I think what he's saying is happening is that he's uploading files created in windows and sometimes nano is deciding that they're mac files and converting them when they really aren't. *shrug* I don't use nano, myself …nor wordpad, ever… when I edit files in windows I use editpad but I do most of my file editing in linux and just use gedit most of the time.. if I have to do it remotely I use vim. *shrug*
I do use pico/nano, but refuse to touch wordpad when there's so many free text editors that are better such as editpad that Conner mentioned or Crimson Editor.
Pico's not a bad little editor, I just favor vim from my IT days, but I've never really tried nano. *shrug* But for the Windows side of things, I agree. Just to see what it'd get me, I just googled "free text editor" and got 97,400,000 results. Of those the first listed was Crimson Editor and the second EditPad Lite.. now, I would be quite surprised if most of those millions of hits are false positives in this case, but I know every "result" on the first page is a valid result so there is certainly no shortage of options one could try as alternatives to M$ programs that use line endings that hurt code…and, since this is far from the first time I've heard about it, and the link happens to be on-screen atm for me, I think I'll check out your crimson editor myself. :wink:
08 Oct, 2007, David Haley wrote in the 10th comment:
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Fizban said:
but refuse to touch wordpad when there's so many free text editors
WordPad is the free text editor that comes with Windows, no?
I used to use Crimson Editor on Windows… then I installed the Windows version of vim. :wink:
Um, no, that'd be Notepad, which also has issues with saving stuff with the wrong line endings and such.. Wordpad is a free editor that comes with Windows but it's really meant to deal with RTF rather than text.
I've got the Windows version of VIM installed too, but I don't like it as much. It seems to have all the same functionality of its Linux counterpart, but the GUI interface it uses feels somewhat 'clunky' to me. *shrug*
Ok, looked over Crimson Editor. It does look pretty nice, but it's also got one of those GUIs that'll take a bit of getting used to. Also, according to the site, it's development sort of died off a few years ago and the new replacement project is called Emerald Editor but isn't yet available for download except as C++ source code. *shrug*
08 Oct, 2007, David Haley wrote in the 12th comment:
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Conner said:
Um, no, that'd be Notepad, which also has issues with saving stuff with the wrong line endings and such.. Wordpad is a free editor that comes with Windows but it's really meant to deal with RTF rather than text.
I'm not sure how that contradicts my statement that WordPad is also a free text editor. :smile: Just because it can do RTF and plain text doesn't mean it's not a text editor. But anyhow. :wink:
Conner said:
but the GUI interface it uses feels somewhat 'clunky' to me
How so? It's basically the same thing except that you can use shift-arrows to select (e.g. in visual mode). Just curious. :)
Conner said:
Also, according to the site, it's development sort of died off a few years ago and the new replacement project is called Emerald Editor but isn't yet available for download except as C++ source code.
Hmm, that's cool, I hadn't realized that a new one was started. (Like I said I stopped using it years ago.) To be honest, though, I can't really understand why someone would want to start a new text editor given the bazillion ones that already exist…
and you log in it says converting from mac format,
how do you reset it to normal?
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