Re: Question of the day N2: ~\Return

Hi everybody.

no luck.  I upgraded to the last SBCL version for Windows, and added the

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

in .sbclrc as the first thing.

No luck.  The FORMATTER still complains.

All the best

Marco



On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:19 AM Marco Antoniotti <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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