[ale] OS Windows text editor for Unix files

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at oit.gatech.edu
Thu Dec 23 20:05:50 EST 2004


Quoting Ben Coleman <oloryn at benshome.net>:

> John Wells wrote:
> > I'm looking for a free (as in speech, hopefully) text editor that can
> > properly read and print these files on the windows side.  JEdit is the
> > only free one that's done a good job recognizing the line feeds and EOLs,
> > but the printing is horrible.
> >
> > Anyone know of one I should take a look at?  I've looked at a few others
> > (notepad++, notepad2, jext), but none fit the bill.  It's a VERY simple
> > task we're using it for, simply printing and viewing, so no super duper
> > features needed.
>
> I'd suggest PFE, though it is no longer supported:
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
>
> Ben


How about vim?  http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
Jonathan



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