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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished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: 0.206s | source
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ericyd ◴[13 Oct 24 22:38 UTC] No.41832345[source]▶
I'm not trying to be obtuse but I am actually confused how a modern machine correctly interprets CRLF based on the description in this post.

If a modern machine interprets LF as a newline, and the cursor is moved to the left of the current row before the newline is issued, wouldn't that add a newline _before_ the current line, i.e. a newline before the left most character of the current line? Obviously this isn't how it works but I don't understand why not.

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chowells ◴[13 Oct 24 23:54 UTC] No.41832806[source]▶
Line feed is "move the cursor down one line". It's irrelevant what is currently on the line. These are printer/terminal control instructions, not text editing instructions.
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1. ericyd ◴[14 Oct 24 18:22 UTC] No.41840327[source]▶
Ok, I conflated terminal instruction with text editing instruction. I thought the post made them sound like they behave the same but it sounds like I misunderstood, thank you.