Hello,<br><br>emacs supports files with Unix, Dos and Mac-OS line terminators. It does not support<br>files with have a mixture of them. Unfortunately, there are tools, such as the Sun java<br>compilers, that accept source files in which each line can be terminated by one<br>
of the Unix, Dos or Mac-OS line terminators.<br>The result is that emacs and such tools number lines differently, and a programmer, when<br>trying to locate a line on which the compiler reported an error is at a loss.<br>
E.g. take the attached file: it has been created with Emacs in Windows typing the text<br>and adding with ctrl-q ctrl-m a carriage-return character at the end of the first line.<br>When that file is opened with emacs, three lines are shown (i.e. that carriage-return<br>
does not make an empty line).<br>When the java compiler is run, this is the result:<br><br>D:\jtest&gt;javac Errjava.java<br>Errjava.java:3: &lt;identifier&gt; expected<br>    public main ...<br>               ^<br>1 error<br>
<br>Note that the compiler is telling that there is an error on line 3, but for emacs that line is line 2.<br><br>P.S. there are other editors, such as PsPad which instead display the file with the same line<br>numbering as the java compiler uses.<br>
<br>My request is to add a further choice of line terminators besises Unix, Dos and Mac-OS that<br>considers lines terminated by any one of cr-lf, cr or lf (in this order).<br><br>Thank you<br>-Angelo Borsotti<br><br>