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WildGem v1.60

Andrew Lee on 13 Oct 2021
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Oct 2021
  • Suggested by twinbee

WildGem is a small and fast tool to help find and replace text. Its powerful syntax combines most of the flexibility of regular expressions (regex), but with the simplicity of the typical find/replace function.

It features a dual split display that updates or highlights matches as you type in real-time. A unique color-coded syntax lets you easily find/replace text without worrying about having to escape special symbols.

WildGem also lets you convert its search/replace expressions into the equivalent regex syntax so that you can use them anywhere where regex is supported.

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Runs on:Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: .NET 4.0
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download WildGem.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.
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FireRabbit on 2021-10-13 15:02

I've been using this program for years it is an amazing way to do tricky RegEx on text or figure out RegEx for other programs/software. I use it the most for striping junk out of large website copy/past operations, but it has also been a life savor in game dev, web dev, and just an overall amazing tool to have on my computer an know existed.

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MuseTips Text Filter 2.1.0.2275

webfork on 26 Nov 2021
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Sep 2020
  • Suggested by I am Baas

MuseTips Text Filter is a lightweight text file viewer with easy search and filter tools. Text lines are instantly filtered as you type your search phrase, with all matched terms highlighted in a contrasting color. You can just view lines with results or see highlights across the entire file.

The program supports a variety of search methods, including auto-suggestions, regular expressions, "smart" query and more.

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Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TextFilter.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WildGem
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webfork on 2011-05-25 17:53

Chris: As user "ale" pointed out, its more than just a number change. You're welcome to add to the forum topic if you disagree with the current policy on this. http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6134

Midas on 2014-06-04 08:53

@Baas: I stand corrected, misleading comment deleted. :)

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WildReplace v0.99d

billon on 26 Oct 2019
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Sep 2008
  • Suggested by M. Maltbia

WildReplace is a search tool that lets you search for files on your disks and presents the results in a folder tree. You can search for files with special attributes (Read-Only, System, Archive etc.), or files that contain a matching phrase (works with both Text and Binary files). WildReplace can also replace text within files, create backups of modified files, and delete files that match your search criteria. It will also move all matching files to a new location while preserving the same folder structure.

Supports Regular Expressions for advanced search (and replace) functionality.

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WildReplace.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Emunge
What's new?
  • Advanced search options (size, date, attributes).
  • Regular Expression Help form with tester for matching and replacements.
  • New images, parent folders have different coloring to folders with immediate children.
  • Binary file support (only for searching), allows you to search inside binary files.
  • Performance enhancements, quicker abort mechanism.
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Underwhelmed User on 2008-08-07 12:04

Didn't make changes. Looked like ran but didn't. I know permissions weren't the issue so not sure why nothing happened. LAME

Alan B. on 2011-03-21 02:12

Using Windows 7, the program performed as described. I find the interface usable. I was able to change a bunch of "blank.gif", "dot_clea.gif" all to "spacer.gif" to eliminate redundant files with ease. Use no file content search, just match by filename and it is easy to delete those files in a bunch of locations.

Emka on 2011-12-27 11:16

v.0.99d (beta) is available

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Textreme v3.1

webfork on 22 Dec 2021
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Feb 2016
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Textreme is a tool for "text remodelling", allowing you to change text and modify its appearance by delete blanks or moving/insert words. Great for updating text files with lots of minor changes that would be manually tedious, the program offers a variety of string-based functions (deleting sections, inserting into a specific place, switching bits around, etc.) for text files.

There are currently nine different actions that can be performed in various ways, and actions can be cascaded in so that many changes can be made in a single pass.

Tip: Use "TextEditor="dummy\..\..\PathToYourEditor.exe" to specify an editor with relative path in Textreme.ini.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Path portability: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package according to your system and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Textreme.exe or Textreme64.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: TextFileOperations
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Midas on 2016-02-14 11:17

Download link not working...

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TypingAid v2.22.0

Midas on 29 Nov 2016
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Jun 2015
  • Suggested by joby_toss

TypingAid is a fast and simple auto-completion utility that suggests words and phrases in any window. The program supports European languages with accents, suggestion tooltips, and the ability to add words and phrases to word list with shortcut key.

The program can help with writing in a language different than the available keyboard, with highly technical or medical terminology, or to help cut down on typing for touch or disabled typists.

The program was compiled using an AutoHotkey script and the .AHK source included.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL Version 3
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TypingAid.exe.

Optionally, you can prepare a list of words, saved as "wordlist.txt" under the same folder as the program file. The zip contains one for general purposes (and the program learns as it goes), but others are available from the homepage.
What's new?
  • Added the ability to exact match on Window Titles (enquote, or tick the checkbox).
  • Added Word Replacements. In wordlist.txt, use the form |r|. To define more than one replacement per word, simply add the word again on a different line. If Case Correction is off, the case of the first letter will be changed to match the word being replaced.
  • Added Word Descriptions. In wordlist.txt, use the form |d|. Replacements and Descriptions are compatible and can exist on the same word. With fixed width fonts, the description will show in a separate column.
  • Added a setting to control the width of the List Box in pixels.
  • Added Numpad Enter as an autocomplete key.
  • Fixed issues with words that had apostrophes (') in them.
  • Set journal_mode to TRUNCATE so the db journal isn't deleted every time.
  • Minor performance improvements when loading the wordlist.
  • Added a progress bar when loading the wordlist.
  • Added a progress bar when cleaning the wordlist (when exiting the script, the box may appear blank. I think this is because the script is exiting).
  • Added framework for database conversions.
  • Fixed issue with overriding the default font.
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Checker on 2014-11-24 14:52

@ Maniac: Thanks ... and updated ;)

Maniac on 2014-12-18 15:31

Found a bug when generating new Preferences.ini files. If you've started anew with TypingAid since v2.19.7, it's probably best to delete your preferences.ini, but it will fix the TerminatingCharacters entry IF you have not modified that entry since the Preferences.ini was created.

*2.19.9 12/18/2014
** Fixed bug when creating TerminatingCharacters when generating preferences file. Broken TerminatingCharacters will be repaired if not already modified.
** Added "Threading" during the input loop to cause less missed keys
** Auto-launch 64 bit exe if present and launching a compiled script (name 64 bit script "64.exe")
** Fixed some poorly named variables

Maniac on 2015-04-09 13:25

TypingAid 2.20.0 has been released. It's a total revamp of TypingAid... new database backend, new settings GUI, etc.

*2.20.0 4/9/2015
** Added a Settings window (thanks to HugoV for doing much of the coding).
** Changed the learned words to use an SQLite3 database backend. This should help with future enhancements
** Changing settings no longer requires a script restart
** Added Active/Inactive Notification Area icons
** Added working Pause functionality
** Detecting Window switches now uses Windows Event Hooks, rather than a timer
** Added weighting based on number of characters left to type
** Changed license to GPLv3 for compatibility with AhkDBA SQLite3 interface
** Added the ability to learn words with no alpha characters when hitting Ctrl-Shift-C, or to read them in from Wordlist.txt
** Fixed Wordlist drawing on the mouse when unable to detect the caret position
** Fixed words not being learned when hitting Ctrl-Shift-C while Learning is off
** Large amounts of code refactoring, including renaming all global variables and fixing function scope
** Fixed having length of 1 not work with ForceNewWordCharacters

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Emunge v1.01

billon on 3 Jul 2017
  • 75KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jan 2005
  • Suggested by donald

Emunge performs text search and replace operations with regular expressions (AKA regex); text from the clipboard or entered into the program's left window pane will be searched and the output displayed in the right window pane.

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Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: DorNET Framework
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Emunge.exe.

HTML Batch Editor v1.1

webfork on 28 Feb 2017
  • 29KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by dmg

HTML Batch Editor is a simple text file batch processor designed primarily for HTML files. It can do multi-file search and replace and can strip files of complex formatting and certain more advanced content. Very useful for dealing with folders full of scripts or web pages.

Site offline; linking to archive.org.

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Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch HTML Batch Editor.exe.
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Lupo73 on 2012-04-06 14:51

Program not available.. this entry may needs to be fixed, but I cannot found this version of the program on the web..

I am Baas on 2012-04-06 15:31

@Lupo73 http://web.archive.org/web/20110611013304/http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php

webfork on 2012-04-07 02:39

Site updated to Baas' archive.org link.

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SCR v1.0

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 26KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by modussn

SCR is a simple tool to search and replace text (without formatting) in a directory of documents. The program supports previewing, case-sensitivity and various search options. The program also supports changing text within file names. Tested successfully with Word 2003 DOC files.

Select "Don't make any changes" to preview changes.

Warning: the program creates "Replace with SCR" option every time you right-click on an item in Explorer and may not be considered portable.

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Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? No. Writes to the following registry keys:

HKLM\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell\Replace with SCR
HKLM\Software\SoftCentral\SCR


License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SCR.exe.
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luojie on 2010-06-01 05:52

does not support Unicode in display (but does the job)

donald on 2010-10-01 20:08

In case you have not seen this already

joby_toss said "Just run one of these after use (admin rights needed):
remove_registry_entries.reg wrote:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell\Replace with SCR]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SoftCentral\SCR]

remove_registry_entries_x64.reg wrote:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell\Replace with SCR]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\SoftCentral\SCR]"

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V-Grep v1.00

webfork on 13 Oct 2019
  • 353KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 May 2006
  • Suggested by AlephX

V-Grep (Visual Grep) is designed to perform global search-and-replace operations on multiple text files with great speed. The search pattern can be either a plain text string or a regular expression, so very complex patterns can be specified. V-Grep supports all regular expressions operators in the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) standard.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Postcardware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Grep.exe
Similar/alternative apps: AstroGrep
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gary w. on 2009-01-18 14:59

This is the link you want ;-p

http://www.pad.aionel.net/v_grep.zip

scrith on 2011-05-14 10:11

Tried it, but I'll stick with Yo-Grep - this program can't even get the line numbers right (it calls the first line of a file, line 0)

Midas on 2015-11-16 17:54

Site offline, links changed to Softpedia.

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