From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mode line eol char indication
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:17:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901011017o3c8e392t5eaa828003e16a07@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007801c96c3c$69555f50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 19:11, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> So you are arguing that it is the system/platform name that is more meaningful
> to users, not the eol characters. I'm OK with that.
I'm not. \n, \r and \r\n (or ^J, etc) are exact: what they say is what
the file contains. "Unix", "DOS" and "Mac" are just hints about the
likely origin. Is not like it is impossible to create CRLF files under
GNU/Linux, or LF files on Windows.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-01 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 22:50 mode line eol char indication Drew Adams
2009-01-01 1:20 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-01 5:44 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 8:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-01 8:39 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-01 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 18:17 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2009-01-01 19:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-01-01 19:25 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-02 3:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-01 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 18:11 ` Drew Adams
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