RE: @!#$%& plain text is a pain in the ASCII

["Martin Polley" <Martinp -at- Surf-com -dot- com>]

Errr... Don't use Notepad?

There are other text editors around. Wordpad works OK. Xemacs
(www.xemacs.org -- free!) is good if you can get used to a non-Windows
standard UI.

HTH,

Martin Polley
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-----Original Message-----
From: kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com [mailto:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:35 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: @!#$%& plain text is a pain in the ASCII



Any Notepad gurus out there?

I'm trying to figure out the ryhme and reason (or lack thereof) that
Notepad uses to place hard returns in what should be uninterrupted lines
of text.

For example, suppose I have an instance of Notepad maximized on my PC,
with Word Wrap activated, with several lengthy paragraphs that I want to
copy.

Sometimes when I paste this copied text into another application, such
as an e-mail client, or a beefier word processor, I find that Notepad
has apparently placed hard returns into the text, based on where each
line ended in the Notepad window. But other times it doesn't do this,
and all is well.

It can make
your text look something like this, which can be quite annoying, 
particularly when 

you're trying to make a decent impression 
on 
somebody.


It's this lack of predictability that's driving me crazy. I'd like to
have some idea of what my text is going to look like, but when dealing
with ASCII, it seems to be a crapshoot.

This is a particularly critical issue when submitting text via a Web
form, such as many bulletin boards (and most of the major job boards)
use. Right now the best solution I've come up with is to work with Word
Wrap turned off to produce my original text, but that's guite a
nuisance.

Any ideas?


Thanks in
ad
vance,



Keith Cronin
ASCII no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies.


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