Re: Aw: Re: Default line endings on Mac

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/10/19 2:45 PM, Torsten wrote:
> On 10.01.19 20:21, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2019 um 19:57 Uhr schrieb "John W. Eaton":
> >
> > The attached patch should change the default EOL to LF for Mac.
> > But I don't have a Mac to check if it actually works.
> >
> > > Do we currently detect the line endings in the file and try to match the
> > > usage?  If not, should we?  How difficult would it be?
> >
> > I believe such a check is already done in file_editor_tab::detect_eol_mode.
> >
> > > Now, if Windows would just abandon CRLF in favor of LF only...
> >
> > I hear you. And UTF-8 as a working encoding. Or better yet the default...
> >
> > Markus
>
> Markus, the patch looks good. However, I can't test it either.
>
> Torsten

I tested the patch on macOS 10.13.6 and it looks good. After blowing away my
~/.config/octave to get a clean slate, it defaulted to using Unix (LF) 
as the line ending format.

Cheers,
Andrew