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Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad by simonh on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:41PM (#17024832)
>…the edit controls behaviour could be changed in which case it could cause existing programs to behave differently…

You just add a new mode to the control that enables the new behaviour. Existing programs using it would work fine.

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Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad by mark-r on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:55PM (#17024985)
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.
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Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad by simonh on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @12:56AM (#17027488)
Oh come on, framework libraries add new features to controls in a backwards compatible way all the time.
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