another g*d* windows 7 question

[lcohen]

i maintain the website for our shapenote group. when i took on this task, the way that they showed me to update the site was to go to WinSCP, copy the file that i need to a local directory, open the copied file in notepad, make the changes, copy it back to the shapenote directory, and, voila. sometimes i would accidentally open it into html but

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[dafydd]

I'm willing to bet the page got changed to use Unix-style line endings, which Windows doesn't understand. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_line will tell you more than you ever want to know.)

My suggestion is to try downloading Notepad++, which is a text editor that can handle all types of line endings, and see if that helps.

[quadong]

I second the above comment.

I haven't used Notepad in a *very* long time, but when I did, it was a super-crappy application, possibly deliberately designed to be crappy in order to prompt you to buy something better. Now you can download something free for better instead, and I endorse that plan.

[j00j]

Thirded. I use WinSCP on a Windows 7 machine at work daily, and something similar to Notepad++.

[gaudysalamander]

Jesus, don't use notepad. Download emacs for windows, learn the admittedly byzantine key mappings, and never touch notepad again.

[gaudysalamander]

I've used emacs exclusively since I was a teenager. I'm one of the people who recoil in horror at vi :-P

[hickbear]

Even easier than the above - open the file in Wordpad. Wordpad seems to have a better handle on Unix-y formatted text files, where Notepad just barfs.

[jss1113]

 

[alandd]

I just have to say, the +1 user icon is awesome.

I also was going to suggest Wordpad; the other suggestions (emacs/vi) are great ideas but probably not for you... ;)

[selki]

I agree, at least try Wordpad first. It should be on your computer already. But just try it on one file first.

[dafydd]

I agree. And, I'm advocating Notepad++ as a Linux user with lots of experience in vi. For the Windows platform, with its very mouse-click user model, use a mouse-click application. Which vi doesn't do so well.