In addition, you can select the end
of line sequence. WinVi supports the standard carriage return/line feed combination for Windows,
the line feed??“only character used by Unix, or the carriage return??“only character used by the Macintosh.
Best of all, you can save all of your settings as a profile. The editor supports multiple profiles
so you can switch between them as needed for your editing needs. All of these settings appear in
one location??”the Settings dialog box shown in Figure 7.2.
Figure 7.1
You can use WinVi
to edit text files and
binary files with
equal ease.
Figure 7.2
Use the WinVi
Settings dialog box to
access all of the features
of this highly
configurable editor.
194 CHAPTER 7
EDITING AND COMPILING BATCH FILES AND SCRIPTS
Obtaining a Better Notepad with Notepad+
Many people use Notepad for all of their development needs. After all, you really don??™t need anything
fancy when working on a batch file or a simple script. Of course, it would be nice if Notepad had
some additional features. For example, you can only open one file at a time in Notepad. Notepad+
looks strikingly similar to Notepad at first. It even has the same name.
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