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Editing a file like that with a text editor is a right pain. Inserting these characters isn't all that straight-forward, and everything will be on a single line
by arp242 1y ago
Editing a file like that with a text editor is a right pain. Inserting these characters isn't all that straight-forward, and everything will be on a single line. In theory RS could be treated as a newline, which will only add to the line ending confusion.
I think this is one of those things that sounds kind of nice in principle, but where the real-world practicalities just don't work out.
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoText editors should be programmed to support those separators. Would've saved us from CSV.
- rswail 1y agoThe file editing is an I/O issue, not a character issue. The I/O drivers could translate as necessary, that's the point of using an explicit character to mean "new line" as opposed to either "carriage return" or "line feed". Effectively moving away from explicit carriage and paper controls to a character that was explicitly internal to mean to generate whatever carriage/paper controls were needed on output/editing etc.