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| From: | Jacob Bachmeyer |
| Subject: | Re: @ continuation not working in @def... |
| Date: | Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:35:30 -0600 |
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Per Bothner wrote:
On 2/9/21 11:44 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:Yes, on Posix platforms. texi2any on MS-Windows should process the line ends properly. I expect that this happens already.On general principles, I believe any program that reads text files on *any* platforms should handle "\r\n" the same as "\n". Not doing so is IMNSHO a bug. However, I agree it's a low-priority bug ...
At the least, it should produce a more useful error. Perhaps the sequence "@\r" could produce a message like "Input file seems to have DOS line endings; please fix them."?
-- Jacob
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