How do you to force \n new lines instead of \r\n on Windows?

[Deathspike]

As the title said. I looked at the brackets API and all it mentions is that things are normalized to use "the current line endings". I don't ever want brackets to think that \r\n is the current line ending, and always use \n. How do I accomplish that?

[redmunds]

@Deathspike There's not yet an API for that, but you can manually edit the getPlatformLineEndings() function.

We should add an API call for this. Marking this as a Starter Bug.

[Deathspike]

An additional note: Brackets on a Windows-machine does not correctly detect Unix-style line feeds and will always change to \r\n upon saving a document.

[peterflynn]

@Deathspike It absolutely should detect it -- please file a new bug with details if you're not seeing that. If you can share specific files that show the problem, please post them in the bug.

[peterflynn]

There was some discussion of this on IRC earlier today. Just so it's captured, my suggestions were:

• Ideally we'd have a UI for switching the line endings of any of any open file (many other editors have this). Probably makes sense to put a toggle in the status bar, as long as that doesn't add too visual clutter.
• But it also seems fair to add a defaultLineEndings pref, which basically changes the value of FileUtils.getPlatformLineEndings() -- so it would affect both new Untitled documents as well as any existing documents where the existing line endings can't be detected (e.g. opening a 1-line file). We need to be wary about the risk of an added FileUtils->PreferencesManager dependency creating a new circular dependency chain, however.

[einfallstoll]

+1

[sibil]

+1

I wrote a plugin last night to help switch the newline character for an individual file.
https://github.com/LonelyStorm/brackets-newline

It will help until offical support is added.

[rhbecker]

@JBodkin: Much appreciated!

[tonybrasunas]

+1