On 1/5/02 4:48 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Actually, this might have to do with Geir's new Mac!!!
> 
> "New line" sequences in:
> Linux    => "\n"     or "\x0A"
> Windows  => "\r\n"   or "\x0D\x0A"
> Mac      => "\n\r"   or "\x0A\x0D"
> 
> With all the smart tools (CVS stuff included) editing Velocity's text and
> trying to convert between one OS sequence to the other, I wonder if one of
> them is not loosing the right sequence somewhere.

I don't think so. I am using the same tools that I have been using since
August...

> It is even worse if the tool is only trying to interpret a bit of the text,
> like it happens with a diff or an editor that just changes what it edits.
> 
> The usual mix was Windows + Linux. With a new sequence added to the mix,
> maybe something went wrong somewhere... and maybe it got wrong in more than
> one step. (I am imagining these sequences going from tool to tool and being
> processed like the state of some weird random state machine.)
> 
> 
> Have fun,
> Paulo
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Donnie Hale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:04 PM
>> To: Velocity Developers List
>> Subject: RE: [ANN] Struts + Velocity + Tools +...
>> 
>> 
>> Gabe,
>> 
>> Thanks for letting me know that I'm not going crazy. :) FWIW, in VS I do a
>> regex global search&replace from "\x0D\x0D\x0A" to "\x0D\x0A". If there's
>> anything I can do to help (apart from pointing out work for you
>> and Geir ;),
>> let me know.
>> 
>> Donnie
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Gabriel Sidler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 1:53 PM
>>> To: Velocity Developers List
>>> Subject: Re: [ANN] Struts + Velocity + Tools +...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Donnie Hale wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Gabe and Geir,
>>>> 
>>>> I use Visual SlickEdit. When I open a file that has the
>> problem, it has
>>>> extra blank lines with one of those funny characters at the
>> start of the
>>>> next non-blank line. VS has no problem opening DOS or Unix files in a
>>>> correct way automatically - I do it all the time (been using VS
>>> for 8 years,
>>>> so I know it really well). When I see that problem, I look at
>>> the file in
>>>> hex mode, and that's how I know that the lines end with
>> "\x0D\x0D\x0A".
>>>> Additionally, not every ASCII file in the velocity-tools
>> distro has the
>>>> problem. About 1/2 of them (maybe more than 1/2) are perfectly
>>> fine. I can
>>>> open one and see the problem then open the next file in the
>>> same directory
>>>> and it's OK.
>>>> 
>>>> Don't know what to tell you, but I'm sure the lines end that
>>> way. I don't
>>>> know UltraEdit, but I'm betting it tweaks the line terminators
>>> when it opens
>>>> the file. ??
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, you are right. UltraEdit is tweaking them. Now I know how to
>>> look for the
>>> problem but not yet how to avoid it. Must be the Geir's Mac that
>>> interferes... ;-)
>>> 
>>> Gabe
>>> 
>>> 
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