Thank you for the but report. :) Here is a little information that will hopefully help you understand what might be going on.
Text files on computers use a special character (or sequence of characters) that get stored in the file each time you press enter in your text editor. Each one of these character sequences represents the end of the current line (and thus, the start of the next line). Linux (and other Unix based operating systems) use the single character known as LF. LF means Line Feed. So a file created in Linux that contains three lines might look like this: Line1 LF Line2 LF Line3 LF Whereas the very same file created in a Windows operating system will look different because Windows uses the following character sequence to represent a new line: CR LF. So in Windows the example file would look like this: Line1 CR LF Line2 CR LF Line3 CR LF When you open the Linux file in Windows Notepad, the file looks like it is one long line because CRLF does not appear in the file anywhere. Notepad actually looks for the character sequence CR LF to know that it has found the end of the line. I'm not sure why you see TWO newlines in Gedit though. Gedit is usually smart enough to figure out the right thing to do even if you mix multiple types of newline representations. As a workaround for this problem, you can use Wordpad in Windows. Wordpad is smart enough to properly open text files created on a Linux/Unix operating system. Or you could even install Gedit in Windows: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gedit/2.29/gedit- setup-2.29.4-1.exe So I'm not 100% sure I would call your situation a bug. Although I am a little concerned about the behavior you describe for Gedit. Could you please attach a file to this bug report that you've edited in Windows that causes Gedit to display two newlines in a certain location even though you only hit enter once? -- Line break problem with .txt-files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543304 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
