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==Newline support== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="max-width: 30em; table-layout: fixed" |+ Support for [[newline]] characters in line endings |-valign=bottom ! ! [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (CR/LF) ! [[Unix-like]] systems (including [[macOS]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://superuser.com/questions/439440/did-mac-os-lion-switch-to-using-line-feeds-lf-n-for-line-breaks-instead-of|title=Did Mac OS Lion switch to using line feeds (LF '\n') for line breaks instead of carriage returns (CR '\r')?|website=Super User}}</ref> (LF) ! [[Classic Mac OS]] (CR) |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Acme (text editor)|Acme]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | AkelPad | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Alphatk]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Atom]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[BBEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | Bluefish | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Brackets (text editor)|Brackets]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Coda (web development software)|Coda]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[ConTEXT]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Crimson Editor]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | CudaText | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[ed (text editor)|ed]] | {{na}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Editra]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[EmEditor]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Geany]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[gedit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Emacs#GNU Emacs|GNU Emacs]]{{efn|name=gnuEmacsNewline|''GNU Emacs'': GNU Emacs doesn't regard the newline marker as a paragraph separator in bidi texts. See comment in the 'Right-to-left and bidirectional text' section.}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[JED (text editor)|JED]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[jEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Joe's Own Editor|JOE]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tree/docs/man.md#character-sets-and-utf-8|title=JOE - Joe's Own Editor|website=JOE - Joe's own editor / Mercurial / [2e4f45] /docs/man.md|access-date=23 October 2015|quote=character sets must use LF (0x0A) or CR-LF (0x0D - 0x0A) as line terminators [...]. [...] character sets which use CR terminated lines (MACs) will not yet work.}}</ref> | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[JOVE]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Kate (text editor)|Kate]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[KEDIT]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Komodo Edit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Komodo IDE]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[KWrite]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[LE (text editor)|LE]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Metapad]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{dunno}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[MS-DOS Editor]] | {{ya}} | {{na}} <!-- view only --> | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[mined (text editor)|mined]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Nano (text editor)|Nano]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[NEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Microsoft Notepad|Notepad]] | {{ya}} | {{na}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Notepad++]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[nvi]] | {{dunno}} | {{ya}} | {{dunno}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Pico (text editor)|Pico]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[PolyEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[PSPad]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[RJ TextEd]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Sam (text editor)|Sam]] | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[SciTE]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[SlickEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Smultron]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[SubEthaEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Sublime Text]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[TED Notepad]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[TextEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[TextMate]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[TextPad]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[TextWrangler]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[The SemWare Editor]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[UltraEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[VEDIT]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] | {{na}} | {{ya}} | {{na}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[Visual Studio Code]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[XEmacs]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- ! nowrap {{rh}} | [[NEdit|XNEdit]] | {{ya}} | {{ya}} | {{ya}} |- |-valign=top ! ! Windows (CR/LF) ! Unix-like systems (including macOS) (LF) ! Classic Mac OS (CR) |- |}
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