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Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Next to the Search to replace prompt, type the string you wish to replace, and press Enter. Next, at the Replace with prompt, type the new word and press Enter.

In the example below, the replacement word will be Goodbye. Lastly, choose to replace only the current instance or all instances of the matching word in the file. The choices are:. Nano will state the number of occurrences replaced if the replace operation is successful, as shown in the following image. Re-run your script. Vim offers more features than Nano, such as session recovery, syntax coloring, window splitting, and auto-completion.

Nano is meant for quick file edits, while Vim is also a lightweight alternative to an IDE. But, the extra features Vim offers come at the cost of a steeper learning curve. Vim is an excellent editor to learn. Before you go any further, you should know that there are different modes in Vim.

Each mode behaves differently and affects which actions you can do inside the editor. To open a file in Vim, run the vim command followed by the filename to open. The command below opens the myPowerShellScript. The vim text editor will open, as displayed in the following image. If you need to view the Vim help document, type :h and press Enter.

Pressing the : character while in normal mode switches Vim to command mode, while h means to open the help file. To exit the help document, type :q and press Enter to return to normal mode. Next, enter the insert mode by pressing i. As you enter the insert mode, the text -- INSERT -- appears at the bottom of the editor, as shown in the following image. Now that you are in insert mode edit the file as you wish. The arrow keys will let you move the cursor inside the editor.

Type the command :wq and press Enter to save and close the file. The command w saves the files while q exits Vim. To iterate through multiple instances of the matching texts, press n to move to the next occurrence or the N key for the previous occurrence.

For example, the command below will replace the word Hello with the word Goodbye. Re-run the script. The output will display your new message. Like Vim, Emacs offers more features than Nano. Another benefit of Emacs over the other editors in this tutorial is Emacs is modeless. Emacs is also fully customizable. If there is something that Emacs does not offer, you can add support for it yourself using Emacs Lisp. In the PowerShell terminal, run the following command to install Emacs using Chocolatey.

Run the following command to verify the Emacs version that you installed. What next? Dive in and start editing a text file to see Emacs in action. Follow the steps below to edit and save a text file.

To open a file in Emacs, run the emacs command followed by the filename in PowerShell. In this case, the only you can do is to ask for assistance of a professional staff. If you want to associate a file with a new program e. EDIT you have two ways to do it. The first and the easiest one is to right-click on the selected EDIT file. From the drop-down menu select "Choose default program" , then click "Browse" and find the desired program. The whole operation must be confirmed by clicking OK. The second and more difficult to do is associate the EDIT file extension to the corresponding software in the Windows Registry.

Many files contain only simple text data. It is possible that while opening unknown files e. EDIT with a simple text editor like Windows Notepad will allow us to see some of the data encoded in the file.