Duncan Lithgow wrote: > I am setting my system up so that my wife, who has no interest in such > thinks, can simply get used to using a set of programs and use them > whether the computer is in windows or linux. I personally think that > needs to be the focus of all attempts to win over windows users. > > So, is there a good text editor which runs in windows which will > correctly detect the line breaks. Then she can use that and be none the > wiser ;) Most of them will, as far as I can tell. Even Wordpad will correctly read Unix line breaks! What does she want in a text editor? Absolute simplicity? James. -- E-mail address: james | The Inquirer was set up by Mike Magee (ticker: DODGY), @westexe.demon.co.uk | who co-founded well-known IT site The Register seven | years ago after countless years editing and managing | all manner of things which could be Aardvark Today and | Fish Farming Monthly but weren't. -- The Inquirer