[Rd] dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore result in files not being excluded

Sebastian P. Luque spluque at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 07:25:12 CEST 2008


On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:10:41 -0600,
Tony Plate <tplate at acm.org> wrote:

> I was trying, on a Linux system, to get a .Rbuildignore file to work.
> After far too long, I found the problem was the <CR><NL> line endings
> in the .Rbuildignore file -- I had originally created it on a Windows
> system, and emacs in Ubuntu was politely hiding that fact from me.

Are you sure? Whenever I open M$ files in Emacs under Debian I see
'(DOS)' near the left end of the modeline, which indicates that it has
^C as EOL.  This has been the case since at least 21.0.


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Seb



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