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1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Line Separators</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="jEdit 4.3 User's Guide"><link rel="up" href="files.html" title="Chapter 4. Working With Files"><link rel="prev" href="saving.html" title="Saving Files"><link rel="next" href="encodings.html" title="Character Encodings"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Line Separators</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="saving.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 4. Working With Files</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="encodings.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="line-separators"></a>Line Separators</h2></div></div></div><p>Unix systems use newlines (<code class="literal">\n</code>) to mark line 2 endings in text files. The MacOS uses carriage-returns 3 (<code class="literal">\r</code>). Windows uses a carriage-return followed by a 4 newline (<code class="literal">\r\n</code>). jEdit can read and write files in all 5 three formats.</p><p>The line separator used by the in-memory representation of file 6 contents is always the newline character. When a file is being loaded, 7 the line separator used in the file on disk is stored in a per-buffer 8 property, and all line-endings are converted to newline characters for 9 the in-memory representation. When the buffer is consequently saved, the 10 value of the property replaces newline characters when the buffer is 11 saved to disk.</p><p>There are several ways to change a buffer's line separator:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>In the <span class="guimenu"><strong>Utilities</strong></span>><span class="guimenuitem"><strong>Buffer 12 Options</strong></span> dialog box. See <a class="xref" href="buffer-opts.html" title="The Buffer Options Dialog Box">the section called “The Buffer Options Dialog Box”</a>.</p></li><li><p>By clicking the line separator indicator in the status 13 bar. See <a class="xref" href="status-bar.html" title="The Status Bar">the section called “The Status Bar”</a>.</p></li><li><p>From the keyboard, if a keyboard shortcut has been 14 assigned to the <span class="guimenuitem"><strong>Toggle Line Separator</strong></span> 15 command in the <span class="guibutton"><strong>Shortcuts</strong></span> pane of the 16 <span class="guimenu"><strong>Utilities</strong></span>><span class="guimenuitem"><strong>Global 17 Options</strong></span> dialog box. By default, this command does 18 not have a keyboard shortcut.</p></li></ul></div><p>By default, new files are saved with your operating system's 19 native line separator. This can be changed in the 20 <span class="guibutton"><strong>General</strong></span> pane of the 21 <span class="guimenu"><strong>Utilities</strong></span>><span class="guimenuitem"><strong>Global 22 Options</strong></span> dialog box; see <a class="xref" href="global-opts.html#general-pane" title="The General Pane">the section called “The General Pane”</a>. 23 Note that changing this setting has no effect on existing files.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="saving.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="files.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="encodings.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Saving Files </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Character Encodings</td></tr></table></div></body></html>