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NiLuJe · 04-23-2015, 06:17 PM

Some things are more tolerant to CR/LF than others, but it's just bad practice to mix line-endings, and most everything we do here is guaranteed to expect/work with unix line-endings, while it might only once in a blue moon tolerate CR/LF without ill effect.
Hence the go-to recommendation is unix line-endings and a decent editor, because we're sure *that* expected setup will work. Anything else would just add 'noise' and complicate support. Better eliminate potential issues early, where we can.
Plus, one byte less per line, win/win ^^.

One of the many things that will not ever bear CR/LFs are shell scripts, for instance.

04-23-2015, 06:17 PM	#31
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Some things are more tolerant to CR/LF than others, but it's just bad practice to mix line-endings, and most everything we do here is guaranteed to expect/work with unix line-endings, while it might only once in a blue moon tolerate CR/LF without ill effect. Hence the go-to recommendation is unix line-endings and a decent editor, because we're sure that expected setup will work. Anything else would just add 'noise' and complicate support. Better eliminate potential issues early, where we can. Plus, one byte less per line, win/win ^^. One of the many things that will not ever bear CR/LFs are shell scripts, for instance. Last edited by NiLuJe; 04-23-2015 at 06:19 PM.