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Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files

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Am 20.02.2017 um 09:29 schrieb Kenny McCormack:
> In article <o8e7ss$50d$1@solani.org>, Karl Ratzsch  <mail.kfr@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Just don't use the horrible built-in "notepad.exe" editor on windows,
>> but one of the much better configurable alternatives.
>>
> 
> This is good advice.  For the most part, there's no real problem with just
> leaving the files as they are (i.e., in Unix/Linux format).  Most Windows
> programs will work OK.  It is just that the default editor - the one people
> intuitively recommend for newbies, even though they'd never actually use it
> themselves - is brain dead about this.
> 
> The simplest alternative is "Wordpad", which is installed by default in
> Windows (no special install or configuration needed) and has no problem
> displaying files w/o CRs.

Wordpad, irks. ;-)

notepad2, notepad++ are two free alternatives I'm using, with
configurable encoding, line ending, syntax highligthing etc.

Installing one of those is the second thing I do on any new windows
machine, right after disabling the stupid system sound effects.

There are dozens of others, many of them probably as useful.

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[OT] add carriage return to text files dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2017-02-19 17:41 -0500
  Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files Kaz Kylheku <336-986-7787@kylheku.com> - 2017-02-19 23:54 +0000
    Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2017-03-04 12:01 -0500
  Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files Lorenz <lorenznl@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-20 07:35 +0000
  Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2017-02-20 09:03 +0100
    Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-02-20 08:29 +0000
      Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2017-02-20 10:03 +0100
      Re: [OT] add carriage return to text files dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2017-02-20 12:02 -0500

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