Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:10:41 -0600,
Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was trying, on a Linux system, to get a .Rbuildignore file to work.
After far too long, I found the problem was the <CR><NL> line endings
in the .Rbuildignore file -- I had originally created it on a Windows
system, and emacs in Ubuntu was politely hiding that fact from me.
Are you sure? Whenever I open M$ files in Emacs under Debian I see
'(DOS)' near the left end of the modeline, which indicates that it has
^C as EOL. This has been the case since at least 21.0.
^M^J, I think you mean (CRLF).
Emacs is not totally consistent about how it does this: since it tries
to guess the file encoding it will usually indicate (DOS) on the mode
line, but not always (and it sometimes displays the ^M's, even on
Windows).
But to the point: how often do people get DOS-style files on a
Unix-alike? You have to work pretty hard to do this, and there comes a
point at which complicating R to workaround wrongly encoded files is
not worth the trouble. Let's see if anyone else reports having done
this.
It was pretty easy for me to get these line endings -- I created the
file in GNU Emacs under Windows, and rsync'ed the package directory to a
Ubuntu Linux machine. I went back and checked, and GNU Emacs under
Ubuntu did show (DOS) in the status line of the buffer, but I never
noticed that while I was trying to figure out why my .Rbuildignore file
wasn't having any effect. (I think I preferred it when Emacs would show
^M at the end of each line in a CRLF file -- not showing that is what I
meant by "hiding it from me".)
-- Tony Plate
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