When you open a file that has different line break characters, you may see a dialog box that asks whether the inconsistent line break characters should be normalized, and which type of line breaks to choose. For example, when you copy text from Notepad and paste it into a text file in Visual Studio, the text has the same settings that it had in Notepad. More valuable to me than the answers that refer to Advanced Save Optionsthough I decided to go with a different extension Line Endings Unifier.Text that is copied from other applications keeps the original encoding and line break characters. GibboK GibboK 58k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sudsy I tested this, and confirms that it does work in visual studio community version I wonder if this is true for this method as well. FragmentalStew FragmentalStew 5 5 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. You can then reorder it in the file menu by using 'move down'. It surprise me MS designed Visual Studio that way. This is not a scalable approach, one does not simply 'Advanced Save Options' source files every day. By default Visual Studio will warn you when you open a file that has mixed line endings and prompt you to chose a consistent line ending. It will not modify already created files that have consistent line endings. It will change the default for newly created files. That seems to change it only for the currently opened file, right? Zero Zero 7, 7 7 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 61 61 bronze badges. There are some VS extension that are useful to solve this problem I will recommend Trim line ends on save. This is the relevant command for setting Unix line endings. I think I've used all of these methods in the past, but my memory is fuzzy. I will use this to automatically force all of my scripts to save with uniform line endings of my choice, but you can do more with it. I don't know if you will have to then set the advanced save options for each and every file, but it might prevent the issue I was having where my Visual Studio kept adding CL RF line endings into my files that were uniformly LF.

Fixing any that were previously created can be done file-by-file or you can search for tools that will fix on-bulk. This will only affect new files that are created.

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