[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files
From: |
Benno Schulenberg |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:08:55 +0100 |
Hello Fergus,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015, at 08:51, Fergus Daly wrote:
> Just started using nano 2.4.0. As with many previous versions
> nano -help
> yields
> -N --noconvert Don't convert files from DOS/Mac format
> carrying the implication that without the switch -N, files will be converted
> to Unix format.
> But this is not what happens.
> nano (no argument)
> nano -N
> are identical: they don't convert.
Hmm... If I use nano -N on a DOS file, then I see at the end
of each and every line a ^M. Don't you see this?
Maybe the explanation of the option should be improved: it
doesn't convert the actual file, it just converts the internal
representation.
> If you go back far enough the following beautiful behaviour is what happened
> with v.1.3.4:
> nano (no argument) = if not Unix, convert convert to Unix
> nano -D = if not DOS, convert to DOS
> nano -M = if not Mac, convert to Mac
> nano -N = do not change format
> PLEASE could nano v.current be made to mimic the marvellous behaviour of
> 1.3.4?
I think that in general when one edits a file, one surely does
not want the editor to change the format of the file without
having explicitly asked it to do that. Secondly I think it is
not an editor's task to convert formats -- sure, it would be
cool if it could do that, but it is an extra bell or whistle. There
are tools like dos2unix or simple seds that can do that.
> Or, if not, how can I get
> nano {? switch} = if not Unix, convert to Unix
Benno
--
http://www.fastmail.com - Send your email first class
- [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Fergus Daly, 2015/03/24
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files,
Benno Schulenberg <=
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Fergus Daly, 2015/03/25
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/03/25
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Fergus Daly, 2015/03/25
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Chris Allegretta, 2015/03/25
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/03/25
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Fergus Daly, 2015/03/26
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/03/26
- Re: [Help-nano] Altering DOS/Mac/Unix terminated text files, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/03/25