begin Harry G's quote: | I am in need of a editor that will edit ascii files with no changes | being made.
okay. first, do you want to *edit* them, which by definition means changing them, or to *view* them, which by definition means leaving them unchanged? if the former, you could do no better than nedit. you can set it, even, to do word wrap without actually inserting the word wraps in the text; likewise, if you want word wrap off so that each paragraph is on one line, you can do that, too. it is in my estimation just about the best editor in the world (and an example of your tax dollars at work -- it was originally developed at a federal nuke lab). http://www.nedit.org/ | Most editors tend to add things. what kind of things? do you mean opening a file in microsoft word and then saving it and having it change from a .txt file to a .doc? and all kinds of formatting stuff being added? it would help if you could give a little bit better description of what you're talking about here. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
