I too have been changing a large number of files, in my case close to
1100, using a text factory with about 90 'replace all' expressions. I
used 'Change Line Endings' to Mac format as the first text factory
action, and this seemed to work well.
I am curious about how the line endings are encoded in text
factories. When I copy and paste some text from a unix formatted file
into a text factory, it seems to, at least in most cases, paste the
text exactly as it appears, without the line endings being shown. If
I then close the text factory options dialogue and reopen, the line
endings are converted to \r. This is somewhat of a pain, I would
rather have the encoded \r's in the text factory dialogue on initial
paste.
It appears that \r is used as the line ending value inside the text
factory even for unix files. When I examine the unix file via shell
command 'od -c', I can see the line endings are encoded as \n. It
appears that BBEdit text factory is using \r for line endings
regardless of whether Mac or unix format is specified. In my text
factory, I added some more \r's and again, using 'od -c', confirmed
that the line endings in the file were \n's, not \r's.
I can see where this might make it easier for those long used to
macs, and using \r's works, but as someone who didn't use a mac till
OS X it seems counterintuitive to call a \n a \r.
-Mike
Michael Wiik
Messagenet Communications Research
Washington, DC Area Web Development
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