From: Yannick Grams Date: 2007-03-03T18:32:35+09:00 Subject: Re: File Question I write all my Ruby programs in SciTe: it's the output that's going to Notepad. I chose Notepad as it is something almost every computer has. But I'll look into Wordpad. Thanks! >From: Chad Perrin >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) >Subject: Re: File Question >Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:30:50 +0900 > >On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 06:04:00PM +0900, Yannick Grams wrote: > > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > That's a limitation of Notepad. > > > > Do you have any suggestions? > >In my personal experience, SciTE is excellent. Even WordPad doesn't >have that limitation (though last I checked it still has a memory leak >that was present in the Write program from which it evolved, back in the >Windows 3.x days -- not my favorite tool for reading text files). > >Others may offer other suggestions. > >I haven't checked in depth on what exactly limits Notepad -- whether >it suffers hardcoded limitations or the limits have something to do with >system RAM. I just know that significant filesizes and line lengths >tend to cause it to "puke", as 'twere, when other text editing >applications don't have that problem. > >-- >CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] >Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." > _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Meet Sexy Singles Today @ Lavalife - Click here http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D23769&_t=754951090&_r=endtext_lavalife_dec_meet&_m=EXT