On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 09:05:04 am Kelly Daughtry wrote:
> Notepad++ is a free windows text editor that recognizes the line breaks, and
> does a multitude of other functions.
> http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
It's not relevant to editing PDB files, but be warned that
neither notepad nor notepad++ is compatible with
unix/linux files that use UTF-8 encoding.
[I recently wasted a chunk of time figuring out that this was the
underlying cause for a bug report on one of my programs]
cheers,
Ethan
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>
> <http://notepad-plus-plus.org/>Best,
> Kelly
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Thomas Juettemann
> <juettem...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > It trains you to only use files created by MS Windows and complain if
> > you get files that use another standard. As usual, follow the money...
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 14:45, Jacob Keller
> > <j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > > Why, by the way, is the default text editor in windows, notepad, such
> > > a lousy text editor? (Sounds like a riddle, I guess, but is really a
> > > question...)
> > >
> > > JPK
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Rex, as Tim says, the PDB format has always been 1 atom per line. But
> > >> which program are you using to display the PDB file? Some MS-Win
> > >> programs (Notepad is one that springs to mind) don't recognise
> > >> Unix-style line-breaks (i.e. newline char) and display the file as one
> > >> continuous string. If that's what's happened try displaying the file
> > >> using a different editor.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers
> > >>
> > >> -- Ian
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, REX PALMER <rex.pal...@btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>> Does anyone know if it is possible to transform the continuous
> > (compacted)
> > >>> pdf format ino the older version where each atom occupies a single line
> > (and
> > >>> vice versa).
> > >>>
> > >>> Rex Palmer
> > >>> Birkbeck College
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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