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For the reasons below, I believe it would be helpful if I
could display control characters when working with GEDIT. I have no idea of the
scope of the effort to provide a plug-in to do this but I suspect others would
find it useful. Regardless, I do appreciate your product and efforts to date. Sincerely, Dan As a unix weenie, I get bit a lot by the arcane details of
the OS. I suspect a lot of novice users do too. The last couple of days I’ve
had trouble getting a script to run. The terminal returned the error message “Command
not found” even when all of the commands in the file were commented out.
The problem turned out to be the linefeed sequence \n\r (^M character). I’m
a little wiser now, but I doubt I’ll remember the solution 2-3 years from
now if I run in to it again as I’m an infrequent user. Once a friend
helped find the error using cat –v filename, it was easy to strip the \r
using GEDIT’s search and replace function. |