What is carriage return and line feed

Regarding autocrlf, I ran into this interesting tidbit recently. Normally, I set global autocrlf to true on Windows. That's normal for most folks. Recently, I had to set up a machine without autocrlf set to true. So, the interesting behavior is that when global autocrlf is not set, git defaults to false as documented , but Visual Studio defaults to true wha? I had great fun fixing my branch after using both VS and git for various checkins. Stephen Cleary.

I find it fascinating that you have to explain this physical paradigm, it's similar to understanding the en' space and 'em' space and how they define hyphens and various dashes. Then what descenders, ascenders, kerning and leading and gutters are and the physical paradigm that gives us that language. I am getting old Nice explanation, thanks! Evan Young. June 08, I have never understood why we have CR and LF, but this makes sense. Therefore being backwards compatible and make.

Net code more portable. Peter Campbell. June 10, Most Internet protocols, e. EditorConfig also defines which line endings are used, but from the editor side. It also controls other whitespace like indentation, trailing spaces, and the final line ending.

Using both that and. June 11, Mahesh Bakali. June 12, Performing a CR without an LF used to let you overstrike an entire line or an infinite number of lines on the paper and, on Tektronix CRT terminals, even on the screen. That, in turn, let you create a potentially infinite number of custom characters, on the fly, without having to fool with new glyphs, bitmaps, or fonts.

In the classic artform of raster-image "ASCII art," the available contrast range was greatly extended by the ability to print two, three, or four "passes" of each line, overlaying characters that placed ink in more space than a single character alone could ever achieve I have a set of files that uses four-pass overstrike to print a wonderful classic Star Trek poster.

I'm sure there are, or were, other applications for overstriking, back "when overstriking was easy", and for 25 years now I've bemoaned the fact that the very concept seems to have gotten forgotten -- probably because GUI apps were designed to emulate the behavior of CRT terminals such as the DEC VT series that didn't happen to support overstrike.

If only we had skipped directly from paper to GUIs, this might not have happened! Anyway, over those same 25 years I've also been wishing that MS Word's "overstrike" mode really was overstrike mode; what it really is, though -- and what it ought to be called! Newsletter only. Weekly Newsletter vs. Unabridged Podcast Feed Access.

Show Archive Access. Exclusive Member-Only Content. Access to the UL Slack Community. It breaks lines, but does not break paragraphs. You will realize this when you apply the format. There is only one enter key on the keyboard, but there are two different kinds of line breaking marks, which is a miracle.

Our common carriage return is hard carriage return, which is the small curved arrow generated by hitting enter in word, accounting for two bytes. This kind of carriage return can mark the paragraphs clearly. The text between two hard carriage returns forms a paragraph by itself, which can be marked independently without worrying about other paragraphs being affected.

But hard return also brought us trouble. The line spacing is too large! However, such typesetting does cause a lot of difficulties. At this time, we have to invite our hard return brother: soft return. Soft return takes only one byte, and is a down arrow in word. If you copy text from a very complex web page to word, you will be familiar with it. However, it still plays an important role in web design.

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