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Not sure how you go from "finally catching up with support of a basic text format that's around for decades" to "making enough progress". This won't silence anyone - it just shows that Microsoft is finally starting to do things it should have done 20 years ago.

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I think the person you were responding to was being sarcastic.

I see it more as a platform war that's finally settled. No more Mac/Linux/Windows linebreaks, now we can at last talk about "Linebreak".

I mean there is only so many ways of putting together two different characters. Is it supposed to be \n\r or \r\n? Or just \n? Or mabe it's \r? So much of the last 35 years have gone to writing the wrong line endings for the intended platform...

Only if you ignore mainframes.

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