[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] boost@lists.boost.org spake the secret code <A95078DB6C254A14BFEE61FE38AABFEC@pdimov5> thusly:
Jonathan Wakely wrote:
Really? How many Windows text editors can't handle non-native line endings these days? (Notepad doesn't count as a text editor, and IMHO it's reasonable to expect Boost contributors to use something other than Notepad - if you can write C++ that works with multiple compilers on multiple platforms then you can use a proper editor.)
You have to remember to set the line endings for every new file though.
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