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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished

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422 points km | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 19:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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perching_aix ◴[13 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] No.41831129[source]▶
Well, at least the title is honest. Straight up asking people to break standards out of sheer conviction is a new one for me personally, but it's definitely one of the attitudes of all time, so maybe it's just me being green.

Can we ask for the typical *nix text editors to disobey the POSIX standard of a text file next, so that I don't need to use hex editing to get trailing newlines off the end of files?

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201984 ◴[13 Oct 24 20:20 UTC] No.41831233[source]▶
What's wrong with trailing newlines?
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perching_aix ◴[13 Oct 24 20:21 UTC] No.41831241[source]▶
Other than select software being pissy about it, not much. Just like how there's nothing wrong with CRLF, except for select software being pissy about that too.
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1. bmitc ◴[13 Oct 24 22:00 UTC] No.41832054[source]▶
Yep. Select software being Unix command line tools.