Re: Question of the day N2: ~\Return

Thanks Christophe, I'll check it out.

I will update my SBCL and try the setting later tonight

Marco

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 10:16 Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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