In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:21:10 -0400, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
hendrik> I believe you mean LF instead of NL. Yes. hendrik> Historical note: [...] hendrik> It was Unix, and C, I believe, that started the perversion of hendrik> using LF to mean CR-LF. The relevant standard of the time hendrik> specified that so simplify keyboarding, input routines could hendrik> interpret a single keystroke as CR-LF. But it was the more hendrik> natural CR that was to be the single keystroke, not LF. It wasn't really C per se, it was the terminal driver that would output CRLF to the terminal whenever it saw a LF. hendrik> There *has* been a NextLine character defined in the course hendrik> of time, but I've never seen it used. It's 0x85, Unicode hendrik> u0085, and it's name is Next Line, abbreviated NEL. There's some history behind that. Common Lisp has a concept of a virtual New Line character that's used as an internal representation of the local end-of-line character sequence. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
