[sldev] Release/First Look source code drop, FL-1.13.3.58877

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Fri Mar 9 21:41:27 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:51 -0600, David Fries wrote:
> I can give you two reasons.  Seeing ^M at the end of some lines makes
> it hardder to read, so when I see them while I'm editing a file I
> correct the line endings.  The other reason is if you try to do a diff
> with the now corrected version it shows a good portion of the file
> changed, that or you try to apply a patch and it fails because, well,
> line endings!
> 
> The vim editor will hide the ^M if all the lines are consistent.

All tools really SHOULD handle unix/msdos line endings transparently and
cleanly. Not that they do.

But yeah, mixed line endings in the same file is just plain broken.
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