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From: | Lennart Borgman |
Subject: | Re: How to change line endings - where is it explained? |
Date: | Sun, 14 May 2006 23:00:53 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Maybe it is a little bit a matter of cognitive style? It is really hard to organize a big text like Emacs manual and I tend to think that maybe I am not in the right node and then I continue searching. Sometimes this is the best approach I believe and sometimes not. This time it was certainly not the best strategy I was using, you are right in that.Oh, I found it! But I did not see it before. The reason is that I am nearly always searching, not reading.That is almost certainly not the right way to use the manual. Searching is a vehicle of getting to the right node, but once you are already there, you should read it in its entirety.
It might well be that most people doing some programming tend to have a cognitive style that is more consistent with the reading style you suggest.
If you dislike that term I suppose that there are more native English speaking people that does that. But there is one drawback with the term "end-of-line format" and that is that there is a function with that name. It makes searching a little bit harder, perhaps. However I would be glad if one term was use consistently in the manual. That makes my way of reading the manual (=searching) quite a bit more easy.I actually dislike the term "line endings"; "end-of-line format" is a better term, IMO.
??? How can that be? Are we talking about the same thing here? Here's the fragment I had in mind: Each of the listed coding systems has three variants which specify exactly what to do for end-of-line conversion: `...-unix' Don't do any end-of-line conversion; assume the file uses newline to separate lines. (This is the convention normally used on Unix and GNU systems.)
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Yes, that is more in line with what I was searching for. And looked for in the node "(emacs) Coding Systems".like in M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET unix RETAs I understand it this changes just the line endings to unix style (LF). Would it not be good to mention this feature?Ah, you mean this paragraph (from "Text Coding"): You can also use this command to specify the end-of-line conversion (*note end-of-line conversion: Coding Systems.) for encoding the current buffer. For example, `C-x <RET> f dos <RET>' will cause Emacs to save the current buffer's text with DOS-style CRLF line endings.
To summarize: What I would have found most useful would have been one consistent term for "line endings"/"end-of-line conversions"/"end-of-line type" since this makes searching easier.
Thanks for taking time with this. It cleared my thoughts a bit.
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