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manual editing
About this tag
The manual editing tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about manually modifying text files, such as using Notepad to insert or replace specific lines in G-code files. Users explore whether manual editing is feasible for large files or if automated find-and-replace methods can be used instead. Topics include handling carriage returns and line feeds during text replacement, and the practicality of manual edits versus scripting for repetitive tasks.
Is it possible to alter 2 lines in notepad using edit/replace?
I have a number of files, gcodes, that are in the format
G00 Xnn Ynn
G01 Xnn Ynn
G01 Xnn Ynn
G00 Xnn Ynn
G01 Xnn Ynn
G00 Xnn Ynn etc
I would like to finish up with a line before each G00 Xnn Ynn line with G00 Z2 and before each...