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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Per Starbäck" <per.starback@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EOL: unix/dos/mac
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:28:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0isuu01Y94ZH7H3qo5n_4NAbexWXcLgKe9EJCnG5PWLjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r4j31rwb.fsf@gnu.org>

>> The end-of-line indicators for coding systems are unix, dos, and mac.
>> I suggest they are replaced with lf, crlf, and cr.
>
> I have customized my Emacsen long ago to show /, \, and : instead.
> Never looked back, and I will certainly keep those customizations if
> your suggestion is accepted as the default.

Me too.  I don't want these strings to take more than one character in
the modeline, which is sometimes too short.

> The current indicators are shown only if the EOL format is _not_ the
> native one on the underlying platform.  That was done a long time ago,
> to draw users' attention to the fact that the file has unusual line
> endings.  I think the need to draw attention to that has passed.  But
> that's me.

I also prefer a consistent notation across all platforms.  I don't
think that this information (EOL-style) deserves so much attention.

-- 
Dani Moncayo



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 13:34 EOL: unix/dos/mac Per Starbäck
2013-03-25 13:56 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 22:41   ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-26  2:11     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-25 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 17:28   ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2013-03-25 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26  1:42   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26  6:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26  7:45       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26  8:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 11:47           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 13:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 18:12               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-27  5:10                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 12:51     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26 13:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 17:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-26 17:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 18:41             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 16:16       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26 14:02     ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-26 14:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-26 18:34       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-03-26  7:53   ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-26 12:53     ` Stefan Monnier

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