On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 09:05:04 am Kelly Daughtry wrote: > Notepad++ is a free windows text editor that recognizes the line breaks, and > does a multitude of other functions. > http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
It's not relevant to editing PDB files, but be warned that neither notepad nor notepad++ is compatible with unix/linux files that use UTF-8 encoding. [I recently wasted a chunk of time figuring out that this was the underlying cause for a bug report on one of my programs] cheers, Ethan > > > <http://notepad-plus-plus.org/>Best, > Kelly > > ******************************************************* > Kelly Daughtry, Ph.D. > Post-Doctoral Fellow, Raetz Lab > Biochemistry Department > Duke University > Alex H. Sands, Jr. Building > 303 Research Drive > RM 250 > Durham, NC 27710 > P: 919-684-5178 > ******************************************************* > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Thomas Juettemann > <juettem...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > It trains you to only use files created by MS Windows and complain if > > you get files that use another standard. As usual, follow the money... > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 14:45, Jacob Keller > > <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu> wrote: > > > Why, by the way, is the default text editor in windows, notepad, such > > > a lousy text editor? (Sounds like a riddle, I guess, but is really a > > > question...) > > > > > > JPK > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Rex, as Tim says, the PDB format has always been 1 atom per line. But > > >> which program are you using to display the PDB file? Some MS-Win > > >> programs (Notepad is one that springs to mind) don't recognise > > >> Unix-style line-breaks (i.e. newline char) and display the file as one > > >> continuous string. If that's what's happened try displaying the file > > >> using a different editor. > > >> > > >> Cheers > > >> > > >> -- Ian > > >> > > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, REX PALMER <rex.pal...@btinternet.com> > > wrote: > > >>> Does anyone know if it is possible to transform the continuous > > (compacted) > > >>> pdf format ino the older version where each atom occupies a single line > > (and > > >>> vice versa). > > >>> > > >>> Rex Palmer > > >>> Birkbeck College > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ******************************************* > > > Jacob Pearson Keller > > > Northwestern University > > > Medical Scientist Training Program > > > cel: 773.608.9185 > > > email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu > > > ******************************************* > > > > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742