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by eat_veggies 3074 days ago
It's possible they lost the source code and literally can't. They've done it before:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...
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nwellnhof 3074 days ago
Equation Editor was developed by a third party and MS probably never had the source code in the first place: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057882/error-when-...
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userbinator 3074 days ago
Notepad is literally a window with the standard Windows Edit control inside it, so they certainly have the source code.

My guess as to why they don't care to support \n-only is that there's been very little need to; anyone who needs more advanced editing isn't going to use Notepad anyway.

As the sibling comment mentions, WordPad (which is similar but with a RichEdit control) does support \n-only.

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TazeTSchnitzel 3074 days ago
If you want notepad-with-LF-support, ReactOS, the open-source Windows NT clone, has this.
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