yeah I re-discovered (and paid second license for) BBEdit. They were the first programmer's editor on mac, although I was partial to TEX-edit, which had some cool text features nobody else had... like ways of identifying mystery invisible characters. I haven't tried it in years, I wonder about it's handling of Unicode. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:17 AM Jerry Jensen via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On a mac, BBEdit or its older cousin TextWrangler will preserve line > endings. It just works. You can also easily change endings with a pull-down > menu. That stoppedl me from whining about the price. They also have good > tech support. > .Jerry > > > On Jan 7, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > This is a perennial problem. My personal opinion is that unless a user > explicitly wants to alter the line endings in a file, no assumptions should > be made by the developer in this regard. A classic example (at least for > me) is working with files exported from copiers. Let's say I want to export > the email addresses from a Toshiba copier, edit them in a spreadsheet, then > re-import them back into the copier. Simply OPENING the text file, in > TextEdit or Word on a Mac OS will convert the line endings to the Mac > defaults, EVEN IF I DO NOT SAVE THE FILE!!! Now the Toshiba copier will > reject the file because it is expecting line feeds and it has CRLFs > instead. So I have to edit these files in a Windows VM or I break them. > > > > Bob S > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
