Editing Wordwise files

[Derek Fountain]

> I was maybe to brief to be clear. All correct, except "used to use" isn't
> entirely correct here*. I therefore don't want to convert the source
> files. They are currently accessed through three different items of
> display software, which were written many years ago assuming the CR line
> ending. So I don't want to convert the CR to LF. It would be tedious to
> pre- or post-process the files with a "tr"  script. I need an editor which
> will load and save files with the CR as the line ending. Kwrite will do
> this, but refuses to be locked into CR mode. This is the problem

A conversion would be easy; finding an editor which handles such trickery is 
not. XEmacs under Linux appears to do what you want - it just accepts a 0x0a 
or 0x0d as end of line, and displays it as such. Insert a line, and it 
appears to follow the rest of the file - i.e. it looks at the other end of 
line characters and uses 0x0a or 0x0d as appropriate.

I think. :o}

I tried an experiment involving the Windows version of XEmacs and the Linux 
version, both accessing the same file, one after the other. When I left the 
file in a state where it had some 0x0a line endings, and some 0x0d line 
endings, the Linux version appeared to silently convert them all to 0x0d. I'm 
not sure why or how; I have a feeling it made some decision based on the 
first line ending seen in the file. I could be wrong.

Basically, try XEmacs, but watch carefully what it does. M-x hexl-mode will be 
of use to you when you figure out what it means. :o)

BTW, you gave me a nice warm feeling about the BBC machines. A BBC micro was 
the first computer I ever laid hands on. I didn't realise they were still 
around and proving useful. :o)

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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