I wish HippoEdit could show the actual record ending characters

[Arthur]

Hello,

I just needed to peek what the end of line characters are in a text file, but I could only see a wierd looking character, I wish HippoEdit could really show if my file ends with CR LF and/or LF only similarly to what I used to see in Notepad++ (which is bummer - failed to load a 300 Mb file and even did not tell me it did not load it completely - kudos to HE  )

[kryten]

I'd like to second this request for a view option to show line endings, like notepad++.

I work with a certain file type where this is very important and I hate having to open
it in notepad++ when HippoEdit is just crying out for this feature.

Thanks,
Stuart

[alex]

Hi Guys,

HE uses smart mode to display line ending character.
If all lines in document have same line ending ending style, than you see such "weird" symbol (like in MS Word by the way) and actual line style endings for whole document you can see in the status bar.
If lines in document have different line ending style, than in status bar you will see mixed and every line will show actual line ending symbol (same way as in Notepad++).
Purpose of this function is to save space, because Scintilla (Notepad++) representation is wider (and noisy) but not really necessary if all lines ending are same.

If you want always see complete line ending representation for all lines (case 2) you can use one more XML flag   :

settings.xml

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<Source_Editor>
<ShortLineBreakDisplay>false</ShortLineBreakDisplay>
</Source_Editor>


Best regards,
Alex.

[kryten]

You know, all this time the information was in front of me
and I never noticed. 

It's perfect, and much more elegant than Notepad++

The more I use HippoEdit the more I love it.

Thank you Alex.

-Stuart

[alex]

Thanks Stuart

[Arthur]

Nice!
I wish though it could be the default setting, I guess otherwise (correct me if I am wrong) every new version upgrade of HE will re-set it back to the a-la-Word style of displaying the end of line chars?

[alex]

I think current way is better as default . See my description above.
And xml flags are never overwritten by upgrade. Only changes in pre-installed files (as syntax scheme specification or default keyboard layout) can be overwritten.

[Arthur]

The suggestion by Stefan to extend the wait time on Shift key down and hold was "blown" by my recent upgrade of HE (<AccelHintTimer>8000</AccelHintTimer>) in settings.xml!

[alex]

Hi Arthur,

sorry for delay with response. This is unlikely. You can try to to do install on top and check that settings.xml will be untouched. And I have done no chnages ih this area for a long time... Maybe this was by some other PC ?
But of course, if this can be reproducible, it is a bug, and I will check.

Best regards,
Alex

[Arthur]

Hi, I always do "on top" installs.

[alex]

Good. Are you able to reproduce this?

[Arthur]

I will try next time a new beta is released, for now I have backed up my present settings.xml

Thank You