[squeak-dev] Re: support of various line ends in trunk

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 06:42:54 UTC 2009


On Friday 20 November 2009 10:27:23 am Andreas Raab wrote:
> So from my perspective displaying CR, LF, or CRLF all the same is just 
> fine. What's missing (for the purposes where I use Notepad++ or Emacs 
> for) is an editor that allows me to see and change the line end 
> convention on the file I'm editing. If we'd have an explicit File Editor 
> (instead of just a whacky workspace with a file attached to it) it would 
> serve my (and probably most other line end conscious users) purposes 
> just fine.
line-ending conventions can be detected easily when loading a text file into a 
Workspace. Why not convert on the fly editing/viewing and restore it while 
saving?

Subbu



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