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May 2018 - Windows Command Line

Windows Subsystem for Linux //Build 2018 Recap

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18
Tara Raj
Last week, the WSL team attended Microsoft //Build 2018. We had a great time meeting many of you and answering questions at the command line booth. In case you missed it, you can watch out session, Set up a Windows Dev Environment that Feels Like $HOME, online on Channel9. In this post, we will summarize the NEW announcement we made during //...

Join us for a hot cup o Chocolatey!

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Yosef Durr
Setting up a dev box should be easy and fast.  At BUILD 2018 we announced a collaboration with Chocolatey and Boxstarter.  The project founders discuss the collaboration in the following video. Improving Machine Setup Have you set up a new dev machine and found it was frustrating or time consuming?  It's important to have a repeatable, ...

Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad

May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18
Michel Lopez [MSFT]
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, here’s a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the ...