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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: 2) by corey on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:31PM

    by corey (2202) on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:31PM (#678961)

    Coincidence - I commented on notepad not being able to interpret Unix newlines in a story last week.

    I was thinking notepad was on the death bed with mspaint.

    Good because at work I use notepad all the time for "plaintexting" text I've copied from a template document before pasting into another, plus for scratchpad notes and reminders/TODO.

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