notepad compatible text editor

manuleka · 03-18-2009, 05:53 PM

i'm doing some web design work and i'm wondering if anyone can recommennd me a text editor that is compatible with notepad under Windows?

i really love gedit... it has the coloring effects and some tab feature that i love having in Editplus 3

the only problem is, tabs seems to be unrecognized by editplus/notepad...

any sugestions? cheers

acid_kewpie · 03-18-2009, 06:24 PM

I don't see how tab characters can't be recognised... it's ascii or it's not. you will find some inconsistencies between unix and dos text formatting though on line breaks and notepad can't handle unix formats, but opening in wordpad or spitting it through unix2dos will sort that out.

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Tinkster · 03-18-2009, 06:37 PM

Maybe he configured gedit to insert spaces instead of tabs?

manuleka · 03-30-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Tinkster

Maybe he configured gedit to insert spaces instead of tabs?

nope... i haven't configured anything on Gedit... although i notice that editplus have no problem with reading text created with gedit...

my only concern is notepad... which my lecturer will use for viewing our source codes

manuleka · 03-30-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

I don't see how tab characters can't be recognised... it's ascii or it's not. you will find some inconsistencies between unix and dos text formatting though on line breaks and notepad can't handle unix formats, but opening in wordpad or spitting it through unix2dos will sort that out.

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is unix2dos built it to Fedora 10? or do i need to install it myself? cheers

Tinkster · 03-30-2009, 02:55 PM

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nope... i haven't configured anything on Gedit... although i notice
that editplus have no problem with reading text created with gedit...

Examine the file gedit produced with "vi" (using :set list) and/or "od" to see
whether there are any "special characters" inserted. See what "file" has to say
about your text-files content.

Cheers,
Tink