[GTALUG] Notepad drops carrage return bits.

[Russell]

On May 9, 2018 9:11:49 AM EDT, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>On 09/05/18 07:51 AM, Russell via talk wrote:
>> The article described the move as a step backwards. Best quote from
>the comments.
>>
>> "On a mechanical typewriter when you pull the lever you get an LF
>first then a CR. So Windows is already backwards."
>>
>>
>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-does-unix-line-endings/
>>
>If I remember correctly from the 11-780 days, when I hit return the 
>cursor went to the left edge of the stream, and when the shell finished
>
>launching the command I'd typed, it went to the next line.
>
>When it was slow, you knew that it was taking time loading. For
>example, 
>if you just told it to load emacs (;-))

By the time I was using emacs, mostly for dssl and xslt validation, somebody had written viper-mode macros to make it vi like. Saved your pinky and kept all the list processing macros. 

I'll bet the wait was better than trying to use ed and ex. 

>
>--dave
>
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-- 
Russell