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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Wordpad or Notepad? Post 302125183 by cbkihong on Wednesday 4th of July 2007 09:40:31 AM

07-04-2007

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Originally Posted by Heidi.Ebbs

but can you advise which is the best text editor to use out of Notepad and Wordpad?

Provided you save the document in ASCII, using any text editor has no difference. For me I will prefer Notepad because it is a text editor, not a "word processor" that can save text files. But you can just use any other free/commercial text editors on Windows anyway. I will only use notepad when there is no alternative installed because it doesn't do syntax highlighting. For me, I install gvim on Windows. The choice is always yours.

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however I had problems with this

Most likely you did not save the file as ASCII text, so it may become doc or rtf or something like that.

As a general rule, just make sure you are always saving the script as ASCII text, and always use FTP ASCII mode (if you use Binary mode, you have to use a Windows text editor that supports Unix EOL, and save the script with Unix EOL).

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hexeditor

HEXEDITOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						      HEXEDITOR(1)

NAME

       hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor

SYNOPSIS

       hexeditor [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION

       Hexeditor  is  an  editor  to edit binary (or any) files or disks.  The Display consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte), the
       next sixteen bytes (aligned by bytes or 32-bit words), and its ASCII or EBCDIC text representation.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display help

       -8, --highbit
	      Display 8-bit text

       -a, --alltext
	      Display all text regardless that you know better

       -b, --buffer
	      Buffer the entire file into memory.  Faster, and enables insert and delete.

       -d, --disk
	      File editing is a disk.  OpenBSD and Linux only.

       -f, --force
	      Force editing of a disk.	Need this option to enable writing to disks.

       -q, --quiet
	      Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping.

       -r, --readonly
	      Do not allow modifying the file

       -v, --version
	      Display version number

Commands and keys
       ^A     Insert byte

       Insert Insert byte

       ^D     Delete byte

       Delete Delete byte

       ^E     viEw as text dump

       ^F     Page down

       ^V     Page down

       Page Down
	      Page down

       ^B     Page Up

       ^Y     Page Up

       Alt-V  Page Up

       Page Up
	      Page Up

       Tab    Switch from hex to text representation

       ^I     Switch from hex to text representation

       ^T     goTo offset

       ^G     Get help

       ^L     Redraw screen

       ^C     Quit without saving

       ^O     Save

       ^X     Save and Quit

       ^W     Search (text/hex)

       ^N     find Next

       ^U     Undo

       ^R     ASCII <=> EBCDIC

       ^P     Switch Spacings

       ^+     Binary Calculator

Author
       Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net>

See Also
       od (1)

BUGS

       Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.

       Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you might find.  This man page is intentionally brief.  Please Read the  included
       documentation in Texinfo format for additional information

																      HEXEDITOR(1)