> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 02:29:12 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Marcel Schneider <charupdate_at_orange.fr>
> Cc: RebeccaBettencourt <beckiergb_at_gmail.com>, verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr,
> d3ck0r_at_gmail.com, doug_at_ewellic.org, unicode_at_unicode.org
>
> > > And it only took them 33 years. :)
> >
> > That's OK, because Unix tools cannot handle Windows end-of-line format
> > to this very day. About the only one I know of is Emacs (which
> > handles all 3 known EOL formats independently of the platform on which
> > it runs, since 20 years ago).
>
> What are you referring to when you say “Unix tools”?
Sed and Grep don't consider CRLF as end of line, so regexps with $
fail to work as intended; the shell and/or the kernel don't recognize
the shebang sequence if it ends in CRLF, system editors display those
pesky "^M" at the end of each line, etc. And if you have bad luck of
using a Mac-style file, where a single CR ends a line, all bets are
off.
> Another text editor—the built-in one of many Linux distributions—Gedit allows
> to choose from “Unix/Linux”, “Mac OS Classic”, and “Windows”, in the Save dialog.
Gedit is not a valid example when you compare it with Notepad. Please
compare with editors which come with the OS out of the box: ed, ex,
vi, etc. Because Gedit and Emacs are also available on Windows, so
they make the point moot.
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