Questions tagged [editing]

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Different Chapters in Different Files

I was wondering if there is a command to change the counter to adjust its numbeing to having different chapters saved as separate files. This seems possible with page numbers but not section numbers.
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Replace all tabs with whitespaces

does it exist a setting in the editor to replace all tab characters with a certain number of white spaces? Something like the following from Eclipse:
Dean
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How to selectively delete a function together with its matching sets of brackets?

For example, suppose I want to retain only the content inside the argument of Distribute Distribute[...Lengthly list of expressions ...] + Distribute[...Lengthly list of expressions ...] + .. (hundreds of such terms) I could do a full document…
Quasar Supernova
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Awkward selecting by keyboard

How can you modify text selection using [shift][right arrow]? The standard behaviour is awful: when I select too far and want to go back one step using [shift][left arrow] it extends the selection on the left, rather than unselecting from the…
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How can I use "find selection" in mathematica?

I want to use find selection functionality in Mathematica and I found some articles saying it could be accessed by Ctrl + E. However, nothing happens when I try Ctrl + E. The normal find by Ctrl + F does work. I searched for a while, but I couldn't…
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