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Windows Notepad fixed after 33 years: Now it finally handles Unix, Mac OS line endings
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| May 8, 2018
| Thomas Claburn
Posted on 05/09/2018 9:43:07 AM PDT by dayglored
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This was the biggest deal of the entire BUILD conference.
But gee, there goes the last reason anyone had to keep "WordPad" around...
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:43:08 AM PDT
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:44:02 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
UltraEdit rules, NotePad drools.
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:44:22 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
I was gonna say, if you dont like NotePad, an alternative text editor is a trivial thing.
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:46:51 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:47:52 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:48:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: dayglored
Do I read this as meaning that when hitting the key while editing a file, notepad will insert according to context? That is, if there are nearby CRLFs, it inserts a CRLF; nearby CR's, it inserts a CR; nearby LF's, it inserts a LF?
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:49:48 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
To: dirtboy
>
... NotePad drools... Well, sure, but when you have to use a stock Windows box to do work with files from other OSes, Notepad is what you get, drool and all, and it's been worthless.
At least now there's hope. :-)
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:50:15 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Oh drat I just shot my computer over the weekend. Now what....
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:51:36 AM PDT
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
To: dirtboy
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:52:48 AM PDT
by
i_robot73
(One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
To: C210N
I would be pleasantly surprised if it did all that.
To: C210N
>
Do I read this as meaning that when hitting the key while editing a file, notepad will insert according to context? That is, if there are nearby CRLFs, it inserts a CRLF; nearby CR's, it inserts a CR; nearby LF's, it inserts a LF? Yeah, context. These are just plain text docs, so there's no useful metadata or header, and the only thing for the editor to do is read until it hits either an LF or a CR, figure out what the EOL looks like, and use that convention for that file.
For newly created files, it will still default to Windows CR-LF sequence.
Other editors have been doing this for 30+ years. It's not rocket science. But until recently, Microsoft refused to play nice with other OSes and so every editor-user in WindowsLand has suffered with the fact that the default Windows editor was brain-dead by design.
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:54:03 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: rightwingcrazy
See #12 — that’s exactly what it does. Be pleasantly surprised. :-)
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posted on
05/09/2018 9:55:44 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
CRLF is a holdover from the teletype days. Back when a carriage return really meant return the carriage to the left margin, and line feed moved up the platen.
If you just did a CR without a LF, your next row of type would overstrike the first, useful when creating ASCII art.
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:18:07 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: i_robot73
Discovered Notepad++ many years ago, never looked back. Especially for editing code / scripts.
To: i_robot73
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:19:36 AM PDT
by
day10
(You'll get nothing and like it!)
To: dayglored
Egads! I’m old. I still use edlin.exe
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:42:55 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: Yo-Yo
CRLF is a holdover from the teletype days. Back when a carriage return really meant return the carriage to the left margin, and line feed moved up the platen.
I was just thinking the same thing. In my PCP-8 days on a DEC teletype (or Lear Sieglar ADM80) ^i was tab, ^m was return, ^j line feed.
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:45:40 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Egads! Im old. I still use edlin.exe
That's okay. I use TECO.
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:47:00 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: dayglored
For any kind of development (PowerShell, sql, Java, etc.) I use Notepad++. A much better product, handles larger files and it’s free.
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posted on
05/09/2018 10:47:33 AM PDT
by
CatQuilt
(Lover of cats =^..^= and quilts)
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