of the excellent S-K people also written (more precisely, ported) nScriptm and a lot of other, high-quality tools like SKTools. With it, you can for example backup your stuff every, say, hour. The advantage of the SKScheMa-based solution that it doesn’t need to be always run in the background. That way, you can lower the CPU / memory usage.
Also, if you know how you can manually add timed, recurring events with, say, SKTools, you can manually execute a simple filecopy (without periodicity – that is, modify script to the following:
function main() {CopyFile("\\Program Files\\source.txt","\\SD-MMCard\\backup.txt");}
and just configure your event queue to execute the link file it, say, every hour.)
For geeks
For programmers or anyone that would like to know how it works and how easy nScriptm is to use, the script is as follows:
function main()
{
while(1<2)
{CopyFile("\\Program Files\\source.txt","\\SD-MMCard\\backup.txt");
sleep(120);}
}
(Note that there is no “true” symbolic constant in nScriptm and, therefore, I couldn’t use while(true) and you must escape backslash characters as with all C-like languages / regexps; this is why there are "doubled" backslash characters.)
Presenting "agrep" an app to search text within multiple files any possible extension or no extension. Please find it playstore. Small cute app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.sblo.pandora.aGrep
Its not my app. It is product of jota open source text editor creator.
agrep app is similar to grep command in unix. Those who know the command line is extremely app powerful and fast while gui is limited in options like you cannot pipe multiple command in gui it but supports regular expressions.
If anybody finds please share it with me in this thread.
Windows search nowhere near grep and zgrep in speed in my personal opinion. Unfortunately you need to index in windows.
I know one more command "zgrep" to search compressed files without extracting. No gui app for android in playstore.
I stumbled upon this utility to search huge 8 mb hosts file of "mother of all ad blocking thread". You will be surprised when none of apps were able to open due to memory issues in my S5360. Jota, 920 text editor, ES file text viewer, king soft office word all failed. They do not cache huge files design flaw.
I used agrep to search specific host.
Pressing THANKS easier than typing.
Sent from S5360 GB DDMD1 rooted stock.
The native text editor on CyanogenMod 12 is launched by selecting a file using the File Manager app. It might be the same app, I don't know.
I would like to make it use Windows line-endings (CR+LF) rather than Unix line endings (LF).
Furthermore, it when I export files from the handset to Windows, all bullet characters (ASCII decimal #149) show up as 3 characters (�, image attached). This is regardless of whether I drag it over using the Windows Explorer interface (MTB USB) or adb pull. Obviously, I want the bullet symbol rather than 3 unrelated characters.
Is there any way to customize the native text editor to behave like Windows text editors?
For context, I just use text files for notes without having to install a non-native app e.g. Notes & Tasks for Microsoft Exchange. If possible, I'm also trying to avoid external text editor apps (basically, apps in general). The reason why I seek compatibility with vim/Windows is because I use vim and Cygwin's diff to sync the files between the handset and the laptop.
Since my text editing needs on the handset are so minimal, I don't need powerful editor that supports code development. I was hoping that there would user settings on the phone for things like line endings and proper interpretation of bullets. I wasn't sure whether those settings would be specific to the editor or OS.
In fact, I wasn't sure that the editor was a separate app (from the file manager or the OS). Using adb to issue a "ps" in the handset did not show any difference in processes between when I was editing a file vs when I was not (at least in the process names, though the process numbers did change), so I haven't been able to identify a separate editor app.
This might be an inaccurate way to suss out the app, since I hear that unless more memory is needed by active apps, smart phone OSs tend to keep apps in memory rather than actually terminatimg the processes. Not something I'm familiar with.
my1stSmartPhone said:
For context, I just use text files for notes without having to install a non-native app e.g. Notes & Tasks for Microsoft Exchange. If possible, I'm also trying to avoid external text editor apps (basically, apps in general). The reason why I seek compatibility with vim/Windows is because I use vim and Cygwin's diff to sync the files between the handset and the laptop.
Since my text editing needs on the handset are so minimal, I don't need powerful editor that supports code development. I was hoping that there would user settings on the phone for things like line endings and proper interpretation of bullets. I wasn't sure whether those settings would be specific to the editor or OS.
In fact, I wasn't sure that the editor was a separate app (from the file manager or the OS). Using adb to issue a "ps" in the handset did not show any difference in processes between when I was editing a file vs when I was not (at least in the process names, though the process numbers did change), so I haven't been able to identify a separate editor app.
This might be an inaccurate way to suss out the app, since I hear that unless more memory is needed by active apps, smart phone OSs tend to keep apps in memory rather than actually terminatimg the processes. Not something I'm familiar with.
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Better you can use POSIX based text editors in Windows, so that you can retain the collation and formatting.
Otherwise, you can try text converters like dos2unix ( it's available online I guess) to get it work in your phone
I use cygwin & vim. I still have the issue with corrupted bullet characters.
There is an advantage to defaulting to DOS type text files. Vim can handle DOS text files, although it is a paim to search & replace the odd character corruptions. In contrast, DOS text editors can't handle Unix text files. So you can be stuck if your text files are unix by default.
As for dos2unix, I sometimes pipe all vim buffer content through that rather than searching & replacing. I still need to fix the corrupt bullet characters. I don't want to do that for all text files when syncing between handset and laptop. To me, the most efficient solution seems to be to maintain vim/dos style text files on the handset.