Re: [Nano-devel] address@hidden: Bug#451659: nano: does wrong line-converting]

[David Ramsey]

On Nov 17, 2007 12:30 PM, Jordi Mallach <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This bug looks bad enough to have a close look.

Fortunately, it's not quite as bad as it sounds.  nano's just being
overzealous about DOS/Mac file conversions and treating the carriage
return in the middle of the file as a Mac line ending.  I've fixed it in
CVS by only converting a file type from Unix to DOS or Mac if the
carriage return occurs on the first line, which should make false
positives like this much less likely.  (It's not perfect, but it really
can't be, given that there's no way to know for certain what format a
file is supposed to be in, and if all else fails, there's still
--noconvert.)  A patch to fix it in 2.0.6 is attached.

nano206eolfixes-patch.txt
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