I leave it to you, critics, to select something, anything, that is a fundamental tool available on every *nix machine, and just stop using it.
Hint: nobody but a purist is going to stop using `cat` or `cd` because of a minor incompatibility with a small percentage of computers.
I love Linux, I love Unix, but I also love that Windows had and still has Notepad. One of Microsoft's most successful apps in my eyes, that honestly works. Hell, in any case if it didn't have at least one flaw I'd start getting suspicious wondering if M$ really did write it after all.
Ok, it wasn't perfect, but the only time CR-LF was an issue was moving to Unix machines, so I made a habit of doing dos2unix/unix2dos or perl one-liners. I suppose I should redact my use of just works. Notice you capitalize it and I don't- I think that explains everything.
Just Works: No user intervention required whatsoever, could be used by a 2nd grader with no prior knowledge
just works: does it's job with perhaps a bug or two that can be worked around
I'd agree with you, if Notepad did in fact work. MS changed Paint for Windows 7, they could have more easily fixed Notepad. (Have you ever tried to open a file without \r's?)
They upgraded Wordpad. I get the feeling Notepad was left alone because they do not feel it needed upgrading or debugging. Wordpad's goal always was to be a document editor, while Notepad is a text editor, and it certainly edits text.
Seems like this could well just be a classic case of one person says 'This is a game-ending bug!' and the other person saying, 'Wait, what? That 'bug' is in the spec!'
1: is on every Windows machine ever
2: just works
I leave it to you, critics, to select something, anything, that is a fundamental tool available on every *nix machine, and just stop using it.
Hint: nobody but a purist is going to stop using `cat` or `cd` because of a minor incompatibility with a small percentage of computers.
I love Linux, I love Unix, but I also love that Windows had and still has Notepad. One of Microsoft's most successful apps in my eyes, that honestly works. Hell, in any case if it didn't have at least one flaw I'd start getting suspicious wondering if M$ really did write it after all.