On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:55:08PM +0200, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

Yes it would make much more sense to default to LF EOL (maybe not on Windows) in this century, but that is true for the whole image ...

I agree, but this is imho very simple and actionable change and a step forward. Changing whole image is a much bigger issue. Re Windows: we should make a poll among Windows users to see what makes the most sense for them. Peter

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On 19 Aug 2016, at 14:49, Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

can we have a class-side configuration for STON line ending?

Atm if I want to output with LF instead of CR (which is always), then I have to always do this

String streamContents: [ :stream | (STON writer on: stream) prettyPrint: true; newLine: String lf; nextPut: data ].

I would be much happier if at least I could do this

STON lineEnding: String lf

(I could put the above in a StartupScript)

And then just use regular STON toStringPretty: data.

And I would be even happier if

STON class>>lineEnding ^ String lf

or

STON class>>lineEnding ^ OSPlatform current isWindows ifTrue: [ String crlf ] ifFalse: [ String lf ]

(Although always using LF by default might be preferable.)

To summarize, it would be great if we could:

* switch STON to LF _by default_ * allow users to easily switch to CR/CRLF if they need

Thanks, Peter

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 03:26:41PM +0200, stepharo wrote:

I got bitten by messy files recently and I have the impression that you should have

in and out line ending settings (because may be you want to see Ston one way and output the other)

Unless I am mistaken, line endings for STON itself are not significant, so input line-endings are not that important. And if you have line endings in strings, those are not affected, so nothing (in theory) should break. Or did you mean something else? Peter