Re: Compatible with Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer

On 1/25/2012 12:51 AM, Thorsten Schöning wrote:
> Guten Tag Les Mikesell,
> am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2012 um 07:11 schrieben Sie:
>
>> The fact that text is different on
>> different systems isn't really something you can disagree with. I
>> don't like it any more than you do, but that's just the way it is -
>> something decided back in a different century.
> That is really no argument as almost any developer tool is able to
> handle both line endings today. You just have to configure it in your
> IDE, TextEditor and whatever you use once and for all the team, just
> like you define any other coding rules and there will be exactly no
> problem. A lot of things were decided centuries ago and we don't do
> them anymore.
>

Are you going to pay me (and all my clients) to buy those tools for
every machine in the known universe? I didn't think so.

And what happens when files get mixed line endings? Are you sure that
all tools handle them reliably?

I use "svn:eol-style=native" because it works reliably across
platforms. Without it I can't always edit text files on client Windows
machines - Notepad does not handle bare newlines *at all*. (That alone
is a good reason not to copy files from Linux to Windows directly,
whether directly or by viewing from a network file system.)

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