How to avoid DOS line endings in Windows tools
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If you are going to work on the viewer code you need to conform to the Coding Standard. Standards your editor must support:
- Lines must end with a
LF
(linefeed) character. In addition to the editor specific notes below, you should consider using the Mercurial extension EolExtension to make line-endings less of a problem. - A tab must be the same width as 4 spaces.
Strip'em
- Third party tool for Visual Studio 2008/2010 to automatically convert files to specified line ending type when a file is saved.
- Download and instructions: http://grebulon.com/software/stripem.php
- You will need to set to save to Unix (LF) line ending and add |xml to the list of files this tool watches.
- This is done in its options floater accessed from inside Visual Studio, tools -> Stripem.
- You need to configure Visual Studio to automatically reload files that change externally.
- Select Tools -> Options... -> Environment -> Documents from the VS menu.
- Check "Detect when file is changed outside the environment" and "Auto-load changes, if saved".
Notepad++
Configuring Notepad++ (download Notepad++)
- Line ending
- You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set Edit > EOL Conversion > UNIX Format
- Tab spacing
- Go to Settings > Preferences > Language Menu/Tab Settings.
- Click on Default
- Change Tab Size to
4
- Uncheck the box Replace by space
- Note: if you are going to be using the program as a general editor, you can customize which file types this tab to space conversion applies to.
Programmer's Notepad
Configuring Programmer's Notepad (download Programmer's Notepad)
- Per-file Line-ending Setting
- You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set File > Properties... > Line Endings to Unix (LF)
- To set "Unix" line endings as default for new files
- Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
- Set Line Endings to Unix (LF)
- Tab spacing
- Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
- Make sure the Use the tab character for indentation setting is checked.
- Set Tab Width to
4
- Visible whitespace
- It is convenient to be able to tell at a glance if there are incorrect characters used for indentation or line endings
- Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
- Check the box Visible Line Endings
- Check the box Visible Whitespace Characters
- Correcting line endings on existing files
- Go to Tools > Line Endings > Unix (LF) to convert the file