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

From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org]

>People out there are NOT always going to use a decent editor.
>We better be
>able to deal with that. And "deal with" means "not screw them
>over hard." We really ought to be able to compensate for
>wackiness from the user.

Not if "compensating for wackiness" means "attempting to act intelligently."
Which it seems to mean in this case.

And it appears to me that "screw them over hard" means "require a single use
of a CRLF converter". That doesn't match my definition. To me, "screw them
over hard" means "default to data-destroying transformations", and that's
totally out of the question at this point.

>[ this reminds me of programs (e.g. parsers) that say "you're missing a
> semicolon right <there>". well, thanks a lot Mr Program, why
> didn't you just put it in there for me? you know it should be there ]

Easily answered -- because you might have meant to put in a curly brace
right over <there> instead. The program knows it ain't smart, so it doesn't
munge your data.

>-g

-Billy

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006