James Wilkinson wrote:
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!
The only one that doesn't AFAIK is plain old Windows notepad.
My fave Windows text editor for quite some time was EditPad lite ( http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html ). About a year ago I discovered Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ ) which I like even more (and it's under the GPL).
Both are programmers editors. I'm not a programmer myself but I still found them most excellent for garden-variety text editing/reading. I didn't use 1/2 of their features but still felt they were vastly superior to Windows Notepad (or WordPad).
