Notepad doing strange things--help!
Help... i have just started a very long editing 'job' and out of nowhere in the middle of working it(notepad) has started removing all spacing when i 'save' ...word wrap is on as always.
This is how i space my code ususally:
TOUR DATES & SETLISTS
---1975, exact date unknown. --
GENERAL
INFORMATION
DATE: 1975, exact date unknown.
VENUE/SHOW: Massey Hall
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
SHOW COMMENTS:
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This is what happens after i do a 'save':
TOUR DATES & SETLISTS---1976, exact date unknown. -- 1970s IndexGENERAL INFORMATIONDATE: 1976, exact date unknown.VENUE/SHOW: Student Union, University Of Alberta LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.SHOW COMMENTS:
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
Suzanne posted this at 01:34 — 14th November 2000.
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Notepad doesn't save spacing.
http://www.editpad.net/editpadclassic.html would be a better program for you to use (or any actual text editor).
ianrules posted this at 02:01 — 14th November 2000.
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notepad does save spacing becuase i've used it for 3 years to make my website and i've never had a problem. i dont know why you're notepad program has gone crazy. but that wouldn't be something that we could figure out since we have no way of taking a look at your computer.
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dragonsjaw posted this at 03:39 — 14th November 2000.
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Still no real idea why this sudden change...i will do a defrag/clean up and see if i can get it back. I agreee that i have never had this problem before and Notepad always saves my spacing..
i am using a text editor callled Notetab Lite till i can get my pad back!!
thanks
dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
dragonsjaw posted this at 03:45 — 14th November 2000.
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Suzanne, i think you think i mean spacing within the html doc itself...
i don't..
i am referrring to the spacing only on and in notepad itself...i like to spread my code out a bit it makes it easier to read for a newbie like me
thanks
dragonsjaw
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Suzanne posted this at 06:08 — 14th November 2000.
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Yes, that's what I meant!
If the defrag doesn't help, you may want to investigate what you have recently installed. Some new programs use old .dlls and they may affect OS connected programs like Notepad.
For the record, though, I still think it sucks. NoteTab Lite is nice, but it's no EditPad. EditPad has features like being able to open many files *in the same window* that are tabbed like in Excel or similar programs. This means you don't have multiple windows open, and you can affect changes on all the documents that are open at once (the search and replace can work on just the document or all open documents).
There are more, but really, it's worth checking out.
http://www.editpad.net/editpadclassic.html
Mark Hensler posted this at 06:43 — 14th November 2000.
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Try copying the the file notepad.exe from another machine (one that works
). If that doesn't work and your desperate, you *could* try re-installing windows 'over-top'. But I'm not saying you should jump right to there.
While on the topic of editors. I still haven't found anything that beats the power of InterDev. However, it does have a hefty price and is a pretty large program to run for fast and simple editing. In InterDev, you can find/replace the "Current Document", "All Open Documents", "All Files in Project Folder (*.*)", or "Text Files (*.txt)" [that's with a text file currently open].
Mark Hensler
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ianrules posted this at 21:35 — 14th November 2000.
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suzanne,
is editpad free?
Mark Hensler posted this at 22:26 — 14th November 2000.
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Yes (as from what I've heard)
Suzanne posted this at 23:17 — 14th November 2000.
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EditPad itself is now $20US.
I use the Classic. I have Lite installed, but I like the Classic best. I have been using it for, um, 3 years?
It is called "notepad.exe" on my computer, as it replaced notepad altogether. It has crashed once. I use it daily on 3 different computers.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 03:03 — 15th November 2000.
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Hi,
cuteHTML by GlobalScape -- line numbers, search/replace, browser selection, html tag popups, etc, etc. It's no interDev, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper -- $0
Vinny
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Mark Hensler posted this at 07:06 — 15th November 2000.
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lol... I don't think anything cost more than InterDev. Is there?
I can't imagine what else it could do... write the pages for you? maybe take verbal dictation, that would be kuel.
Mark Hensler
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Hugh Jass posted this at 00:20 — 29th November 2000.
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Dragonsjaw,
just for the record:
Does this happen only when you click the 'Edit' button
or when you right-click & select 'View Source' too? (IE)
Also:
Does this only happen to pages viewed on-line
or pages viewed from your HD too?
dragonsjaw posted this at 02:09 — 29th November 2000.
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For the record,
it started with no warning,
when the page was originally opened the code looked ok, if i made a change and then -saved- from the edit menu , then looked at page in browser, then brought notepad back up..the code was scrunched. If i didn't -save- it didn't happen.
I started using Notetablt as it was already on my machine and i didn't have time to learn/go get another test editor.
Notepad has since worked ok at times and then as soon as i get used to using it again, it reverts back to squashed code.
Happens to stuff on hard drive as i never do a save on view source from online.
later,
dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
myriad posted this at 02:25 — 4th December 2000.
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I've come across the same problem as you describe and
can't really pin down what the problem is either.
It is exactly as you describe - what I have done is
ensure that wordwrap isn't set as an option. Check the
font that is set. Check if you downloaded the file to edit
correctly.
HTH
Steve
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