Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:24:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Gary R. Van Sickle on 10/3/2006 8:27 PM:
>>What's going to break if igncr is simply always on?
>
>Actually, that might not be a bad idea.  Those who want literal \r
>would edit cygwin.bat or ~/.bash_profile to turn the shopt off, but
>leaving the default on would certainly minimize complaints of new
>users.  Any other opinions on this matter?  I'm not going to make such
>a change without more discussion on this list, first.

I thought the whole point of this change was to make bash faster.  If
skipping \r is a simple solution why are we here at all?

cgf

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