Bill McCarthy wrote:
[...]
> I'm convinced :-) From now on I patch only from the FTP
> site.
Sometimes (rarely) a patch will appear on the vim_dev list and not immediately
on the FTP site. (It always does eventually appear -- sometimes the day after.)
>
> BTW, it still requires one conversion - since my source is
> in DOS format. However I already have that built into my
> patch alias.
It may depend on which compiler you're using, but I've never had problems with
sources in Unix 'fileformat', not even on Windows. It is true that even when I
was on Windows, I never compiled Vim using the Microsoft Visual-C compiler (I
used first Borland's BCC 5, and then, when I encountered problems with BCC32
and multibyte functions on Win98, I used Cygwin gcc). Vim itself can also
source scripts in Unix format (on non-Unix OSes, this requires that
'fileformats' includes "unix", which is the default in 'nocompatible' mode).
For the patching operation itself, I found out that all "patch" programs that
I tried on Windows, except the one from Cygwin, would choke on the Vim patches.
>
> I still think it would be nice if the patch emails
> contained a warning whenever there are any characters in
> the range of [^\t -~].
>
"other than tab or 20-7E"; yes; but the equal sign is also "transformed" in
quoted-printable, and sometimes the space.
IIUC, Bram nowadays normally sends the patches in 8bit format, which is easier
for us; but as I said, some ISPs' mail routers (including mine's) convert
between Content-Transfer-Encodings (8bit, quoted-printable, base64, ...).
Best regards,
Tony.
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