Re: CLISP cygwin: default line terminator

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2009/6/26 Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...>:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> and crlf on cygwin is unsane.
>
> you assume that the main use of the cygwin clisp is interaction with other
> cygwin programs.
> I think that the main use is interaction with the win32 world.

Well, I got only complaints about crlf, then I patched it, pipes do work now,
and no one complained so far about crlf not being the default anymore or
the difference to upstream.

>> Almost nobody uses textmounts and igncr nowadays.
>> There's also strong support of removing textmounts at all.
>
> question it, what do the windows programs use/expect?
> does notepad.exe show a file with LFs properly?
> if it does not, then it is a bug for any windows program (including any
> cygwin program) to write such a file by default.

We do not use notepad on cygwin because it does not display any of our files.
notepad users use the mingw build.

> IIUC, currently you patch clisp before distributing it with cygwin, right?
> It's a small patch and I am sure it is applied automatically.

yes.
just this one and gdi in a special clisp-gdi package.
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