Was: Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc Yes i am familiar with the process you describe in Word. I wonder of Star Office has the same ability?
> The best editor I've found so far in Linux (IMHO) is nedit I have that here installed automatically in 8.1 and not tried it yet - will do so. Been using Kate up to now. > which includes search and replace using regular expressions, > macros, and (incidentally), some ways to vary the wrapping of > a line (I've only used what they call "continuous wrap" (I > call it soft wrap) -- it wraps the text to the width of the > screen while in nedit, not permanently -- in other words it > does not insert any "paragraph marks". Good, i will see whatelse it does with line endings... > Does Textpad have some > better magic? Can you describe it or point to a link? It is very comprehensive. I can set different behaviousrs for different types of files eg txt or html etc. I can set it to add hard returns upon save - or not, and the word wrap is done independently form the line endings or the window size. If i get a chunk of text of an email with long and short lines I can simply use <ctrl shift-j> which will reformat the par. etc. The only thing it does not do (though a macro could do it is remove the >>> signs. Pegasus mail has this option - really nice! If you are still in windows just check it out it is a quick download and a free trial - I registered it. However i have not been in Windows for weeks (3 weeks into Linux). Thanks for the details on nedit... helpful. Walter
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