[racket] CRLF vs LF & windows

Good news!

I happen to use DrRacket in Windows and Linux and every time I switch
systems version control will mark every line as changed because of line
endings.

I didn't try the pre-release yet. Is there a way to explicitly choose
between CRLF and LF?


[]'s

Rodolfo Carvalho


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 22:15, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> I've pushed a change today in the way that DrRacket handles line
> endings under windows. If you are a regular windows user who has the
> energy to give the pre-release a try for your usual DrRacketeering for
> a week or month or so to share you feedback on this change, that'd be
> great.
>
> In old versions, DrRacket would open a file in any style and then save
> it using CRLF (under windows; it would always save regular LF files on
> other platforms). In the current pre-release, DrRacket checks to see
> if every line ends in CRLF in the file and, if so, it saves the file
> in CRLF (and puts a little warning in the bottom of the window that it
> is in this mode). Otherwise, it saves the file in LF mode. There is a
> preference to go back to the old behavior too.
>
> Feedback welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> Robby
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