Copy/Paste from Notepad++ to cmd window loses line endings about notepad-plus-plus HOT 9 CLOSED

Now try the legacy command prompt

OK, but I was merely "playing along" anyway...

Do we really care that Notepad++ is copying its exact data to the clipboard?
Is there some sort of requirement that data copied to the clipboard is provided with Windows' CRLF line-endings?

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Can't replicate under 8.6.2.

Multiple lines copied from Notepad++ paste just fine into a cmd window:

leads to this in the cmd window after attempting to paste:

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This happens if End-Of-Line is not Windows CRLF:

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@AndiKiissel

This happens if End-Of-Line is not Windows CRLF

For me, I get the same Warning prompt as I got before, even with LF line endings, or CR line endings in my Notepad++ tab.

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For me, I get the same Warning prompt as I got before, even with LF line endings, or CR line endings in my Notepad++ tab.

Now try the legacy command prompt that @AndiKiissel is using, not the Windows Terminal app

1. ⊞ (Windows key) + R
2. Run conhost.exe

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I only showed how it can happen, I don't think it needs to be changed.

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I ran a test script in a cmd window, trying it with different line endings. When I pasted from other applications, line endings were present. But pasting from Notepad++, there were none.

But, apparently is an issue with the older version of Notepad++ that my employer has deployed to our PCs.

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It would still be a "problem" with any version of Notepad++.
But the question remains: If it is a typical Copy to clipboard, and not some sort of Copy Special, should LF-only (or CR-only) line endings be converted to CR+LF, at the time of the copy?

This is not a problem when pasting into Notepad++, because Scintilla paste functions automatically convert incoming line-endings to be appropriate for the current tab's line-ending format.

So the argument is: Notepad++ is liberal in what it accepts (converting as necessary) but not so strict in what it sends -- should it be equally-friendly BOTH ways? Maybe I'm stating it poorly, but see Postel's Law.

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After reading recent alankilborn's post, I did some more experiments on my personal PC (after installing Notepad++ 8.6.2).

Turns out the problem is that cmd is not just ignoring the non-CRLF line endings, but discarding them.

Eclipse, FireFox and LibreOffice accept pastes with LF line endings. I don't know about other applications.

So, other than possibly adding a "special copy" feature, this turns out to not be a Notepad++ issue.

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