On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bob Bell wrote:
> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > No way man, Windows Notepad has them all beat by a wide margin.
>
> When stuck in Windows, Notepad can actually be a nice tool. A lot of
> M$ software insists on maintaining font information when
> I cut/copy-and-paste between documents. So when I paste in a chunk of
> text from another document, the fonts are all screwed up. If
> I paste-and-cut into Notepad in between the documents, the text loses all
> formatting besides it's ASCII contents.
I actually agree with you, though to be honest I much prefer the old DOS
edit program (which has W95/W98 counterparts). It handles CR/CRLF issues
perfectly, for one reason. It's a half-decent editor, though not feature
rich.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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