hi. Im doing some html programming in emacs and need to view the contents in notepad as well. But when i view it in notepad everything gets put onto a single line making it pointless to look at. Can anyone help me figure out how to make the formatting from emacs stay the same when the file is open in notepad? i would appreicate the help. thanks in advance.

edit: where returns would be in emacs there are little boxes in notepad

Well, that will not happen, ever. Thank Microsoft for changing the default, standard carriage return ASCII for their horrible notepad. Rants appart, Linux/BSD/Unix use <LF> (Linux feed), MacOS uses <CR> (Carriage return) and Windows uses a combo of <LF> and <CR>.

Needless to say, text files are no longer portable. Some editors as emacs, vim and wordpad understands it and support all formats for line feed. What you could do is to drop notepad all together and install a proper text editor as vim or emacs for Windows. If you are up to open your wallet, TextPad is the very best thing you can get under Windows

Regards!

Don't know how this will work but give it a try:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~alee/emacs/emacs.html

KC

Oops, I've forgotten a few things . There're some tools that helps you to convert a text file from Linux to Windows or Mac. I still think that using a port or emacs on Windows would be the best:

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/

about converting the text files:

http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/txt_doc2unix/

Cheers!