Windows' Notepad Finally Supports Unix/Linux Line Endings

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Windows' Notepad Finally Supports Unix/Linux Line Endings

Following Microsoft adding the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for running Linux programs on Windows 10 and most recently adding Tar and OpenSSH support to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, their latest Linux-friendly initiative targeting administrators/developers is supporting Unix/Linux line-endings within Notepad...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Notepad-Linux-Line-Endings

[MihaiBojescu]

Took them a while...

[starshipeleven]

THE SKY!!!!! IT'S FALLING!!!!!


But no, they can still fuck right off, even basic editors nowadays have syntax highlighting, and writing anything more complex than a few dozen lines without that is a pain.

[Kazam]

Now for the weather report: Below freezing and continued snowfall. Icy road conditions. Chance of rain in the southernmost parts of hell otherwise thoroughly frozen over.

[Nth_man]

From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/com...l-in-notepad/:

> This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pro’s, administrators, and end users throughout the community.

And they knew it for years...

[starshipeleven]

From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/com...l-in-notepad/:

> This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pro’s, administrators, and end users throughout the community.

And they knew it for years...

*decades

[Tomin]

Do they still require BOM on UTF-8 files?

[higuita]

just 100million more bugs and "features" to fix!

By the way, also fix the BOM issue, where notepad adds the BOM character to the top of txt documents and break apps reading the file (like php). Exactly the same, new files it is OK to add the BOM, existent files, if no BOM found, do not add it!

Adding invisible characters to files without being requested is plain evil!

[schmidtbag]

This is probably the most significant update to Notepad since Windows 95, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here. I sincerely don't know anything else noteworthy about Notepad that has changed since then.

[alpha_one_x86]

When Windows will support EXT4 and BTRFS?