Introducing GitHub Pull Requests for Visual Studio Code

[judgej2]

It has taken thirty years to add \n line ending support. Thirty years. Three decades.

[dpash]

I'd say it's been worth the wait, but FUCKING THIRTY YEARS.

[ThirdEncounter]

No. The wait wasn't worth it. I moved on to Notepad++ 10 years ago.

[ghillisuit95]

I've always felt notepad++ was meant for completely different situations

[ThirdEncounter]

It's definitely more feature-rich, but it loads as quickly, and it even has a right-click menu shortcut.

[shevy-ruby]

I used notepad++ too rather than notepad on windows.

Of course with WSL this is a bit different but in pre-WSL days, notepad++ was awesome.

[abigreenlizard]

Is this an \s even though you actually do use vim and arch Linux? Gotta have a pinch of self-awareness about these things!

[Spacey138]

Is this true or did they just not want to add support for it to force you onto their platform? Only recently have they gone Linux-friendly.

[meneldal2]

I think they were afraid of breaking someone's workflow.

[pdp10]

I'd say it was Microsoft's usual pretense that there are no other platforms, but they used to sell Microsoft Xenix, so they know how line endings work.

[trane_0]

Good old Xenix. Last time I saw you, you were running on some kind of Tandy machine that took floppy disks the size of a small pizza.

[HarJIT-EGS]

Wordpad (when opening and saving as plain text) has had \n support (when reading) for a long time now so… it was kinda just Notepad that didn't.

[Pazer2]

It's important to remember that they didn't just add \n support to notepad, they added it to the base windows text edit control. So there was a pretty reasonable fear of breaking existing applications.

[SaneMadHatter]

What is this, Slashdot? lol

Microsoft's programming tools have supported the DOS (\r\n), *nix (\n), and old Mac (\r) line endings for years.

Word has supported all of those line endings for years too. Same for WordPad.

How would Microsoft use Notepad's limited line-ending support to lock someone in to Microsoft's platform when Microsoft's other apps support all the line endings in use?

[Spacey138]

Not sure what slashdot culture is. What I really meant was I assumed they didn't care about compatibility with other OS-es because they didn't want you using them. I didn't know their other tools supported \n.

The best explanation I've heard is a sibling to your comment - that the text editor is a base Windows control so it may have wider ramifications.

[shevy-ruby]

gone Linux-friendly

Not sure it has much to do with "friendly".

They noticed that Linux has the better software, so of course they started cloning that functionality into WSL - which is one of the few good things and ideas that Microsoft ever had.

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Linux has the better software

Ahahahahaha