[darcs-users] a practical application of whitespace within a token

Bill Trost trost at cloud.rain.com
Sun Sep 4 04:05:42 UTC 2005


The darcs' manual's description of the theory of tokens solicits
practical applications of whitespace within a token. Well, a problem
I've had with a couple other revision control systems is the
disagreement between Windows and UNIX as to what constitutes the end
of a line, so that we end up having to strip carriage returns out of
files every once in a while. That'd be an ideal use of token replace --
it's a trivial change to the file, but currently generates a humongous
file-wide diff.

Well, you asked....  (-:

Bill




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