[Wine] Notepad appends ".txt" to file names it looks for
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 08:14:36 CDT 2008
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org> wrote:
> The program I'm using is 4NEC2, a freeware antenna-modelling program.
> I'm running wine-0.9.61 on Gentoo Linux on a Dell with Intel Core Duo
> cpu.
>
> Let's say I'm working on a design that I call "fubar". 4NEC2 will
> create files with names like "fubar.NEC" and "fubar.log". 4NEC uses
> Notepad to open the files for viewing. For some reason, my system
> always seems to try opening them as "fubar.NE.txt" and "fubar.lo.txt".
> The last character of the extension is deleted, and ".txt" is appended.
$ touch foobar.log
$ notepad foobar.log # file save
works fine
> When it tries to open files with these weird names, the result is a
> "File not found" error. Is there any way I can set Notepad not to be so
> "helpful"? As a second option, 4NEC2 allows to specify another text
> editor. Is there an "Edit" equivalant for Wine, or can Wine launch
> linux programs like vim or nano?
Try notepad++
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