Why does notepad hate me?

[Duke 13370]

i have been working on our website and notepad officially hates me now. When i save certain files and go back to them later, all of the newlines are mysteriously gone! It takes ten minutes to get the lines back, or else it's hard to read and edit.:ahh:

ARGGHHHH!!!!!!

And it's only certain files (namely the ones i need to edit and mess with the most.)

(**crouches into a corner, wimpering**) help.

[evulish]

Sucks to have to use notepad :P

I'm not exactly a notepad whiz here...but can you save the files as different types of txt files? Like UNICODE and other fun stuff like that? If so...make sure it's to plain text or something like that :)

[Raven_Writer]

Why not just use Wordpad or Word (Yes, there is a difference)?

[jonathan lall]

Are you coding HTML in Notepad? I don't see the logic in that. You can type in Dreamweaver, plus it colour-codes, autocompletes, validates, and visualizes.

[bwood720]

I actually use notepad quite a bit. When I'm working on a website at school, or even on my laptop, when I don't have programs such as Dreamweaver, I use notepad. I like notepad because it doesn't crash, or get in the way memory-wise and loads instantly. There are many features that are better in other website programs, but I find that notepad is quite handy in many respects including tweaking and updating of information.

If you don't like notepad, there's a program with the same light-weight called metapad. metapad (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html) It has other features that are nice to have if you like notepad.

[gliebowitz]

vi works quite well

[Petey]

Originally posted by gliebowitz
vi works quite well

Oh, come on. You think if he's having this much trouble in Notepad, he'll be able to use VI?

Personally, whenever I'm on a winblows machine and have to code by hand, I use notepad.

Duke, I think the problem is how you're saving your file.

Now, when I'm on an NT 4 box at school, I have to specify to save it as "all files" and not ".txt".

So when you go to save, select the drop down bar that says "save as", switch to all files, and then name it desiredname.html.

That might help.

Wordpad and Word save it with too much formatting, and it's too hard to customize, and it ends up looking like crap.

--Petey

[Duke 13370]

Why not just use Wordpad or Word (Yes, there is a difference)? Wordpad apparently does the same thing. :ahh:

Are you coding HTML in Notepad? I don't see the logic in that. You can type in Dreamweaver, plus it colour-codes, autocompletes, validates, and visualizes.
Notepad is all I have, except for word (which hogs memory), 3 different C++ compilers (that are akward to use), and frontpage (which won't let you open lots of code windows and switch between them easily). :ahh:

Oh, and i'm not doing html, i'm doing mostly php and mysql.

Thanks for the advice, though.

[Duke 13370]

Metapad works well, but i can't set it as the default .txt program.

works well, though. Thanks bwood.

[Adam Y.]

Try acehtml 5 freeware. It is a pretty good text editor that helps you do things with css and html.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by Duke 13370
Metapad works well, but i can't set it as the default .txt program.

works well, though. Thanks bwood.
Click here for the answer (http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/faq.html#Q3)

[Duke 13370]

thanks again bwood. it works well now, and i no longer have an excuse to not program.