Re: Changing the behaviour of eol-style "native"

On 2010-01-09 14:13, Felix Saphir wrote:
> Stu Redman schrieb:
>
>> The problem
>> are not Linux editors, but other tools (msgmerge, automake, bash, awk)
>> that behave in the "we are Linux and who cares about Windows" way. I
>> can't change these tools.
>>
> You can - they're open source ;-)
>

Yes, they are, but it occurs to me that this is not very helpful -- how
much work would it be to fix msgmerge, automake, bash, and awk (and
others) to handle CRLFs properly? Between 10 and 50 hours each, I should
think, which is generally completely out of the question. Most of that
time is simply getting set up to make changes to the code -- there's
likely to be a 100-500% overhead dealing with small issues like this.
I'm a great fan of open-source, but just being able to look at the
source doesn't fix every inefficiency and flaw automatically.

Fortunately, I suspect using eol-style=LF would do the job, or keeping
separate WCs.

Apologies for the OT rant, all.
> Felix
>

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Nathan Tuggy
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