RTF bug in TextEdit and XCode ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 4 janv. 07, at 19:08, Patxi Roca wrote:

> Curious... have you tried NisusWriter?

No, I don't have it. And I am not considering spending $69 to make  
multiple search/replace on RTF files when that should be possible  
with Xcode.

Have you checked the bug on your side ?

Jean-Christophe Helary

> On Jan 4, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>> I know Xcode is not specifically an RTF editor but when I looked  
>> around, the only RTF supporting text editor around was Xcode (and  
>> TextEdit). I needed to do a massive search/replace in a bunch of  
>> RTF files and I thought Xcode would help but I found the following  
>> bug (?) in both:
>>
>> I open an RTF file in either of the two.
>> I don't do anything to it.
>> I save is.
>>
>> The result is an RTF file that Word or OpenOffice (NeoOffice)  
>> can't display with the original layout, while the Apple apps won't  
>> have no problem displaying it with the proper line breaks etc.
>>
>> The (not so) funny thing is that if I do something to the file  
>> before saving it, it retains its line breaks and there are no  
>> issues at all when the file is used in non Apple apps.
>>
>> Is it me or is it a major bug ?