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: 3, Informative) by edIII on Saturday May 12 2018, @07:49PM
When I was using Windows, Notepad was my favorite. For a long time, just due to the simplicity. Wordpad was a bit too complicated, and if I needed those features, would use Office instead. Notepad was perfectly lightweight.
However, that CRLF business made it very difficult, and progressively more so, to view normal files. That was because a LOT of normal files were coming to me from Mac/Linux.
I ended up switching to Notepad++ some years ago, purely for the line ending support.
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