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

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 00:54:07 UTC 2009


2009/11/17 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> And do you normally use more than one when editing a file. Or do you
>> generally have a specific one with a purpose for that file/string?
>> If not it would seem that a setting in your editor for the desired line
>> ending for that string would be nicer. And generally this would be for
>> export purposes, because internally in Squeak what purpose does it have?
>> I have never seen a situation where I wanted to introduce inconsistency
>> into a file. If inconsistency already existed I preferred to correct it.
>> Do you have situations where you encounter a file in an inconsistent state
>> that it is actually required to stay that way? Or merely to have a desired
>> line ending for its specified environment and purpose?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jimmie
>
> It is all pretty simple to me. I want to see what's in there. I want to
> control what I do with it. And I don't want "automatic changes". That's all.
>
Then you are using wrong tool. Use hex editor instead.

> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>



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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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