On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:48:15 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 06/04/2017 14:06, James Harris wrote:
>> On 06/04/2017 13:12, Daniel James wrote:
>>> In article , James Harris wrote:
>>>> OK. It's a pity Notepad doesn't handle LF-only endings. Would save
>>>> the hassle. But Wordpad does.
>>>
>>> I heartily recommend Notepad++ for code editing on Windows.
>>>
>>> Apart from all the other neat things it does, it handles CR/LR/CR+LF
>>> endings, and can create an output file with any of those.
>>
>> I tried Notepad++ years ago but couldn't get used to it. Can't remember
>> why now.
>
> Time to give it another try then.
>>
>> Notepad is fine for me. Once line wrap is turned off, Notepad will
>> allow you to jump to a line by number. That's all I really need other
>> than basic editing.
>
> Well if you can be happy with Notepad, vi is overkill, ed on a teletype
> would be the Linux equivalent.
>
MS used to have an equivalent - remember edlin?



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