From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: decode_eol and inconsistent EOL Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:18:14 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204300518.g3U5IEH06508@aztec.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020144158 3005 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2002 05:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 172Q62-0000mM-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:22:38 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 172QA8-0002fA-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:26:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172Q5h-0008L9-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172Q1n-0007qq-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3U5IEa09209; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:18:14 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g3U5IEH06508; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:18:14 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: akochoi@shaw.ca In-Reply-To: (message from Andrew Choi on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:37:54 -0600) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3437 I agree. Not that I have actually seen any program on the Mac that does this. But since we are talking about pathological cases, anything may happen. Anything may happen, so any policy we choose could sometimes give wrong results. The issue here is about which policy tends to give correct results. Therefore, to argue that a policy *could* be wrong is neither here nor there. That is true for all the alternatives. Will it really happen in practice.