windows line breaks in txt files

[Scott]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>Duncan Lithgow wrote:
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>>I am setting my system up so that my wife, who has no interest in such 
>>thinks, can simply get used to using a set of programs and use them 
>>whether the computer is in windows or linux. I personally think that 
>>needs to be the focus of all attempts to win over windows users.
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>>So, is there a good text editor which runs in windows which will 
>>correctly detect the line breaks. Then she can use that and be none the 
>>wiser ;)
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>Most of them will, as far as I can tell. Even Wordpad will correctly
>read Unix line breaks!
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The only one that doesn't AFAIK is plain old Windows notepad.

My fave Windows text editor for quite some time was EditPad lite ( 
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html ).  About a year ago I 
discovered  Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/  ) which I 
like even more (and it's  under the GPL). 

Both are programmers editors.  I'm not a programmer myself but I still 
found them most excellent for garden-variety text editing/reading.  I 
didn't use 1/2 of their features but still felt they were vastly 
superior to Windows Notepad (or WordPad).