[wingide-users] [OT] line termination, was: Wing 2.1.0-b1 creates files withoutfinal newline on Windows

[Michael P. Soulier]

Tom Stambaugh wrote:
> So in this case, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that "CR/LF" 
> ("\r\n") is the "standard", and "\r" (in the Mac) and "\n" in *nix are two 
> abbreviations for the standard.

Indeed. In fact, Internet protocols still require line terminations to 
be \r\n. On Unix the compiler simply translates \n such that the 
terminal does \r\n.

I am loathe to defend Microsloth, but they're quite correct here. As 
usual, Apple did something different just to be different, and added no 
value whatsoever.

I'd be happy if the world simply standardized on \r\n.

Mike
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