What is the best way to open a file as read/write if it exists, or if it does not, then create it and open it as read/write? From what I read, file = open('myfile.dat', 'rw') should do this, right? ...

... not think a Git commit can record an intention like “stop tracking this file, but do not delete it”. Enacting such an intention will require intervention outside Git in any repositories that merge (or rebase onto) a commit that deletes the file. Save a Copy, Apply Deletion, Restore Probabl...

Are there any editors that can edit multi-gigabyte text files, perhaps by only loading small portions into memory at once? It doesn't seem like Vim can handle it =( ...

There is a file that was being tracked by git , but now the file is on the .gitignore list. 27 Answers ...

I am working with two files, and I need to copy a few lines from one file and paste into another file. I know how to copy (yy) and paste (p) in the same file. But that doesn't work for different files. How is this done? ...

I tried to open file with 9 Answers 9 ...

I have an already initialized Git repository that I added a .gitignore file to. How can I refresh the file index so the files I want ignored get ignored? ...

I don't know what happened but syntax highlighting for one php file stopped to working and also icon next to the file has changed. It shows it's text file instead of PHP . ...

...ectory is. For example, you may not run the script from the directory the file is in. In this case, you can't just use a relative path by itself. If you are sure the file you want is in a subdirectory beneath where the script is actually located, you can use __file__ to help you out here. __file...

I would like to upload a file asynchronously with jQuery. 34 Answers 34 ...