[phobos] The time has come to destroy all y'all over CR/LF

[Don Clugston]

On 26 January 2011 20:37, David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com> 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.