RTEMS 4.6.99.3 On-Line Library

Text Editor

Getting Started with RTEMS

7.3: Text Editor

You absolutely have to use a text editor which can save files with Unix format. So do NOT use Notepad or Wordpad! There are a number of editors freely available that can be used.

VIM (Vi IMproved) is available from http://www.vim.org/. This editor has the very handy ability to easily read and write files in either DOS or UNIX style.
GNU Emacs is available for many platforms including MS-Windows. The official homepage is http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html. The GNU Emacs on Windows NT and Windows 95/98 FAQ is at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html.

If you do accidentally end up with files having MS-DOS style line termination, then you may have to convert them to Unix format for some Cygwin programs to operate on them properly. The program dos2unix can be used to put them back into Unix format as shown below:

$ dos2unix XYZ
Dos2Unix: Cleaning file XYZ ...

Getting Started with RTEMS