string - What is the difference between a "line feed" and a "carriage return"?

Question

If there are these two keywords then they must have their own meaning. So I want to know what makes them different and what is their code?

Answer 1

A line feed means moving one line forward. The code is .
A carriage return means moving the cursor to the beginning of the line. The code is .

Windows editors often still use the combination of both as in text files. Unix uses mostly only the .

The separation comes from typewriter times, when you turned the wheel to move the paper to change the line and moved the carriage to restart typing on the beginning of a line. This was two steps.