On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:03:10PM +0100, Nigel Magnay wrote: > > Well.... Newline = LF vs CRLF (vs CR for early mac.. erk) dates to > well before C and UNIX; back into the days of baudot codes and > teletype printers that couldn't physically newline in the time taken > for 1 character to be processed; LF is meant to mean Line Feed and CR > is meant to mean "Carriage Return", so CRLF is in that sense quite > logical. But that's standards committees and backwards compatibility > for you :-/ CRLF is logical from the point of you of teletype printers, but when we speak about text files then it is more logical to consider them as a list of lines. What particular symbol is used as line-separator does not really matter, but IMHO it is stupid to have two symbols for that. So, LF vs CR is matter of preferences, but CRLF is just stupid -;) Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
