Re: "decent" editors (was: line ending summary: the "Breg Hudther ton Proposal")

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:51:30PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:33:42AM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> > unix->dos: tr '\012' '\015\012'
> > mac->dos: tr '\015' '\015\012'
>
> Nope. This last one is equivalent to: tr '\012' '\015'
[...]
> Nope :) See the unix->dos comment.

Aw crap. Could have sworn I tested those.

> You can use perl for this, though:

It seems even sed doesn't want to deal with translating newlines, but you
can't depend on perl being everywhere (I'm not installing perl just to
translate newlines; I'll write the necessary five lines of C to do it
first ;-). Bleh. Damnable standard UNIX utilities. ;-)

-- 
Edward S. Marshall <esm_at_logic.net>                        http://esm.logic.net/
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