Opening a text document with Windows Notepad

Question

Often (but not always) when I open a text file using Windows Notepad, it does not recognize the line breaks.

If I open the file using Windows Wordpad, and then save it as a text file, and then open it with Notepad, the line breaks are recognized.

What causes this, and what is the easiest way to view/edit the file using Notepad?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 24 '14 at 20:05

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This is caused by this phenomenon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Notepad only understands the windows newline format, so you will have to use another program. Notepad++ is quite popular on Windows (and opensource). Notepad++ is also much better at handling large files.

edited Mar 24 '14 at 20:05

David

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answered Mar 24 '14 at 19:28

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Opening a text document with Windows Notepad

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