newlines
Have you ever opened a simple little ASCII text file to see it inexplicably displayed as onegiantunbrokenline? Opening the file in a different, smarter text editor results in the file displayed properly in multiple paragraphs. The answer to this puzzle lies in our old friend, invisible characters that we can’
programming languages
Ah, spring. What a wonderful time of year. A time when young programmers’ minds turn to thoughts of... never ending last-man-standing filibuster arguments about code formatting. Naturally. And there is no argument more evergreen than the timeless debate between tabs and spaces. On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb
text editors
I use notepad.exe dozens of time a day. Given the severely limited functionality of Notepad, it’s incredible that it has taken me this long to find a suitable replacement for what is, evidently, a core part of my developer toolkit. Check out Notepad2: The original Notepad shipped with