Re: New line in a JTextArea (student learning here)

Andrew Thompson wrote:
OTOH, using System.getProperty("line.separator"),
is 'forward compatible' in the sense that if any new
OS architectures were to become support, or either
Win/*nix to suddenly change the line separator
(my bet would be Windows), the code would adapt.

Actually *nix should change. The action of moving the cursor to the beginning of a new line is in fact two operations:
- move the cursor down one line
- move the cursor to the beginning of the line

So the original DOS specification of CRLF is correct, whereas the professor at Berkley probably wanted to save a few bytes (at a time when storage was expensive).

And this separation can be used by command line apps when displaying status:

for (some loop)
- do work
- print status to the console and append a carriage return (note NO line feed)

So the status is displayed on a single line and is updated only on that line.
.

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