Notepad equivalent

Sukuro · 09-27-2010, 06:35 AM

Hello,

I have just started to learn Java programming and need to be able to use a compatible notepad equivalent in Ubuntu i will need to save the data as is,in Ubuntu and be able to transfer the data from my Linux machine to the windows desktop regularly via memory stick i absolutely love Linux and don't want to have to go back to windows to do this.

repo · 09-27-2010, 06:56 AM

For the CLI
nano, vi, pico, emacs, vim, joe, jed...
For GUI
gedit, quanta, kwrite, xemacs....

Kind regards

crts · 09-27-2010, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Sukuro

Hello,

I have just started to learn Java programming and need to be able to use a compatible notepad equivalent in Ubuntu i will need to save the data as is,in Ubuntu and be able to transfer the data from my Linux machine to the windows desktop regularly via memory stick i absolutely love Linux and don't want to have to go back to windows to do this.

Hi,

how about gedit? Keep in mind though, that Linux/Unix has different line-endings than windows. To convert them to dos format you could run

Code:

sed -i 's/$/\r/' file  # convert unix to dos

which will convert your file to dosformat. To convert from dos back to Unix you can use

Code:

sed -i 's/\r$//' file  # convert dos to unix

MTK358 · 09-27-2010, 07:49 AM

That's right, Linux and Widnows even store plain text differently. Widnows uses a CR-LF pair, and Linux uses just LF.

rikijpn · 09-27-2010, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by crts

Hi,

how about gedit? Keep in mind though, that Linux/Unix has different line-endings than windows. To convert them to dos format you could run

Code:

sed -i 's/$/\r/' file  # convert unix to dos

which will convert your file to dosformat. To convert from dos back to Unix you can use

Code:

sed -i 's/\r$//' file  # convert dos to unix

I recommend the programs "unix2dos" and "dos2unix" for these tasks.
However if you intend to regularly copy files from linux to windows, saving the file with dos-like newline endings (CR-LF pair as stated) would save you the trouble to do this every time you copy your files.
Pretty much any editor can save files like this, and be configured to save every file like this. emacs and vi are good examples, although "simple" editors like gedit probably can't.

Anyway, I don't see why the windows machine is needed, being that the compiled code in java is the same in windows and linux and everything. But I guess you should have your reasons...

i92guboj · 09-27-2010, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sukuro

Hello,

I have just started to learn Java programming and need to be able to use a compatible notepad equivalent in Ubuntu i will need to save the data as is,in Ubuntu and be able to transfer the data from my Linux machine to the windows desktop regularly via memory stick i absolutely love Linux and don't want to have to go back to windows to do this.

You won't have a problem for that, if there's something in Linux that's text editors, Google can help you with that, there are hundreds.

As others already pointed out you will have to watch for the line endings, however in Windows you can open Unix text files (or Linux ones by that matter) using the wordpad, so that's really not a big problem and most editors as stated can be configured to save the file in one or another format.

I don't understand what's the point in moving the files from one OS to another constantly, though... Knowing that Java is cross-platform and you will be programming in Linux it really doesn't make much sense in writting the text file in Linux and then moving it to Windows to build the byte-code..