LF instead of CR for new lines or writing about Pharo inside Pharo

> Hi all! :-)
>
> Today is a good day because Pharo is helping me a lot in getting things
> done (like in the Black Eyed Peas song, but nerdy style). Here you can
> see a screenshot of the exportation of the outliner project I have been
> working on (still in alpha):
>
> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-54206a705cafd9.68856727.jpg
>
> Down is the Pharo outliner, upper left the markdown exportation and
> upper right the pdf exportation. As you can see, I have small glitches
> that need to be solved, mainly the fact that new lines are represented
> in Pharo by default with CR instead of LR, which doesn't like so much to
> the Pandoc[1][2] exporter. So, there is any way to change this behaviour
> to make LF the default character? This has some implications when you're
> writing code inside System Browsers or Playgrounds instead of my
> particular app? If yes, there is any way to replace each CR for LF in a
> text object, inside Pharo?
>
> [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
> [2]
> http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Offray
>
>

> Hi :-),
>
> A small answer to myself that can be useful is someone find this thread:
>
> I have seen some post on Internet about CR and LF issues on Pharo
> Smalltalk, like this:
>
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11739548/how-to-correctly-decode-text-files-from-filesystemreadstream-in-pharo-1-4 
>
> [2]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598054/smalltalk-newline-character
>
> A detailed search on the web take me to this:
>
> http://magaloma.seasidehosting.st/Collections-Strings
>
> Here I searched for "replace" and found the proper method:
>
> """
> withInternetLineEndings
> change line endings from CR's to CRLF's. This is probably in
> prepration for sending a string over the Internet
> """
>
> So taking my string and sending:
>
>   myString contents withInternetLineEndings
>
> did the trick.
>
> I hope it will be helpful for future newbies.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
> On 09/22/2014 01:38 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
>> Hi all! :-)
>>
>> Today is a good day because Pharo is helping me a lot in getting things
>> done (like in the Black Eyed Peas song, but nerdy style). Here you can
>> see a screenshot of the exportation of the outliner project I have been
>> working on (still in alpha):
>>
>> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-54206a705cafd9.68856727.jpg
>>
>> Down is the Pharo outliner, upper left the markdown exportation and
>> upper right the pdf exportation. As you can see, I have small glitches
>> that need to be solved, mainly the fact that new lines are represented
>> in Pharo by default with CR instead of LR, which doesn't like so much to
>> the Pandoc[1][2] exporter. So, there is any way to change this behaviour
>> to make LF the default character? This has some implications when you're
>> writing code inside System Browsers or Playgrounds instead of my
>> particular app? If yes, there is any way to replace each CR for LF in a
>> text object, inside Pharo?
>>
>> [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
>> [2]
>> http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown 
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Offray
>>
>>
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>
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