Re: Default line endings on Mac

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/10/19 2:02 PM, Torsten wrote:
> On 10.01.19 18:54, Andrew Janke wrote:
> > Hi, Octave maintainers,
> >
> > On macOS, at least with a Qt build, the default EOL mode for Octave as
> > of 4.4.1 is "Mac (CR)".
> >
> > I think this might be an archaism: "Mac" (\r) EOL mode text files were
> > used by pre-OS X Mac OSes like Mac OS 9. Since the switch to the
> > Unix-based OS X, Mac programs generally default to Unix style (\n) line
> > endings. You can verify this by opening TextEdit and creating a new
> > plain text file: it uses \n EOLs.
> >
> > Having files created in legacy Mac (\r) mode makes it a bit harder to
> > use Unix command line tools and stuff like GitHub with those files.
> >
> > Can/should Octave be changed to default to Unix (\n) EOLs on macOS?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
>
> If Mac users agree to LF being the default ending, the change should not
> be difficult. Btw: In Geany, the line ending CR is denoted as "Classic
> Mac", which might be more up to date.
>
> Torsten

I like the "Classic Mac" labeling. That seems more informative.

Some other data points:

Sublime Text denotes it as "Mac OS 9".
BBEdit denotes it as "Legacy Mac (CR)".
TextEdit and Atom don't seem to have any controls for selecting the EOL 
format.
Matlab R2018b doesn't seem to have a setting for it, but creates new 
files in Unix (LF) format.

Andrew