Re: [Nano-devel] patch: fix minor issue w/NOCONVERT

[Chris Allegretta]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:00:36AM -0800, David Lawrence Ramsey wrote:
> http://pooka_regent.tripod.com/patches/nano/nanoconvert-patch.txt
> 
> When nano first reads in a line containing DOS or Mac newline
> characters, it sets fileformat and converts the newline to a Unix
> newline.  If a subsequent line has binary characters in it, NOCONVERT
> is set there and no more of the line endings are converted.  This is
> problematic, since NOCONVERT is supposed to signify that no line
> endings were converted.  Therefore, the following patch makes nano only
> set NOCONVERT if binary characters have been found and fileformat is
> 0.  This means that text files containing a few binary characters and
> DOS or Mac newlines are now read properly.  (Try opening e.g. a copy of
> GPL 2, with its embedded ^L's, saving it in DOS or Mac format, and
> reopening it to see the difference in behavior.)

Nice, thank you for the patch David.  Credited and committed.

Chris A
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