Re: [PATCH] Make text data file use system native line ends by default.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:39:03PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> The patch looks fine.  So long as it doesn't break any tests I'm happy
> with it.  Except that I have heard that Mac OS, to assert its penchant
> for non-conformance, uses neither LF, not CRLF, but LFCR.  However I
> don't use Mac so I don't know if this rumour is correct.
> 
> I don't have any opinion about what the default on Windows should be.

I think what I'll do, when I have a few minutes, is to break this into
two commits: a first commit that adds the new feature but maintains the
current default behavior, and then a second commit that changes the
Windows default to CRLF.  Then, if necessary, we can easily revert the
second change.