Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS.
[...] Starting with the current Windows 10 Insider build, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the file's current line ending format.
It's about damned time.
Source: Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday May 12 2018, @07:46PM (4 children)
number of average users this will effect or who will care: 0%
The only people who might have cared at some point are the admin types who frequently move plain text files between Window and *nix systems. The same people who would have installed a different editor on their Windows box long, long ago.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 12 2018, @08:59PM (2 children)
Having to download a real text editor for windows to edit one file on a computer you'll likely never touch again is an unnecessary pain in the ass. I doubt it took them any longer to improve the code than it has cost just me in wasted time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:02PM (1 child)
Wait till you work for big corporate, When it takes a month for your text editor to be approved or denied.
(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 12 2018, @11:09PM
You wait till I work for big corporate. I ain't got heat death of the universe kind of patience.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @09:49PM
I've been using todos and fromdos for ages. I always run fromdos on anything that might have been touched on a Windows machine.