What Text Editor Program Is Supposed to be Used for Forge?

[Fregnor]

What text editor are the card files for individual cards supposed to be opened and edited with? Notepad jumbles everything together in a big mess. For example:

Name:Vivien's JaguarManaCost:2 GTypes:Creature Cat SpiritA:AB$ ChangeZone | Cost$ 2 G | Origin$ Graveyard | Destination$ Hand | ActivationZone$ Graveyard | IsPresent$ Planeswalker.Vivien+YouCtrl | SpellDescription$ Return CARDNAME from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only if you control a Vivien planeswalker.DeckHints:Type$VivienOracle:{2}{G}: Return Vivien’s Jaguar from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only if you control a Vivien planeswalker.PT:3/2

But I noticed that this board somehow reads and correctly adds the paragraph breaks. For example:

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Name:Vivien's Jaguar
ManaCost:2 G
Types:Creature Cat Spirit
A:AB$ ChangeZone | Cost$ 2 G | Origin$ Graveyard | Destination$ Hand | ActivationZone$ Graveyard | IsPresent$ Planeswalker.Vivien+YouCtrl | SpellDescription$ Return CARDNAME from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only if you control a Vivien planeswalker.
DeckHints:Type$Vivien
Oracle:{2}{G}: Return Vivien’s Jaguar from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only if you control a Vivien planeswalker.
PT:3/2


A discussion board on a web page is not the most convenient piece of software for analyzing and editing a video game.

What text editor are other people using instead of Notepad?

[Arcanist]

I don't work on Forge, but if you are using Windows it could be a simple newline encoding issue.

Windows typically uses a carriage return followed by a linefeed to encode newlines. Other operating systems like Linux only use a linefeed. Notepad is notorious for not handling this very well so that, when you open a text file created on Linux, everything appears to be on a single line (with non-printable characters interspersed all over). Most editors however are able to handle those files correctly. Try opening the files with a more advanced editor like Notepad++ to see if this fixes the problem.

[Fregnor]

I downloaded and installed Notepad++ and it opens these Forge files perfectly in an unjumbled format.

Thank you very much!