[Zope] Re: ExternalEditor and inconsistent line-endings

Casey Duncan casey@zope.com
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:01:27 -0400


What platform are you running Zope on? What platform are you editing on?

-Casey

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:42:29 +0200
Jean Jordaan <jean@upfrontsystems.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Casey
> 
> I noticed that ExternalEditor's use of line-endings sometimes becomes 
> inconsistent ..
> 
> When opening a new CMF Document, which I edited via Mozilla, Vim tells 
> me [noeol][dos]: the last line lacks an EOL, and the file is in dos 
> format (lines end <cr><nl>).
> 
> When opening the 'index_html' CMF Document, which I also edited via 
> Mozilla, the fileformat is unix (lines end <nl>), but only the 
> ExternalEditor header section (i.e. up to the line after the SafetyBelt) 
> shows extra <cr> characters at the ends of lines.
> 
> I guess this has to do with the format of the text in the form field 
> which is being edited: it looks like ExternalEditor assumes that to be 
> Dos format.
> 
> -- 
> Jean Jordaan
> http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za
>