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[PATCH] grep: don't forcefully strip carriage returns

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Message #32 received at 25707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 25707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25707: [PATCH] grep: don't forcefully strip carriage returns
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:45:43 -0800

On 02/16/2017 09:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It seems to me that when one bumps into some code which looks
> incorrect or less than optimal, and one considers its replacement with
> a more clever code,

No, that's not it. The idea was to simplify maintenance for the GNU 
case, perhaps at some cost to MS-Windows users, but they are lower 
priority so it is OK. The MS-Windows code was a mess because the two 
forms of auto binary-file detection could not work in combination; this 
was because one of the two forms was contributed later and without 
regard to MS-Windows. Perhaps the MS-Windows port could be improved 
without undue hassle to the GNU code, although that would require 
someone with MS-Windows expertise and enough free time to do it. Failing 
that, I suppose MS-Windows users can use -a and -U if they run into 
trouble, so it's not that big a deal.

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