@Tom-Klecker said in How do I show/hide the "CR" and "LF" text at the end of the text line?:
I’m a returning user to Notepad++. It’s an excellent simple text/ ASCII text editor.
The CR and LF are part of the original ASCII code set and are a couple of the ‘machine codes’ (codes 00 to 31) that go back to the teletype origins where it was literally a command to reposition the print carriage back to the left margin and roll the platen up the space of a single line. The 2 command CR& LF were sent by TTY operators to start new lines… Later some printers and word processing apps were designed to automatically execute a line feed with every CR which led to the need to edit/convert some text documents for compatibility with different printers/word processors.
I like to see the CRLF to make sure they are there in the document and the line breaks are ‘hard’ and not interpreted by the app based on TAB, commas (CSV), semicolons, etc.
In a computer printer or display the commands tell the device to show the next character down a line space at.the left margin (or indentation).
Activate it via menu view->show symbol->show end of line