[RFC] eol values: unix/windows or LF/CRLF?

[Jurgen Defurne]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:11:42 +0100 (CET)
Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler+bzr at umons.ac.be> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:21:09 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> > 
> > Alexander has suggested renaming them to LF and CRLF respectively.
> > Do people have strong opinions? I suspect the latter is more likely
> > to match a google search, i.e.  searching for "bzr crlf" will likely
> > find the EOL help nearer than top than "bzr windows newlines" will
> > say.  My only concern is that unix/windows is likely to mean more to
> > non-programmers using bzr, e.g. technical writers?
> 
> FWIW, Emacs Coding Systems uses `unix', `dos' and `mac' to distinguish
> between the three types of newline terminations.
> 
> My 0.02€,
> ChriS
> 

As does vim.

set fileformat=dos|unix|mac

Regards,

Jurgen