Posted by dorayme on 12/07/24 11:49

In article <kh1gk3-giv.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200605@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > Notepad, I cannot get to respect breaks... Notepad from view source
> > from IE6 wraps ok but is basically no line breaks!
>
> Notepad will only treat "\r\n" (DOS-style line break) as a line break.
> Many other editors, even on Windows, will also allow a plain "\n"
> (Unix-style) or "\r" (Classic-Mac--style) as a line break.

I am trying to figure out if this points to a convenient way of
managing.

When I am trying to look at my webpages in IE on an old 98
Windows box, it would be very convenient to be able to tweak the
css sheet and source there and then. The source and css was
originally made on a Mac and is formatted in basic ways.
(Particularly unfancy in my case: no indentation at all - saves
screen space). Otherwise, things look a bit like what many
browsers do automatically when you "View source", things are on
separate lines.

I am miffed as to how to get IE to present the source in WordPad
which more easily respects the normal Mac made layout. Context
menus and preferences just seem not to include "open with" or
"always open with". IE seems obsessively married to Notepad? It
does not seem right to me, it looks unhealthy. Has it no
independence?

I am acutely conscious of my Windows cluelessness (to use Mr.
Dingleys excellent phrase)

I am also fed up with the number of "I"s I have used. It looks as
if I have tabs on myself, am self-centred in some way.

--
dorayme

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