text editor with crlf

jpostma · 08-20-2008, 02:55 PM

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu. I'm searching for a simple graphical text editor where I can save the file with Windows newlines (crlf).

Can someone help me?

Regards,

Johannes

CRC123 · 08-20-2008, 03:31 PM

the 'Kate' text editor has an option for this.

Once in Kate
Goto Settings->Configure Kate...->Open/Save->General(tab)

Under 'End of line', there is an option for DOS/WINDOWS.

Kate is a KDE editor so I don't know if Ubuntu will have it in their repos and I couldn't figure out how to do this with gedit(the gnome simple editor).

Alternatively, you can edit a file in any editor you want and use 'unix2dos' and 'dos2unix' commands to change all line endings in the file for you.

farslayer · 08-20-2008, 03:32 PM

you could use any editor then use a utility such as tofrodos to convert the files..

tofrodos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos

jailbait · 08-20-2008, 03:39 PM

I use the text editor called mp which has an option to use either Unix or Windows end-of-line.

http://triptico.com/software/mp.html

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PTrenholme · 08-20-2008, 03:39 PM

Theoretically, you could define a character set with that convention and use it in the editor of your choice.

But I'm somewhat curious about your need for this. Most Windows editors will accept a LF delimited file and happily add the (redundant) CR to the output as "needed." IIRC, even the venerable "word" has an option for this.

jpostma · 08-21-2008, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Once in Kate
Goto Settings->Configure Kate...->Open/Save->General(tab)

Under 'End of line', there is an option for DOS/WINDOWS.

Thanks. I tried that also with KWrite but unfortunately it didn't work.

jpostma · 08-21-2008, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

you could use any editor then use a utility such as tofrodos to convert the files..

tofrodos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files, alias tofromdos

Thank you. This works quite well. Although it is not very user friendly but fortunately I do not have much text files.

The problem was that I'm always working on a Linux machine and the text files are for Windows (and Linux). I didn't want that users must use WordPad to open the files.

Regards,

Johannes