ASCII editor

[dep]

begin  Harry G's  quote:
| I am in need of a editor that will edit ascii files with no changes
| being made.

okay. first, do you want to *edit* them, which by definition means 
changing them, or to *view* them, which by definition means leaving 
them unchanged?

if the former, you could do no better than nedit. you can set it, 
even, to do word wrap without actually inserting the word wraps in 
the text; likewise, if you want word wrap off so that each paragraph 
is on one line, you can do that, too. it is in my estimation just 
about the best editor in the world (and an example of your tax 
dollars at work -- it was originally developed at a federal nuke 
lab).

http://www.nedit.org/

| Most editors tend to add things.

what kind of things? do you mean opening a file in microsoft word and 
then saving it and having it change from a .txt file to a .doc? and 
all kinds of formatting stuff being added?

it would help if you could give a little bit better description of 
what you're talking about here.
-- 
dep

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