Re: [PATCH] Make text data file use system native line ends by default.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:53:08AM -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> > This seems like a reasonable thing to do, but I'm not certain.
> > Please take a look and give me some feedback if you have any
> > before I apply it.
> 
> Tailoring PSPP for Notepad? :-)

For Windows.  Many Windows programs expect Windows line-ends, just as
most Unix programs expect Unix line-ends.

> Would it be better to continue to default to uniform line endings,
> letting the user override it to be for their native system instead?

Well, that's the question.  I do not think that there is a "correct"
choice here, but there is probably a choice that will cause less user
confusion.  My guess is that using Unix line ends everywhere will
surprise users more than using native line ends by default.  But I'm
open to discussion.