[darcs-users] Line endings

[Nimrod A. Abing]

Hi everyone,

I develop on both Windows and Linux and from what I have experienced,
I only bother with line endings when the editor cannot handle them
properly. Like opening a text file with Unix line endings using
Notepad on Windows (Wordpad does not have this problem).

Instead of coercing the VCS tool to fiddle around with line endings,
might I suggest using a text editor that does not care about line
endings? JEdit is cross-platform and seems to handle varying line
endings pretty well. So does Eclipse, Vim and Emacs. When you use a
text editor that does not care about line endings (but preserves them
when you save your files), then this silly little problem goes away,
yes?

Just my $0.02 :)

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Levente Mészáros
<levente.meszaros at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
> <Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>> Wild idea: what about adding ``darcs dos2unix'' and ``darcs unix2dos''
>> (or, perhaps, ``darcs convert --to-unix'' and ``--to-dos'') so that
>> people can put that into their hooks without installing anything else?
> This one would be great, I think!
>
> BTW, I believe that darcs could support line ending conversion better,
> than how it is done today. I don't care about the 80s, nor about
> whether Windows, or Linux, or anything else got line endings wrong or
> right. I don't buy that this issue is _so_ complicated.
>
> If we can do something to make many users' life easier with reasonable
> efforts, then why don't we do it? I'm not a Haskell expert, but I
> doubt that it would take more than a few lines of code to implement
> the above suggestion for example.
>
> levy
>
> --
> There's no perfectoin
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