[Newbies] mucking around in .changes file on linux/ubuntu

antonio antoniomoreno at edu.juntaextremadura.net
Mon Feb 15 08:10:03 UTC 2010


Try Smultron.

Regards

El sáb, 13-02-2010 a las 22:26 -0800, Jerome Peace escribió:

> Hi all,
> 
> At some point in making and finding bugs, I am left with having to pick up pieces. On my mac I could always just read the whole changes file into a text editor and extract manually the tail bit.
> 
> Having moved on to Ubuntu 8.04 my tools don't seem to match my needs.
> 
> The Gedit editor refuses to read the text because it is in a format it can't decode. It tries Utf-8 and latin1.
> 
> The Emacs editor will gladly read in the file but because the line endings are cr rather than crlf I get a file all on one line. 
> 
> My emacs skills are rusty so I've not figured out what to do next. 
> 
> Is there anyone out there who has deal with changes files and linux editors? What might work most elegantly or robustly? 
> 
> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace
> 
> 
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