Local Chords Editor

Tools

There are many useful tools in chords editor (in a local app), which make the editing easier:

• Undo: revert last changes
• Line: select whole line or next lines
• Duplicate: duplicate selection
• Reformat: Reformat and rearrange to standard chords format, eg. by removing redundant whitespaces
• Validate: Validate chords if it adheres to the Formatting standard (eg. whether the brackets are closed properly).
• Detect chords: Find and mark chords automatically based on the chosen chords notation but keeping their original horizontal position (aligned with spaces) by removing 2 redundant spaces for each inserted [ ] characters.
• Transform: Open menu with more transformations
• Move chords from upper line to matching words: merge each two lines by moving chords (aligned with spaces) from upper line to lower line with lyrics, moving them to matching words they are above.
• Move chords from upper line to the right: merge each two lines (upper with chords, lower with lyrics) by moving all chords to the end of line after lyrics
• Convert from other chords notation: Convert all chord from other chords notation to the chosen one for a song
• Remove doubled blank lines: Replace each double Enter (line break) with single one
• Replace Fis -> F#: Replace all sound names ending with is to #
• Unmark chords: Drop all chord marks: [ and ]
• Mark chords (not preserving indentation): Find and mark chords automatically by surrounding them with [ ]. Note that horizontal position of chords may be changed afterall.
• Remove everything inside brackets: Remove text inside square brackets [ ] and the brackets themselves.
• Align misplaced chords: Moves chords placed wrongly inside word (e.g. w[C]ord) to the beginning of the word.
• ❮: move cursor by one character left
• ❯: move cursor by one character right
• [ / ]: insert suitable bracket (either opening or closing one)
• [Mark]: Mark selection with chord brackets pair
• Copy: Copy selection
• Paste: Paste copied text