Windows 10: Enable or Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad in Windows 10


Notepad is a simple text editor included in Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents.

For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS.

For example, heres a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the contents of a Linux .bashrc text file, which only contains Unix LF EOL characters:




As you can see, Notepad is incorrectly displaying the files contents, making the file look garbled. This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community.

Microsoft has now fixed this issue.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17666, Notepad will support Unix/Linux line endings (LF), Macintosh line endings (CR), and Windows Line endings (CRLF) as usual. New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the files current line ending format.

Heres a screenshot of the newly updated Notepad displaying the contents of the same Unix/Linux .bashrc file we saw earlier:




Also note that the status bar indicates the detected EOL format of the currently open file.

As with any change to a long-established tool, theres a chance that this new behavior may not work for your scenarios, or you may prefer to disable this new behavior and return to Notepads original behavior.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Unix/Linux line endings (LF) and Macintosh line endings (CR) support in Notepad for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:
The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD values in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad

fWindowsOnlyEOL and fPasteOriginalEOL DWORDs

0 = Enable
1 = Disable


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2 To Enable Extended Line Endings in Notepad
This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_extended_line_endings_in_Notepad.reg

Download

3 To Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_extended_line_endings_in_Notepad.reg

Download
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.


That's it,
Shawn


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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad in Windows 10

Source: Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad Windows Command Line Tools For Developers




Tip Enable or Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad in Windows 10

 

Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad in Windows 10

Source: Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad Windows Command Line Tools For Developers




Tip Enable or Disable Extended Line Endings in Notepad in Windows 10

 

NotePad end-of-line handling: LF not recognized as EOL

Hi,



I realize that you are facing the issue with end of line handling in Notepad, let me assist you.



This feature of end of line handling is not available in Notepad, I suggest you to provide us a feedback about the features that has to be included or modified using the Feedback Hub, so that the features may get included in the upcoming builds.

Type feedback in the search bar, click on
Feedback Hub and follow the instructions.



Hope the information helps. Kindly write back to us for further assistance on Windows. We will be happy to assist you.



Thank you.

 

Notepad in Windows 10

Hi Stephanie,

Status Bar on Notepad may be disabled or grayed out because the Word Wrap options under Format is turned on. To enable Status Bar, you need to uncheck the Word Wrap option first. That is how the Notepad has been programmed. Kindly follow the steps below:

• Click Format.
• Uncheck Word Wrap option.
• Click View again and you'll see that it is already enabled.

If you wish the Status Bar to be always enabled, you may do it by editing your device registry settings. However,
before editing the registry, we suggest backing up the default settings first to make sure that if any issue arises, you can simply go back to your previous settings. To set up a backup, please click

here. Follow the steps below to enable Status Bar:

• Press Windows + R.
• Type Regedit and press Enter.
• Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad.
• Change the StatusBar DWORD value from 0 to 1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Press F5 to refresh the Registry.
• You can now open Notepad and you'll see that Status Bar is enabled.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Notepad

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the steps provided below:

• Open Task Manager. Here’s a tip: press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
• Click on Startup tab.
• Select Notepad from the list and click on Disable.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write to us
for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.