ASCII editor

[Jerry McBride]

On Wed, 15 May 2002 18:58:15 -0400 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:55 pm, Harry G wrote:
> > I am in need of a editor that will edit ascii files with no changes
> > being made.
> >
> > Most editors tend to add things.  This is to be used for transcripts
> > of court cases, and can not change them in ANY way when opened or
> > saved.
> >
> 
> If you don't want them changed....  why would you be saving them?
> 
> Most editors will not touch a file *unless* it is saved.
> 

I think what he means is... some editors will alter the loaded text
without your knowlege. Like for instance, aee will convert a tab to
multiple spaces (if you tell it to). Some add an eof to the tail, etc.

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