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Windows linebreaks

By default gedit displays both windows and unix linebreaks properly, but it creates unix linebreaks. This can even give a resulting file with a mix of windows and unix linebreaks. It can be a problem if you e.g. want to create .bat files on linux and execute them on windows.

It's possible to convert all linebreaks in a file to windows linebreaks, by enabling the external tools plugin and using this script:

s/\r//g
s/$//g
s/$/\r/

This can convert all linebreaks to unix linebreaks:

s/\r//g
s/$//g