How to avoid DOS line endings in Windows tools

If you are going to work on the viewer code you need to conform to the Coding Standard. Standards your editor must support:

• Lines must end with a LF (linefeed) character. In addition to the editor specific notes below, you should consider using the Mercurial extension EolExtension to make line-endings less of a problem.
• A tab must be the same width as 4 spaces.

Strip'em

• Third party tool for Visual Studio 2008/2010 to automatically convert files to specified line ending type when a file is saved.
• Download and instructions: http://grebulon.com/software/stripem.php
• You will need to set to save to Unix (LF) line ending and add |xml to the regular expression of files this tool watches.
  • This is done in its options floater accessed from inside Visual Studio, Tools -> Stripem.
• You need to configure Visual Studio to automatically reload files that change externally.
  • Select Tools -> Options... -> Environment -> Documents from the VS menu.
  • Check Detect when file is changed outside the environment and Auto-load changes, if saved.

Notepad++

Configuring Notepad++ (download Notepad++)

• Line ending
  • You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set Edit > EOL Conversion > UNIX Format
• Tab spacing
  • Go to Settings > Preferences > Language Menu/Tab Settings.
  • Click on Default
  • Change Tab Size to 4
  • Uncheck the box Replace by space
  • Note: if you are going to be using the program as a general editor, you can customize which file types this tab to space conversion applies to.

Programmer's Notepad

Configuring Programmer's Notepad (download Programmer's Notepad)

• Per-file Line-ending Setting
  • You should not need to specify the line ending for an existing file but for a new file you will want to set File > Properties... > Line Endings to Unix (LF)
• To set "Unix" line endings as default for new files
  • Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
  • Set Line Endings to Unix (LF)
• Tab spacing
  • Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
  • Make sure the Use the tab character for indentation setting is checked.
  • Set Tab Width to 4
• Visible whitespace
  • It is convenient to be able to tell at a glance if there are incorrect characters used for indentation or line endings
  • Go to Tools > Options > General > Defaults
  • Check the box Visible Line Endings
  • Check the box Visible Whitespace Characters
• Correcting line endings on existing files
  • Go to Tools > Line Endings > Unix (LF) to convert the file