>open text file from a *nix system >entire file is in one

>>56064020
Because you are using notepad.exe . Seriously? You expected to open *nix files with notepad.exe?

Because Winshit systems use incorrect line endings.

>notepad.exe still doesn't understand line endings
At least replace it with Notepad2.

>>56064020
Because Notepad is completely inadequate as a simple text editor. It causes this exact problem for people countless times. Windows really should come bundled with a simple text editor which you can at least recommend for someone to use for simply editing plain text files without screwing them up. Leafpad and even Mousepad are as simple and as lightweight as is needed for a Notepad replacement, and they are actually usable without ruining line endings. Microsoft should replace Notepad with something functionally equivalent to Leafpad.

>>56064193
>Notepad2
Patrician taste, best scintilla based text editor on Windows

>>56064218
>Mousepad
Mousepad is GOAT tier for a default text editor.
It's so small, minimal, simple, lightweight yet so complete and mature.
It's one of the gems of Xfce.

>>56064020
How boy, now what your shock will be when you discover what encoding is.

right click > open with rich text format or something

You people know windows comes with wordpad which is just fine as a normal text editor

I use notepad ++

am I a pleb?

>>56064867
Np++ is bretty gud

>>56064867
NPP has saved me a ton of time, multi-line replacement and line bookmarking are excellent

>>56064020
>rest of the world uses \n
>windows decides to use \r\n, requiring two array elements

Why is this allowed?