[MERGE] integrated EOL conversion support
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Mar 28 11:46:40 GMT 2009
Alexander Belchenko writes:
> I'd prefer 'CRLF' and 'LF' instead of 'dos' and 'unix'
[...]
> Looking at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline)
> one can see CRLF was used not only in Microsoft products, but some others.
It could also occur as an artifact of verbatim saves of RFC 822-format
messages and things like that. While the project very likely wants to
clean that up, they probably would prefer to do it at a time of their
own choosing.
The other thing is that "dos" could be confused with "DOS format text
files" which also had the idiosyncracy of trailing ctrl-Z and
sometimes other stuff (although it's been a while, and the "other
stuff" may have been Japanese-specific). CRLF says exactly what
you're trying to do here.
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