Idea #5417: Play nice with already existing Windows files

Written by Eldmannen the 22 Mar 08 at 15:59. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I have Windows on another partition.
In Ubuntu I mount my NTFS partitions.

In Windows, I have created .txt files.
When I edit these files in gedit on Ubuntu, it can break them slightly by using different newline \r\n or encodings or something.

I suggest to check the encoding and use the same encoding when save file, or something.

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madjr wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 04:04

i support your idea, but i find it better if you copy the content of the .txt and paste it on gedit than save it.

i would assume that would work, but i have some time i don't use windows..

you could also use openoffice writer to create the text file or .doc , etc.

anyway why not email m$ to support gedit with their notepad haha

Ssdg wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 09:44

Maybe we should (we as every ubuntero who want to laugh) email M$. :p

angrykeyboarder wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 15:28

What you need to do is FLOSS Windows. :)

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

You can set it to save text files in UNIX format by default. :)

Mike Graham wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 16:22

Voted yes.

This is a problem that exists, if I understand it, because both Notepad and gedit don't work like they really should.

gedit is fixable. Ideally, this should be fixed by the Gnome team so everyone running Gnome can benefit by it behaving right.

ssducf wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 12:57

vim and emacs do this right already. Sounds like gedit is broken.

Robsie wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 19:14

Gedit lol, I'm sticking with my Kate in Linux and run a virtual machine on my windows machine to edit text files than use notepad. Why don't you go to the command line in Windows and type edit? Oh yes you new generation didn't know that one still exists, I think even Vista still has it. The Windows command line is nothing like the Linux er terminals, but it was practical easy and damn easy to figure out after coming from a Unix past...

Zurd wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 17:56

Or create .txt file in Windows with Wordpad, gedit will be able to read them like it should.

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