Re: [newbie] text editor

2001-01-02 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:23, you wrote: What editor in 7.2 will save text or .pl files in true text? I'm having a terrible time editing files that have ".pl" extensions ...the editors I'm using mess it up... I tried kwrite, kedit, gedit...what app will save these files in true text

Re: [newbie] text editor

2001-01-02 Thread KompuKit
Thankyou...I installed "cooledit" ...it's great... exactly what I need... civileme wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:23, you wrote: What editor in 7.2 will save text or .pl files in true text? I'm having a terrible time editing files that have ".pl" extensions ...the editors I'm

Re: [newbie] text editor

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:03 pm, you wrote: Thankyou...I installed "cooledit" ...it's great... exactly what I need... civileme wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:23, you wrote: What editor in 7.2 will save text or .pl files in true text? I'm having a terrible time editing

[newbie] text editor

2001-01-01 Thread KompuKit
What editor in 7.2 will save text or .pl files in true text? I'm having a terrible time editing files that have ".pl" extensions ...the editors I'm using mess it up... I tried kwrite, kedit, gedit...what app will save these files in true text format...so that nothing gets truncated etc.

[newbie] text editor

2000-11-15 Thread bascule
what is the best simple text editor to use in kde, i have just discovered that some mac files on a dos floppy will reveal their text content in notepad in windows but not in text editor in kde - how annoying, i need an editor that will show up whats there bascule

Re: [newbie] text editor

2000-11-15 Thread Paul
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, bascule wrote: Dangerous, to ask 'what is the best'. You will be shown 20 different ones, all of them 'the best'. Kedit. Xedit. Nedit. Vi. Pico. Joe. Emacs. To start the list... Paul what is the best simple text editor to use in kde, i have just discovered that some mac

Re: [newbie] text editor?

2000-05-08 Thread Jonathan S.
I have always had the right click option to choose text editor. I will research and see if I can find a text editor that will do what you need. also have another post about right click menu items, as text editor isn't always shown this way - i would like to change that, if you always

Re: [newbie] text editor?

2000-05-07 Thread Jonathan S.
Have you tried right clicking on the file and choosing text editor, I use this all the time to open files in mandrake. If using gnome, then use the gnotepad or gedit. bascule wrote: what is a good kde equivalent of notepad?

Re: [newbie] text editor?

2000-05-07 Thread bascule
yes, i have used text editor but as my post described, this doesn't show all the info. my example was my datebook.pdb file created after a hotsync from my pilot, in win98 i could see that all two years stuff was in there but in kde the same file only displayed a tiny proportion of the same info

[newbie] text editor?

2000-05-06 Thread bascule
what is a good kde equivalent of notepad? i ask because when i open a pilot .pdb file in notepad (in this case my datebook backup- don't ask) i see all the text i have ever entered as well as gobbledygook, this is fine; but when i open the same file in kde with the text editor i only see about