Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:31:19 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >What's wrong with the patched file having CRLF on Windows? > > > > > It is the default line endings on Windows so normally that is what you > want. However

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Lennart Borgman
for someone not used to them. As you surely know I am trying to get more people on Windows to use Emacs and my interest in patch and Cygwin comes out of this. Those people I think of are Windows users. Maybe they have a long background in computers, but that does not help very much when there is

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:05:14 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cygwin@cygwin.com > > I think so. The file file-lf.txt has CRLF line endings after patching, > otherwise everything is fine. What's wrong with the patched file having CRLF on Windows? >

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: The result is that the only option that seems to be able to handle the mix of line endings is Cygwin using DOS line endings with patch 2.5.9. (The only thing that did not work was preservation of line endings in the patched file, but that seems to be a small problem here.)

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:07:30AM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: > This is a summary of my tests with Cygwin patch and different line > ending styles. (Only LF and CRLF are tested here.) > > I have downloaded patch 2.5.9 from > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz and compiled it

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:07:30 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel , > Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I urge people who participate in this thread to please keep emacs-devel off the list of the addressees, as this issue is off-topic there.

Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
This is a summary of my tests with Cygwin patch and different line ending styles. (Only LF and CRLF are tested here.) I have downloaded patch 2.5.9 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz and compiled it using Cygwin. I have used this patch and the patch that currently comes