Originally Posted by kasperapd

You can use Notepad or Wordpad

Originally Posted by Dawg

its actually recommend that you dont use either of these.

Originally Posted by parisot

Why do you say that?

Originally Posted by parisot

Yeah, those directions say open it in a text editor... Notepad and wordpad are text editors. So I don't understand why you say neither...

Originally Posted by Perfect Storm

Those directions actually say "A decent plain text editor (notepad not recommended)."

Now, as the author I will tell you why: Microsoft uses different encoding in their text editors than pretty much everything else on the market. For example the character used to make a new line from a unix text editor will not always work in notepad, and you'll get one long line for the entire file, with box characters where a new line should occur.

Similarly some scripts will ignore the windows new line character and interpret a file as all one line.

In the case of alx files, I don't think this makes a different at present. But to be on the safe side - because I have personally had experiences where everything looked fine in notepad and crapped out when a program had to interpret it - I've recommended something else.

Textpad is a fantastic editor - the best aside from VIM IMO - and I highly recommend it as it's easy to use, has lots of useful features, and encodes properly (or not, if that's what you want).

Originally Posted by Perfect Storm

Those directions actually say "A decent plain text editor (notepad not recommended)."

Now, as the author I will tell you why: Microsoft uses different encoding in their text editors than pretty much everything else on the market. For example the character used to make a new line from a unix text editor will not always work in notepad, and you'll get one long line for the entire file, with box characters where a new line should occur.

Similarly some scripts will ignore the windows new line character and interpret a file as all one line.

In the case of alx files, I don't think this makes a different at present. But to be on the safe side - because I have personally had experiences where everything looked fine in notepad and crapped out when a program had to interpret it - I've recommended something else.

Textpad is a fantastic editor - the best aside from VIM IMO - and I highly recommend it as it's easy to use, has lots of useful features, and encodes properly (or not, if that's what you want).