read configuration files in universal newline mode

[Augie Fackler]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Martin Geisler wrote:

> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:56 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>
>>> # Date 1233089757 -3600
>>> # Node ID 09e152c5c220ca53ab92276a629b0ae2130fa743
>>> # Parent  752325f2208d4279a4fc892adddd1bfbc61b0ad1
>>> read configuration files in universal newline mode
>>
>> Bleck.
>>
>> Surely \r is deprecated with OS X?
>
> Maybe -- don't know :-) I just know that a poor Mac user on IRC could
> not get Mercurial to read his config file...

OS X apps are supposed to default to LF for EOL, but some really old  
editors may default the other way. Also, some really old-hat OS 9  
users that have moved on to OS X may have bad user preferences that  
cause their editor to prefer CR instead.


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> Martin Geisler
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