EOL conversion in notepad

Question

For some reason  when I open files from a unix server on my windows machine  they occasionally have Macintosh EOL conversion  and when I edit save them again they don t work properly on the unix server   I only use notepad    to edit files from this unix server  so is there a way to create a macro that automatically converts EOL to Unix format whenever I open a file

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In Notepad    use replace all with regular expression  This has advantage over conversion command in menu that you can operate on entire folder w o having to open each file or drag n drop  on several hundred files it will noticeably become slower  plus you can also set filename wildcard filter     r  n    r n     to   n   This will match every possible line ending pattern  single  r   n or  r n  back to  n   Or  r n if you are converting to windows-style   To operate on multiple files  either    Use  Replace All in all opened document  in  Replace  tab  You will have to drag and drop all files into Notepad   first  It s good that you will have control over which file to operate on but can be slow if there several hundreds or thousands files   Replace in files  in  Find in files  tab  by file filter of you choice  e g     cpp   cs under one specified directory

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Depending on your project  you might want to consider using EditorConfig  https   editorconfig org    There s a Notepad   plugin which will load an  editorconfig where you can specify  lf  as the mandatory line ending    I ve only started using it  but it s nice so far  and open source projects I ve worked on have included  editorconfig files for years  The  EOL Conversion  setting isn t changed  so it can be a bit confusing  but if you  View   Show Symbol   Show End of Line   you can see that it s adding LF instead of CRLF  even when  EOL Conversion  and the lower bottom corner shows something else  e g  Windows  CR LF

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I open files  directly  from WinSCP which opens the files in Notepad   I had a php files on my linux server which always opened in Mac format no matter what I did  -    If I downloaded the file and then opened it from local  windows  it was open as Dos Windows    hmmm  The solution was to EOL-convert the local file to  UNIX OSX Format   save it and then upload it    Now when I open the file directly from the server it s open as  Dos Windows   -

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That functionality is already built into Notepad     From the  Edit  menu  select  EOL Conversion  -   UNIX OSX Format    screenshot of the option for even quicker finding  or different language versions   You can also set the default EOL in notepad   via  Settings  -   Preferences  -   New Document Default Directory  then select  Unix OSX  under the Format box

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