[RFC] new format 1.12 (1.11?) enabling EOL & filtered views

[Ian Clatworthy]

Mark Hammond wrote:

> IMO, lack of EOL support is the biggest roadblock to serious adoption by
> Windows users - far more important than the filename-normalization issue
> I made the (apparently invisible ;) patch for - so I'm personally very
> excited to see this on the front-burner again.  And obviously very happy
> to see Ian back at the keyboard :)

Mark,

I'm hoping to review your patch in coming days - if others don't beat me
to it. :-) I normally like to get the review queue empty before throwing
more stuff into it but, given the pending xmas break, I felt it was
worth getting my backed-up feature patches out first this time round.

Ian C.