[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #216 Alpha No Longer Warns about Inconsistent Line Terminations (Line Endings)

[jwq <jw...@us...>]

As this changes decades-old Alpha behaviour it's neither: it is a regression.

Alpha should not be silently altering data read from a file as that has the high potential to lead to *data loss*. There is extended discussion over at [MacDownApp/macdown#329]https://github.com/MacDownApp/macdown/issues/329) but that's largely incidental.

Alpha's internal buffer does *not* always contain 0x0A `\n` line endings during an editing session because *text pasted into the buffer may contain 0x0D `\r` line endings or even 0x0C and other invisible characters.*

The fact of the matter is that I need a tool which can detect and correct line ending problems. Alpha used to be that tool, and I need it to continue to be that tool.

Please restore the decades-old established behaviour.



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** [tickets:#216] Alpha No Longer Warns about Inconsistent Line Terminations (Line Endings)**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Sun Jun 23, 2019 02:15 AM UTC by jwq
**Last Updated:** Sun Jun 23, 2019 07:05 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


I have files which *somehow*  have mixed line ending markers. When these are opened in Alpha:

1. Alpha does not display the inconsistent line termination warning (it does display a wrap paragraph warning).
2. Alpha's window substitutes '\n' for '\r' so that a regexp search fails to find the '\r' characters which are present in the file.

It would be great to have this fixed.



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