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

[David Simcha]

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 <dclugston at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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