Plugin Dev – Unify Line Endings?

  • I had a previous issue that Otto had resolved for me with a plugin that I had been developing. I pushed out a new update to the plugin today, and ran in to the same issue that I had the first time.

    The plugin version number was not showing up with in the plugin page in the repository. The download button just says “Download Version”.

    Otto returned one of my emails and let me know that it was the result of a mix of unix/dos line endings in my plugin file. I’m still not sure what this actually means, but he said he opened the file in a program that would Unify the line endings and then re-upped the plugin and all was working.

    Now that I have hit this error again, I don’t want to have to reach out to the busy people that maintain the plugin repository – does any one know of a way that I can unify the line endings my self? I’m running windows 7 over here.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Most programming editors have a setting somewhere to specify which line ending style to use. If your’s doesn’t, you should find one that does. I develop mostly with Linux, so I’m not the best to recommend Windows editors. I’ve used Programmer’s Notepad 2 when under Windows. I know it has a file format selection when you save the file where the format is solely which line ending style to force. It does default to no force, which is a problem when you forget to set it.

    If you’re wedded to your current editor and it has no such setting, you could build a simple filter app to append the correct end to every line found in a file.

    Thread Starter Evan Herman

    (@eherman24)

    Thank you for the response. I was able to use svn to update my trunk folder and pull the changes that Otto had made for me a few weeks back.

    I then took that file and just added my code tweaks to it, and re comitted it with all the new headings/tagged etc. and all worked. Again thanks for your response on such a crazy topic.

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