address@hidden: Re: grep RFE: End-of-Line choices]

[Eli Zaretskii]

Forwarded to the list at Stepan's request.

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:20:17 +0100
From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: grep RFE:  End-of-Line choices
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Hello,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:08:08 +0100
> > From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> > 
> > What about the following: find first occurences of '\n' and '\r' in the
> > buffer.  If they form "\r\n", we have a DOS file, if no "\n" was found
> > and "\r" was found, we have a Mac file, Unix file otherwise.
> > If neither \n nor \r was find, extend the buffer and recurse.
> 
> Emacs uses N first lines in the file, N being a parameter (currently
> set to 3).  (For Grep, I'd let the user control N with a command-line
> switch.)  If the N lines end inconsistently, the file is treated as if
> it had Unix-style NL-only lines.
> 
> Otherwise, yes, that's how it should probably work.

thanks, yes, I like this.

You haven't sent this mail to the list, will you please forward it?

Thanks,
        Stepan
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