What happens if you attach scripts as text?

This is just a test to see if attaching a script as a text attachment is any better than pasting it while php tag is off.

...and it is.

My version of Notepad really didn't like that file... didn't interpret the newlines

Notepad sucks - try wordpad or something that is a proper text editor
If it's a pain and "not good enough" for you, then I'll just not post scripts or bother to answer questions until they fix this forum.

Ditto... doesn't read the new lines~

easy enough to deal with....

on a Microsoft machine:

click on attachment above, it opens in notepad. click into the text. CTRL-A, CTRL-C to copy it.

Click start (or whatever we call that new bottom left clicky thing in vista), run, type in wordpad, it launches, click into it, paste.

formatting all comes through.

took 3 times longer to type than do :}

FYI, works fine on the Mac using TextEdit.

Use Save to disk... and open with your fav text editor - or just change the editor that opens text files from IE/Mozilla. Don't use Notepad for ANYTHING. That file is bytecode correct. Notepad just sucks.

looks ok in emacs, except 8 char tabs make it too wide. but that may be a matter of personal taste.

had to copy/paste to WordPad but nevertheless a good workable & simple solution..and much better than trying to read code while the php tag is off

To set wordpad as your default text file editor browse to a text file on your computer. Right click and select "open with". Select "Choose Program..." and then select wordpad from the list presented, check the box that says "Always use selected program to open" and click OK. From now on Windows will use wordpad as its default for text files.

It opened fine in LSLEditor too, complete with formatting and colours.
And if it is saved with a .lsl extension there is no need to redefine text associations.

It contains tab characters. Whether this renders as 8 spaces or 4 or 2 depends on YOU. An ascii tab is always 0x09. So it's not the file, it's your reader.

<RANT> This tab thing really annoy me. This is a deep IT issue and I have seen it over all sorts of IT systems. The only sensible setting for a tab is 4 spaces. The information theory perspective is that you can set a tab character to render as you wish/need, but most people like 4 spaces, and 90% of the BS is people using systems/renderers that do something other than they expect or want blame the original delivery not the fact that their system renders tabs in a stupid way. </RANT>

agree with tab rant. which is why i always try to remember to change tabs to spaces before export.

good thing to use a real program editor

like i use jedit for almost everything, php html lua lsl blah blah blah

tabs by default in that program are set to 8 spaces .... but since its designed for programing use its a simple matter of changing it to whatever you want

but again who the *$&#K needs an 8 space tab? and why is THAT default

the world may never know

ps: ive been attaching txt files for my script for quite a while now, the forums ALWAYS botches up your formatting even if you do have php or code tags, the width is never right (no matter how narrow your source is) and if you dont use spaces every x charaters it will just plop one in the most inconvenient place

so its always blown for full releases of source, but its terribly inconvenient not having it around when you just want to post a snippet or 2 to help someone out

ps ps: also the above attachment works just fine in my notepad ... weird, but i never deal with notepad becuase of that exact issue

there used to be these things called typewriters. they had eight char tabs.

ah that sorta explains it, see im 28 and have never had to use a typewriter

There is nothing to rant about.

It's not just a typewriter, 8 spaces is THE tab size for ALL printed material and has been for like what, 150 years at least?

8 space tabs on a normal variable pitched font (used for all NON code printing) is only SLIGHTY larger than 4 spaces on a monospaced font (required for proper code reading).

So the problem isn't in the file OR the program but in the head of the user. There is no "code" tag in text files that tells a text editor that you are looking at LSL or Moby Dick. It's YOUR responsibility to open code or text in the appropriate editor, Not windows, NOT SLs, yours.

Finally, you have to understand that 99% of comptuer users edit TEXT not CODE. So the 8 space tabs are exactly what the default standard for any non code specific editor should be. And it's the way it is. Everything is the way it should be. (Except notepad not handling different line endings, that really is cheap).

We coders are supposed to be smart enough to set our machines up and use the proper editors where necessary for our funky, 4 space tabbed mono-space fonted code files.