From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755131AbZBTC42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:56:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751392AbZBTC4T (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:56:19 -0500 Received: from web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.154]:32215 "HELO web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751123AbZBTC4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:56:18 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 383 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:56:18 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=wE8CAEuEUAEN5+w4G6d1lpIgJXdbymyYNVbwWcDCsIcY44xkMnJnH4kIhXV0gSuZyRl/m2rfMrvLtfxLH4Qjt61f3tJu4lqWdNvQtIIlq8WtDSxlTP5gfvh+o4PXdkJgeOQrSffpbvMQzAAq3o/DJQ4NECnwiWRyZnerQZCWQP4=; X-YMail-OSG: F0YiZyEVM1msl7q064I4fJyyBXdmPs_W.hTgjjQF2BE1I08FelduAgd_o7WkcoL9QM8arGu67TtclSywSdmy8Bd0grDyXkBOyNuihhdWE0.BoTsuvlib._tUc4nerPgCVwOCbuknpAJHERkrTZSHlUqeeXdKSQJfpd6DRi7cfxqUJFOsbGlvHUv2wBeDcRraLdRK8w1c9yaMzI0gKB124O.Q4n8j1IkhX79veEz.9UG6.w-- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Levinson Subject: suggest make standard list of CR/LF prefs that apps can read for portability To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <536945.50089.qm@web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Battling between Windows Notepad, Linux gedit, and OpenOffice.org conventions on how paragraphs are separated in text files using CR and LF characters, I'd like the ability to set a preference the same way I'd set one for currency or daylight savings time. A user wouldn't have to pick, but if a user does all applications could agree with it. It would be up to each application designer to comply or not. Noncompliant apps should not break. Among the options: whatever the application normally sets if I have no preference, CR alone, LF alone, CR+LF, and LF+CR. It might be nice if among the options was one to simply choose that in a well-known stable application, such as one of those above. Each user could have their own pref. And an app could override it. Thanx. -- Nick