Re: modeline indicator: line ending DOS, Linux, Mac
> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Uwe Brauer writes:
LaTeX doesn't care about line endings (the CR is just
whitespace, and the LF already introduces whitespace),
right? RCS doesn't either, as long as you don't change
them. Why not edit with XEmacs, which doesn't care about
line endings either, and leave the line endings as they are?
Of course of course, but the issue is the other person does not
use Xemacs, but Kile and then transfer the files from devices
with different file systems, ext2, fat32 etc and suddenly they
have a dos ending, I don't notice check in and oops.
That's bizarre. Python doesn't usually care about newlines.
Longer story: The latex package trackchanges, allow different
authors to inserts changes, deletions etc with a signature. Of
course this way the source code gets bloated. Now the python
script (with GUI) runs over the file and you can accept or
decline the changes. However if the file has *no* mac line
ending, the changes are *not* correctly detected and the whole
process can end up in a complete mess. I am not sure whether I
explained myself well enough....
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