@jcolebrand Did you know that you can actually retain control characters (like CR or LF) when copying data from an output grid to clipboard? I myself learnt about that no more than a year ago but I suspect the feature has been there for much longer. There's a setting in Options that controls that
Tools - Options - Query Results - SQL Server - Results to Grid - Retain CR/LF on copy or save.
The checkbox caption reads "Retain CR/LF" but it affects other (possibly all) control characters too. I think they chose to put it like that because in this day and age developers are not taken as seriously as before and can't be expected to know what a "control character" is.
I've just had one of my answers edited on Stack Overflow to swap out "black list" and "white list" for "deny list" and "allow list" respectively. There was no comment on the change, but I assume it to be due to those words being racially charged.
I don't mind the change (except for the introduced...
Recently in the Suggested Edits Review Queue, there was a spate of edits changing only master/slave verbiage to primary/secondary.
In the absence of other improvements to a post, should we accept or reject these (and similar) edits?
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Recently in the Suggested Edits Review Queue, there was a spate of edits changing only master/slave verbiage to primary/secondary.
In the absence of other improvements to a post, should we accept or reject these (and similar) edits?
Related on meta.se
