"decent" editors (was: line ending summary: the "Breg Hudtherton Proposal")

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
>>..
> +1 for 3a, since most decent editors won't switch all the line endings anyway,
> they will either preserve the same style, or preserve the same style except for
> added newlines.

I *really* wish people would stop talking about "decent editors" or "proper
tools" or whateverthehell.

People out there are NOT always going to use a decent editor. We better be
able to deal with that. And "deal with" means "not screw them over hard." We
really ought to be able to compensate for wackiness from the user.

Did they try to check in a .dsp with LF endings? [and it was marked for CRLF
endings only]  Well, we *know* that it is wrong, so we really ought to do
something about it for them.

[ this reminds me of programs (e.g. parsers) that say "you're missing a
  semicolon right <there>". well, thanks a lot Mr Program, why didn't you
  just put it in there for me? you know it should be there ]


Anyways. I hope not to see the word "decent" again in this thread. The world
is messy. We should deal with it.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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