K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> 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?

Sure that would work fine. My point was slightly different: It was 
mostly that you really only need to see and input individual line end 
characters if you need to be able to edit them side-by-side which (I 
think) is rare. As a consequence, as long as one can see and edit the 
current settings on the entire text (for example via context menu or in 
a "Save As..." dialog), the question of whether to display line ends or 
not is irrelevant, even for situations where you care about which line 
end convention is being used.

Cheers,
   - Andreas