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Subject:re: @!#$%& plain text is a pain in the ASCII From:Greg Holmes <holmegm -at- attbi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:21:09 -0400
>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.
You've already got the answer (Notepad places hard returns where it
wraps) but I have to place my vote for alternative editor: gvim for Windows.
The self installing executable has everything you need.
Although it supports all the cryptic vi/vim commands, this version is so
Windows-ized that you can just hit 'i' (for insert mode) and go (and
there is probably some way to get it to start in insert mode; I just
haven't bothered to find it).
Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, etc. work as expected. Plenty of toolbar buttons,
menus, etc. so you won't get stranded, but you can learn the powerful
keyboard commands at your own pace.
No weird wrapping, no having your type appear somewhere other than the
visible cursor (a bug in some versions of notepad, right after a save),
none of that. Even seamlessly handles files with unix line endings.
Oh, and syntax highlighting for a zillion types of code and markup.
That alone is worth a lot.
Greg Holmes
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