Re: possibly off-toipc: Text file converter for other platforms

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Mar 20, 8:24 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> > Emacs can do it.  C-space at one corner of the rectangle, move to the other.
> > C-x r k
>
> Emacs can do *anything*!  ;-)

Well, yes, since rather than being a text editor, it's a platform
whose user interface is a text editor :-)

Watching an Emacs 'nutter' who uses it to read email, post to news,
browse the web, as a terminal emulator, etc. is truly a sight to
behold.

While I do love my Emacs, I've always been fond of the good old vi way
of doing line delimiter converstion:

DOS->UNIX:  :%s/^V^M//
UNIX->DOS:  :%s/^V^L/&^M/

Which you can also pull off with sed, awk, etc from a shell prompt.

Yes, you can do this with Emacs as well, but hauling a 100mb text
editor into memory just to do a line conversion offends the aesthetics
of many UNIX people :-)

Matt