On Tue 21-Nov-06 6:10pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Bill McCarthy wrote: >> On Tue 21-Nov-06 4:17pm -0600, you wrote:
>>> oops. >>> ...sources, I recommend using Unix-format files even on Windows >> Yes, with perfect 20/20 hindsight, it would be nice if >> Vim/Gvim were distributed that way. > Actually, the Dos-format files are supposed to be a "favour" to Dos/Windows > users. But no one has to use them, since everything is available in Unix > format too. Yes, I do consider it a favor to have dos EOLs in source, text and vim files. What is more of a curse than a favor, is having a different file structure. Since the windows distribution does not have a runtime directory, we need to modify patch files manually (actually semi-automatically) to account for the differences in directory structure. >> Perhaps Bram's next release (8.0?) could be entirely in unix >> format - source and text. >> >> In the past, many older utilities would choke on unix >> formats. That doesn't appear to be much of a problem today >> - with some noticeable exceptions, like I.E. (which ignores >> unix EOLs). > also Notepad, which will see a Unix-format file as a single long line with > "control characters" (shown as boxes) wherever there is a line-feed. Happily > we have Vim ;-) when we need to edit text (WordPad also works). Good point! It's probably best to keep the dos EOLs. -- Best regards, Bill
