PilotEdit User Manual Author: [email protected] Date: 2021-09-30 Version: 15.6.0 URL: http://www.pilotedit.com PilotEdit User Manual Version: 15.6.0 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1. What is PilotEdit? ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 1.2. PilotEdit GUI ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9 1.2.1. PilotEdit Window ................................................................................................................................................................. 9 1.2.2. Edit Huge Files ................................................................................................................................................................... 16 1.2.3. Compare Huge Files ....................................................................................................................................................... 17 2. Install PilotEdit ............................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.1. System Requirements .................................................................................................................................................. 18 2.2. Install PilotEdit .................................................................................................................................................................. 19 2.3. Input Serial Number * ................................................................................................................................................. 19 2.4. Uninstall PilotEdit ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 2.5. Upgrade PilotEdit ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 3. Quick Start ....................................................................................................................................................................... 21 3.1. How to Edit Huge Files * ............................................................................................................................................ 21 3.2. How to Compare and Merge Two Files *......................................................................................................... 22 3.3. How to Encrypt and Decrypt Multiple Files and Directories * .......................................................... 23 3.4. How to Open and Edit Encrypted Files * ......................................................................................................... 24 3.5. How to Sort or Find/Remove Duplicate Lines * ......................................................................................... 26 3.6. How to Replace Multiple Strings Automatically *...................................................................................... 27 3.7. How to Enable Autocomplete and Spelling Check from Dictionaries * ...................................... 29 4. PilotEdit Functions ....................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.1. File ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 4.1.1. New File .................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 4.1.2. Open Files ............................................................................................................................................................................. 32 4.1.3. Open FTP Files ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 4.1.4. Save File ................................................................................................................................................................................ 35 4.1.5. Save All .................................................................................................................................................................................. 35 4.1.6. Save As................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 4.1.7. Save As with Old Directory Structure ............................................................................................................... 35 4.1.8. Save As FTP File ............................................................................................................................................................... 37 4.1.9. Print .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 4.1.10. Print Preview .............................................................................................................................................................. 37 4.1.11. Print Setup .................................................................................................................................................................. 37 4.1.12. Print Page Setup ...................................................................................................................................................... 37 4.1.13. Close File ...................................................................................................................................................................... 37 4.1.14. Close All Files ............................................................................................................................................................. 38 4.1.15. Clean Recent File List ........................................................................................................................................... 38 4.2. Edit ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 Functions marked with * is not available in the Lite version. Page 2 of 169 PilotEdit User Manual Version: 15.6.0 4.2.1. Select Line ............................................................................................................................................................................ 39 4.2.2. Select All ................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 4.2.3. Select Text Between Start Tag and End Tag * ........................................................................................... 39 4.2.4. Undo ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 4.2.5. Redo.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 4.2.6. Cut ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 40 4.2.7. Copy.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 40 4.2.8. Copy Hexadecimal Encoding .................................................................................................................................... 40 4.2.9. Copy File Name ................................................................................................................................................................. 40 4.2.10. Copy File Path ........................................................................................................................................................... 41 4.2.11. Paste ................................................................................................................................................................................ 41 4.2.12. Paste Hexadecimal Encoding .......................................................................................................................... 41 4.2.13. Column Mode ............................................................................................................................................................. 42 4.2.14. Word Wrap .................................................................................................................................................................