Vote++. No end user of any production quality program should ever have to care about such trivia as line terminators except in extreme corner cases (like the aforementioned case of ending up w/ a CR LF that come from two different edits on two different OS's).
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Don Clugston <[email protected]>wrote: > On 26 January 2011 20:37, David Simcha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance, but why is this such a big issue? Shouldn't any > > decent programmer tool (diff utility, editor, IDE, etc.) be able to > > interpret CR, LF and CR LF as effectively meaning the same thing and do > what > > you mean? > > The thing Microsoft should be shot for, is for continuing to provide a > default text editor (Notepad) which can't handle LF as an end-of-line > marker. That's inexcusable. > > How many end-of-lines are in "\n\r\n\n\r" ? Notepad says 1. > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos >
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