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I can't figure out how to do this on a Mac and it seams a lot of tutorials online are just showing you how to do it on windows. It would be nice to have something more up-to-date for mac Any Help Is Greatly Appreciated Thanks.
- From the File menu, choose Save File As, and then click the drop-down button next to the Save button. The Advanced Save Options dialog box is displayed. Under Encoding, select the encoding to use for the file. Optionally, under Line endings, select the format for end-of-line characters.
- You can change how you save individual files in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac Go to Tools Add Custom Tool. In the dialog box that appears scroll the left menu down to the Text Editor section and select General. In the first option, Line ending conversion, change Leave line endings as isto Always convert line endings.
Visual Studio 2010 version can be found here.
Line Endings Unifier is an extension which allows you to change line endings in a whole solution, a specific project, a chosen folder or a certain source file. Just right click on a solution, a project, a folder or a source file in the Solution Explorer to find the 'Unify Line Endings' option.
You can go to the extension's options page:
Options -> Line Endings Unifier -> General Settings
to determine whether you want to have your line endings unified automatically on document save and to specify file extensions supported.
You can set the Default Line Ending to 'Dominant' - the line ending type that occurs the most in a given file.
By default, after hitting 'Save All' button all files from a loaded solution are unified. If you want to unify only files that are open in the editor on 'Save All', set Unify Only Open Files On Save All to True.
The extension is capable of removing trailing whitespace characters while unifying newlines in your source files - you can turn on this feature by setting Remove Trailing Whitespace to True.
You can make the extension remember when and how files were unified by setting Track Changes to True - this will improve performance in some scenarios. Please note that this feature creates a '.leu' file in the solution directory.
Also, you can tell the extension to write some output to the Output window. To do this, set Write Report To The Output Window option to True.
To see the output from the extension, look at the Output window and set Show output from to Line Endings Unifier:
Changes
Version 1.1
- added 'Unify Line Endings In This Folder' option
- added counting of changed line endings
Version 1.2
- added 'Force Default Line Ending On Document Save' option
- fixed a minor bug occurring on unifying line endings in *.vb files
Version 1.2.1
- added 'Supported File Formats' option
Version 1.2.2
- fixed bug occurring on 'Save All'
- fixed bug occurring sometimes on installation on Visual Studio 2012
Version 1.3
- added support for Visual Studio 2010
- added measuring of a time elapsed during unifying process
- added new option - 'Save Files After Unifying'
- changed options descriptions
- fixed two bugs (null reference exceptions)
Version 1.3.1
- added additional code to make sure commands are visible
Version 1.3.2
- added looking for projects in solution folders
- made unifying run as a separate task
Version 1.4
- added reporting changes in the Output window
Version 1.4.1
- added information about elapsed time in extension's reports
Version 1.4.2
- added new option - 'Unify Only Open Files On Save All'
Version 1.4.3
- improved the performance of unifying large files
Version 1.4.4
- added new type of default line ending - Dominant
Version 1.4.5
- added Dominant type of line ending in the dialog appearing after RMB click on a solution, project, folder or a file
- the default line ending is now selected by default in the dialog mentioned above
Version 1.4.6
- added Supported File Names to options
Version 1.4.7
- fixed a bug: unifying didn't work on starting the build process, closing the document tab and comparing the files in a version control system
Version 1.4.8
- fixed a bug: starting the build process caused unifying all files and a rebuild of a whole project as a result
Version 1.4.9
- improved output
Version 1.5
- added Visual Studio 2017 support
Version 1.5.1
- fixed a bug: no changes were actually made to the files not open in the editor when 'Save Files On Unifying' option was set to False
Version 1.6
- fixed a bug: 'Force Default Line Ending On Document Save' conflicts with Typescript's 'compileOnSave'
- fixed a bug: XAML files are ignored when doing a project wide unification of line endings
- added new option: 'Add Newline On The Last Line'
Version 1.6.1
- fixed a bug: trailing semicolon in the 'Supported File Formats' list caused problems
Version 1.7
- added new option: 'Track Changes'
Version 1.8
- added new option: 'Remove Trailing Whitespace'
Version 1.8.1
- fixed a bug: https://github.com/jakubbielawa/LineEndingsUnifier/issues/12
Version 1.9
- added Visual Studio 2019 support (thanks to sherief)
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What's a Carriage and why is it Returning? Carriage Return Line Feed WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!?!
The paper on a typewriter rides horizontally on a carriage. The Carriage Return or CR was a non-printable control character that would reset the typewriter to the beginning of the line of text.
However, a Carriage Return moves the carriage back but doesn't advance the paper by one line. The carriage moves on the X axes...
And Line Feed or LF is the non-printable control character that turns the Platen (the main rubber cylinder) by one line.
Hence, Carriage Return and Line Feed. Two actions, and for years, two control characters.
Every operating system seems to encode an EOL (end of line) differently. Operating systems in the late 70s all used CR LF together literally because they were interfacing with typewriters/printers on the daily.
Windows uses CRLF because DOS used CRLF because CP/M used CRLF because history.
Mac OS used CR for years until OS X switched to LF.
Unix used just a single LF over CRLF and has since the beginning, likely because systems like Multics started using just LF around 1965. Saving a single byte EVERY LINE was a huge deal for both storage and transmission.
Fast-forward to 2018 and it's maybe time for Windows to also switch to just using LF as the EOL character for Text Files.
![How to convert line endings in visual studio for mac free How to convert line endings in visual studio for mac free](/uploads/1/1/8/2/118217867/723075846.png)
Why? For starters, Microsoft finally updated Notepad to handle text files that use LF.
BUT
Would such a change be possible? Likely not, it would break the world. Here's NewLine on .NET Core.
Regardless, if you regularly use Windows and WSL (Linux on Windows) and Linux together, you'll want to be conscious and aware of CRLF and LF.
I ran into an interesting situation recently. First, let's review what Git does
You can configure .gitattributes to tell Git how to to treat files, either individually or by extension.
When
is set, git will automatically convert files quietly so that they are checked out in an OS-specific way. If you're on Linux and checkout, you'll get LF, if you're on Windows you'll get CRLF.
Viola on Twitter offers an important clarification:
'gitattributes controls line ending behaviour for a repo, git config (especially with --global) is a per user setting.'
99% of the time system and the options available works great.
Except when you are sharing file systems between Linux and Windows. I use Windows 10 and Ubuntu (via WSL) and keep stuff in /mnt/c/github.
However, if I pull from Windows 10 I get CRLF and if I pull from Linux I can LF so then my shell scripts MAY OR MAY NOT WORK while in Ubuntu.
I've chosen to create a .gitattributes file that set both shell scripts and PowerShell scripts to LF. This way those scripts can be used and shared and RUN between systems.
You've got lots of choices. Again 99% of the time autocrlf is the right thing.
From the GitHub docs:
You'll notice that files are matched--
*.c
, *.sln
, *.png
--, separated by a space, then given a setting--text
, text eol=crlf
, binary
. We'll go over some possible settings below. text=auto
- Git will handle the files in whatever way it thinks is best. This is a good default option.
text eol=crlf
- Git will always convert line endings to
CRLF
on checkout. You should use this for files that must keepCRLF
endings, even on OSX or Linux.
- Git will always convert line endings to
text eol=lf
- Git will always convert line endings to
LF
on checkout. You should use this for files that must keep LF endings, even on Windows.
- Git will always convert line endings to
binary
- Git will understand that the files specified are not text, and it should not try to change them. The
binary
setting is also an alias for-text -diff
.
- Git will understand that the files specified are not text, and it should not try to change them. The
Again, the defaults are probably correct. BUT - if you're doing weird stuff, sharing files or file systems across operating systems then you should be aware.
Edward Thomson, a co-maintainer of libgit2, has this to say and points us to his blog post on Line Endings.
I would say this more strongly. Because `core.autocrlf` is configured in a scope that's per-user, but affects the way the whole repository works, `.gitattributes` should _always_ be used.
If you're having trouble, it's probably line endings. Edward's recommendation is that ALL projects check in a .gitattributes.
The key to dealing with line endings is to make sure your configuration is committed to the repository, using
.gitattributes
. For most people, this is as simple as creating a file named .gitattributes
at the root of your repository that contains one line:* text=auto
Hope this helps!
I hope Microsoft bought Github so they can fix this CRLF vs LF issue.
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) June 4, 2018* Typewriter by Matunos used under Creative Commons
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