Just one user's comment. I think notepad is the best for default editor on Windows.
notepad can handle UTF-8, UTF-16 LE and UTF-16 BE, while wordpad can handle only UCS-2 LE. And line endings seems not big issue compared to RTF. Mercurial uses notepad. Regards, iquiw On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Eric Kow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> This is the continuation of http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1463 >> >> I didn't follow all this, but it looks like there is a consensus to >> default to write.exe (aka WordPad) [but not NotePad because it does not >> understand Unix line endings]. > > I wouldn't be surprised if notepad.exe does not handle unicode either. > > Trying hard to think of potential problems with wordpad, it seems like it's > possible for wordpad to save your data as RTF instead of plain text. I'd > have to try things out to know for sure. > > Do we have any proof of concept work for testers to play with? > > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
