Kids these days like huge indents with large numbers of spaces. That’s it, no more than 3! I preferred 3 because that is also how far I was taught to indent the beginning of a new paragraph in English class. We didn’t have wide screens for coding, those were for watching movies! In college my Computer Science professors varied, some wanted 2 spaces per indent, some wanted 3. Huge indents meant line wrapping and nobody wanted that. I grew up when monitors and resolution were much smaller. We can configure that in our editors’ preferences and each see the same source code in the way we want to see it. That’s perfect! How much whitespace I want to see per level of indentation is my business and how much you want to see is yours. Posted in Linux Hacks, News Tagged Notepad++, The Greatest Thing Ever Post navigationĮxactly! Tabs should represent levels of indentation. Rejoice, the greatest problem in technology has now been solved. Starting with the current Window 10 Insider build, Notepad now supports Unix line endings, Macintosh line endings, and Windows line endings. Opening a Windows text file in anything else puts little rectangles at the end of each line. Opening a Unix text file in Windows produces a solid block of text without any whitespace. The end result of this toppling of the Tower of Babel for End of Line characters is a horrific mess Windows users can’t read Unix text files in Notepad, and everything is just terrible. Unix text documents use LF for line endings, and Macs use CR for line endings. Previously, Windows Notepad only supported Windows End of Line Characters - a Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF). Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated? Where were you when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon? Where were you when Challenger blew up? Where are you now? In what is probably this century’s greatest advancement in technology, Windows Notepad now supports Unix line endings.

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