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

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


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Sunday May 13 2018, @01:35AM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday May 13 2018, @01:35AM (#679016)

    So he has an asterisk on his record. If he hadn't wandered off the plantation he would have been allowed to die quietly with all of his sins carefully buried with him. Guy still created a huge body of quality work that will probably endure long past the scandals. Most of us understand that if we actually looked, (more accurately were allowed to look) we would find almost the entirety of Hollywood to be diseased. We don't plan to discard the century of shared culture those people created when we finally learn the truth.

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  • (Score: 2) by lentilla on Sunday May 13 2018, @06:43AM

    by lentilla (1770) on Sunday May 13 2018, @06:43AM (#679110)

    Guy still created a huge body of quality work that will probably endure long past the scandals.

    I'm not so sure of that.

    The Internet is barely a generation old (counting from the Eternal September) and we don't yet understand how cultural memory is going to work. Our cultural output isn't carved in granite, it isn't written down in books and stored in private libraries. Ten years ago I might have said our cultural heritage was going to be stored in distributed "god boxes" - simplistically: every song, every movie ever produced would be stored on a hard drive. Today, I realise our cultural heritage is stored "on the Cloud".

    Now the "Cloud" is a fickle thing. Yes, we have access to Shakespeare, but we don't have access to Mickey Mouse, nor to the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. In the case of Cosby, I would be entirely surprised if his entire oeuvre wasn't memory hole'd. For the next sixty years people will feel such disgust that they won't watch his work. Television stations won't rebroadcast (advertisers will make sure of that). The following generations won't grow up watching or hearing of his work. The Cloud may indeed forget him - if nobody watches his work, artificial intelligence may conclude his work is unimportant, and thus will not make an effort to promote his work to others.

    So he has an asterisk on his record.

    An asterisk; so large that it eclipses all of the good things. Society has always been fairly tolerant of artists but there is a tipping point.