Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:36:44 -0800 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: funny REINPLACE_CMD failure for \r Message-ID: <20021106173644.GK197@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <m3adkm3k83.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20021105003210.GA92795@k7.mavetju> <20021105013354.GA197@vectors.cx> <m3adkm3k83.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
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>> (11.06.2002 @ 0523 PST): Matthias Andree said, in 0.8K: <<
> Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>
> >>> (11.04.2002 @ 1632 PST): Edwin Groothuis said, in 0.7K: <<
> >> It seems that REINPLACE_CMD doesn't know how to handle \r's in the
> >> expression, "-e 's!\r!!'" fails all the time for me (no matter how
> >> much \'s I add to it :-). Right now I just replace these by
> >> "${TR} -d '\015' < file > file.new; {$MV} file.new file"
> >> but I was wondering if somebody has a better solution for it.
> >
> > Does ^V^M not work?
>
> Are you confident the next editor (not vim or nvi though ;-) will keep
> the binary CR character? I'm not. And it's at best ugly. (One can see
> horses puke in front of pharmacies, as a German saying goes.)
>> end of "Re: funny REINPLACE_CMD failure for \r" from Matthias Andree <<
I'm sure Freud would have something to say about these German horses
you're hallucinating about ::)
I can't think of any strikingly good solutions. But I'd really hope an
editor wouldn't clobber it... no faith, though. Maybe it's time to
finally institute [:cr:] and [:tab:], and correspondingly iscr(3) and
istab(3).
- -Adam
- --
Adam Weinberger
adam@vectors.cx
adamw@FreeBSD.ORG
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