Re: Question of the day N2: ~\Return

Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> writes:

> I like using the ~<newline> construct in FORMAT.  Alas, SBCL 2.2.1 (Windows, W11, no WSL) complains that it does not recognize ~\Return
> (which is the result of git clone with the usual configurations to handle line endings)
>
> If I remember correctly, this is a SBCL glitch on Windows.
>
> Can you confirm that this is the (very annoying) case?

Since SBCL 2.3.11, we support Windows-convention newline endings on
streams.  I don't know how thoroughly integrated that is with
defaults -- probably not very -- but if it's possible for you to use
that version or later, you might have more success with source code
encoded with Windows-style line endings.

You might need to override the default *default-external-format* value
to be something that actively specifies the newline convention,
something like

  (setf *default-external-format* '(:utf-8 :newline :crlf))

before attempting to load any source files.

Christophe