Re: [platform-doc-dev] linefeed delimiter on Windows

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This mailing list is for developers
of the documentation for Eclipse, so this isn't the right place to report
this.  I suggest entering a bug report in Eclipse bugzilla.  Include
the .log file from the failed start, and the Eclipse build Id (from Help>About).
 Globally changing the line delimiter seems to be suspicious advice,
since components might be relying on this value when reading/writing metadata
files.
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"Ewan Chalmers" <ewan.chalmers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-doc-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 09/24/2003 12:28 PM Please respond to platform-doc-dev

To:        <platform-doc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-doc-dev] linefeed delimiter on Windows

Hi,

I tried the piece of advice below:

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http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-vcm-home/docs/o
nline/cvs_features2.0/cvs-faq.html#windows_1

How can I change the linefeed delimiter on Windows to be the *nix linefeed?


Found a work around without any code changes by invoking eclipse with this:

                
eclipse.exe -vmargs -Dline.separator=\n

This overrode the JVM's platform line delimiter. It works but don't no
if
there any ill side affects. But does help for those windows users using
eclipse with samba and want *nix style linefeeds.
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This caused a fairly serious problem. On restart, eclipse forgot all its
user-defined configurations. So, for instance I had to re-import all my
projects manually, and reset the default jvm.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this comment.


Ewan Chalmers

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