Can we get rid of non-raw write?
Paulo Pinto
pjmlp at progtools.org
Thu Mar 21 01:06:20 PDT 2013
On Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 05:01:06 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 March 2013 at 14:34:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>> Since *at least* as far back as XP, Windows has handled "\n"
>> newlines
>> perfectly fine. The command line displays them properly, .BAT
>> scripts
>> handle them properly, every code editor in existence handles
>> them
>> properly. The *only* thing I've found that doesn't is Windows
>> Notepad,
>> but really, whoTF uses that anyway?
>
> Notepad is used as a log viewer. When you're presented a
> machine you don't run, you usually don't have time to setup
> your preferred work environment, notepad comes in handy to just
> view the log and diagnose an error.
My workaround in such cases is to use Write, which is also
installed by default and handles the files correctly.
I think Notepad still uses the same code from Windows 3.x days! :)
--
Paulo
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