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Re[2]: Spaces added ... and line endings in general
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James Lyon |
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Re[2]: Spaces added ... and line endings in general |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:21:44 +0000 |
DHT> That was a request. It isn't the only possible request. Since it
DHT> is a request to change CVS, it has to be looked at globally.
Indeed ... my implication later in the message was that no such change
should be entertained. I should have made that clear at the outset in
hindsight.
>> This simple algorithm is *very* effective except when a "formatting"
>> <CR> is used with something following it other than an <LF>. But
>> that's logically ambiguous anyway and so you have to tell "it" what to
>> do with such situations.
>>
DHT> Um, no, that's not logically ambiguous. In a Unix text file,
DHT> the \r is very well defined. If you don't know whether it's a
DHT> Unix text file or not, then you've got an ambiguity problem.
Your response identifies precisely the way in which I meant it is
logically ambiguous -- you have resolved the ambiguity by introducing
the context required to know how to interpret the characters. My point
was simply that "<CR>text<LF>" in itself can only be identified as
*either* overprinted formatting *or* two line-breaks iff you know how
to interpret it.
None of this really matters of course ... just curious musings.
DHT> that should be done on a local basis, since you can be sure of
DHT> your own file contents but not everybody else's.
Quite!
DHT> (And in reply to an earlier email: a three-l lllama is in fact
DHT> a pretty bad fire in Brooklyn.)
That was someone-else's ... I think my reply and the mail to which I
replied may have become too interwoven!
DHT> (Explanation for those who need it: in the US, fires are often
DHT> measured in number of alarms, where a one-alarmer is a routine
DHT> fire, and a five-alarmer is catastrophic. In the traditional
DHT> Brooklyn accent, "three-alarmer" would be pronounced much like
DHT> "three-l lama".
...but thank you for that :-)
FW: Spaces added ... and line endings in general, Graeme . Vetterlein, 2001/01/23