Don't bait. Anyway, yeah, the CRLF thing can be annoying, but it's been around for 50,000 years. Just part of life. :)
I still say Notepad++ rocks! -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Andrew Baudouin wrote: > The short answer is because CP/M used a <CR><LF> and all Microsoft > operating systems are based on the clone of CP/M bought by Gates for $50K. > > Spending 5 minutes on wikipedia would answer your question, but it would > not stop you from hating Microsoft. > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Here is a funny rant: > > > http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=argh_microsoft_notepad_crlf_argh&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 > > <http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=argh_microsoft_notepad_crlf_argh&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1> > > A couple of years ago, I realized that a whole generation has grown > up without > ever having to use a typewriter. A classmate was complaining that > he always > hit the Caps Lock key and wondered aloud why it was where it was. I > explained to him the mechanics of manual typewriters, He already > understood > human inertia. > > So why was it that M$ screwed up line feeds? Was it because they > did not have > printcap and had to rely on human beings to keep early printers to > keep from > printing at the end of carriage? Why have they not fixed this when > every > modern print system works without it? GNU/Linux editors, right down > to vim, > have been able to deal with Notepad's broken output transparently > for years. > Does M$ enjoy their perversion? Are they still at war with > commercial Unix? > Why does Penguin Pete care? > > Is there something else that I missed when talking to my classmate? > I almost > never hit the caps lock by mistake. I could attribute this to my > model M > keyboard, but they tiny keys of my X30 Thinkpad are not a problem > either. In > fact, no keyboard has done this to me. Do Windows users find themselves > reaching for the tab button often? Why is the caps lock button a > problem to > so many people? > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. < > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
