{"id":259357,"date":"2018-05-09T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T06:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=259357"},"modified":"2018-05-09T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T06:11:58","slug":"windows-notepad-gets-big-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/259357-windows-notepad-gets-big-upgrade.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Notepad gets big upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notepad, the basic text editor that comes with Windows, will soon support Unix and classic MacOS line endings, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/05\/notepad-gets-a-major-upgrade-now-does-unix-line-endings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to supporting Unix standards, source code files written on Linux-bases and MacOS systems would have all their text appear on one line in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>This is because Windows expects two escape sequences, or special characters, to tell it to make a new line &#8211; carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF).<\/p>\n<p>On Unix, only LF is used. Classic MacOS used a bare CR.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the default text editor in Windows will deal with this inconsistency in standards when its next update is released, likely around October.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do not wish Notepad to interpret CR and LF characters in this way may change a setting in the Windows registry to switch the app back to its traditional behaviour.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/258677-new-windows-10-build-makes-taking-screenshots-easier.html\">New Windows 10 build makes taking screenshots easier<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notepad will soon support Unix and classic MacOS line endings, Ars Technica reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":259367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,50633,807],"class_list":["post-259357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-notepad","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259379,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259357\/revisions\/259379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}