Notepad

[»Xog]

whenever i open any txt file i'm presented with this unstructured piece of shit

 

what is causing it?

Edited February 3, 2010 by Xog

[Hakaku]

Notepad is specifically oriented around the Windows Operating System, where the enter key translates in plain text to a carriage return character followed by a line break. The problem is, different Operating Systems handle the enter key differently. For example, *nix will just use a line break, while Mac takes only a carriage return. When Notepad opens a file, it expects the file to conform to the Windows format, otherwise it treats everything as belonging on the same line. There's not much you can do to avoid this except use a different program such as Wordpad.

[»Xog]

Lol, oh well. Thanks. No difference in using notepad/wordpad i suppse.

[rootbear75]

what programming language and what are you trying to do... i saw some subspace commands in there...

its C++ i realized

Edited February 3, 2010 by rootbear75

[PoLiX]

Open in wordpad, save it, open it in notepad.

[Samapico]

Get Notepad++, Programmer's Notepad, UltraEdit, or some other similar program. You'll throw notepad in the recycle bin real quick after you try one of these out. As light as notepad, but you get more than one undo

And they support all styles of line endings

And you can get syntax coloring easily for most common programming languages

I use Programmer's notepad myself and would never, ever go back to notepad (or even less wordpad)

 

Edit: Or ATLEAST change the font of your notepad to courrier new or something

[L.C.]

Use Notepad++.

[»Xog]

yeah jeez x0g use notepad ++ wtf

[Bak]

Programmer's Notepad

yes dis

[»Ceiu]

You're all equally wrong. Notepad2 ftw.

 

 

Fun fact: All three projects are based on Scintilla.

[Acer]

I use Notepad++ and PSpad editor. Use notepad++ if you want to open something coding related.

[CRe]

I use Notepad++

[»Lynx]

I've got Notepad++ too, and on the Uni computers they have jEdit (because I can't be bothered to install anything else) - avoid jEdit like the plague.

[Samapico]

Good thing I never heard of it.

[whalz]

probably just a fancy version of notepad(duh)

 

im assuming it colour codes your lines so your kewl when you enter a command word and it turns blue or something yeyeyeyee

[CRe]

Good thing I never heard of it.

 

It's notepad on steroids.

[prozaker]

I use notepad++ too

 

i use VIM and gvim too when i feel like remembering 1 letter commands

[Samapico]

Good thing I never heard of it.

 

It's notepad on steroids.

Was talking about jEdit, obviously... Notepad++ was in my suggestion in the first reply of the topic

[Hakaku]

I use prettiful coloring crayons and paper ^______^

 

http://images.bootkidz.co.uk/childs_drawing_1.jpg

[tcsoccerman]

gedit

[Samapico]

I use prettiful coloring crayons and paper ^______^

 

http://images.bootkidz.co.uk/childs_drawing_1.jpg

You suck

[rootbear75]

Why does maddox sound so much like cerium....

[Hakaku]

That was uncalled for Sama, uncalled for.

[»Lynx]

@Prozaker: vim is for newbs, use Ed.

 

@rootbear75: Only when you're on the hilarious receiving end.