On May 28, 2020, at 10:33 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> On 5/28/20 10:17 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote:
>> I am a fan of moving Mac to default to LF. We use LF explicitly as our line
>> ending of choice in all of our current software projects.
>> LF is useful if only to
On 5/28/20 10:17 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote:
I am a fan of moving Mac to default to LF. We use LF explicitly as our line
ending of choice in all of our current software projects.
LF is useful if only to natively work with the expected line endings from
Github and text files
I am a fan of moving Mac to default to LF. We use LF explicitly as our line
ending of choice in all of our current software projects.
LF is useful if only to natively work with the expected line endings from
Github and text files interchanged with Linux servers.
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
Just changes CR to LF. 2 files updated.
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7214/files
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:10 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
> > Re. a PR to change it, it does seem it will run into concerns about
binfile is just short for binary file... it means that the file is written
exactly as presented. If you use encode (UTF8/16 etc) then you need to use
it anyway.
The PR is a pretty much single constant update (changes CR to LF for Mac
line ending).
The backwards compatibility issue is a very
Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Re. a PR to change it, it does seem it will run into concerns about
> backward compatability. Is it likely to succeed to propose a new
> URL-type - maybe "textfile".
What exactly does the PR do?
If it changes default Mac line endings from CR to LF, thumbs up.
macOS is a
Thanks Brian, that was a very helpful and clear description. It's
amazing that I've been an active Runrev/livecode for nearly 20 years and
not been affected by this until now :-)
Re. a PR to change it, it does seem it will run into concerns about
backward compatability. Is it likely to
You need to use binfile on Mac to get sane line endings. I have a PR to fix,
but doubt it will get merged.
On Mac/Windows, file will convert line endings to what LC thinks is the native
one for the OS. CRLF for Windows and CR for Mac (the real CR, not the one that
LC uses internally where CR
I don't know if I've done something to my LC prefs, or to my Mac, or to
myself :-)
the following script
on mouseUp
local t
put "asd" & CR & "qwe" & CR & "zxc" into t
put t into URL ("file:/Users/alextweedly/tiny.txt")
end mouseUp
does create a file - but that file can't be (easily,
