Luckily I can do vi - enough at least to spot what's wrong with a file
peppered with Control-Ms when it seems to be upsetting my BIND. Also
vim, of course, which can do a nice job of colouring syntax errors. I'm
just perplexed that TextEdit can't do this simple editing job, and is
so inadequate for the mixed UNIX/Mac environment which OS X sustains.
Barmy. Wot's TextEdit for in the OS X world?
GWW
On 2 Feb 2006, at 15:59, Peter da Silva wrote:
Exasperatingly, the standard basic TextEdit on Mac OS X doesn't show
the difference between Mac standard line-endings (CR), UNIX (LF) and
DOS (CR,LF).
Exasperatingly, only the UNIX developers bothered to read the ASCII
standard which specified that if a single line terminating character
is used, it should be line-feed.
DOS has the excuse that it had to be compatible with CP/M which was
kind of compatible with TOPS-20. Unfortunately DOS doesn't use CRLF as
the terminator, it uses CR and ignores LF. This is compatible with CP/M
but allows you to produce files that look really weird on TOPS.
I recommend learning vi.
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