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In the attached screenshot, E:\tmp is empty and D:\tmp contains (only) an empty subdir called "foo".
All the commands to copy (create) the empty directory in the other pane are disabled.
I think previously it was possible to do that kind of copy, or my memory is cheating me?

Comparing trees, there is no way to copy (create) empty directories from a pane to the other.

In my usual XP machine I tried to change the pdf plugin to use an older version of PDFtoText as I already did with the previous versions. The change is operative but is not stored, so each time I close and reopen EDP the chages are lost. I tried creating a new plugin for it instead of modifying the ...

Alexo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:30 am 3) Expand to difference does not work well.
Some folders with differences remain unexpanded.

Sounds familiar...

Yes, indeed.

That's exactly the exe file I used.

I made some mental confusion because of the name of the package (W64) and the directory name (mingw32), but I tried on WinXP 32 anyway.

I repeated the test now and I got the same result: "Impossible to find libiconv-2.dll".

I didn't find any 32 bit version of odt2txt there. I only found "mingw-w64-i686-odt2txt-0.5-3-any.pkg.tar.zst". Running the contained odt2txt in WinXP 32 bit results in "odt2txt.exe - Impossible to find libiconv-2.dll". Maybe this can explain the reduced size. Off topic: since th...

To use Calibre as a plugin I had to resort to a batch file, but this is not a problem for me. :wink: The processing is a bit slow and the results are only a bit better than with pdftotxt, so I leave it as an extra tool just in case. With my dismay, both pdftotxt and Calibre insert a lot of empty lin...

I just discovered the possibility of the "inline" plugin call (EDP is always a mine of options!) but... If <inline> is set in this field or if no extension is set, the plug-in is for inline use only. <inline> doesn't seem to work and no extension... Extension list cannot be empty. Then it ...

psguru wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:21 pm I wonder if Calibre e-book Converter, mentioned at https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... king-lines, would work better.

Wow! Thank you.
Surely I'll give it a try and I'll let you know.
All my previous experiments failed miserably.

The standard plugins (and PDF to text is a standard plugin) are usually installed or updated when you install/update EDP, unless you explicitly forbid it. You should see something like this. (Please ignore some specialized plugins I added.) Clipboard01.jpg A problem arises if the line breaks of the ...

Don't forget you at least have a possibility: you can define a regexp for detecting comments in your files. This has also the bonus of allowing to enable the "ignore comments" option. F.Y.I. I am an Ultraedit user and I made many .uew syntax definition files. They include the comments defi...

A friend of mine gave me an old computer of the 2000. It's a Pentium II, strictly a 32 bit. I was thinking of using some lean Linux distro to run a browser and OpenOffice. Gosh! No 32 bit Linux distribution is still maintained, not to say about a modern browser. Using XP on it? It's a snail (256 MB ...

A simple error: the wrong version!
Sorry, forget it all.

Just for your information, not to complain: the 32 bit version of EDP portable is not compatible with XP.