Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous situations where files get transferred with without needing to involve Windows, so stray characters occasionally show up here and there. I'm sure many of us would like support for en

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such > an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using > the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous si

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Karl M
Hi All... My $0.02... If you make igncr the default for bash, I would consider removing the special handling on the DOS paths. Thanks for all the work you are doing to speed things up. Damn the CRs, full speed ahead! ...Karl From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings Date

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:24:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Gary R. Van Sickle on 10/3/2006 8:27 PM: >>What's going to break if igncr is simply always on? > >Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Those who want literal \r >would edit cygwin.bat or ~/.bash_profile to turn the shopt

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary R. Van Sickle on 10/3/2006 8:27 PM: > > What's going to break if igncr is simply always on? Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Those who want literal \r would edit cygwin.bat or ~/.bash_profile to turn the shopt off, but leavi

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Eric Blake Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings [snip] Perhaps so, but that was a risk I was willing to take, since cygwin's stated goal is to provide a Linux emulation on Windows, and Linux users don't g

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Eric Blake > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings > [snip] > > Perhaps so, but that was a risk I was willing to take, since > cygwin's stated goal is to provide a Linux emulation on > Windows, and Linux user

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kazuyuki Hagiwara on 10/3/2006 6:23 PM: > How about using BASH_ENV variable. > In the startup script defined by BASH_ENV variable, > you can put a line "shopt -s igncr". BASH_ENV already has a defined meaning that conflicts with your sug

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pierre Baillargeon on 10/3/2006 12:55 PM: > I've been wondering during this whole event why one of the original proposal > was not used? > > As far as I can see, the main problem with both latest bash revisions is that > the solution to t

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Kazuyuki Hagiwara
) -Original Message- ) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierre Baillargeon ) Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:55 AM ) To: cygwin@cygwin.com ) Subject: Bash and CR/LF line-endings ) ) I've been wondering during this whole event why one of the ) ori

Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-03 Thread Pierre Baillargeon
I've been wondering during this whole event why one of the original proposal was not used? As far as I can see, the main problem with both latest bash revisions is that the solution to the cr/lf problem demands that users be either pro-active or gifted guessers. Both the d2u and the shopt solution