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Introducing Extended Line Endings Support in Notepad

posted by mrpg on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long-linux!!!11!!!1!!!\r\n dept.

MrPlow writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 12 2018, @08:59PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday May 12 2018, @08:59PM (#678933) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:02PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:02PM (#678950) Homepage

    Wait till you work for big corporate, When it takes a month for your text editor to be approved or denied.