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		mark-r on May 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing extended line endings support in Notep... Adding new features to an existing Windows control, particularly one that has existed since the dawn of time, is a much bigger deal than adding to a simple utility. The last time that happened they added a whole new control, the Rich Edit.

simonh on May 9, 2018 [–]

Oh come on, framework libraries add new features to controls in a backwards compatible way all the time.

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