Re: modeline indicator: line ending DOS, Linux, Mac
> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
steven Mitchell writes:
> Posted inline, since I am not sure if we can post attachments.
[snip]
However, given that (unless conventions are mixed) XEmacs should
display the file correctly, it seems generally preferable to edit
files in their "native" form. In particular, in a VCS-controlled
environment, you will thrash the VCS (every time you change the
on-disk EOL convention, all lines in the file will be changed making
diff useless).
Precisely, this is main source for headache for me. In a collaboration
with a college (LaTeX files) I obtain often files with dos ending, and
when checking them in, RCS gets screwed up just in the way you mention.
That's why I thought of a different tool, which is not based on version
control but on Latex itself and a python script; problem again for the
script to work the files now must use the Mac end of the line
convention.:'(
Another problem is that the command "file" does not work well for LaTeX
files in the sense that it does not detect the end of line conventions!
Uwe
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