On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 May 2010, hasen j wrote:
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>> I don't know all linux editors, but I've yet to see one that can't
>> handle CRLF endings.
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> A _lot_ of UNIX editors will handle CRLF endings, but if you change a
> file, they often write the result back with _mixed_ endings.

Just for completeness: The inverse is also the case on Windows; a lot
of editors will handle LF endings, but a handful of them will insert
gladly insert CRLFs under certain circumstances. Microsoft Visual
Studio is one of these.

So yeah, neither CRLF or LF everywhere is generally a good idea.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
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