>Docs say VFP inserts linefeeds 'when user code reads the Value property' (I'm not doing this) or when 'the EditBox loses focus' (which,AFAICS, it does not).
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>Must say this smells like a bad design to me - why didn't they just add the linefeeds to the Value 'get' and NOT mess with the text buffer itself ?

Doesn't smell like any design at all. More lake a feature added very late in the game, because the viewer from Georgia asked for it.