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From: Pete Fenelon <pete.fenelon@info-com.com>
To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: sam for 95/nt
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:26:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970217162635.006bb15c@oberon.info-com.com> (raw)

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In summary -- a lovely piece of work. Just what we've all been waiting for.

One minor caveat, though -- under 95 (don't know about NT) it adopts the
Unix-y (and indeed right-thinking) LF as newline.... which means it's not
ideal for editing Windows text files which use CR/LF -- (A) it shows the CR
half of CR/LF as a CR character and (B) it makes it a tad tricky to use
files produced with Sam with utilities that aren't wise to the rest of the
world's conventions on newline...

I suppose this is the *logically* correct behaviour, but to push Sam as an
editor which the Windows-user community will use, perhaps it should do the
wrong but  *visually* sensible thing :)

Thoughts -- would it be difficult to bodge sam to treat CR/LF as one rune
under Windows?

pete
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Pete Fenelon, Infocom UK Ltd. pete.fenelon@info-com.com

             reply	other threads:[~1997-02-17 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-02-17 16:26 Pete Fenelon [this message]
1997-11-17 15:58 ` Michael K. Rosenberg
1997-02-17 16:35 Nigel Roles
1997-02-17 16:54 rsc
1997-02-17 17:01 erik quanstrom
1997-02-17 17:15 Pete Fenelon
1997-02-18  4:02 arnold

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