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Re: Suggestion for an alternative XML 1.1

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• Subject: Re: Suggestion for an alternative XML 1.1
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:44:47 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200112191120.LAA20377@b...>
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At 11:20 AM +0000 12/19/01, Richard Tobin wrote:
>In article <p04330100b84390db8f06@[192.168.254.4]> you write:
>>No, Emacs most certainly does accept all three line ending
>>conventions.
>
>This depends on the version of Emacs.  Probably the newest ones do.
>But Emacs could certainly be easily changed to accept NEL too, if
>anyone cared.  If people started receiving XML files with NEL in them,
>it probably would be changed.
>

In case it matters I ran my tests on

GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
  of Thu Aug 24 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com

I'm not sure how long emacs has had this feature. I do remember that 
10 years ago I routinely swapped files between emacs on SunOS and 
various editors on my Mac and didn't worry in the least about line 
ending conventions. It just worked.
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