Re: [Nano-devel] DOS/Mac text conversion

[Chris Allegretta]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:34:30AM -0400, Bill Soudan wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:02, Dwayne Rightler wrote:
> > I don't know what shell you use, but for bash you could always do
> > something like:
> > 
> > alias nano-dos='nano -D'
> > 
> > That would solve your problem as long as you could remember to use the
> > nano-dos command instead of nano when editing win32 text files.
> 
> heh, that's irritating, and yes I will forget.  Why not just fix the
> editor so that it does what I know I expect as a user:  save the text
> file in the same format it was read in from?  As a reference, vi and
> emacs do this.

Yes.  However, last time I used it (which is now a LONG time ago), Pico 
did not do this.  It saves all files as Unix format by default, and I 
don't believe there's any option to change how it is saved.  Has any 
used Pico recently who would know if this is still the case?

Since we're already doing this better, it just becomes a question of
whether we save in the file's format by default (and hence not need
--noconvert).  I'm fine with that, what do you think DLR?  How do we 
handle multiple file buffers?  Yuck, I cant think about this right now 
:)

Chris A
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