Line Endings and Whitespace

The invisible half of a text file: which bytes end each line, whether there is a byte order mark at the front, and all the trailing spaces nobody meant to commit.

The text

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Text

Typing or pasting into the box always gives line feeds: a text box cannot hold a carriage return, whatever was on the clipboard. To see what a file really contains, drop the file itself.

What it is now

Fix it up

Line endings

Indentation

A tab is worth

Also Trim trailing spaces from every line End the file with one new line Collapse runs of blank lines into one Start with a byte order mark Turn non-breaking spaces into ordinary ones

After

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¶ is a line feed, ↵¶ a carriage return and line feed, → a tab, · a trailing space.

What changed

Nothing yet.