Re: etags test is broken on MS-Windows

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/22/2015 06:19 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I'd go with removeing the different
> > >treatment of crlf on dos and unix.
> I agree, but it sounds like Paul doesn't.

Yes and no.  My understanding is that the code now works without 
glitches for files with a few stray CRLFs but has some glitches for 
files that consistently use CRLF, and that the change proposed in 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00637.html> 
would introduce glitches in the former case while removing glitches in 
the latter.  I'd rather not trade one bug for another.  That is, if 
we're going to change this code at all, let's do it in a way that 
doesn't introduce glitches for the stray CRLF case.

One possible way to do that is suggested in the last paragraph of 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00657.html>. 
This approach does remove the different treatment of CRLF on MS-Windows 
and Unix (as Francesco suggested); but it does so in a different way, by 
using the Unix convention everywhere, and it suggests an approach that 
should let Emacs do the right thing on both Unix and MS-Windows, without 
any glitches on either platform.