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I hate to say it, but Windows has the line breaks right. Why did Unix see fit to just type further and further to the right on a never ending paper?
by mike_hock 5y ago
I hate to say it, but Windows has the line breaks right. Why did Unix see fit to just type further and further to the right on a never ending paper?
- ByteJockey 5y agoIf you want to get a newline without moving all the way to the left, you can use the vertical tab character. No reason to complicate line endings for a rare circumstance like this.
- moron4hire 5y agoThat's not the Unix way. The Unix way is to compose crappy, half-assed solutions like CRLF from parts, rather than create dedicated solutions like VT.
- mike_hock 5y agoDo one thing and do it well! There's no reason a line feed should also need to return the carriage. What is this, systemd-lf? What if I want to swap the carriage return implementation for the BSD one?