Atom editor - convert line endings to UNIX

Question

I need to convert the line endings of some mock data into Unix format. I'm using Atom editor on Win 7.

Looking online, I found an Atom package to convert line endings, but the package said it is deprecated since Atom now has this as a standard feature.

I cannot find any such standard feature in Atom - and Atom's documentation doesn't even know what line-ending conversion is.

'About Atom' tells me Atom is up-to-date with v.1.23.3

This, to me, seems a paradox.

(And no, I cannot just use Notepad++.)

I've looked around at a lot of solutions, but have not found one that will actually work.

Answer 1

The built in line-ending-selector package supports this use case: https://atom.io/packages/line-ending-selector

The package's documentation describes how to do this:

You can click the line ending in the status-bar to open a modal with the line ending options. Selecting a different line ending will change each line of the file in the active editor.

If you prefer to use the keyboard, you can also open the command palette (cmd-shift-p on macOS), type Convert and then use the Line Ending Selector: Convert to LF and Line Ending Selector: Convert to CRLF commands from there.