[Dev] lingering SVN binary vs. text problems

[Brendan O'Connor]

On 6/3/05, Heikki Toivonen <heikki at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> Brendan O'Connor wrote:
> > One option is to do away with all text conversions -- the windows user
> > turns off text conversion on their client, or tag all files as binary.
> > I mean, all the good programmer's text editors on windows understand
> > unix line endings, so perhaps automatic cr/lf conversions just aren't
> > worth it anymore...
> 
> Unfortunately MS Visual Studio is horrible with unix line endings (at
> least used to be, haven't checked the latest version). It happily opens
> a unix formatted file, but when you edit it, it inserts windows newlines
> in the middle of the file. So you end up with a mix.
> 
> Yeah, maybe MS Visual Studio is not a good programmer's text editor, but
> it's what we use to build and debug on windows. When you happen to be in
> the debug window it is really tempting to edit the text then and there,
> rather than switch to some other editor.



OK, I didn't know that. I was thinking eclipse, emacs, textpad, and other 
less important ones. Thanks for the info.

Brendan
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