From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EOL: unix/dos/mac Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:53:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20817.21507.82114.600015@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364284445 6326 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 07:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Per =?iso-8859-1?Q?Starb=E4ck?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 08:54:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKOiB-0005zY-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:54:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKOhn-0003hi-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKOhh-0003c1-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKOhe-0006vp-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:43886 helo=a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKOhd-0006rr-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r2Q7reXP011340; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:53:40 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r2Q7rdgY001602; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:53:39 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r2Q7rd2N001597; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:53:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158191 Archived-At: >>>>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote: > So I'm OK with "updating" the indicators, tho I'm not sure what we > should use instead. Currently, the indicators coincide with the naming of coding systems, like utf-8-{unix,dos,mac}. Wouldn't it be confusing to use different notations? Or are the coding systems to be changed too? > To replace "Mac", maybe we could use "MacOS9", which is longish but > hopefully such files are rare nowadays. You could use "OS9". There are both OS-9 (by Microware) and Mac OS 9, but they agree on using CR as a line ending. Ulrich