• mina86@lemmy.wtfOP
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    2 months ago

    Yes. So is Ctrl+J actually. Ctrl+J corresponds to line feed (LF) and Ctrl+M corresponds to carriage return (CR) ASCII characters. They are typically treated the same way.

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      2 months ago

      Found it in the classic The UNIX Programming Environment from 1984:

      But then, this is for return, which technically isn’t “enter”, but nowadays they are sort of interpreted the same by programs?