But while users of Linux distros and Mac OS can open Windows text files in basically any available editor and not even know the difference, the same can’t be said for Windows users opening files created in one of the other operating systems. Now, the reason most people don’t know about all this is because nobody really should have to.
Gedit for window mac os x#
Now that Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD‘s file system, it follows the UNIX convention. UNIX-based operating systems (like all Linux distros and BSD derivatives) use the line feed character ( \n or ), “classic” Mac OS uses a carriage return ( \r or ), while DOS/Windows uses a carriage return followed by a line feed ( \r\n or ). The “end-of-line delimiter” (often expressed as “ End-Of-Line“, “ End of Line“, or just “ EOL“) – which some of you know as the “ line break” or “ newline” – is a special character used to designate the end of a line within a text file. Most people don’t realise that when they hit the Enter key to create a new paragraph in a text file, something very different is going on behind the scenes in the three major operating systems: Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
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